Re: [SLUG] Welcome to the new command line for linux
The developers of Enlightenment are very freaken awesome. It won't take long for the copy cat WM developers to replicate this functionality. On 04/04/2013, at 2:10 PM, David Lyon wrote: Sorry for double posting but here is the homepage to Terminology: - http://www.enlightenment.org/p.php?p=about/terminology -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] The 'nanny state' and freedom of choice
It has everything to do with the tracks and the guage of the tracks. NSW tracks in particular are rated around 110Kms/hour. But with the extreme temperatures (definable difference between seasons) we experience the tracks would require more frequent realignment. Rather than the once or twice a year to maintain the tracks. If our trains were to exceed 90kms on country tracks you would experience warping and buckling more frequently than if the train sits comfortably at 90. I vaguely remember this tidbit from a friend who's parents worked for the SRA when the XPT came out. Arguing something like enforced 110km speed on open freeway as being a nanny state. Most decent (if you like real) cars sit comfortably doing 150 - 180 why aren't we allowed to do reasonable speeds on open freeways? Certainly not a living in a nanny state with enforced speeds of 110 Kms On 29/06/2011, at 11:51 AM, David Lyon wrote: In Japan in the 1960's they were running standard trains on standard tracks on the the Shenkazen line at 160kmh - 200kmh. When they wanted to go faster than 200kmh they built special tracks. The XPT trains will run on standard tracks at 160-180kmh. But it isn't allowed. Australian Trains still don't run as fast as what German Steam Trains could run in the 1930's. Funnily enough - Hitler was more sympathetic to technology than what we find here in our Nanny State today. Sorry to say that - but results speak for themselves... On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:41 AM, Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.comwrote: I'm guessing that the 90km/h limit on the trains is more about the tracks than the trains. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Subscription-based netfiltering (parentally speaking)
I am assuming that the computer is in the loungeroom/family room. I guess with a subscription based tool you might need to use an authentication based system which could be very annoying with the number of popups you'd get if you require a user based internet filter. about 10 years ago I used Squid with Dan's Guardian with one of my employers. I restricted IP based and user based authentication. but found user based authentication to give users a very bad experience. Now with my kids aged 10, 9 and 5. I have 4 computers in the family room and it tends to reduce the the unwanted content but I also went the way of an evil corp and used the inbuilt tool called parental controls, at least I can restrict out/in going emails, Instant messaging and internet access. Hi All, does anyone know of any linux-based filtering software I can put in place to protect him from himself? Requirements would be; Subscription-based; so, someone out there keeping the list of sites, keywords, extensions, etc. up to date. Ability for me to add to it for personal choice; - effectively contribute Ability to IP (or MAC) restrict it's use; - so it's only him and not us. I know of Dansguard, but AFAIA, that is a host-based solution. What else is there pls? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Subscription-based netfiltering (parentally speaking)
LOL I believe the main motive for keeping 'adult' material away from children is to try and prevent them from embarrassing their parents with questions like: Daddy, what does it mean when two people do THIS? Jon. Being 18 doesn't have much to do with it either. That's a very arbitrary line drawn in very variable sand. I've never noticed that children are all that innocent - at least my 5 weren't. Mostly the protection is there to make adults feel better when the real protection comes from 24/7 multi-decade parenting. -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] new cluster install
A lot of those questions you have raised are usually answered in documentation for the virtual environment you are running. Let me add a disclaimer that I have ceased supporting organisations that are smaller than 2000 staff. So my head may be in the clouds The issue you have is you limit your redundancy if you run RAID 1, and you will have only 1 TB of space. What VMs are you going to run? If it's a mail server, SQL and fileserver I would hope that the client is small enough to deal grow into 1TB shared disk space within the next 3 years and not out grow it in 12 months. In my personal experience I have not seen a small business use less than 1 TB for files, this was back in 2004-2005 How do you intend support the clustered environment? Granted I have not played with Xen virtualisation but I would believe that similar rules apply in VMWare or Microsoft and Citrix. I am making assumptions here: If you are employing HA clustering My question is how will share disks out across nodes work when your VM reside on node1's disk and for some stupid reason node1 is dead how will node2 access the VMs? I wouldn't worry too much about striping v's mirroring until you consider what type of cluster you are going to design. To have real HA you might need to reconsider the idea of supporting any local disks as you will not have real HA in your design until the disks are external to both cluster nodes. This is big money but you get what you pay for. for a small home/office for my personal use I have purchased a DRoboPro FS fully populated with 2 TB drives with a total capacity of 10TB storage for $6,000 the system is self healing, you can intermix drive sizes and you use cheap SATA drives, I use it as my test environment which I run VMs through vSphere, and I have True HA until I lose my disk subsystem. Support the distro you are comfortable with otherwise you may come across issues that you may struggle with due to location of config files and the like.. really you need to analyse your design and think about the environment you are going to support, the HA you are expecting and the applications you will be supporting in these VMs. Just may be you are going to complex without understanding the technologies that you might be employing. Mind map your idea draw up your topology and identify single points of failure. If you think those single points of failure are acceptable and you are willing to let your client sit idly for 3 hours waiting for Dell to supply a replacement part, then ask your client is that acceptable? How are you going to over come theses? I'm setting up some new hardware for a client of mine. Basically 2 new dell Dell PowerEdge R210 IIs (http://www.dell.com/au/business/p/poweredge-r210-2/pd) nice and small and they seem quiet enough for an office (unlike the original R210) Anyway, quad core xeon, 2x 1Tb 7200RPM drives, 8gb ram (~$1500 each btw). The machines will be used as VM hosts (kvm) for a handfull of guests, file/domain server (ebox), PBX (piaf), mail server web server, magic windows only application server etc. As the guests run everything in the ofice some kind of HA is needed. I'm thinking ganeti is the way to manage it all as it takes care of DRBD and failover giving me a nice HAish setup without too much work. The questions How should I setup my disks? I'm tossing up between, (all the below assume a small raid 1 partition for /, this is for the storage pool) RAID 1 with mdadm giving me 1 disk read speed but the ability to read 2 streams. RAID 1 with mdadm and fancyness giving me 2x read speed for a single stream, but normal behaviour for multiple streams and 1x write. RAID 0 with mdadm 2x read, 2x write and trust DRBD to look after my data ;- no RAID, set up as 2 separate drives use DRBD to look after data and get more spindles into the mix (so say file server lives on one disk and mail server on another) What deb based distro should I use for my host(or present a *really* compelling argument for something else)? I would use ubuntu as i'm most familiar with it but the recent debacle with unity has really hurt my confidence with them. Should i go to debian and if so which version? Networking each server has 2 gbit ports on it. should I team the nics, then run a vlan for drbd and another for regular coms dedicated nic for drbd and one for general coms. Any other suggestions or gotchas to look out for? I have my own answers to these questions, but I'd really like to hear any advice from the crowd (its like the cloud but open source and P2P ;-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Federal Gov Open Source Policy
Also the problem is that Open source needs to jump through the same hoops proprietary software. That is a majority of the time they would need to be DSD approved and each open source project would need to pay a minimum of $50k to get DSD to qualify it. Without DSD approval open source will not get a look in when it comes to networks that are rated Protected and higher. imho, I would have thought that Open Standards are for more critical for a government to require the use and enforcement of.. But even this would be a great win for open source in general as this would also force big companies to support properly open standards in their own products, which then also increases the viability of open source products that also support the standard in the future when migrations are considered. But as far as active participation in open source is concerned, it would be great if any software commissioned by the government was then released as open source. This may be problematic though, as the government would (presumably) never actually write the software itself, but would outsource it's development. Companies that do write the software would then have an active interest in some kind of maintenance or ongoing support program with the government, and would probably see releasing the code to the public as an active threat to that interest. Still, the government could insist (as a large enough customer), and that would be beneficial too That said, obviously there are OS business models that work based upon the ongoing technical support requirements of organisations that do adopt the software, so working with a vendor that does this necessarily means that any bugs or features that the government finds or requires would be given back to the community as well. Anyway, at least it something, and in general I think that Kate Lundy has her head screwed on and is pushing in the right direction On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Kevin Saenz kevsa...@spinaweb.com.auwrote: It's been a while since I have responded to slug emails. You need to put this in to perspective. There are a number departments that actually use open source, to some extent. You must bear in mind that there are others who have a strictly microsoft. I know of one department 6 years ago required the skills of Linux and Unix people to convert the department from opensource to microsoft only environment, because said department employed a microsoft ranger, and to this date he is still their CIO. What you have to be aware to be successful with tenders or projects you need to sit on a board of vendors to even be considered for a job or contract for a scope of work. the Federal government is a large market and you have fight your case on a departmental and divisional level. there are other departments who employed the same web technology as President Obama. Yes Open source has a place in Public sector IT but sadly it's not in business critical areas of the sector, and it has been visible for a long time. The policy includes three principles as well as some draft text for government departments and agencies to include in future RFT documentation: * Principle 1: Australian Government ICT procurement processes must actively and fairly consider all types of available software. * Principle 2: Suppliers must consider all types of available software when dealing with Australian Government agencies. * Principle 3: Australian Government agencies will actively participate in open source software communities and contribute back where appropriate. http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/02/03/welcome-news-for-open-source/comment-page-1/ Policy available in HTML at http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/guide-to-open-source-software/index.html Marghanita -- Marghanita da Cruz http://ramin.com.au Tel: 0414-869202 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- 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] Federal Gov Open Source Policy
It's been a while since I have responded to slug emails. You need to put this in to perspective. There are a number departments that actually use open source, to some extent. You must bear in mind that there are others who have a strictly microsoft. I know of one department 6 years ago required the skills of Linux and Unix people to convert the department from opensource to microsoft only environment, because said department employed a microsoft ranger, and to this date he is still their CIO. What you have to be aware to be successful with tenders or projects you need to sit on a board of vendors to even be considered for a job or contract for a scope of work. the Federal government is a large market and you have fight your case on a departmental and divisional level. there are other departments who employed the same web technology as President Obama. Yes Open source has a place in Public sector IT but sadly it's not in business critical areas of the sector, and it has been visible for a long time. The policy includes three principles as well as some draft text for government departments and agencies to include in future RFT documentation: * Principle 1: Australian Government ICT procurement processes must actively and fairly consider all types of available software. * Principle 2: Suppliers must consider all types of available software when dealing with Australian Government agencies. * Principle 3: Australian Government agencies will actively participate in open source software communities and contribute back where appropriate. http://www.katelundy.com.au/2011/02/03/welcome-news-for-open-source/comment-page-1/ Policy available in HTML at http://www.finance.gov.au/publications/guide-to-open-source-software/index.html Marghanita -- Marghanita da Cruz http://ramin.com.au Tel: 0414-869202 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Insulting racial terms (was Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control)
LMAO gold. On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Daniel Bush dlb.id...@gmail.com wrote: If only Robert had said whoa there kemosabe! Everything would have been just dandy. http://www.geocities.com/TelevisionCity/7286/RANGERFARSIDE.GIF -- Michael Davies Do what you think is interesting, do something that mich...@the-davies.netyou think is fun and worthwhile, because otherwise http://michaeldavies.org you won't do it well anyway. -- Brian Kernighan -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Insulting racial terms (was Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control)
We are Not Political Correctness R Us. thus can we all Drop this Political Correctness Nightmare and start discussing Linux related topics? On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 01:07:08PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: Alan L Tyree a...@austlii.edu.au writes: On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:29:32 +1100 Sonia Hamilton so...@snowfrog.net wrote: PS You might want to lookup what tonto means [1] before you go around calling people it. It was a term of disrespect for Amerindians on the US/Mexican border in the 1800's. At least be grammatically correct, and call me tonta :-p [1] http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/tonto As a native Spanish speaker, I'll take offense if someone calls me tonto. BTW, I've spoken to Sonia in Spanish and she speaks that language very well. For anyone born in the US during the last century, as I was, Tonto is the Lone Ranger's faithful Indian companion. When we were kids, it was worth fighting to be Tonto rather than the paleface. It's probably no longer politically correct, but for different reasons than those mentioned. When I was a little kid, I couldn't understand why the loyal American Indian was call stupid (tonto/tonta == stupid). The idea burnt in my young brain was that all the American indians (from Tierra del Fuego in Argentina to Alaska) were all stupid people for the USAians. BTW (again), I also don't understand why the USA is call America. I'm from Colombia and I'm an American. The continent is called America and don't tell me it's call Americas. Uh, no. That would be inappropriate for *exactly* the reason mentioned, which is to say that it is an insulting racial epithet. The fact that it was used in that sense on television doesn't change those facts. So, just because the term was not seen as insulting doesn't make it any less insulting ??? just like paleface is. Aye. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Insulting racial terms (was Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control)
[...] PS You might want to lookup what tonto means [1] before you go around calling people it. It was a term of disrespect for Amerindians on the US/Mexican border in the 1800's. At least be grammatically correct, and call me tonta :-p [1] http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/tonto For anyone born in the US during the last century, as I was, Tonto is the Lone Ranger's faithful Indian companion. When we were kids, it was worth fighting to be Tonto rather than the paleface. It's probably no longer politically correct, but for different reasons than those mentioned. Uh, no. That would be inappropriate for *exactly* the reason mentioned, which is to say that it is an insulting racial epithet. The fact that it was used in that sense on television doesn't change those facts. So, just because the term was not seen as insulting doesn't make it any less insulting — just like paleface is. lol Do we really need to concern ourselves with Political Correctness BS? Why can't we leave that crud for such trivial places like the workplace? This is a Linux group not Political correctness R us. Can we please get back to discussing Linux? Now get back on topic -- 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] Apache reverse proxying with MS
I think you might be missing some other key config options can you send your reverse proxy config? if it's sensitive protect any sensitive data. does your reverse proxy settings work using standard www ports? On 10/03/2009, at 9:52 AM, Hongduc Nguyen wrote: Hi Slug, I'm trying to get Apach to reverse proxy my Microsoft CRM site. Currently configured to use the ProxyPass and ProxyPassReverse directives. ProxyPass /crm http://IP address of CRM:/ ProxyPassReverse /crm http://IP address of CRM:/ When I hit the crm site - http://server/crm, I get a cannot display webpage error after entering my username/password. Would anyone have any ideas as to what the problem is? Regards, HD Please consider our environment before printing this email. This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are privileged and confidential information intended for the use of the addressee. The confidentiality and/or privilege in this e-mail is not waived, lost or destroyed if it has been transmitted to you in error. If you have received this e-mail in error you must (a) not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it; (b) notify itsupp...@customware.net and the sender immediately; and (c) delete the original e-mail. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)
So how would you develop such a system whilst also allowing for the freedom and low barrier to entry that signifies the Free and Open Source Software movement? I expect that when regulation is forced upon us, barriers to entry iwill be the whole point/i. Unless we get in first. Will the parallel be: you get malpractice insurance, or you can have your future wages garnished forever if you get sued. Doctors have to pay their malpractice insurance to have their pro-bono work covered. I expect software folks will too. I think you miss the entire point here. Firstly how are you going to police this? expoits are found in most pieces of software daily. The problem is that software is not perfect you have one flaw that is behind the development of all software, and that is the human brain. there is a famous quote in IT and that is no one has been fired for buying Microsoft, but if you installed anything else... With the amount of Outages experienced why hasn't organisations started Class action for the total outage due to software realted issues? This is unworkable you can't do it. Firstly with issues addressing compromised boxes I squarely place the blame at the sys admin or the owner of the box regardless of their technical skills. Regular updates are part and parcel of owning a system. if your box is compromised it's your fault and no one elses. I don't care if it's linux, windows, or OSX if you installed it, it's yours to maintain thus your responsibility. Time to reclaim ownership. As a rough and ready idea, could this be something that OSIA could get involved with? Could OSIA be a partner in such a scheme? Or is it something that should be tackled by an independent body. I expect that OSIA *is* an independent body, at least as much as ACS is if not more so, in this context. roflmao -- 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] Data Leakage Prevention and Detection
Sorry about coming into this discussion late in the day Let me see if I understand your requirements. You want to ensure that your data has been appropriately classified and if classified at a certain level you want the system to stop anyone sending the data out of the environment. if that is correct then you have a problem. You need user intervention, in every step of the process, that means that all users need to be trained in security. That means that your users then will now know how to classify data appropriately. with that when users send emails they must be prompted to classify their emails then you must have rules in the email system that will deny or allow those classifications out to the internet. As a DSD rule the classification must appear in the subject and header of the email. As stated above you could consult DSD and ASIC documentation and use them as guides on security best practices. Really I don't think you'd want to employ half their measures in private enterprise because they are a little excessive in plan and implementation. If you want to become a public servant then by all means follow them like it's the one and only bible. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Linux and Fusion HDTV
I have a Fusion HDTV card since 1999 it's been running beautifully on linux since installing it on Mandrake 10. I was able to view 2 channels or watch one channel and record another at the same time with it. Now I have decided to upgrade my system now I am stuck with only 1 channel ability, I can only either watch 1 channel or record. Does anyone know why? The driver I used was from linuxtv.org way back when I was running Mandrake. I have switched Distros so far for my mythtv I have finally landed on mythdora. I found Gentoo great but it's wasn't good enough for my Mythtv setup. Then I tried knoppmyth it was close but no cigar. mythdora has all the functionality I need but I want my PiP that I had in my old mandrake days -- 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] please unsubscribe all wildtecnology.net / wildit.com.au email addresses from SLUG lists
Really!! How difficult is it to get off your lazy arse and call the ex-employee to change their subscription. The other thing is how ethical is it to have the ex-employee's emails forwarded to your external account? On 17/07/07, Timothy Bolot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please remove all wildtechnology.net / wildit.com.au email addresses from your lists. Both of these domains are going to my personal hotmail account now and a previous staff member subscribed to your lists. If this is not done within 7 days, I will report this list as a source of SPAM. Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:27:08 +1000 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] SpamAssassin - MailMarshall Replacement CC: slug@slug.org.au Trent Murray wrote: I currently have a customer using MailMarshall Email filter - this product allows the users to log on via a web client and check for messages that have been marked as spam, release mail if necessary and ammend rules. Can anyone recommend a similar front end for spamassassin that can be used by Jo User without too much complication? This may be a bit overblown for Jo User but have a look at MailWatch for MailScanner: http://mailwatch.sourceforge.net/doku.php With the obvious implication being that you also need to install MailScanner: http://www.mailscanner.info/ It's a pretty impressive combo, but may require you to get your hands a bit dirtier than you are after so may not be quite suitable. Craig -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] please unsubscribe all wildtecnology.net / wildit.com.au email addresses from SLUG lists
I first went to wildit, domain scroll down the bottom. the footer reads. (c) 2000-2007 Wild Internet Telecom Pty Ltd (in Liquidation), then after reading Amos, email did do a search for our friend. :) it seems what goes around comes around. Nice little public letter from a John Russell. lol Amos I love your signature, that is so true. On 18/07/07, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/07/07, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is all getting a tad childish. Indeed. observe the footer Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html Right. or use hotmail to block emails to or cc'd with slug@slug.org.au far out. its not like you pay for hotmail. maybe im just unusually accustomed to blocking peoples contacts. I suspect you are - making him properly unsubscribe will probably eventually also decrease the load on SLUG's server by that much. But just try to google about Timothy Bolot and see what type of character you are dealing with. He gives an impression of some over-confident corporate PHB with absolutely no technical clue but still used to giving orders and threatening people around him. For some reason I have flashes of RTA's recent anti-speeding campaign. (What's the difference between a software sales person and a car sales person? With a car sales person there is a slight chance that he actually knows how to drive). --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mythtv and capture cards
I use a fusion DTV card, you can go to www.digitalnow.com.au (I think that's right) they advise you if you can use the cards with linux. it comes down to what you want. What I have found is with recent revisions of the kernel and linuxtv's DTV code I can no longer watch 2 channels at a time :( Now I am forced to use a dual card. just make sure you know what chipset you have. actually I do not use bt878 I think it's now bt8xx Hi all, I know there are some slugers out there using mythtv and I wanted to know the best capture card for the job. I have a cheap analogue card I got for free, but the picture is very low quality. Im not worried if its expensive, I just want the job done right. The cheapo has a bt878 conexant chipset which is supported but I would be less inclined to use another one given the performance of this card. I have mythtv set up and its great, just need a better card Whats is everyone using? Out of the box support would be pretty kewl too! Tuxta -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] IBM calculate that 4Gb RAM is optimal for Vista
Where is Howard trying to bash microsoft? Stop being over sensitive. And what does this have to do with Linux? I really hate people attempting to bash Microsoft their products on OSS lists. IMHO It really makes everyone look like zealots. Cheers, Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 21/02/2007 05:01:19 PM: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do? command=viewArticleBasicarticleId=9011523 -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people http:// lannetlinux.com When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter government; abolish the Australian states. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Low power domain controller / user authentication ?
Greg, it all depends on what you want, for authentication of windows machines, I use SEL (SuSE Enterprise Linux) because it ties LDAP, Samba, DNS, DHCP and a few other services nicely together. it's foot print is about 1.5 gig mark but it allows for central authentication. back in the old day I would spend days trying to get LDAP, Samba, and login all to use one authentication process. all my other boxes are Gentoo. but you are after small foot print. Hi All, Sorry I do not post much, but I do have a question that I would like to ask here... I have used a mixed network for my own use for years, primarily I always had Linux doing the grunt work for web services serving, but I also always had windows boxes, the problem is, as the network grows or as I replaced PC's, I always kept the old boxes on the network, needless to say a while ago I started looking for ways to save power space and reduce heat build up - my work area was like a sauna at one point :) Anyway, to cut to the chase, I still need a box to do authentication and to act as a domain controller, but I would rather use a cheap dislkless device that sleeps when not called upon, does anyone know of a device like this ? or if I must use a PC, is there a CD or say USB key Linux distro that can be cut down to just Samba ? I have a couple of Nettel ne2520 embedded devices if somone wants to hack one to do what I want, they can have the other. Thanks in advance. -- Greg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] is Perl really needed ?
It appears that the vulnerability is with a particular CMS. Now the example they have given is perl, the problem is that you can potentially execute anything through the exploit, security through obscurity is not absolute I generally leave obscurity to the birds, you need to ensure your machine has not been compromised and then follow your companies security procedures in resolving the issue. With your CMS problem you have 2 options. 1. stop using the CMS that has the problem until they have fixed the security flaw. 2. make sure the version of the CMS you have is not affected. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Suspend and IR
Hi all, I think I asked this question before. I have gentoo running MythTV, I would like to build suspend into the kernel and use the USB IR to start up the system. Is this possible? Or do I have to use some sleep function that is only actioned when using the power button on the remote control? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Has anyone tried Asterisk?
I am looking at using Asterisk for home. I have a VOIP wireless DSL router. Do I have to have any other specific piece of hardware? I would like to have a linux box running Asterisk that will manage all the incoming and out going calls, that way I could also pre-empt the bill I will get charged in the following month. I would like to use my desktops as phones. That means that my PCs (both windows and Linux) and Notebook Pro will need to be able to answer the call and allow us to talk back. Is what I am planning possible? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] booting linux without grub or lilo
Hi all,Just have a question is there a way to boot linux without using a bootloader.I don't want the option to select new kernels or other OSes. I would like to speed up the boot process as well. I have services down to absolute minimum. If it helps I am running Gentoo. -- 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] Vista .. anti-Linux ?
I'm wondering how they plan to do that? Are they going to encrypt the MBR? I think this is FUD from microsoft again. They are planning on encrypting the drive that windows resides on. I don't know if it's going to effect the MBR, or all partitions on the harddrive. Apparently they are planning to have hardware to encrypt the device. All I can say is good luck in rolling that out to Large organisations that have SOEs. Can you image Rolling out a machine and having to give a piece of firmware which will authenticate you in loading the OS then you have to log on? It doesn't sound logical then again we are talking about Microsoft. This is more work than it's worth. Fyi, Adam. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/27/schneier_infosec/ -- 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] Vista .. anti-Linux ?
There is an indepth article that states that it will be impossible to install linux on a machine that has vista on it. I'm wondering how they plan to do that? Are they going to encrypt the MBR? I think this is FUD from microsoft again. They are planning on encrypting the drive that windows resides on. I don't know if it's going to effect the MBR, or all partitions on the harddrive. I don't think the article actually said you *couldn't* I think it said it made it pointless because you can't access the data on the windows partition. Benno -- 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] Vista .. anti-Linux ?
also the article states This encryption technology also has the effect of frustrating the exchange of data needed in a dual boot system. You could look at BitLocker as anti-Linux because it frustrates dual boot, Schneier told El Reg. On Fri Apr 28, 2006 at 20:09:25 +1000, Kevin Saenz wrote: I'm wondering how they plan to do that? Are they going to encrypt the MBR? I think this is FUD from microsoft again. They are planning on encrypting the drive that windows resides on. I don't know if it's going to effect the MBR, or all partitions on the harddrive. I don't think the article actually said you *couldn't* I think it said it made it pointless because you can't access the data on the windows partition. Benno -- 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] Linux distro for pentium 166 Mhz
Hi there I have a very old pc that I want to serve into linux gateway. Is there any good distro for this old machine. You could try Gentoo -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Fw: Re: [SLUG] Enlightenment
Gentoo seems to have a better package system called emerge ;)The only problem is the cvs server seems to be overloaded. So far I have updated half the packages :( Michael Lake wrote: E is great. I'm running e16 on Apple PowerBook 15 laptop now via the Debian package. I tried once to get e17 by compiling the many many e-specific libraries that raster invented. Alas it was all too complicated. It may have been easier on an Intel platform. I'd like e17 to materialise one day in a form that I can install relatively easily on my PB.Err, magic script to pull it out of CVS and build it: http://www.rasterman.com/files/get_e.shIt can be a little slow since the CVS server is the one at sf.net.Erik --+---+Erik de Castro Lopo+---+You don't have make it your sole purpose in life, but could you at least sacrifice a rubber chicken upon the altar of literacy? -- TackHead on Slashdot--SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Fw: Re: [SLUG] Enlightenment
Thanks for that.Now I have to figure out why enlightenment is not getting updated in Gentoo :( This may have been dumped by SLUG's spam filter.Begin forwarded message: Does anyone know what has happened to enlightenment.org? the site is unreachable. Yeah, the domain name owner has gone AWOL, and Raster et al have not been able to get the domain signed over to them. For now you can use enlightenment.sf.net .andhttp://www.enlightenment.org.au:)*--- Codito, ergo sum - I code, therefore I am -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Fw: Re: [SLUG] Enlightenment
All I use is e17, it's very stable, and very quick especially on my HP ze4103s with only 1.3Ghz celeron. The work the enlightenment team has done is phenominal. To me there is no other WM. e16 has been stable for yearse17 is slowly getting there, its usable right now. but not that stable.if thats what you mean?DeanKevin Saenz wrote: Thanks for that. Now I have to figure out why enlightenment is not getting updated in Gentoo :( This may have been dumped by SLUG's spam filter. Begin forwarded message: Does anyone know what has happened to enlightenment.org http://enlightenment.org? the site is unreachable. Yeah, the domain name owner has gone AWOL, and Raster et al have not been able to get the domain signed over to them. For now you can use enlightenment.sf.net http://enlightenment.sf.net. and http://www.enlightenment.org.au :)* -- - Codito, ergo sum - I code, therefore I am -- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Enlightenment
Does anyone know what has happened to enlightenment.org? the site is unreachable.ThanksKevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] DIVCO DVB-S question
Is anyone using DVB-S card? I'm wondering if getting one is worth it. I would like to know what channels I can get or what sats I could hit.I am looking at http://digitalnow.com.au/product_pages/airstar2.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Samba questions
Hi all,I haven't used Samba for a while. I am wondering if Samba development has included distributed authentication.I am asking this because I don't like the idea of a single point of failure when it comes to authentication. What happens when the PDC goes down. Can people still authenticate to the domain. If this is the casehow do you do it?I have Samba also tied with LDAP for authentication, I understand the master, slave replica can the slave update the master if it is down for an extended period?ThanksKevin -- 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] enter root password or type ctrl-D to continue...
md0 = /bootmd1 = /md2 = otherFor some reason md1 is busy on the reboot, so never gets turned into a read-only like the other 2, but md0, and md2 do go read-only.Now the problem I have isthat when booting into linux I find it asks me for the root password, or to typectrl-D to continue on into run level 3.I have searched and search through the logs, and well I can't find any type of error.The only thing I can think of isthat md1 doesn't go read-only when rebooting/shutting down.I just didn't thinkthis was the behaviour of an ext3 fs. I don't know if this might affect things which partition is boot active?what is your grub/lilo config? I know that in grub.confyou can have the follow optionreal_root=/dev/md1my assumption is that the boot loader isn't loading /dev/md1 first but loading /dev/md0 so you have /boot without /again this is an assumption. What distro are you running?did you build the software raid yourself? -- 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] Too good to be true from Bigpond?
Hi,Bigpond are currently phoning Optusnet customers in my area,offering `the same deal as OPTUS but 20% cheaper' (according to thephone guy). Has anyone else taken this up?Is it true?The standard deal with Bigpond is worse than Telstra:their `unlimited' amount is 10G not 12, and there's no 24G bonus on off-peaktime.I've heard that they even charge for upstream traffic, unlikeOptus.So what's the story?I'm very tempted if it's true. If I got a $1 everytime someone came around to try and sell me Optus, Telstra or Foxtel then I would be rich. Each time I tell them I am not interested, especially those Optus and Telstra folks who wish to do better ADSL then what I get already (supposely). So many better plans available from other ISP's, Telstra and Optus dont even come close to them. So why on earth would you consider either providers? Loyality? Agreed. Michael they only want your money and they will lie to get it. The plan I am on is 40g/40g on 1200/256 DSL connection when my exchange gets DSL2 I will be capable of doing 8000/1024 @ 40g/40g. I pay $80 per month. -- 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] Laptop purchase advice reqd.
I want a unit that will play dvd movies and am wondering what the minimum CPU reqd would be. I have a HP Pavillion ze4103s which is about 2 1/2 years old now Most of the units that I'm considering have Celeron M processors. It uses Celeron 1.2Ghz with a very basic ATI mobility chip set, Total ram is 512Meg, I have installed Mandrake 9.2 and 10 on it and now I Gentoo 2005.0, I have tested elive on it as well. I do play DVDs, and dvix from the laptop without any problems. -- 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] Driver query
I might sit down and give it another go. I'd love to get it working, as the wife hogs the PVR and anything I tape gets removed ratherquickly which is most annoying. I managed to get the drivers to workand had the card working under X windows. BUt mythtv was being a painand would not compile. Infact doing the qmake did nothing at all. Guess I might just kick off another install and see what happens.I'm wondering if it's kbuntu mught be missing somthing in the QT libraries? qmake should create a makefile. really stupid lame arse question are you running qmake against mythtv.pro? I have also found that the config options in qmake against mythtv.pro don't work. I had to manually modify mythtv.pro to point to dvb and it's .h file. then I ran make good luck -- 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] Driver query
Anyone able to confirm if the Dvico Fusion HDTV card drivers are now merged into recent 2.6 kernels? ie. no need to grab the files and compile into a kernel. I don't think they are. I know that the linuxtv.org source has merged in to the recent kernel patches. About to embark on playing around with one and all the howtos I have found are out dated, so was wanting to confirm if the process about the driver can be skipped. DVICO for me doesn't work for twinhan cards. So becareful that you are not trying to use wrong drivers. if your card is Twinhan then you should do is recompile with dvb-t and saa7 also btxxx, and bttv-dsp. I think. I was thinking of trying to use a recent version of Kubuntu just for the sake of it, as I want to confirm if Mythtv is remotely usefull to me after all, and if so, should i get some new hardware to run it. etc. -- 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] Gentoo getting better
I have been using Gentoo for 3-5 months, and have found it to be less bloatie, and a little more reliable compared to RH, Mandrake. I never enjoyed Debian. I started getting annoyed with precompiled packages. I have been told I'm a source junkie, and Gentoo suites me to a T. My windowmanager of choice is E17, and gentoo allows me to compile and install it easily. The only thing I find lacking is automounting of usb devices. Other than that I am very happy with Gentoo. Im not usually a Gentoo fan boy, but the latest screen shots for there next release are really making me thing about installing it. http://shots.osdir.com/slideshows/slideshow.php?release=460slide=1 I like the look of the new installer (I can imagine the ricers complaining right now) and for once a live boot option with two smp kernels. Regards Richard Neal Obscurity is a far greater threat to authors than copyright infringement, or even outright piracy. Seen on Slashdot 30-09-2005 --SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Tv cards that can recieve satellite TV
>From what I have been told you just daisy chain satelite TV with the tv capture card. Dear List,Is there are Linux supported TV cards that can receive satellite TV? -- 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] Tv cards that can recieve satellite TV
Free to air satellite? what channels do you get? certainly not the standard channels that are available to those who have free to air. free to air satellite is heaps of fun. i dont see any reason why people would pay for satellite tv!! -- 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] Tv cards that can recieve satellite TV
can use legally use DVB-S to watch pay tv? 100's. just point your dish at a satellite andstart decoding. there are free channels on the same sat's that run the pay tv stuff, just that the paytv stuff is encrypted.there is digital radio and all sorts on there alsohave a mate or two who are quite into it.DeanKevin Saenz wrote: Free to air satellite? what channels do you get? certainly not the standard channels that are available to those who have free to air. free to air satellite is heaps of fun. i dont see any reason why people would pay for satellite tv!! -- 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] Ajax-based Open Source Exchange replacement
I don't know if it is an exchange replacement. I think it's just a collaboration tool. like MS web outlook access. I have down loaded the source. I will have a look shortly. www.zimbra.comIt looks like an excellent open source web-based outlook AND exchange replacement. Proports to do group scheduling, has a beautiful lookingweb-based ajax interface with drag and drop support.Licensing ismodified MPL, they are following a RedHat subscription-like businessmodel. They have incorporated lucene for fast indexing of emails as well aspostfix and a bunch of other open source technologies.I will probably see if I can replace mine and my clients squirrelmail withit as it _looks waaay better. The flash demo is about 12 minutes long on a fast DSL and worth a lookjust to see what some of the capabilities of AJAX.There are also a couple of pdfs worth a read. Particularly the AjaxTK(ajax toolkit) and the Architecture document. HTH Someone.Stu--SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Partitioning software
I have yet to see any lappies advertised with Linux installed outside of the US.I just checked a couple of AU Linux sites and they don't have anything.I know my own wholesaler only supplies with Winders installed. Dell - nothing but XP on lappies. IBM - they no longer sell lappies, since they sold that arm to Lenevo Novell - don't sell lappies That reminds me that one of the larger PC makers in 99 had to hide the Microsoft tax from their invoices to stop people from asking for a refund because they didn't want windows on their desktop when their PCs came with the Installable OS on harddrive. Because it's a hidden price on the price of the unit. You will still be paying for microsoft but not getting the product. If you don't like windows then give it to some one you dislike. A few years back someone did get the price reduced in AU by getting the supplier to cancel the Winders install, but it was a battle.I think he got $15 off, IIRC. That would have happened around 98-99. When you bought your computer with and itemised invoice. -- 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] Dlink Adsl Modem dropping Packets
What I have found with D-Link wirless routers is that after 24hours of use I have to cycle the power of the router. after calling D-link about this problem I am told to reset the router to factory default. second call was check the MTU, then my third call was to set short preable to off. next time I will be thinking twice about their products Ryan Verner wrote: On Sun, 2005-08-07 at 12:39 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Do I just have a bad apple and should I just get a replacement or is the a fundamental problem with this model of D-link modems? Sounds a lot like other Dlink modems I've played with. I've replaced dozens of them due to similar behaviour - the brand seems to have a plague of horribly broken modems that like to misbehave. Their network cards do silly things also. They don't drop packets, just bits which corrupts the data stream. I avoid them like the plague. Billion 5402's (ADSL2+ capable) are under $100/each - do yourself a favour and get one of those, or something similar. :-) R -- 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] PDA + Linux - what's a recipie for success?
Hi All, Following Nick Tomlin's tale of woe, I was wondering if anyone has a good Linux + PDA combination that synchronises with your favourite mail/calendar software? What about these new whiz-bang phones with PDA functions too? Personally I'm looking (in a casual way) for a PDA that will sync up with KDE's Kontact. I've heard people report varying degrees of success with Evolution but I'm a KDE-kinda-guy (it's sad but true). Any success stories from people on this list? I use to have wince on my iPAC and used synce to sync mail, contacts, and other things using Evolution. I after awhile I found that I had multiple instances my appointments, contacts etc. -- 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] Retentive printer
What distro do you have? Are you running CUPS? Is there any errors generated in the logs? This is only linux related because its plugged into a linux box but, I have a canon LBP-4U laserjet old I know but it works well used to . Everytime I send a print job to it, it prints the same page over and over again until it runs out of paper I've tried cating a text file straight to /dev/lp0 and it does the same thing the only thing it prints one of is the test page. any idea would be appreciated as I'm running out of paper... =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Jeff Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ 8142658 Messenger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yahoo Jeff Allison Mobile +44 410 502 702 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] MS Vista is an acronym
http://blog.veggiedude.com/2005/07/hasta-la-vista-baby.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Linux IT hardware supplier
define cheap. I find HP and IBM good for linux based servers. (I might reconsider HP after their sacking of Alan Kay) Hi slugger I am trying to sell a linux server solution, and trying to look for reliable hardware supplier that compatible with linux so is anyone can tell me a cheap, reliable and good hardware supplier many thanks in advance -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: how to edit the welcome screen of gui in redhat linux 8.0
or if you are talking about the ssh or console login you need to modify one of the rc. files I think it was rc.local and look for MoTD, that will overwrite the /etc/issues file On Thu, 21 Jul 2005, manickam sudhakar wrote: Hi Help me how to edit the welcome screen of RedHat Linux 8. tell me the file name and its path where it is located. I assume you mean the login screen after it's been installed and all working. This will depend on whether you've chosen the default GNOME desktop or the KDE desktop or something else. If you've chosen the GNOME desktop you can login and go to the settings, login screen menu and select the theme you want. There's a number of other settings like remote access, default logins etc. If that's not flexible enough, edit the /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf (look at the [greeter] section maybe). -- ---GRiP--- Grant Parnell - SLUG President EverythingLinux services - the consultant's backup tech support. Web: http://www.elx.com.au/support.php We're also busybits.com.au and linuxhelp.com.au and everythinglinux.com.au. Phone 02 8756 3522 to book service or discuss your needs or email us at paidsupport at elx.com.au ELX or its employees participate in the following:- OSIA (Open Source Industry Australia) - http://www.osia.net.au AUUG (Australian Unix Users Group) - http://www.auug.org.au SLUG (Sydney Linux Users Group) - http://www.slug.org.au LA (Linux Australia) - http://www.linux.org.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] MS Exchange Alternative
I don't like groupware that much I was using about 2 years ago, I guess there have been a few changes since then. I would advise you to look at openxchange, or probably a better option is openexchange(novell) product, both cases will require you to install plugins in Outlook. Openxchange behaves very much like exchange. You could look at lotus notes, or Novell's groupwise. I have also learned the hard way do not push clients too hard to adopt Linux. if anything breaks becuase they are using linux they will hate it for as long as they live. I can't see anything wrong with exchange though, it is one of the better products they have for messaging and group management for corporations If the price tag is a bit ouch then advise other products. Hi All Need opinions and advice please. I have a client that is an MS house. They use Outlook extensively and that aint gonna change soon. I have managed to get them off exchange server but they want to be able to share their Outlook calendars etc so they want me to put Exchange back..I'm trying to avoid it. So what I'm looking for is a Linux Groupware server that will let MS Outlook clients share their Calendars etc. What have people in the Slug world used? What do you Recommend? -- 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] Erratic wireless connection (sound footnote)
If you have to manually configure your wireless access on your linux box you will have to reactivate it. I have forgotten how to do it under gentoo :( I will have to find some time to get it to auto find the PCMCIA card and activate network connection. Now, see... it works now. I'm going to turnoff/on the router if I lose or cannot get a connection, and then see what happens. I'll post back. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin wrote: Subject: Re: [SLUG] Erratic wireless connection (sound footnote) From: Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2005 10:47:45 +1000 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: slug@slug.org.au Thanks. I've not used ndiswrapper so have no opinion as to whether I like the colour or it's appearance; beauty is only skin deep :) lmao :) So there's the possibility it may work better using ndis? I'll have to look into that. It could work for you try http://www.ndeepak.info/tech/wlansarge.php Do the routers need to be power-cycled Do you mean switching them off and back on again improves connectivity? Yes turning them off and on, I have found that occasionally windows will loose connection. if a reboot doesn't fix it turning off and on the router network connection will work. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Erratic wireless connection (sound footnote)
I have had no problems with DWL-G650+ and using ndiswrappers. I know ndis is ugly. but at least it works. I have had problems using madwifi, and acx-100 drivers. my wireless connection is as good as the windows connection around the house, usually my problem with connection stems from the D-link wireless router/switch requires a power cycle (must be running windows) Hi all, I have 5.0.4 installed (dual boot with Windersninetyeight) on an old Compaq 7770DMT Armada. I have a D-Link DWL-650+ wireless card - picked up by Ubuntu 'out-of-the -box'. I've set everything to default (on the w'router) so there's no WEP etc. This is in my living room - the only place I can get a wireless connection. Ubuntu recognises the card and I've set the wlan0 as default and it starts on boot BUT the connection seem quite unstable with Ubuntu but less so with Winders (!) - is this something to do with Ubuntu's connection to the card Is there a wireless signal strength app I can install to check what it's able to 'see'? Is there something else I need to look at? I'm new to wireless in Linux, and so would appreciate any assistance able to be offered. I'm assuming there are other settings I need to change, but I'm afraid I'm not sure where to start. (Footnote. Still can't get sound going (ESS 1868 I think, but I'm working on that - unless someone has resolved this and has a few notes for me :) Many thank, Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Erratic wireless connection (sound footnote)
Thanks. I've not used ndiswrapper so have no opinion as to whether I like the colour or it's appearance; beauty is only skin deep :) lmao :) So there's the possibility it may work better using ndis? I'll have to look into that. It could work for you try http://www.ndeepak.info/tech/wlansarge.php Do the routers need to be power-cycled Do you mean switching them off and back on again improves connectivity? Yes turning them off and on, I have found that occasionally windows will loose connection. if a reboot doesn't fix it turning off and on the router network connection will work. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Mysql won't start
you should have a /var/log/mysql/
directory what does the error log say? if you don't what does
/var/log/messages say?
You might just have a syntax problem in your cnf file if you remove your option.
I have a severe problem:
It started with mysqdump not working:
$ mysqldump --add-drop-table kiddev sys_fid
mysqldump: unrecognized option `--max_allowed_packet=16M'
I've hit this problem recently, too. Check /etc/{,mysql/}my.cnf for
max_allowed_packet -- most likely you've got it defined in there. I can't
work out why it stopped working sometime recently, either -- I'm thinking
that a Debian woody security update lunched it somehow. It's about the only
distro which still ships MySQL 3.23... grin
Is there a more verbose option to start to tell me more info maybe?
I hunted the problems down just by running 'mysqld' at the command line.
It'll spew about 400 lines of crap when it dies -- it's the first line or
two which are interesting. Edit my.cnf to remove that option, run again.
There'll be about 4 directives that will screw it up. When it's running
right, it won't spew at you, it'll just sit there and not drop you back to a
prompt. Run /etc/init.d/mysql restart in another xterm, and it'll all just
work again.
- Matt
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Re: [SLUG] Squid: Sometimes files stop downloading after 1 mb
what is your config file like? are you caching sites? how much disk space do you have? is your system swapping heaps? We have one squid server with 1Ghz CPU, 1 Gb RAM and 2 TB of disk space looking after 2800 ppl Hey SLUG, We are experiencing a strange problem with Squid. We start Squid and it runs fine at first. Then after a period of time it gets into a state where when downloading a file after just before it reaches the 1 mb mark the download pauses as if it has timed out. Once Squid is in this state it can be reliably reproduced. I have sometimes found the downloads resume after a period of waiting, say 10-15 minutes, but are then corrupted. Once in this state it can be restarted and the problem sometimes re-appears and sometimes goes away. We are using Squid 2.5.9-6 Joel -- 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] Legality of port scanning.
I am checking for it I know that it was passed around 5 years ago. You need to get written permission to do port scanning on other machines. I am looking for the doco. Well, the ns1 would make me think that they are running some sort of DNS service on it. Have you tried an nmap scan to see what ports are open? I wouldn't suggest a port scan. It is illegal to port scan another server without permission. Do you have any references for that? The googling I've done (using variations on 'port scan illegal') turns up some admittedly quite old rulings letting it slide. -- 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] Love Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED] brett]$ uptime 3:45pm up 456 days, 6:24, 1 user, load average: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 In some ways that's a good thing, having an up time like that but your kernel could be so old that you haven't patched any of the known exploits. Who knows you might be owned because of some silly exploit you are unware of.. -- 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] PDAs
Does anyone have any advice they want to offer? I run Windows XP on my desktop, but in fact the Windows CE OS of my PDA was the main thing stopping me from giving Linux a whirl - the iPAQ model I have can only sync with a Windows machine. What sort of PDA do I have to get to be able to sync with Mozilla and OpenOffice and other organic free range software on a Linux machine? Ok just a couple of weeks ago I just blatted my ipaq, and installed opie on it. The only problem I found is there are not usbnet drivers freely available. I have found one site who says they have the drivers and have a demo version (they offer you a link that no longer works). I have tried numerous times to contact them and I get no answer. With opie installed you can install qtopia which will allow you to sync over usb or com in windows. I haven't tried this yet as I have been playing with gentoo tring to get e0.17 working on it. -- 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] MS Tax on every computer
Most religous institution can apply to companies like microsoft for a discounted version. I know of a guy in a made up religon who actually got a new car from ford, computer, and a few other things for free by just writing to those groups. I do work from a NSW independent (church) school and they get none of their gear thru DET. Their M$ licences are paid by the church. -- 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] excrypting fs
realistically if you wanted to loose your data you just have to mess with your supertables, and inodes, it would make it very difficult to retrieve data. Probably a stronger front door if the boys in blue come knocking with heavy hammers because they suspect that you have something to hide :) All the cool kids these days run Knoppix and just power down their machine when their Mum^H^H^H^H^H police knock on their door. Poof goes the ram disk. ...together with your list of customers. :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] excrypting fs
Hi all, I would like to encrypt /home and my shared directories on my boxes. Would I have to reformat them with an encrypt option? What is the over head with encrypted FS? Is it advisable to share encrypted fs using samba or would there be too much of an over head? Do I have to do a lot of house keeping on the file systems? Thanks Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] transcoding question
Hi all, when I run transcode with the following command transcode -i /storage/unnamed/vob/test.vob -M 2 -w 1500,520,100 -l 3 -a 0 -b 128,0,0 -f 25 -R 2 -x vob -o /storage/video/test.avi -y divx5 the movie is mirror reflection of the way it should be could anyone tell me what I have done wrong? The vob file is ok I can view the movie normally. It just seems that I might have entered an incorrect switch. Thanks Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: FW: [SLUG] samba
What were your steps in configuring samba? what is your smb.conf file like? have you made a domain? are you authentincating with the server? have you created users using smbpasswd? I know it makes no real difference what version of XP are you using Home or pro? Hi, Are you using User/Share level security I found that the problem for me was setting which ip addresses where allowed access (in my subnet...) that was the major problem. this is my host allow for a particular share: I only want a few hosts to access...but you can define whole subnets too.. hosts allow = 127.0.0.1,192.168.1.45,192.168.0.45,192.168.1.123 i had share level security on it...but the security wasnt a problem, because user level worked too fine (as long as a had matching accounts/passwords) Luke Phill wrote: I have already done this Regards, Phill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: mencode question
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[SLUG] mencode question
I would like to shrink some movie files down to something more manageable. do I use mencode or transcode? and what options do I use to convert vob files to divx or xvid? Thanks Kevin -- 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] youth and linux?
This stuff Do you mean computers and linux? Like windows, linux has a hardware compatibility list. Do you know what he wants to do with Linux? The way I started out was playing with DEC unix at uni way back when win3.0 was out, I hated using windows since the release of win95, and found Linux a happy medium, for programming and gaming. I first got linux in a redhat unleashed it was a pretty comprehensive book. He could also look at linux.org, linux.com and read the documentation. The other thing is that you could install a program called vmware if feel nervous about installing linux on your computer. out of curiosity - is there anyting specific to support younger people? Mainly becuase my BF's son (16) is getting interested in this stuff and was wondering where a good place to point him would be. I was thinking of dragging him along to SLUGlets to start with but was wondering if there's anything special set up. Cheers, Taryn -- This .sig temporarily out-of-order. We apologise for any inconvenience - The Management -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] USB Wireless Dongles
I think airport extreme is not supported under Linux like most 802.11g cards (except for prisim or orinoco) you are going to find it difficult to get 11g running on your laptop. 'morning SLUGers, I have an iBook G4 which, on the weekend, at the codefest, nuked OSX from in turn for ubuntu. Everything works so far except sleep (which I'm going to look at) and the internal wireless (Airport Extreme). Any support for airport extreme looks sucky, so I want to get a USB wireless dongle (there's no PCMCIA slot). Right now I've been borrowing a netgear MA111 which works quiet well, but it's only 802.11b, and if possible, I'd like to go 802.11g. So, has anyone come across any 802.11g ones that work under linux (remembering ndiswrapper is not an option under PPC). And, if not, any reccomendations for an 802.11b one. A small usb flash-drive style is preferred. Cheers, - Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] USB Wireless Dongles
As far as I can see there are not many g cards supported by Linux. I run wireless using a DLink wireless PCMCIA card, using ndiswrapper and dlink windows drivers. I still cant get g support. Isn't OSX bsd based? What was wrong with it? I think airport extreme is not supported under Linux like most 802.11g cards (except for prisim or orinoco) you are going to find it difficult to get 11g running on your laptop. I believe Kevin is right Chris. I've not seen drivers for airport extreme, and this would be the only thing stopping me installing linux onto my PPC powerbook :) However if you want to loan my usb dongle (g) and test it before purchasing a similar unit then that can be arranged at the next event of slug I come too. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] alsa + Audigy2 + Logitech Z5500 not loud enuf
Hi all, I have bought an Audigy2 Sound card to go with my Logitech Z5500 speaker set, what I have found is to get a semi reasonable volume level I have to pump the speaker volume to near max, run alsamixer and set pcm and speaker out close to distorted sound levels to hear anything. The speakers are also connected to Foxtel and I have to turn the sound back down to 3 to stay in the lounge room and enjoy my shows. Why is the audio controls set real low under alsa? How can I set the volume to a reasonable rate where I don't have to max the amp's volume control? Thanks Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] MythTV vs Freevo
I am using Fusion DVB card just your generic Fusion card, I have an AMD 2800+ with 512 meg of RAM and Audigy2 sound card ATI raedon 9700. I did have MythTV running on an Athlon 1200 with 256Meg of RAM and AC97 sound card. The area I struggled with was with grab_tv_au until Ben helped out. What DVB card and brand you using on myth setup? Also what spec machine.. is it remotely going to work on a Duron 1200Mhz with 512mb ram On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 08:38:19 +1000, Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What I have is mythtv running on Mandrake. Reason for this was to get something off the ground and running quickly. The features I like with Mythtv is that you have the option to watch TV, store your cds and dvds to disk to watch/listen at your leisure. Mythtv is also pretty simple to use, so it makes it kids and wife friendly. The plugins are pretty funky. The only thing that I had trouble with was configuring the channels to download the program guide (Thanks to ben) I was up and running in no time. What I would like to do is get a digital satalite capture card so that I can get digital foxtel. So if anyone knows where I can get a digsat card, I would appreciate the help. Kevin So what have people tried and what was there experience with these things ? Any recommendations ? Jason -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Digital TV Tuner Cards On Linux?
I sent an email to Lee and here is his response Kevin, you're 100% right. I was new to Linux at the time, and I didn't have much of a clue what I was doing. I'm fairly sure I'd have far less trouble now. So I have advised him update his page so that unsuspecting readers don't get confused, and misguided as to the state of Mythtv. Slanderous my foot. I have tried the 'tv_grab_au' from one list but did not work for me. Are you able to post the code for this script ? the python one from the list works. OK, this explains why my channel list does not work consistently. I am using the perl version. This is something new as far as I'm concerned, this python version. The weather web pages work but I get 'blank and black' screen when I switch to viewing TV channels. This is due to incorrect channels information in my MySQL MythTV database. There is NO 'tv_grab_au' from the de-facto http://www.xmltv.org server. I suspect because there is none that works consistently. There is no legal source here Yep, that's what I gathered from the list. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Prblem with bash and rsync
have you tried --exclude 'Temporary Internet Files' ? I don't think escape characters will work the way you want in a bash script. the other way to exclude it send it to an exclude file which will cut down the command line to something a little more managable. all, I have a weird problem with a bash script and rsync (its a snapshot style backup script). Somewhere in the script I create the command: ... ... COMMAND=$RSYNC -rlptgoD --delete --delete-excluded --exclude .snapshot --exclude \Temporary Internet Files\ /$d/ $TARGET if [ $DEBUG == 1 ]; then $ECHO $COMMAND; fi $COMMAND ... ... Now if I execute the command (which is displayed by the debug statement) using copy and paste into a XTERM it works. If I take out the --exclude Temporary Internet Files it works. But if I run the command through the script I get: Rsyncing /home/rsa/ /root/test/home/rsa/hourly.0 /usr/bin/rsync -rlptgoD --delete --delete-excluded --exclude .snapshot --exclude Temporary Internet Files /home/rsa/ /root/test/home/rsa/hourly.0 link_stat /usr/local/backup/Internet failed: No such file or directory IO error encountered - skipping file deletion rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(633) Error rsyncing home/rsa Now I have tried: --exclude \\Temporary Internet Files\\ --exclude Temporary\ Internet\ Files --exclude \Temporary\ Internet\ Files\ and many other ways. Any ideas anyone jobst -- do not email me directly, email to this account must come from mailing lists! all other mail is placed into /dev/null There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn lies, and statistics. - Disraeli __, Jobst Schmalenbach, 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 Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Digital TV Tuner Cards On Linux?
Read the ff. info so very carefully before expending time and money on this intended project. http://www.schlesinger.us/nf20031230.htm It appears that this Schlesinger is a bit of a dolt. a couple of weeks to built a mythtv box, Yeah right! It took me less than a day. This guy seems to be a complete noobie to linux in the first instance. I got mythtv running on Mandrake10. and 10.1 I used the CVS as opposed to the tarballs, at the moment I am considering Gentoo as the next step. I can see a couple of weeks in the gentoo part, that is understandable. He started off with SuSE, who in their right mind would use SuSE for multimedia, they don't ship codecs because it breaches their license. The endeavour is even more hazardous here in Australia. There is no working 'tv_grab_au' from the official xmltv software up-to-now AFAIK. You will discover this when you get to 'Zap2it' a tv program listing site that does not provide you correctly with the list of service providers here in Australia. By this time it will be too late as you probably have bought the hardware and spent tremendous hours following the HOWTO (http://www.mythtv.info; I beg to differ there there is a tv_grab_au and it works fine. I would recommend Linux users to use mythtv, it is in my case (wifeproof), and (kid proof I have a 4 and 3 yr old) who can manage the interface to play their favourite movies and channels. http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/fcmyth.php). I have Fedora Core 2. ReHat is the primary platform supported in this HOWTO. Also it is required you have KDE instead of GNOME, which is excellent because I am into Kolab Servers (http://kolab.org) for many customers. Incidentally, I am gradually shifting all workstations and servers to KDE. To get a sense of the issues involve, check the postings here: http://www.dtvforum.info/index.php?showtopic=52hl=#entry22169 This is a once off configuration requirement. You don't have to memorise the hz setting of every channel. But in the end, if learning specifically about linux kernel, device drivers, compilation, installations, mysql, and lots of fun things about linux is of paramount benefit to you, then, it is worth the time and money to plunge into this project. But I for one would not do it for getting the pleasure of having a TIVO-like service. It seems like the most attractive part of tivo will be removed pretty soon, as it is illegal to cut commercials in the US and under the FTA it will come here. I have FusionHDTV DV3-T that I installed on my TEST server with heaps of CPU power and memory and heaps of storage (over a terabyte) that works off-and-on requiring lots of maintenance work. I've given up on this since Dec, 2004 and hope to get back to it when time permits. If you simply wish to get the pleasure of digital tv recording, editing, and controlling, then get commercial TIVO, at least for now. You can't knock it until you have tried it. Mythtv works beautifully if you know the capabilities and limitations of the distro you have chosen then Mythtv will work for you. So far you have given only 1 lame example of failure. I know of a lot more success stories and most of them are in the slug list. -- 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] RTA, Premier's Department and Linux
There are several issues that you are dealing with if you are working with RTA. 1. Part of IT services is out sourced, you don't want to piss off the out sourcer other wise SLAs could be compromised. 2. They are already using Macs which is using bsd. RTA are already rolling-out (okay, I'm a public servant - we're not allowed to say implementing :)a Linux-based office system in some of their locations (if my sources are right). Hi Patrick, do you know what office software (email, w/p, spreadsheet etc.) they're using ? cheers Rod On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 12:48 +1100, Elliott-Brennan wrote: For those who are not public servants and haven't heard already: it appears that Col Gellatly, the Director General of the NSW Premier's Department, is showing an interest in Linux and OpenSource software in general, whilst the RTA are already rolling-out (okay, I'm a public servant - we're not allowed to say implementing :)a Linux-based office system in some of their locations (if my sources are right). If the committee looking into this issue comes out with a positive regard/plan for OpenSource, and Gellatly is involved (he has considerable influence in the NSW Public Service) this would certainly mean big things in NSW for OpenSource. The Dpt I'm with uses Novell, and the packages that are used the great part of the time can easily be replaced with Ffox and OpenOffice. That's my good news for the New Year. Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Wireless pcmcia cards
Hi all, Can anyone recommend a good 802.11g card that will work with 2.6 kernel? I would like to be able to use either 256Bit Wep or wpa-psk to connect to my network, price is no issue. Thanks Kevin -- 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] lost file
Thanks but the file doesn't live there anymore. :-( Googling for this file name got me the link at http://www.linuxquestions.org/hcl/showproduct.php?product=1125 which points to a non-existing file, but if you try to browse that FTP directory you can see files which might contain later versions? (dwlg650plus_driver_eu_v2.04.zip, dwlg650plus_WPA-utility-driver_2.02.zip) Try: ftp://ftp.dlink.de/dwl-products/dwl-g650PLUS/Treiber_Firmware/ Also, if you have such a non-working link in some other site then maybe you can try to trim the last part of that URL and see what you get. HTH, --Amos Kevin Saenz wrote: Hi all, I have misplaced a file that I downloaded to get my Dlink wireless card to work under Linux now I have tried to download it and it nolonger exists on the site did anyone from the group download the following file? DWLG650plus_utility_v.1.0.zip If you have it could you please email it to me off the group? Thanks Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] lost file
Hi all, I have misplaced a file that I downloaded to get my Dlink wireless card to work under Linux now I have tried to download it and it nolonger exists on the site did anyone from the group download the following file? DWLG650plus_utility_v.1.0.zip If you have it could you please email it to me off the group? Thanks Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] suse9 and apache2
Hi all, How can I get apache2 running and allowing connections using yast2? I have tried to configure apache2 and i have ran netstat -an --inet|grep 80 and have seen the port being used. but when I use another machine I get access is denied from the browser. Can anyone assist? Thanks Kevin -- 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] telnet [host] http
How about wget? I want to download an html page to a local file. I can do: telnet [host] http GET foobar.html HTTP/1.0 and get the page, but I want the page in a file that I can then parse. I've tried putting the above commands in a script but that don't work. Any suggestions? TIA, Luke -- Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit Mobile: 0421 276 282 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] MythTV vs Freevo
What I have is mythtv running on Mandrake. Reason for this was to get something off the ground and running quickly. The features I like with Mythtv is that you have the option to watch TV, store your cds and dvds to disk to watch/listen at your leisure. Mythtv is also pretty simple to use, so it makes it kids and wife friendly. The plugins are pretty funky. The only thing that I had trouble with was configuring the channels to download the program guide (Thanks to ben) I was up and running in no time. What I would like to do is get a digital satalite capture card so that I can get digital foxtel. So if anyone knows where I can get a digsat card, I would appreciate the help. Kevin So what have people tried and what was there experience with these things ? Any recommendations ? Jason -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] SSL certificates portable ?
I am pretty sure that SSL certificates are dependant upon the IP address of the machine. Are SSL certificates portable ?. I want to generate a CSR on a IIS machine and use it to produce a certificate that will be used on an Linux/Apache 1.3.12-12 box (obviously with the correct fqdn ,etc) Is that possible ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] X11R6.8 in mandrake
Has anyone install X11R6.8 on mandrake 10? Just wondering what I would need to concern myself if I was going to replace Xfree86 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Postfix potentially relaying
Hi all, I have just tested a server I have been given the pleasure of playing with and I from a few tests I have ran it is reported that the server is has relaying ability. the main.cf file looks a little like this smtpd_sender_restrictions = permit_mynetworks, reject_unknown_client,reject_rbl_client,reject_unauth_destination,reject_rhsbl_sender dsn.rfc-ignorant.org smtpd_recipient_restrictions = reject_invalid_hostname,reject_nonfqdn_recipient,reject_nonfqdn_sender,reject_unknown_sender_domain,reject_unknown_recipient_domain,reject_unauth_pipeling, permit_mynetworks, reject_unauth_destination,reject_rbl_client relays.ordb.org,reject_rbl_client opm.blitzed.org,reject_rbl_client list.dsbl.org,reject_rbl_client cbl.abuseat.org, permit I have appended one of the tests below. Also If I add reject to the end of smtpd_sender_restrictions I get every incoming message blocked. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: 250 Ok MAIL FROM: 250 Ok RCPT TO: 250 Ok DATA 354 End data with . MESSAGE 250 Ok: queued as DECD04210 Thanks Kevin -- 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] MS EXCEL Macro Blues
I am seeking some help in trying to configure a spreadsheet which will allow Open Office to read MS EXCEL Macro. I have opened the spreadsheet with Open Office but the calculations are all scrambled. I am sorry OpenOffice.org will not support all macros. Basically you would need to build a OO version. To give you all a background, the spreadsheet in question is used to submit loans (mortgages). It works out the serviceability for applicants, as well as other things. Yeap one of my clients does the same thing their franchisor released ecel app developed by an outsourcer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] postfix question
Hi all, I have built a mail gateway on my dmz using postfix and currently building an internal mail server using postfix as part of Kolab. Has anyone built postfix to relay any internet bound emails to a mail gateway? I have the mail gateway forwarding to the internal mail server. Nothing the other way Thanks -- 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] exchange server 2003 linux replacement
I am currently playing with Kolab. I can't get kmail to read or grab my emails. but thunderbird works a treat. I am also trailing a outlook plugin called toltec connector it's US$13 a pop. The only problem that I have so far is that you have to create mail folders under the inbox rather than your account, to me that looks messy. Another project tied to KDE is Kolab. The majority of which appers to be heavily under development. Information can be found here http://kolab.org/ http://dot.kde.org/1092468813/ -- 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] exchange server 2003 linux replacement
First of all congrats. Second this rule applies to all systems. Do not convert wholly to one one environment. Honestly Exchange is a good product, the only product that would give it a run for it money would be groupwise from Novell. Also a side note zenworks is more sturdy than microsoft's sms, it deals with licencing, installation, and managing workstations better than sms. Realistically a hetrogenous environment is better than homogenous environments in the area of security and managability. Dear all Well I just got a little story behind this question. I just succeed convince my customer that trying to do web design using ASP.net to use Linux using PHP yeaaahhh Linux Rulez. now seems I got a bit problem trying to convince this administrator to change all the system using linux. he is asking about the mail server for replacement for their exchange server 2003 that he said is the best (may be true) I just want to debate with this guy since I haven't much experience with mail server. he want to know the capabilities of each linux mail server and compatibilty and how much can the mail server handle like how much email etc, etc and how much size that it could handle well I really praise linux for everything i hope i could find some answer many thanks in advance Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail is new and improved - Check it out! http://us.rd.yahoo.com/mail_us/taglines/new/*http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail -- 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] exchange server 2003 linux replacement
And for the people who suggest Novell Groupwise: I presume you're not the same people who bleat about Exchange HTML and RTF emails, because Groupwise produces some truly hideous emails. Hmmm I haven't seen that, I guess it's a config issue. Might be like Domino mail servers. -- 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] do all logs in /var/log get rotated, or where is that ?
You have a psudo deamon called logrotate.d it's a cron job that runs on a daily basis and reads the config files in both /etc/ and /etc/logrotate.d/ directories. what motivates various log files in /var/log to be rotated ? if I have a script that logs to /var/log/mylog.log, will that get rotated, or, where do I enrol it , should I wish to have it rotated (and I probably do not, it writes one entry per day) -- 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] HELP!!!
For pst files there is a tool that will break the file down into smaller mailbox files. it's called pstlib. have a look on freshmeat. I am currently using Ximian Evolution to manage my e-mail. Is there some way that I can import files from Microsoft Outlook (.PST) into Evolution. I would greatly appreciate any advice, or help for either of my problems. Regards, Dom L. -- 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] OT. raid failure 36Gb in place of 9Gb?
I think you would have trouble rebuilding that raid, I have never gone down the path of trying to rebuild a harddrive with different size disks. Hi Slugs, Sorry for the OT post. I've a raid 5 array with four 9.1GB disks. Can't find a 9GB disk to replace it but have a 36Gb disk handy. It's the same SCSI type and pins. Would putting a 36gb in a 9GB RAID array work as in the RAID uses this disk and rebuilds even if only 9GB of it. It's only a temp solution and a new server is coming to replace it anyway. just has to last a couple of weeks. Ben -- 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] dependible apt sources for debian ppc
Sweet free p0rn access wonder if they start noticing who would they blame ;-) Better still ethically wouldn't it be nicer to say hey guys your wireless access is allowing all and sundry free access to the internet. If that isn't scary enuf, the fact you may have the potential at leeching their files, should be. Evening, Following a recent discussion on laptops, I got myself an Apple powerbook. Neat So how is that Powerbook going? Still impressed with it? I love my powerbook. I powered it on here at work and found that the company downstairs has 3 AP's all unsecured with no WEP or mac filtering. Further more you can get to the internet for web browseing etc. -- 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]
I would recommend using php for this this depends on what your web server is capable of doing. HI All i was wondering if someone could help me, this is probably a simple task, but for someone thats not done any before it seems impossible I have a mysql database, with data in it, and i would like to be able to produce that data on a web page, so would appreciate some examples, i don't mind if its simple, just want to be able to view it via a web page Thanks in advance Cheers Trevor -- 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] FOSS email server for Outlook clients?
You could look at Novell's groupwise. Apparently it's more flexible, powerful and manageable than exchange. So far I have not found a good opensource replacement for Exchange. We're looking at ditching Exchange, but unfortunately we need to keep Outlook. Shared resources like calendars and contacts is still needed... Any ideas? Don't ditch Exchange. That's basically the only sane answer. You can try things like SuSE OpenExchange (recently open sourced by their upstream), OpenGroupware.org and so on, but they're all somewhat suboptimal. If you can live without a FOSS solution, you can try Samsung Contact (previously HP OpenMail) or Novell's Groupwise. Don't ditch Exchange. In fact, some good Exchange training will get you much further than the current crop of FOSS alternatives. And if you stick with Exchange, use 2000 or 2003. It's much better, plus you can use the recently open sourced Exchange Connector for Evolution with it. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Wireless Mandrake
Hi all, I have compiled airsnort and kismet, when I run airsnort it tells me that I need to run eth1 mode=Monitor. I run iwconfig eth1 mode Monitor and I get [EMAIL PROTECTED] kevin]# iwconfig eth1 mode monitor Error for wireless request Set Mode (8B06) : SET failed on device eth1 ; Invalid argument. can anyone help? thanks Keivn -- 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] Wireless Mandrake
Sorry the card I am using is a Dlink DWL-G650+ it's using an TI chipset. What wireless card do you have? If its Orinoco/Lucent/Avaya/Agree you need a patched driver or the new drivers*. *There is a new driver which hasn't reached the kernel 0.15rc2 (current kernels have 0.13e). 0.15rc1 was meant to have monitor mode but it hasn't worked for me, either has rc2. http://www.nongnu.org/orinoco/ The schmoo site has some info on how to patch 0.13e, but it doesn't work for me. I went out and bought a PrismGT based chipset card, and works fine with kismet, (I bought it thinking it was a prism2 card, wanting to take advantage of the hostap drivers- which also have better WPA support). http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html Knoppix has the patched driver if you would like to give that a thrash. -- 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] ot: syslogd for windoze ? t/s BP cable with dlink 704
Umm, why would you trust a windows machine to collect syslogd information? just direct syslogd to a unix or linux box. Not sure if this is what you are after URL: http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/ The snare client for Windows allows you to log to a Linux machine. Anand, thanks. no, I'd like to run a syslogd on a windoze machine, and, log a router to the windoze machine's syslogd. -- 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] Wireless Mandrake
I am using 2.6 kernel. but the drivers I am using is the ndiswrapper. I am using the WG311V2 using TI chipset, there is a project at sourceforge rewriting the driver for it to run under linux, I heard some of the people got the WG311V2 working in linux in the 2.4 kernel, but when I try to compile it in kernel 2.6 under mandrake 10, I just get compiling error!!! Steve __ Steven Chang-Lin Yu MEngSc Student - Telecommunications Computer Technician Homepage: http://requiemonline.tripod.com ICQ#: 66369374 Current ICQ status: * Home Tel#: 0401043641 * Work Tel#: 0401043641 * More ways to contact me Get ICQ! __ -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Kevin Saenz Sent: Wednesday, 4 August 2004 6:59 AM To: Simon Males Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Wireless Mandrake Sorry the card I am using is a Dlink DWL-G650+ it's using an TI chipset. What wireless card do you have? If its Orinoco/Lucent/Avaya/Agree you need a patched driver or the new drivers*. *There is a new driver which hasn't reached the kernel 0.15rc2 (current kernels have 0.13e). 0.15rc1 was meant to have monitor mode but it hasn't worked for me, either has rc2. http://www.nongnu.org/orinoco/ The schmoo site has some info on how to patch 0.13e, but it doesn't work for me. I went out and bought a PrismGT based chipset card, and works fine with kismet, (I bought it thinking it was a prism2 card, wanting to take advantage of the hostap drivers- which also have better WPA support). http://airsnort.shmoo.com/orinocoinfo.html Knoppix has the patched driver if you would like to give that a thrash. -- 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] Cable or ADSL?
I dunno it the problem has been fixed cable is great if you are the only one in your street using cable. Once people start using it from what I have read it slows down. My preference is ADSL. The subject asks the question: What's preferable, cable or ADSL? Given cable, Telstra or Optus? Thanks. M. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
