On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 12:40:38PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
Roland Turner wrote:
Second is related to this I'm still tossing up between Mandrake and Debian..
wrong so rarely as to not matter. The only obvious trap is that if you
wish to install a package, you don't download it
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Jean-Yves Provost wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to find out if my ethernet interface is running
at 10 or 100 Mbps?
I had a poke at files in /proc without finding it.
Any ideas?
What kinda of hub/upstream device is it connected to?
DaZZa
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I have been struggling (on and off) for months now to get
a (simple) home network going.
I'm falling behind on my programming work as I'm spending so
much bloody time on this.
I'm feed up with it. I need someone to come over and
configure my Linux box correctly.
must be an expert in:
1. DNS -
DaZZa wrote:
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Jean-Yves Provost wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to find out if my ethernet interface is running
at 10 or 100 Mbps?
I had a poke at files in /proc without finding it.
Any ideas?
What kinda of hub/upstream device is it connected to?
DaZZa
That's
Jean-Yves Provost wrote:
DaZZa wrote:
What kinda of hub/upstream device is it connected to?
DaZZa
That's cheating ;-)
It's also not 100% reliable. A lot of 100Mbs hubs will convert everyone to
10MBps if a single 10Mbps card is connected. (This may also apply to
switches) I've also
Anand Kumria wrote:
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 02:04:27PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
I will be upgrading my Alpha from 6.0 RH to Debian. Appears
that 2.2 is not available for Alpha platform so will be
buying a 2.1, installing this from scratch/RH and then using
Sorry 2.2 *is* available for
That's cheating ;-) , I was looking for a command line telling me what
speed was negotiated by the LAN adaptor (LINUX controlled) with the
hub/switch.
IMHO that would depend on the driver the card is running. What card is this?
Perhaps looking in the source of the driver for the card will
Jean-Yves Provost wrote:
Hi all,
Can anyone tell me how to find out if my ethernet interface is running
at 10 or 100 Mbps?
I had a poke at files in /proc without finding it.
Any ideas?
There is no interface in Linux to export this information. Even the
driver itself doesn't keep
Thanks everyone who had an idea. Turned out I needed libc6-dev (as
indicated by Jeff) and the libncurses5-dev to get the show going.
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Michael Lake wrote:
Craige McWhirter wrote:
I've got them on one Debian system but not another. One was a
clean Potato install,
On Sun, Aug 13, 2000 at 10:37:13PM +1000, Roland Turner wrote:
This is the stuff of religous wars...
Adding some fuel.
Same things that others are saying: package management and
configuration.
After using debian for years (buzz was my first) then lately trying
redhat because some people at
The little tear off tags seem to be popular,
have you thought about these ? Dates and websites
are difficult to remember unless they're written
down, so what do you think ? Do they work okay ?
Maybe you could release another poster made for
tearing, and keep the current one for hard to
reach
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Register now for SLUG's Installfest on August 26th.
Whether you're new to Linux and would like to try it on your own computer,
or an old hand who can help out doing the installations, you can come along
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Just
A big thank you to everyone for their comments concerning both of my
questions. I've decided to give debian a stab specially since I can
apparently use Helix Gnome which I've only recently discovered and wanted to
check out. I'll keep you posted.. and all you Debian gurus out there can
probably
Howdy all,
I hate to pull out the "Help me or I'll reboot!" card, but this time, it's
getting serious. ;)
I need to use proper quotes in The GIMP. ` and ' only the *real* kind. It's
probably related closely to X as well...
In the Other OS you can just type alt-0xxx to use something out of the
On 13-Aug-2000 Jeff Waugh wrote:
[...] Look at Tridge's tdb code...
Already other developers are seeing it as a good idea, and integrating it
into their code (where before they'd have to implement it all themselves).
'tdb'. Woss Tridge been up to now, eh?
FX: Google, click, read, read.
Heracles wrote:
Actually alt-130 is the e acute in DOS and in notepad alt-233 gives an
underline in notepad and a theta in DOS. In a bash shell you get an e
acute for alt-233.
Hmm... Can't test now, but I'm basing that on Photoshop, PageMaker, Word et
al. Notepad is "broken" in terms
I just received this from Micro$oft... Notice the "From" field.
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Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 00:35:23 -0700
From: "Microsoft"
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Microsoft Direct Access Newsletter
marketing crap deleted
Now, it
Stick 'em in the men's room. Stick 'em in the ladies. Stick 'em in the staff
room, or on the CEO's bum. Stick 'em on your granny's forehead, we don't
mind. :) We'd just like them in as many places as possible, really soon.
Hmmm... Mental images of our CEO unable to sit down...:-)
A
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Is it possible to convert an existing ext2 fs server to
Reiser without loosing data, or is it better to backup
and restore ?
No. That's why we have ext3.
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Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not familiar with previous versions of Debian but 2.2 (out in a day
or so I hope) puts them in /usr/src/kernel-source-version
It goes back to the days when Manoj Srivastava were the libc maintainer.
He also wrote the FAQ covering this issue which is
Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
otherwise the files have the same name. How do you tell when
you go to a site like Helixcode that they are suitable for
an Alpha? I notice that in the source directory (rather than
If a site is aptable, then they will probably be using the same
On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 08:24:11PM +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Howdy all,
Howdy, welcome to SLUGdoze tech support. Your call is important to us,
please hold your .procmailrc.
I hate to pull out the "Help me or I'll reboot!" card, but this time, it's
getting serious. ;)
You probably need to
Craige McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to work out what Debian package I need to install to
supply me with files such as sys/types.h, fcntl.h etc, related
to making a kernel. These files usually live in /usr/include.
I've got them on one Debian system but not another. One was a
I'm trying to run mulinux on a computer that I picked up at a garage
sale for $5-.
It had CPU 16MHz 386SX
RAM 2MB
HD ~42MB
and came complete with monitor and keyboard. The hardrive contained
DOS3.3, Windows3.0 and Wordstar5.5
To run mulinux I had to upgrade the memory adding two
http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/rpragana/GDI-printer.html
Some people are just plain curious, I would have just not gone there. Don't get
your hopes up though, he describes only preliminary work on one printer.
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On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 11:40:42PM +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote:
I'm trying to run mulinux on a computer that I picked up at a garage
sale for $5-.
/tmp/x.initrc : Operation not permitted
Starting (rustic) xf86config .../usr/X11R6/bin/xf86config : cannot
create /etc/X11/XF86Config :
Greetings long lost northerner. Many a summer has passed
and beards have grown whiter.
Re: tdb.
Possibly along similar lines is Metakit.
http://www.equi4.com/
But maybe not.
One tiny questionette - anybody know if tdb is available anywhere
outside the Samba 3 CVS tree? I haven't been able
There it is:
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Dazza's right.. You can even have a full duplex 10/100Mb card on a switch
and yet if the NIC has been told to run at 10Mb and not 100 (as some cards
you can configure it) then that's what it's going to run at... what a
waste.
A database of NICs is the only way to know.
thanks,
George Vieira
It's not cheating - it's often the only way to find out - even under
"well supported" operating systems like WindoZe - interrogate the
hub/switch.
With all but the most advanced cards {3Com, Intel and the like}, there's
almost no feedback mechanism from the NIC to the OS - except to say
From: DaZZa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
It's not cheating - it's often the only way to find out - even under
"well supported" operating systems like WindoZe - interrogate the
hub/switch.
Actually, most machines I've seen under Win2k let you pull up the properties
of each network connection and
or at least, probably has been by the time you read this
reminder:
even if you have an extremely fast link, downloading cd images from
www.debian.org via http|ftp is NOT the best way. check
cdimage.debian.org and wander through the questions it asks you.
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Hi all Tex Gurus,
I need to get access to the chicago.sty package for latex for an
assignment i'm writing.
I've found and downloaded a contrib.tar.gz file that contained it. I've
then extracted the tar.gz into the /usr/share/texmf directory. Its not in
a sub direcotry called contrib. I ram the
Jean-Yves Provost wrote:
Can anyone tell me how to find out if my ethernet interface is running
at 10 or 100 Mbps?
Any ideas?
What about a short shell script to time the transfer of 10
or more core dumps or any biggish file to an NFS directory
on another machine? Or send stuff out the
On Tue, 15 Aug 2000, Jason Rennie wrote:
With all but the most advanced cards {3Com, Intel and the like}, there's
almost no feedback mechanism from the NIC to the OS - except to say "Yup,
I'm connected to the network". And even the advanced ones have to
physically disable the network to
You must have also the following in your /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf
NameVirtualHost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
#BindAddress *
I think that is the other part which is missing.. Check Apaches web sit for
Docos on virtual hosting.. I have mine working well now and was set up from
the docos...
thanks,
Rob,
have you setup your namedb / named.boot files?
if not, you'll need to.
extracted from my httpd.conf
VirtualHost www.blah.com.au
ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
DocumentRoot /home/www/www.blah.com.au/htdocs
ServerName www.blah.com.au
/VirtualHost
VirtualHost
Jason Rennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I need to get access to the chicago.sty package for latex for an
assignment i'm writing.
I've found and downloaded a contrib.tar.gz file that contained it. I've
then extracted the tar.gz into the /usr/share/texmf directory. Its not in
a sub direcotry
I have a strange problem with available disk space.
the root partition is 407 megs, for which 380 megs is reported being used,
although this is only 5.5 megs available on the partition.
I removed about 40 megs with of packages, mostly X apps and the like, and
about 30 mins after all that space
I removed about 40 megs with of packages, mostly X apps and the like, and
about 30 mins after all that space I recovered was being chewed up again,
but I can't find where its been taken.
Big log files ? /tmp filling up ? Squid proxy caching objects ?
Jason
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Hi all,
I'm not sure if it exists or what but is there ASP support for Apache 1.3?
Someone from out clients site has decided to run ASP and wants to remove the
Linux box there and I'd like to keep it there is possible...
thanks,
George Vieira
Network Administrator
Citadel Computer Systems P/L
On Tue, Aug 15, 2000 at 12:14:19PM +1000, George Vieira wrote:
I'm not sure if it exists or what but is there ASP support for Apache 1.3?
Someone from out clients site has decided to run ASP and wants to remove the
Linux box there and I'd like to keep it there is possible...
*shudder* There
http://www.chilisoft.com/
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George Vieira
Sent: Tuesday, 15 August 2000 12:14
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: [SLUG] ASP and apache?
Hi all,
I'm not sure if it exists or what but is there ASP
I'm not sure if it exists or what but is there ASP support for Apache
1.3?
Someone from out clients site has decided to run ASP and wants to remove
the
Linux box there and I'd like to keep it there is possible...
Chili Asp, expensive though US$ 795.00 for a single cpu server or US$
995.00
APC are going to be doing another pocketbook shortly and they were
wondering if anyone had someone useful comments on the previous ones
that they'd care to share so that they can improve the next one.
Ashton, who editing it, has asked me not to publicise his email so you
can either:
a.
Stephen Mills wrote:
I have a strange problem with available disk space.
the root partition is 407 megs, for which 380 megs is reported being used,
although this is only 5.5 megs available on the partition.
It would help to see the output(s) from the tool(s) that you are using
to gather
G'day *,
has anyone had any experience with a TV tuner card for Linux?
If so can you point me to a brand that will work in OZ.
Thanks, Dave.
PS Does any one know of a good way to search the mailing list archives?
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Ashton, who editing it, has asked me not to publicise his email [...]
which seems odd, given it's printed in the magazine.
Dave.
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Thanks for your input Raz.
I have solved the problem, what I needed was some lunch and to think about
it, and I checked the queue on the MTA, seemed some bozo had tried to send
120 megs worth of TIFF's (this company does aeroplane designs). I killed the
queue and symlinked the queue directory
No problem really. For those who are interested, I surprised myself by being
able to download the Corel deb and install it under woody without a single
problem. I was under the imporession that corel deb fiels wouldn't work.
Cheers,
Graeme
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Graeme Merrall wrote:
I was under the imporession that corel deb fiels wouldn't work.
What? Zero-policy debs? Fie! ;)
As long as distributions based on Debian see the light and say "right, we'll
include the appropriate "vanilla" Debian lines in /etc/apt/sources.list and
add our own servers
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