Re: List Reply behaviour

2002-09-25 Thread Michael Beattie
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 06:02:02PM +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote: Does this mean we can start one of those annoying 'yes it worked' threads? It worked anyway... Chris's mail: From: Chris Hellyar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: List Reply behaviour Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2002

Re: List Reply behaviour

2002-09-25 Thread Chris Hellyar
Hmmm, Either munged munging, of I'm special :-). This reply worked on the reply-to. (Is there an echo in here?) Cheers, Chris. - Original Message - From: Michael Beattie On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 06:02:02PM +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote: Does this mean we can start one of those

Sparcstations and Linux

2002-09-25 Thread Wesley Parish
I do a bit of voluntary work at Molten Media, Christchurch, and just recently we had a set of about six or seven Sparcstations come in. They don't have hard drives or floppies at the moment, but I'm certain I could arrange for that very quickly if need be. I have raised the question of

Re: Sparcstations and Linux

2002-09-25 Thread David A. Mann
Wesley Parish wrote: The question is, is anyone in the Linux community in Christchurch or surrounding countryside, interested in a Sun Sparcstation running Linux? And how much would you be prepared to offer? Man, I have too many computers already :( What kind of Sparcstations are they?

Re: Sparcstations and Linux

2002-09-25 Thread Wesley Parish
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 21:49, you wrote: Wesley Parish wrote: The question is, is anyone in the Linux community in Christchurch or surrounding countryside, interested in a Sun Sparcstation running Linux? And how much would you be prepared to offer? Man, I have too many computers already :(

Re: List Reply behaviour

2002-09-25 Thread Adrian Stacey
Dean McIntosh wrote: Safe??!? You are talking about Women here. Thank somebody (God maybe) that my partner doesn't read these things. I found the only true answer was divorce... It had almost been so long that I had forgotten what freedom was s. Now that I can spend my money on any kit I

Re: Sparcstations and Linux

2002-09-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 23:32, Wesley Parish wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 21:49, you wrote: Wesley Parish wrote: The question is, is anyone in the Linux community in Christchurch or surrounding countryside, interested in a Sun Sparcstation running Linux? And how much would you be prepared

Re: CLUG Meeting Wednesday 2nd October (Re: 2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop?)

2002-09-25 Thread Follower
but now I have a Saturn Cable internet connection so will need to get that up and running as well as some sort of firewall. Ooo, cable *fun*. :-) If you've got an old 486/low end pentium lying around I'd recommend looking at floppyfw http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/ it takes a little bit to set

Re: mgetty faxspool... thanks

2002-09-25 Thread paul schulz
Thanks for that! looks good :) Hylafax is a great network fax server. Are you sending from linux or from winders? A program called cypheus (google it) is reputedly a good client for win.

Re: More Aqua-lookalike screenshots

2002-09-25 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
That looks majorly sweet Dave!, how have you found the reliability of enlightenment, on one of my machines at work I was running it for a while and the drop down menus quite often broke odd I know! jeremyb. From: David A. Mann [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 2002/09/25 Wed PM 11:08:22 GMT+12:00

Re: More Aqua-lookalike screenshots

2002-09-25 Thread Vik Olliver
Mind if I use these to illustrate Enlightenment's flexibility in my next PC World article? Do you require a credit line or URL of the theme? Vik :v) On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 23:08, David A. Mann wrote: I finally got around to taking a couple of snapshots of my X desktop.

Window manager selection in RH7.3

2002-09-25 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
Anyone added other wm's to the login menu in RedHat? and if so how? jeremyb.

Re: Modem troubles and ISPs

2002-09-25 Thread Carl Cerecke
Wesley Parish wrote: On Wed, 25 Sep 2002 09:41, Carl Cerecke wrote: I'm having a problem connecting to my ISP, maxnet. They don't know what the problem is. Linux is officialy unsupported by them (incidentally, they only told me that *after* I had problems, even though I was very upfront about

Re: Window manager selection in RH7.3

2002-09-25 Thread Vik Olliver
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 08:07, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: Anyone added other wm's to the login menu in RedHat? and if so how? Just WindowMaker. It knows about that one. Vik :v)

Re: Window manager selection in RH7.3

2002-09-25 Thread Nick Rout
Anyone added other wm's to the login menu in RedHat? and if so how? jeremyb. I think if you add the wm from a redhat rpm it should appear in the login manager. If not, RTFM. I did once when I wanted to do this, but I forget now how it worked. The documentation was thorough though IIRC --

Re: Modem troubles and ISPs

2002-09-25 Thread Carl Cerecke
Vik Olliver wrote: On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 09:41, Carl Cerecke wrote: I'm considering another ISP. I only need about 10hrs a week dial-up and a few mailboxes. I collect my CLUG email from here at work. Any suggestions about the problem or an alternative ISP? Try letting PPP handle all

Re: Window manager selection in RH7.3

2002-09-25 Thread Nick Rout
Also tha answer may depend on whether you are using kdm, gdm or xdm ? -- Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CLUG Meeting Wednesday 2nd October (Re: 2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop?)

2002-09-25 Thread Lance BLACKLER
Reading this thread reminds me that I have a couple of DX4100's that I don't require if anybody needs them for firewalls or whatever - 1 is a desktop the other is a mini tower - contact me of list for more details. Lance Blackler Linux Registered User # 281213 From: Follower [EMAIL

Re: Window manager selection in RH7.3

2002-09-25 Thread Michael Pearce
I use kdm, on RH7.1 based machine. I have added equinox, and a couple of others at some time or another. First you must add an entry in the /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession file CLIP FROM Xsession # now, we see if xdm/gdm/kdm has asked for a specific environment case $# in 1) case $1 in failsafe)

Re: List Reply behaviour

2002-09-25 Thread Martin Baehr
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 05:16:51PM +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote: Testing the reply to: Please delete oh well, fortunately, mutt can be configured to ignore Reply-To: headers that point to a mailinglist *grin*. it'll almost be as if there was no Reply-To: the victims will only be those who need

Re: More Aqua-lookalike screenshots

2002-09-25 Thread Martin Baehr
On Wed, Sep 25, 2002 at 11:08:22PM +1200, David A. Mann wrote: The setup is Enlightenment with the Aqua theme, and I've also installed the Aqua-lookalike themes for Gnome, KDE and Mozilla so the apps look pretty as well (not to mention reasonably consistent). aqua-lookalike is nice,

Re: Clug Meeting

2002-09-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 09:41, Ben Devine wrote: Hi all, Generally what time do the meetnigs start and finish? 7:30 until you drop -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell

Re: Modem troubles and ISPs

2002-09-25 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 08:22, Carl Cerecke wrote: Manually (with minicom) or auto have same result. I get the login: prompt (so the modems do connect, and data is received.) When I hit enter, NO CARRIER But the modem (the ISA one anyway) works when dialing a different modem, no troubles at

TMDA

2002-09-25 Thread Jeremy Bertenshaw
Any of you out there tried this as an anti-spam alternative? http://tmda.net/ jeremyb.

Re: CLUG Meeting Wednesday 2nd October (Re: 2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop?)

2002-09-25 Thread xhen
I'd be keen if that is the best way for me to go about setting up a firewall. I do believe I have a old 386 lying around but I don't think its in much of a state to run anything, also theres no monitor (I lent it to my ex and she blew it up ^^;) Cheers Tony Reading this thread reminds me that

Re: Modem troubles and ISPs

2002-09-25 Thread Nick Rout
In any case, the winmodem is not the problem, because the ISA modem was the same result. Connects, then line dropped after Enter at the login: prompt. At the risk of sounding repetitive, have you tried pap/chap? also you might like to try wvdial, it is brilliant and may sort you out. It

Telecom jetstream firewall, vs IPCop?

2002-09-25 Thread Gerard van Antwerpen
Hi, We're looking at getting Jetstream, just set up IPCop for our current dial-up. Telecom salesman told our admin manager that we need their firewall, that a local one is not 'enough'. Any comments? Gerard van Antwerpen BE mech., MIPENZ, Reg.223986 Design Engineer, QA Manager Cuddon Ltd.

Re: Telecom jetstream firewall, vs IPCop?

2002-09-25 Thread Paul
one comment .. LOL Paul (Manager, E-caf@The Arts Centre) (Level 2/28 Worcester Boulevard, Christchurch, NZ) (ph/fax +64 3 3656480 www.e-caf.com)

Re: Telecom jetstream firewall, vs IPCop?

2002-09-25 Thread Tim Wright
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Gerard van Antwerpen wrote: We're looking at getting Jetstream, just set up IPCop for our current dial-up. Telecom salesman told our admin manager that we need their firewall, that a local one is not 'enough'. Any comments? That's their salesman...they just want to sell

Re: Telecom jetstream firewall, vs IPCop?

2002-09-25 Thread Nick Rout
Thety do not have a firewall as far as I know. - ask them what they are referring to! -- Nick Rout Barrister Solicitor Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 3798966 Fax + 64 3 3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz

Re: Telecom jetstream firewall, vs IPCop?

2002-09-25 Thread Michael Pearce
Key point to note: Telecom salesman Its there job to Sell freezers to eskimos and firewalls to cellphone users. 95% of the time they dont know what they are talking about ( In a previous life (Well Job) I worked with sales people (both Internal and Telecom) for a few too many

Re: Telecom jetstream firewall, vs IPCop?

2002-09-25 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:21, Gerard van Antwerpen wrote: Hi, We're looking at getting Jetstream, just set up IPCop for our current dial-up. Telecom salesman told our admin manager that we need their firewall, that a local one is not 'enough'. Any comments? Bull, He is just trying to make a

Re: Telecom jetstream firewall, vs IPCop?

2002-09-25 Thread Gerald Young
Hi all, Virus filtering is not an option, all xtra emails are filtered and there is no opt out. big brother stuff I dont know how effective it is. b w Gerald At 11:06 26/09/02 +1200, you wrote: Key point to note: Telecom salesman Its there job to Sell freezers to

RE: Telecom jetstream firewall, vs IPCop?

2002-09-25 Thread Guy Steven
-Original Message- From: Nick Rout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 26 September 2002 11:04 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Telecom jetstream firewall, vs IPCop? Thety do not have a firewall as far as I know. - ask them what they are referring to! -- I am

Re: Telecom jetstream firewall, vs IPCop?

2002-09-25 Thread Gerard van Antwerpen
Well that's as I suspected, thanks it gives me something to show to our admin guy. Concerning the responsibility: there will no doubt be a clause in the contract to evade that. Re. the virus protection of Xtra, I must asy that it has stopped quite a few, but our own scanner still picks up the

Re: Clug Meeting

2002-09-25 Thread Zane Gilmore
Ben, because this meeting is not going to have much in the way of a formal talk then we'll start at the usual 7:30 and the last of us are usually leaving after 11:00. But you will be able to leave any time you have to (I remember what it was like to be a young teenager) without offending

Re: CLUG Meeting Wednesday 2nd October (Re: 2/10 meeting - t-shooting workshop?)

2002-09-25 Thread Lance BLACKLER
Tony - contact me off list if you are interested and we can arrange it if you need one - I don't have a good screen - but easy enough to find or I can do you one that looks rather green (apparantly easily repaired). Ph 0800 479 764 if you like. Lance Blackler [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL

Re: CLUG Meeting Wednesday 2nd October

2002-09-25 Thread Nick Elder CLUG
Update! So far I have one name Graham Barnett registered to bring his problem linux boxem to our meeting! Looks like we have plenty of room for more! Please register by emailing me at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I dont miss your email amongst all my other mail. cheers, Nick Elder

RE: Telecom jetstream firewall, vs IPCop?

2002-09-25 Thread David Kirk
I am sure I have seen reference to telecom providing a linux based firewall There was an anouncement about it a couple of months back, I think on the xtra tech pages. Guy, The Linux based firewall you are thinking about is called Secure Business Internet. It is delivered via ADSL, but it is

Re: Modem troubles and ISPs

2002-09-25 Thread Peter Elliott
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 10:26:58 +1200 Nick Rout [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: also you might like to try wvdial, it is brilliant and may sort you out. It is available in packages for most distros. http://open.nit.ca/wvdial/ -- yes! it is double plus good at sorting problematic dial-up connections

Re: Clug Meeting

2002-09-25 Thread Ben Devine
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SOOT : A Library (Sought Of Off Topic)

2002-09-25 Thread Ben Devine
Hi all, I was browsing the Dunlug site and they have quite a book collection I was wondering if we have one or if we should start one. ,Ben -=Ben Devine=- [EMAIL PROTECTED]=- ___Get the FREE email that has everyone talking at

Heads up - troubleshooting evening

2002-09-25 Thread Nick Rout
We only have minimal entries for this event on wed 2 october. This is surprising because a number of people previously indicated they would like to bring their machine along and get some fixes done in person, rather than over email or the phone. So, come on people, particularly those newbies,

Re: Heads up - troubleshooting evening

2002-09-25 Thread Andrew Errington
Ooh! Reply to list works, just what I always wanted... =:^) I don't want any problems fixing right now, but I am going to be there and I will bring my car MP3 player for show and tell. Anyone who wants to see it is welcome to ask questions, and it may serve as a catalyst for others who want to

Re: Heads up - troubleshooting evening

2002-09-25 Thread Nick Rout
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 05:57:05 +0100 (BST) Andrew Errington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I will bring my car MP3 player for show and tell. Anyone who wants to see it is welcome to ask questions, and it may serve as a catalyst for others who want to do something less ordinary. cool, that I want

Re: Heads up - troubleshooting evening

2002-09-25 Thread Ben Devine
I'm not sure but I might bring my 486 to set up as a gateway/ webserver. But it would have to run Webmin. If i do bring it I will have to make some mounting braces.(I recently put inside of a briefcase :) Actually it was yesterday) But still it depends if i am allowed to go. "|Ben