Re: NFS Lockup problems - solution

2001-12-09 Thread Rex Johnston
The other options I can see are fiddling the timeouts in the mount options, or using fuser to kill things off before umount. As I said earlier, the mount options hard/soft/intr are useless in this case (no way to pass any signal to the blocking process). RTFM, man nfs soft

Re: 2.2 Kernel problem with redhat7.2

2002-01-20 Thread Rex Johnston
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 15:59, Zane Gilmore wrote: It worked fine before on Redhat 7.1 I'm thinking that there is some part of the network stack that is not inside the kernel that the new Redhat install has upgraded and the 2.2 kernel is choking on. The network stack is contained within the

Re: X-application properties

2002-02-18 Thread Rex Johnston
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 18:36, Vik Olliver wrote: Er, no it doesn't. Hence my problem. /rex % xprop -id 0x82 WM_PROTOCOLS(ATOM): protocols WM_DELETE_WINDOW SM_CLIENT_ID(STRING) = 11c0a82afe0001013743907820028 WM_STATE(WM_STATE): window state: Normal

Re: unpacking compressed files

2002-02-24 Thread Rex Johnston
On Sun, 2002-02-24 at 23:15, Yuri de Groot wrote: What is the suffix? .gz? .rpm? .tz? .Z? .zip? .tar.gz? .tar? .deb? rant This just highlights one of the weaknesses of the raw file system, one that the macintosh tried to 'fix' by having a resource fork for each file that describes what it

Re: unpacking compressed files

2002-02-24 Thread Rex Johnston
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 16:07, Yuri de Groot wrote: It'd be nice if there was a mime type associated with every file. That's the job of the file manager, not the OS. You don't think that the OS should know what the files are used for/by ? Konqueror has a few mime types defined. It uses the

Re: RE: Why Linux won't suffer from viruses like Windows/Outlook

2002-03-12 Thread Rex Johnston
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 11:17, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: So you're an admin for a system which isn't evolving or going thru change, no, i'm an overworked software engineer. now imagine that you had a large evolving userbase with a large number webmin/apt-get Rex

OT RE: RE: Why Linux won't suffer from viruses like Windows/Outlook

2002-03-12 Thread Rex Johnston
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 14:25, David Milligan wrote: I challenge your belief that quite good discussions can come from challenging beliefs. QED :) Rex -- ) / outside the rain fell dark and slow o_\// whiLe I poNdered on this dangeroUs \/O and irresistible pastime ~~// /

Re: Monitor spacing

2002-03-12 Thread Rex Johnston
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 15:09, Theuns Verwoerd wrote: How close together can you stick PC monitors without running into nasty interference? Depends on the monitor. You'll find they all emit nasty turnon magnetic fields, but once going they should be able to be put right next to each other.

Re: S3 Savage (Was - Re: Monitor spacing)

2002-03-12 Thread Rex Johnston
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 15:59, Peter Elliott wrote: Rex Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anything but an S3 Savage. but why? Prosavage + XFree 4.1 means i can't change virtual consoles without the machine crashing (even with the official drivers from S3). Rex

Re: S3 Savage (Was - Re: Monitor spacing)

2002-03-12 Thread Rex Johnston
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 16:22, Bjorn Nilsen wrote: I get a similar thing with my Geforce2 card using the Nvidia drivers. When I switch to a virtual console from X and then try and switch back to X my screen locks up. With just the X SVGA driver it works fine but then I don't Interesting. At

Re: lpr printing

2002-03-18 Thread Rex Johnston
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 12:20, Bjorn Nilsen wrote: This is my /etc/printcap lp|HPLJ2100:\ :rm=192.168.69.39:\ :rp=raw:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp: Is it a postscript or pcl printer ? if pcl then you'll need some sort of intermediate filter, i.e.

Re: cd writer issues

2002-05-13 Thread Rex Johnston
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 21:26, paul schulz wrote: Does anyone have an idea of what this might mean?? cdrecord: Input/output error. write_g1: scsi sendcmd: no error Either the disk is a dud, or you are trying to write at too fast a speed. 10x speed ? Yeah right, try half that at most.

RE: cd writer issues

2002-05-13 Thread Rex Johnston
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 09:00, Chris Hellyar wrote: ? What's wrong with 10x? It didn't work. I suspect that the maximum speed is media dependent, but it said 16x, and the drive is another 161040 this time branded creative. There is a web page (somewhere) that you can add your experience to

RE: cd writer issues

2002-05-13 Thread Rex Johnston
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 09:47, Chris Hellyar wrote: OK, I'll bow to your experience of that problem, but I've never had a problem writing at higher speeds.. My current setup will write at 32x on Linux or windows without any problems, to 24x or 32x media. Anything special about the setup ? Is

Re: Suse mouse cursor problems

2002-06-12 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2002-06-13 at 09:54, Nick Rout wrote: Anyone seen this type of behaviour before? Or , better still, have a solution? You have not described it vey well. You mean the cursor is invisible ? Still navigating around, but not visible ? You might want to try setting the cursor to software

Re: [Fwd: Re: Re my link]

2002-07-03 Thread Rex Johnston
On Wed, 2002-07-03 at 18:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In my opinion, suggestions to indivisuals should be on an individual basis, not aired on list, now who needs to learn some netiquette? Hoisted by one's own petard, methinks. Rex

RE: Drawing tools

2002-07-23 Thread Rex Johnston
On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 08:58, Chris Hellyar wrote: What settings are you using to get it to print? A locally connect HP A3 printer (parallel port). cups or lpr? And what do you have under 'general settings' for printing? cups. printer name: lp printer program : (blank) It shows up the

Re: reiserfs log replay starting on ro fs

2002-08-01 Thread Rex Johnston
On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 14:33, Trev wrote: reiserfs: checking transaction log (device 03:41) ... Warning, log replay starting on readonly filesystem Using r5 hash to sort names ReiserFS version 3.6.25 This is normal. When linux boots, the root partition is initially mounted readonly. It's

Re: Recording from line in

2002-08-02 Thread Rex Johnston
Try gramofile I use it and it works very well. It includes various pop/tick filters, track splitting, etc etc. Rex

Re: Very OT: biscuits

2002-08-11 Thread Rex Johnston
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 10:07, C Falconer wrote: Griffens have a new line of biscuits - Turkish Delight And what type of toxic industrial waste did they choose to colour it with ? Rex

Re: SSL Not So Secure After All

2002-08-12 Thread Rex Johnston
On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 13:05, Will Pilvio wrote: Microsoft's Internet Explorer and KDE's Konqueror are both guilty of not following proper procedures when using sites that employ Secure Sockets Well, Konqueror has been fixed. As for Incontinent Explorer... I believe everyone who is using it

Re: Meeting format. ( rather long )

2002-09-02 Thread Rex Johnston
On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 09:11, Christopher Sawtell wrote: Personally I'd really appreciate a bit of help understanding how to set up my X-11 Windowing System in frame buffer mode with a Matrox G200 card. It should be simple, it's configured in /etc/X11/XF86Config. man fbdev But i'm not

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

Re: Harvey Norman CD-Rs: Chemistry Capacity

2002-09-29 Thread Rex Johnston
On Sun, 2002-09-29 at 22:46, Philip Charles wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 21:33, Philip Charles wrote: My understanding is that this means short term storage only. Got any idea how short term is defined? Not really, but personally I would not

Re: Re: Sendmail 8.2.16 Contains Trojan Horse

2002-10-09 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 08:35, Jeremy Bertenshaw wrote: Because the source code was modified, I'm surprised anyone spotted it at all. Did you actually *read* the note ? The ./configure make make install process forked a daemon that accepted incoming commands. The source code was *not*

Re: Easy Linux Server Administration Software?

2002-10-17 Thread Rex Johnston
Steve Dunford wrote: Has anyone got a good simple web- or text-based admin package or know of a good distro for a school so that they can have file sharing, email, etc in a simple to manage package? Webmin. Widespread, easy to use, lotsa modules. Cheers, Rex

Re: How to deal with new kernel module code?

2002-10-30 Thread Rex Johnston
Peter van Hout wrote: I remember working for a local IT computer that had an old Burroughs computer that had hard disk platters that were 1.4 metres wide and 6mm thick AND (wait for it) real CORE memory... I lecturer at uni once related a story to us. Some guys came to benchmark the

Re: Shell scripting ideas, cron, cvs

2002-10-30 Thread Rex Johnston
Mark Carey wrote: cvs commit -m b31102002_1559 where the b doesnt change but the rest does according to the date, any one have any suggestions on how the most efficient way of doing this. Should I write some sort of bash script that cron will call, and the script do the date munging? Yep.

Re: MS networks (was Re: Partitioning)

2002-11-07 Thread Rex Johnston
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 08:59, Paul wrote: So a few months ago one of the IT guys comes in after a hell week of system problems and I casually asked why we didn't just upgrade to Linux network system. His response: Because in linux you can delete the directory above you (being root I guess).

Re: MS networks (was Re: Partitioning)

2002-11-07 Thread Rex Johnston
On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 09:15, Tim Wright wrote: You cannot delete a directory with files in it. Period. yes ya can. No you can't. tnw13_l [~] (-:rm -rf ~/tmpdir That just deletes the contents *before* it deletes the directory. Rex

Re: Bad things to do with rm (was: Re: MS networks (was Re: Partitioning))

2002-11-07 Thread Rex Johnston
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: DIR=/ hahahaaa... [ ${DIR} != '/' ] rm -rf ${DIR} make that rm -rf ${DIR} and haste la viste baby. Why is it that, generally speaking, on unix everything stops working as soon as a name contains a space? Most shell scripts are rubbish just for this reason. Yeah, i

Re: kernel compile problem

2002-11-19 Thread Rex Johnston
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 07:03, Michael wrote: I'm compiling a kernel with a whole bunch of drivers etc compiled in. After quite a while of happy make bzImage, it errors out with the following and the kernel is not made: ld: cannot open e100/e100.o: No such file or directory make[3]: ***

Re: Strangeness In Paradise

2002-11-20 Thread Rex Johnston
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:51, you wrote: Here is a failing ping and a traceroute from a Paradise Cable connection:- Here is one from a paradise ADSL connection. rex@gecko:~$ traceroute ftp.tait.co.nz traceroute to ftp.tait.co.nz (210.55.236.69), 30 hops max, 38 byte

Re: Still using Debian? Gentle bout of Distro War

2002-11-20 Thread Rex Johnston
John Carter wrote: Time for a wee bout of 'Distro war... Rex Johnson asked if I was still using Debian... Close enough John Carer. :) It was more a question of whether the 'help' desk snaffled parore or Matt managed to keep hold of it. Nah, I upgraded it to Storm Linux (a Debian variant)

Re: Compiling kernel

2002-11-20 Thread Rex Johnston
Nick Rout wrote: I think the original question, which remains unanswered (and I don't know the answer myself sorry),is what is the difference between make modules install ; and same as make modules make install make modules modules_install same as make modules make modules_install or

Re: dosemu speed was Re: DOS emulators

2002-11-25 Thread Rex Johnston
On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 09:30, Paul wrote: I got dosemu working but is s slow. How can I speed it up. I am running an althon XP 1800+ with 512 mb of DDR ram, so hardware shouldnt be an issue. You could try altering this line $_hogthreshold = (1)# 0 == all CPU power to DOSEMU in

Re: Still using Debian? Gentle bout of Distro War

2002-12-04 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 17:12, John Carter wrote: On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, Rex Johnston wrote: Testing makes a good desktop for friends, and i run Unstable. Bugger! That wasted a day and a bit. Howso ? You could have at least mentioned that you can't even install Debian testing at the moment

Re: Still using Debian? Gentle bout of Distro War

2002-12-04 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 18:40, Michael Beattie wrote: You could have at least mentioned that you can't even install Debian testing at the moment. You can _only_ upgrade an existing stable installation. Well, no, you'd have problems getting it on a media. Your best bet Bollocks.

Re: Still using Debian? Gentle bout of Distro War

2002-12-05 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2002-12-05 at 21:13, Michael Beattie wrote: What has happened to the progeny install system ? *shrug* - I'm not working on the installer. I believe the main reason it isnt being used, is that the installer that is developed, needs to work on all 11 architectures released. Aeee,

Re: Video Tuner Cards / Capture Cards

2003-01-22 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 16:44, Benjamin Devine wrote: Has anyone had any good experience with a video tuner card or capture card? You'll find most bt-8x8 cards work OK under linux. I have a dynalink card that's OK. Cheers, Rex

Re: MS troll

2003-01-29 Thread Rex Johnston
Christopher Sawtell wrote: Of course you get into accounting apps, and a few other bits and the problems are more difficult. Yes, you are correct now that Appgen appear, from the www site, to have dropped Linux. They still seem to be shipping it for RedHat (according to the website). The

Re: Sendmail

2003-01-30 Thread Rex Johnston
On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 17:49, Gareth Williams wrote: [and now for something a little less 'political'] Amen. Does anyone speak /etc/sendmail.cf ? ;-) Err, yup. I have never seen a config file such as this - obfusticated is an Oh come on. It's not *that* bad. At least its 7 bit. :)

Re: Unix Donation Box

2003-02-03 Thread Rex Johnston
On Tue, 2003-02-04 at 09:57, Gareth Williams wrote: How many people are interested in playing with something like this? I'd guess On Tuesday 04 February 2003 09:02, Jason Greenwood wrote: I have a box that a chap I know would be willing to donate to the CLUG Data General Aviion 8500 Unix

Re: Unix Donation Box

2003-02-03 Thread Rex Johnston
Zane Gilmore wrote: Is there no possibility that it will run Linux? Not this year. :) OpenBSD might run on it OK, but i doubt the storage array would work. What kind of CPUs do they have? Motorola 88100 RISC. Probably 50MHz each. Rex

Re: Is the antichrist one of us? (getting more OT...)

2003-02-13 Thread Rex Johnston
Martin Baehr wrote: Oh, that's right. Emacs won :-) that's what you think. tried vimacs yet? eh ? ~ % apt-cache search vimacs vimacs - Emacs emulation for Vim grin the anti-viper! Rex

Re: ls alphabetical sort order

2003-02-18 Thread Rex Johnston
Carl Cerecke wrote: The new ls sorts files case insensitively, and ignores dot, so we get: a B .c Ick. %ls --version ls (fileutils) 4.1.9 Written by Richard Stallman and David MacKenzie. Hmm, i have this on debian unstable. % ls --version ls (coreutils) 4.5.4 Written by Richard Stallman

Re: I hate bash

2003-02-19 Thread Rex Johnston
Nick Rout wrote: #!/bin/bash iter=$1 while $iter0 ; do echo rubbish iter=$iter-1 done but ./test 13 gives ./test: 13: command not found its trying to execute the command '13 Of course it is. Try reading the man page for 'test'. You'll also need to stick $((iter-1)) in there too.

Re: Cannot find right libstdc++.so.5...

2003-04-02 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 21:22, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Yes, I've got libstdc++.so.5.0.0, but that is already linked by libstdc++.so.5, so celestia knows its the wrong one... /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5.0.3 is available from debian unstable. Rex

Re: Cannot find right libstdc++.so.5...

2003-04-02 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:06, Tim Wright wrote: I can put my libstdc++.so.5.0.3 on the web for you to download, but it comes from gcc version 3.2.3 (debian prerelease), and is 600K. Does anyone have gcc version 3.2.2 installed, and running the same architecture as Chris (I assume i386)?

font2pcl.ps

2003-04-02 Thread Rex Johnston
Help! I need to create a bitmapped PCL font and font2pcl.ps is all i can find. It lives in the gs package, and is advertised as doing just what i want. Anyone have any guesses as to how i use it ? I've tried all the obvious alternatives, but it stubbornly does nothing. TIA, Rex

Re: font2pcl.ps

2003-04-06 Thread Rex Johnston
On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 14:22, Helmut Walle wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Rex Johnston wrote: If you know a bit of Postscript you should be able to see what it interesting language, no ? RPN ? really does. It also contains heaps of comments. You can run gs with the CLI (by just starting gs

Re: view a man page?

2003-06-18 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 16:42, Matthew Gregan wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 03:29:13PM +1200, Rex wrote: cat .1 | nroff -man And of course, if you've been following along for a week or two, you know that this (BING!) is a Useless Use of Cat! Hey! Nick wanted something with pipes and

Re: view a man page?

2003-06-18 Thread Rex Johnston
you can rewrite it as: file some_command and its args ... Eh? That's interesting, you can put the redirection *before* the thing you are redirecting it to. Odd. Cheers, Rex

Re: slightly OT - Code Red still going strong

2003-06-22 Thread Rex Johnston
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 08:53, Nick Rout wrote: I set up external access to my home apache server last night about half past midnight. Since than I have had two code red attacks, one from China, one from Korea. The first one was only 5 1/2 hours after setting it up. Yep, still going strong.

Re: Julia's laptop - chapter 11010 - Also, play DVD on Linux?

2003-07-04 Thread Rex Johnston
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:51, Yuri de Groot wrote: Mdk 9.1 installed without a hitch, except that in so doing I stuffed up Windows XP. When the mdk install thingy got to the partitioning stage, it showed that there was a C drive (FAT32) and a D drive (NTFS). I think you'll find C is small,

Re: mplayer

2003-08-20 Thread Rex Johnston
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 18:38, Chris Wilkinson wrote: Not quite...try 'rpm -i mplayer-commonver.rpm --nodeps' The --nodeps option ignores dependencies forces install. Once the common files are done the main package should install no sweat... Don't do this unless you absolutely *have* to.

Re: Bash scripting

2003-10-29 Thread Rex Johnston
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 23:03, Daniel Fone wrote: The tricky part is that I need to store the PID of the command so I can kill it later. The $! variable is great but it only contains the pid of the perl script (eg 3273) which, when killed, leaves the tail alive! Is there anyway I can get the

Re: Bash scripting

2003-10-29 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 21:47, Matthew Gregan wrote: You're going to be much better off if you can work out a way to get the PIDs directly from the process that started them, i.e. the shell in this case. That'd be a simple jobs -p %x Rex

Re: grabbing the output from ncftp

2003-11-03 Thread Rex Johnston
Nick Rout wrote: I am using ncftp, although any method anyone wants to point me to will do, I need to get the output of ls -lR on the remote ftp server, and store it for parsing (I am searching for a file somewhere in a big dir tree). typing ls -lR at the ncftp prompt gives me the data I want,

Re: Quick? Newbie Q about hosts.allow

2003-11-25 Thread Rex Johnston
Kerry Mayes wrote: I have a home network of windoze and linux machines with an IPCop firewall and Mandrake 9.2 acting as server and proxy server. I want to force all connections to the internet to go through the proxy server. Then you'll have to reconfigure outgoing traffic on port 80 to go

Re: Quick? Newbie Q about hosts.allow

2003-11-25 Thread Rex Johnston
Jim Cheetham wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 15:58, Kerry Mayes wrote: I have a home network of windoze and linux machines with an IPCop firewall and Mandrake 9.2 acting as server and proxy server. I want to force all connections to the internet to go through the proxy server. Do you mean, all

Re: IPTables - was: Quick? Newbie Q about hosts.allow

2003-11-26 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 22:10, Kerry Mayes wrote: Thanks Rex, yes that is what I'm trying to achieve. -Original Message- From: Rex Johnston snip He's probably installed squid on the `drake box. He'll need to configure IPCop so that outward TCP requests on port 80 are only

Re: Mozilla Config. File Help Please

2003-11-26 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 23:07, Jason Greenwood wrote: Hi All, Anyone know which file email account info is stored in Mozilla? It started giving me trouble and an account I added is not showing but I know it's there because when I try to create a new account it says there is already one

Re: kernel - modules or built-in?

2003-11-30 Thread Rex Johnston
Jim Cheetham wrote: I've got a couple of kernel-related questions ... In a server environment, for drivers that are not essential for booting (i.e. scsi or ide), do you think kernel modules are preferable to built-in drivers? Yes, you can load/unload/rebuild them on the fly. How can I discover

Re: kernel - modules or built-in?

2003-11-30 Thread Rex Johnston
Jim Cheetham wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 10:49, Rex Johnston wrote: Jim Cheetham wrote: I've got a couple of kernel-related questions ... In a server environment, for drivers that are not essential for booting (i.e. scsi or ide), do you think kernel modules are preferable to built-in drivers

Re: kernel - modules or built-in?

2003-11-30 Thread Rex Johnston
Jim Cheetham wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 11:10, Rex Johnston wrote: How can I discover the drivers present in a running kernel? alright then zcat /proc/config.gz figure it out yer`self. I'd love to ... but I don't have one of those :-( Google suggests it's from a patch called cloneconfig

Re: ImageMagick question

2003-12-02 Thread Rex Johnston
Michael JasonSmith wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 17:21, Nick Rout wrote: how would you do it to convert all the flenames from input.jpg to input640x480.jpg? for n in *; do convert -sample blabla $n ${n}640x460; done See also http://ldots.org/geek_tips/prev_contents_next_dtml?pagenum=19 Not

Re: FWD: Un-Dynamics of Software Development

2003-12-03 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 00:19, drw49 wrote: something shamelessly ripped off from http://www.developer.com/java/other/print.php/10936_3108351_1 What did we do to deserve this load of b*11*cks in our mailbox? Rex

Re: FWD: Un-Dynamics of Software Development

2003-12-03 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 08:32, Carl Cerecke wrote: Judging by the way that guy waffles, his code is probably crap. He reports himself to be an 'architect'. I doubt he writes much code anymore, just inaccurate stereotypical missives like that which we've just seen. Rex

Re: Broadband, was RE: Redhat Vers?

2003-12-10 Thread Rex Johnston
Kerry Mayes wrote: I appear to (again) have only one choice for broadband and it's BCL's Extend (I'm moving to West Melton) Rates appear to be okay c.f. jetstream (I'm intending going through ICONZ) but the $400 install and $1000 for user equipment is making me choke. And my ADSL router is

Re: restaurant update - CLUG social

2004-01-27 Thread Rex Johnston
Nick Rout wrote: Undeterred i have sought out and found their website. http://www.rajmahal.co.nz/ Interesting text layout. I presume it's that way to exercise ones eyes! :) Anyway, the food there is great. Cheers, Rex

Re: hardware info

2004-01-28 Thread Rex Johnston
Kerry Baker wrote: I'm after a utility that will catalogue the hardware on a computer (Video card, PCI cards, sound, memory, cpu info, IRQs etc) cat /proc/*info cat /proc/ioports cat /proc/interrupts lspci -v -v Cheers, Rex

Re: hardware info

2004-01-28 Thread Rex Johnston
Volker Kuhlmann wrote: I'm after a utility that will catalogue the hardware on a computer (Video card, PCI cards, sound, memory, cpu info, IRQs etc) There is a shareware DOS utility called hwinfo. Is there a Linux equivalent? Sure is, and it's called hwinfo :) Some of its output obviously comes

Re: HEADS UP DINNER tomorrow! change of venue. numbers required.

2004-02-02 Thread Rex Johnston
Nick Rout wrote: OK so the useless so and so's at Raj Mahal cannot take us tomorrow night, so I kept to the Indian theme at the Two Fat Indians. As much as i like The Raj Mahal, i dislike Two Fat Indians. Those dining there are best not to choose their vile Khorma. Rex

Re: Linux Programming Editors

2004-02-09 Thread Rex Johnston
Michael Pearce wrote: I am working on a project that requires an editor for .asm and .c files. I have an option in the IDE for people to choose their favorite editor. $(EDITOR) should already point to their chosen editor. So I am just asking what peoples favorite editors for c and asm

Re: Linux Programming Editors

2004-02-09 Thread Rex Johnston
Rex Johnston wrote: all linux programmers. Unfortunately especially the latter already IS and IDE (almost an OS, certainly a GUI). s/and/an/ Rex

Re: Linux Programming Editors

2004-02-09 Thread Rex Johnston
John Carter wrote: Anyway, of course, YOU ALL WRONG! Don't use vi, kate, kdevelope, rhine, emacs, gvim, epsilon, vs, etc. etc. ED IS THE STANDARD! A horse is a horse, of course. :Q Missing smilie. eat flaming death ? ^C ? ^C ? ^D Actually EOF is one of the ways out. Rex

Re: Need advice on tape backup options...

2004-02-15 Thread Rex Johnston
Nick Rout wrote: There have been aspersions cast on the longevity of cdr's (Volker has the info IIRC). Presumably the same will apply to DVD's written on the computer, particularly now the media is coming down in price (read being mass produced to lower quality standards.) I can confirm this.

Re: Agencies...

2004-02-18 Thread Rex Johnston
Don Gould wrote: Perhaps it's just me but I found the agencies to be fairly hopeless... You are not alone. Rex

Re: How many spam a day?

2004-02-25 Thread Rex Johnston
Nick Rout wrote: Only slightly OT as there are many good spam filtering programs running on linux :-) Just wondering what other people are experiencing. I have 30 in the 14 odd hours since I last deleted tham all out of my spam box (after running sa-learn of course). I typically get one every

Re: network problem

2004-02-25 Thread Rex Johnston
Roger Searle wrote: Notebook IP address 192.168.0.9/255.255.255.0. It has an onboard realtek RTL-8139 network module, the hardware control centre correctly identifies it and lists the 8139too module (driver?). I can ping localhost and ping the IP address on the notebook OK. I can't ping

Re: network problem

2004-02-25 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2004-02-26 at 15:45, Roger Searle wrote: inet addr:192.168.0.9 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 The second entry is your broadcast address. Cheers, Rex

Re: digital camera advice

2004-02-26 Thread Rex Johnston
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 19:05, anton wrote: I don't know much about digital cameras but would prefer it to be able to work as a webcam and possibly take video as well. Is this unrealistic for the price? Are there issues with linux drivers? The Canon A series work good with gphoto2. Any

Re: network problem

2004-02-26 Thread Rex Johnston
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 06:22, Roger Searle wrote: Pings not being absorbed locally by zonealarm pro - I can ping between 2 desktops, one running xp, the other running mandrake. Can't ping the notebook from either. No, i meant installed on the laptop. Try, as root, iptables -L on the

Re: deb/apt questions

2004-02-26 Thread Rex Johnston
On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 07:54, Nick Rout wrote: on a debian system, how do I 1. find out what package a file belongs to dpkg -S 2. find out what version of a package is installed dpkg -l Sorry no man pages on this debian install, its pebble, a cut down version, made small by stripping

Re: Floppy and Wine problems

2004-03-10 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 15:36, Patrick Dunford wrote: I find some of the rationales for using Wine full stop suspect. If I want to run Windows apps, I'll buy a Windows computer. Sadly there are people who *really* need to run windoze apps (like MYOB), but there should be no need to have to put

Re: Is Linux really that secure?

2004-03-10 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 17:04, Christopher Sawtell wrote: Neither your ubiquitous *86* machines nor, to my knowledge, any other computer chipset found in the current crop of personal machines is able to produce a hardware segfault on array bound errors or, stack protection errors, i.e.

Re: Yast going GPL

2004-03-19 Thread Rex Johnston
On Fri, 2004-03-19 at 23:46, anton wrote: that's what I don't understand - is it illegal for me to make a copy of a Suse distro and install it on my computer? No, it's not. Yast is SuSE's baby, they just didn't want other distros shamelessly ripping it off. I guess they figured they're

Re: Linux Office Dream Setup

2004-03-19 Thread Rex Johnston
On Sat, 2004-03-20 at 06:37, Jason Greenwood wrote: Want to run a 2 person office on Linux (with a view to adding 2-4 staff later). Would like to run attractive, modern thin clients on the desktop. Thin client ideas? They don't have to be ultra cheap (since we could buy used lower spec'd

Re: sendmail magic

2004-03-24 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2004-03-25 at 10:07, Carl Cerecke wrote: Matthew Gregan wrote: On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 08:38:38PM +1200, Vik Olliver wrote: Is this magic too dark for mere mortals? Do I need a ring of some sort, or a glowing sword and paucity of footwear perhaps? No, just the ability to

Re: usind dd to clone hard drive

2004-03-25 Thread Rex Johnston
On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 07:37, Paul William wrote: Is a simple dd: dd if=/dev/hdc of=/dev/hdx capable of 'cloning' hdc into hdx? hdc is nearly dead so I will be getting a replacement tomorrow and I don't fell like reinstalling everything. That'll work, copying everything including partitions,

Re: HP Multifunction devices...

2004-04-01 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 23:27, Chris Hellyar wrote: My Deskjet died last week, and although I've borrowed one, it's a load of junk quality wise, so I've decided the time might be right for a multi-function type printer/scanner doofer. I have an OfficeJet v40. Works OK. No fax function (yet)

IDEs....

2004-04-01 Thread Rex Johnston
Don Gould wrote: Are there many programmers on this list? Yep. I've spent years programming in VB, FoxPro, SQL(variants a many), VBA, ASP, You have my sympathies. I've yet to actually see a fully interactive GUI based development and debugging enviornment such as you get with VB, ASP (Visual

[OT] Re: IDEs.... (Was: Gnomemeeting to go to QT -- QT Demo...)

2004-04-01 Thread Rex Johnston
Michael JasonSmith wrote: Personally, i use vim. Personally, I think all vi users are sick and twisted :P (I know enough SNIP The latest GNOME Text Editor does do syntax highlighting, but it will Trolls, GNOMEs, what next? grin Rex

Re: [WOT] Re: IDEs.... (Was: Gnomemeeting to go to QT -- QT Demo...)

2004-04-01 Thread Rex Johnston
Michael JasonSmith wrote: The Amulet of Yendor. xyzzy Rex

Re: net send

2004-04-07 Thread Rex Johnston
Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote: Sends to Windows with no problems, sends to Linux with WinPopUp running on receiving machine. http://www.its.caltech.edu/its/security/users/windows_messenger.shtml Rex

Re: less + terminal history

2004-04-08 Thread Rex Johnston
On Thu, 2004-04-08 at 20:34, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: Does anyone happen to know how I can get less to display to the terminal history instead of into its own nirvana? I don't see anything obvious in the man page. It's damn annoying of it to exit without trace when I want to copy some of its

Re: QMail

2004-04-15 Thread Rex Johnston
Brad Beveridge wrote: Sorry if this is considered hijacking your thread - but could somebody give me a quick run down (or link) on why you would use sendmail/qmail at all? I just use mozilla's builtin mail agent, am I missing some unixy goodness by not using sendmail/qmail? What do you think

OT Re: Why use a MTA like sendmail

2004-04-15 Thread Rex Johnston
Jim Cheetham wrote: Oh, Rex - I think I see where you're coming from, despite the odd punctuation - sendmail probably does rule ducks :-) Other MTAs are just fowl. Rex

Re: Installfest

2004-04-20 Thread Rex Johnston
David Kirk wrote: Last years one is at http://www.linuxnut.co.nz/register.php. Does Chris H still own this? I notice that it was updated on 11 Feb 2004 and is now hosted by www.sclnz.com (Rex Johnston). Can we use it again? How do we get access to update it? Chris still owns it (i.e. he

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