Re: Next Meeting Talk...

2008-04-06 Thread Christopher Sawtell
We can't have Wednesday unfortunately unless we change venue. The problems with the IPCop are a combination of me being a bit dim, and the Prism card needing an internal software upgrade, or just plain gremlins. -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell

Re: Next Meeting Talk...

2008-04-06 Thread Nick Rout
I certainly cannot be there tomorrow night (what happened about shifting the day to wednesday?) but I can probably help. Where is it failing, the installation and config docos look pretty thorough. N On Mon, April 7, 2008 1:42 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > Since the previous mention of the blu

Re: Laptop recommendations for Linux

2008-04-06 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, April 7, 2008 12:52 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: >> Perhaps a reasonable spec second hand >> one might be better value, but I'm just unsure >> of ex lease laptops >> (battery life?? and limited guarantees cf desktops which I can fix >> myself) > > I have had a couple of s/h IBM ThinkPads

Re: Next Meeting Talk...

2008-04-06 Thread Don Gould
Christopher Sawtell wrote: If some kind soul could help me tomorrow evening, I'd be eternally grateful. Wonder if Neil will show up. He knows all about this AP stuff. Rik knows a bit as well. Cheers Don -- Don Gould 1/31 Acheson Ave, Shirley, Christchurch, New Zealand Phone: +64 3 348 7235

Re: Next Meeting Talk...

2008-04-06 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Since the previous mention of the blue network on this list being for APs only there has been an AddOn released which is supposed to allow the use of an internal Intersil Corporation Prism 2.5 Wavelan card. It's called wlanap-ipcop-2.1.4 and comes from http://www.ban-solms.de/ That's what I'm hopin

Re: Laptop recommendations for Linux

2008-04-06 Thread Christopher Sawtell
> Perhaps a reasonable spec second hand > one might be better value, but I'm just unsure > of ex lease laptops > (battery life?? and limited guarantees cf desktops which I can fix myself) I have had a couple of s/h IBM ThinkPads. An R40 & now a T41. They have both run Gentoo Linux very well, if no

Re: Laptop recommendations for Linux

2008-04-06 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, April 7, 2008 12:55 pm, stringer wrote: > Hi guys 'n gals, > > I've got a little money spare at the moment so am looking at a cheap > laptop. > > Is there anything I should steer clear of? > > Mostly I do word processing and a little spreadsheeting (Open Office will > do) as well as email

Re: Laptop recommendations for Linux

2008-04-06 Thread chris
Asus has always given me a good run cheers Chris T On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 12:55 +1200, stringer wrote: > Hi guys 'n gals, > > I've got a little money spare at the moment so am looking at a cheap laptop. > > Is there anything I should steer clear of? > > Mostly I do word processing and a little sp

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Re: Next Meeting Talk...

2008-04-06 Thread Nick Rout
Like has been mentioned in reply to the same question before, blue interface is not for a wireless card, it is for an AP. On Fri, April 4, 2008 7:33 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > HOWTO get the blue network - wireless access point - going on IPCop > with HostAP and a DWL-520 DLINK pci wireless

Re: Next Meeting Talk...

2008-04-06 Thread Don Gould
Hi Andrew, I agree with you... luckly that's what I do use day to day. I have to confess I've never used DMZ but I do get the idea. The rest I use all the time, other than IPCop... but the point I will be making about that is that there are a range of 'Firewall' and 'Firewall application serve

Re: Program to extract attachments

2008-04-06 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
On Thu 03 Apr 2008 12:11:55 NZDT +1300, Douglas Royds wrote: > This fails your "does not create random files on disk" requirement, but you > can use munpack to expand a multi-part MIME email into (ahem) multiple > files on disk: > >munpack -tC randomFilesOnDisk/ ~/multipart.eml That would b

Re: linking problems with ld

2008-04-06 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, April 4, 2008 4:52 pm, Aidan Gauland wrote: > Okay, I tried writing a wrapper script that sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH to a > colon > seperated list of directories, where I have put the .so files, but this > doesn't seem to work. I tried it in an emulator without any of the > libraries > it nee