RE: [Scottish] Introduction

2002-10-03 Thread Paxton, Darren
Colin (who did an introductory PHP talk many moons ago) Colin's PHP talk helped me no end!! I'd be happy to see more on PHP Darren This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or legally privileged. If you received this message in error or are not the intended recipient, you should

RE: [Scottish] just a test --- please ignore

2002-11-13 Thread Paxton, Darren
received in my inbox at 10:10 Well done Willie, you've traversed the space time continuum -Original Message- From: willie fleming [mailto:slug;itscotland.demon.co.uk] Sent: 13 November 2002 10:12 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Scottish] just a test --- please ignore JUst seeing how

[Scottish] OT: multiview boxes?

2002-11-22 Thread Paxton, Darren
Sorry for posting OT, but I'd just like to ask a question. Thinking of buying an omniview type box - just looking to know where I can get one relatively cheap and cheerful without wires (since I've already acquired two full cables). Already been on maplin, their cheapest is about 70 quid. Any

RE: [Scottish] OT : ADSL modems

2002-12-13 Thread Paxton, Darren
I'm not an expert on ADSL, however I think that as long as it uses PPPoA then it will be fine for use in the UK - I know some German Providers use PPPoE, so this could through a spanner in the works - best to find out what protocol your intended ISP uses (ALL uk uses PPPoA). Darren -Original

RE: [Scottish] Any jobs going?

2002-12-16 Thread Paxton, Darren
-Original Message- From: Colin McKinnon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 December 2002 12:43 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] Any jobs going? Colin (Will manage Microsoft NT for money) Sign of desperation :( This e-mail and any attachments may be confidential or

RE: [Scottish] OT: Weird domain stuff

2003-01-13 Thread Paxton, Darren
Is your existing domain registrar transferring their business to another possibly? Do they have the ability to renew themselves or do they go through a registrar? I think the first point of call should be who you registered the domain with and query them as to why you are being contacted, as it

RE: [Scottish] If you had a choice between...

2003-01-15 Thread Paxton, Darren
I concur with this - I've been a SuSE stalwart since 5.3 and that version had an excellent manual to work from. Downloaded the latest version rather than buy it, but I would definitely recommend it. Also, YaST may not be to everyone's taste, but I find it quite useful as an administration tool

RE: [Scottish] php and my sql

2003-02-11 Thread Paxton, Darren
Looks vaugely familiar! -Original Message- From: Ismail Murat Dilek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 11 February 2003 16:35 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Scottish] php and my sql Hi, I ve created a mysql database. Basically user fills the form then hits submit button and all data

RE: [Scottish] Fw: LUG Screening

2003-05-29 Thread Paxton, Darren
Heh - being an ex-IBM'er I know that unfortunately, he's stuck with it! Darren -Original Message- From: iain d broadfoot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 29 May 2003 12:49 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Scottish] Fw: LUG Screening * Ben Thorp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: me too

RE: [Scottish] fetchmail

2003-09-05 Thread Paxton, Darren
Allan I use a web based script and php/mysql solution called Netfilter logs analyzer http://freshmeat.net/projects/netfilter_log_analyzer/?topic_id=245%2C43%2C14 8%2C150%2C151 If you mail me off-list I'll give you the URL so you can see it running on my system for yourself Darren

RE: [Scottish] Broadband: Made my Trigger

2003-09-26 Thread Paxton, Darren
The router will effectively act as your presence on the Internet, your pc will be hidden behind it - and subject to the features you have installed on the router, it can provide firewall, port forwarding, and various other facilities to protect your machine and allow certain services through (such

RE: [Scottish] samba ports

2003-09-29 Thread Paxton, Darren
As far as I knew - and as far as my own firewall is concerned, samba uses ports 138 and 139 I guess these could just be control ports though and the data probably flows over different ports, but it may be of some use to you? Darren -Original Message- From: Allan Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [Scottish] Novell buy Suse

2003-11-14 Thread Paxton, Darren
From what I've read, its put Novell in the position where they are able to offer viable solutions to both the server and desktop market. It also gives SUSE the global opportunities that it was previously unable to get hold of due to Redhat's apparent dominance in the market outside of Europe.

[Scottish] I'm astonished!

2004-02-05 Thread Paxton, Darren
Don't know about the rest of you, but I would never have thought that the makers of Mydoom were targeting SCO due to the current litigation. Nice to see the bleeding edge of journalism at its best! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3457823.stm This e-mail and any attachments may be

[Scottish] [OT] ADSL Offer?

2004-03-02 Thread Paxton, Darren
Thought the group might be interested in the following link: http://easily.co.uk/index.php3?exe=easilyconnect Looks to be a fairly decent deal taken at face value (Static IP), but thought it was worth letting you all see it. (No affiliation with easily) Cheers Darren -- Darren Paxton Support

[Scottish] Remote Boot using DHCP PXE

2004-03-02 Thread Paxton, Darren
Hi folks, I'm looking at booting a Windows workstation remotely from a Linux server and was wondering if anyone out there has tried it. I've looked at the Remote-Boot mini-howto, however it would appear that my version of dhcpd doesn't support some of the variables in the sample configuration,

RE: [Scottish] Remote Boot using DHCP PXE

2004-03-03 Thread Paxton, Darren
and solve the root-cause of the corruption ... -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paxton, Darren Sent: 02 March 2004 17:13 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [Scottish] Remote Boot using DHCP PXE Hi folks, I'm looking at booting a Windows

[Scottish] [OT] For Sale

2004-05-11 Thread Paxton, Darren
Hi All, Looking to get rid of a few items, and wondering if anyone would be interested before I try them on ebay. 1. Atlas Hi-grade laptop Sis Chipset Intel Pentium 3 1 GHz Processor 512 MB Ram Up to 64mb Graphics (Shared from main memory) 30 GB Hard Disk SiS/Uniwill Modem SiS 900 Ethernet Card

RE: [Scottish] [OT] For Sale

2004-05-11 Thread Paxton, Darren
Allan, Without meaning to sound facetious, I'd hope to get around £400 - £450 for it, but open to suggestion. Its got two Ethernet ports and a fast serial on it. Cheers Darren -Original Message- From: Allan Bruce [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 May 2004 13:42 To: SLUG-list

RE: [Scottish] (is there anyone who can) HELP ? ! !

2005-01-11 Thread Paxton, Darren
Forgive the indentation everyone - difficult to try to work with the text as displayed. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of babaguy Sent: 11 January 2005 16:13 To: scottish@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: [Scottish] (is there anyone who can) HELP

RE: [Scottish] Hopeless newbie question

2005-09-05 Thread Paxton, Darren
Other way to do it is to enable Swat (samba web administration tool) by going into /etc/xinetd.d/swat and changing disable to enable if required, and also allowing access to another network (or run mozilla locally). This gives you a nice interface (and help) for making configuration changes and

[Scottish] User account disabling

2009-03-17 Thread Paxton, Darren
Hi All, Having one of those moments where no matter where I'm searching, can't seem to find what I'm actually looking for. Wondering how any of you are currently handling user account expiry if an account lies idle for a defined amount of time. I've seen perl scripts listed in some places,

Re: [Scottish] User account disabling

2009-03-17 Thread Paxton, Darren
in this will always be shown. C Paxton, Darren wrote: Sorry for top-posting - using crappy outlook Colin It does help, thanks, but isn't the default for lastlog only back to about 30 days or so? I'm guessing I'd have to modify this across all the systems to hold more than this. I think

Re: [Scottish] VPN Connection

2010-12-13 Thread Paxton, Darren
If you're using network-manager then I think the configuration is then stored in the gconf structures. On your old system, can you export the configuration? -Original Message- From: scottish-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:scottish-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Keith

Re: [Scottish] Broadband advice

2011-01-05 Thread Paxton, Darren
Hi Jason I'm with Virgin Media at present in the Merseyside area. The main issue I see with them at present is the traffic optimisations they are currently employing. I'm on the 50meg package so I shouldn't have experienced any of this as yet, but this may change. As Jack said, some love them