Re: [SLUG] Progeny

On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 12:02:05 +1100, Conrad Parker said: On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 02:33:18PM +, Thom May wrote: For those of you running Debian Stable(potato, not slink) systems, can I recommend having a look at Progeny Linux' upgrade? It's aimed at office use, from what I can tell,

Telstra, ADSL and Courtesy (was Re: [SLUG] ADSL)

Just a few comments: 1] The Telstra guys who installed my ADSL gear were subcontracters. They were running under Telstra orders to go by the book. They don't provide tech support for the gear, they just install it. If things on people's win boxes gets weird, then they have to work out how to

Re: [SLUG] Re: Netscape 6 and Mozilla and Konqueror

On 17-Nov-2000 John Ryland wrote: BTW has anyone else on SLUG besides myself tried or is using konqueror? Yep. I have a PC at work that bounces between NT4 and Debian Woody with KDE2, and Konqueror is nice. As is Mozilla M18. I've had a couple of pages where Konqui didn't quite do what I

[SLUG] (no subject)

Hi there Just wondering if you can help me out here. I have installed virtual email accounts on linux, its receiving the mail ok, but i cannot log into the pop accounts to recieve mail. I think it has something to do with pop-3 Cheers John

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

What dist. or mail server software? Dean john wrote: Hi there Just wondering if you can help me out here. I have installed virtual email accounts on linux, its receiving the mail ok, but i cannot log into the pop accounts to recieve mail. I think it has something to do with pop-3

[SLUG] mystery files

I'm doing a periodic clean up of my home directory. I have an interesting selection of binary files whose provinance is a mystery. At this point, my options are as follows: 1: consign to bit bucket 2: keep for another two years in case I remember 3: invoke the tea leaves 4: ask the slug list

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

aliases or virtual accounts? Dean john wrote: Hi Running sendmail , linux mandrake cheers john -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] mystery files

On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, David wrote: I'm doing a periodic clean up of my home directory. I have an interesting selection of binary files whose provinance is a mystery. At this point, my options are as follows: 1: consign to bit bucket 2: keep for another two years in case I remember 3:

[SLUG] Logins from xdm CLI

I need to have a situation where if a user logs in with the CLI then a script gets run, but if they log in thru xdm then all is as normal. I've tried the CLI script bit and it runs OK, but causes a login failure thru xdm. Suggestions? -- Howard.

[SLUG] banks

I'm ditching the National Australia Bank because they won't support anything except Windows. Can anyone recommend a bank that has a working Internet banking system? (The Bendigo Bank does, and I've got money in their Ethical Investment Fund, but they don't have enough branches/ATMs in Sydney to

Re: [SLUG] banks

quote who="Danny Yee" I'm ditching the National Australia Bank because they won't support anything except Windows. Can anyone recommend a bank that has a working Internet banking system? I've heard that ANZ is good (Anand mentioned it to me the other day, whilst flaming both the

[SLUG] Telstra proxy cache

Is anyone else noticing particularly slow response thru Telstra's proxy caches -- Howard. __ LANNet Computing Associates http://www.lannet.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] Telstra proxy cache

Is anyone else noticing particularly slow response thru Telstra's proxy caches are you saying sometimes they are fast? --- Terence C. Giufre-Sweetser +-+--temporary numbers---+ | TereDonn Telecommunications Ltd | Phone +61-[0]7-38390505 | | 1/128 Bowen

Re: [SLUG] banks

I use Westpac and access it via both Linux and Mac without any issues. Their "DeskBank" commercial system is Windows only, but that is being phased out in favour or the internet. David On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Danny Yee wrote: I'm ditching the National Australia Bank because they won't support

Re: [SLUG] banks

On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 01:00:35PM +1100, Danny Yee wrote: I'm ditching the National Australia Bank because they won't support anything except Windows. Can anyone recommend a bank that has a working Internet banking system? (The Bendigo Bank does, and I've got money in their Ethical

[SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] Telstra proxy cache

Yes, sydney.cache.telstra.net was dead since about 6am this morning until about 2pm today. I don't know if other regions were affected however sydney.cache was also very slow yesterday afternoon and there were apparently some nasty problems within their core network. When I spoke to someone

Re: [SLUG] banks

Danny Yee wrote: I'm ditching the National Australia Bank because they won't support anything except Windows. Can anyone recommend a bank that has a working Internet banking system? Westpac works fine, using Linux, Netscape 4.7. Their online backing website at http://olb.westpac.com.au

[SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] Telstra proxy cache

On Sat, 18 Nov 2000, Reuben Farrelly wrote: I was told that I could expect an outage notice "on Monday morning" as the person I spoke to didn't have access to that part of the system, nor was he able to list this as a fault on the web site. Of course, I shouldn't forget, proxy cache is

Re: [SLUG] banks

On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 01:00:35PM +1100, Danny Yee wrote: I'm ditching the National Australia Bank because they won't support anything except Windows. Can anyone recommend a bank that has a working Internet banking system? (The Bendigo Bank does, and I've got money in their Ethical

Re: [SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] Telstra proxy cache

Original Message - From: "Terence" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Howard Lowndes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "Mail List - SLUG" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "Mail List - Oz-ISP" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, November 18, 2000 1:31 PM Subject: [SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] Telstra proxy cache Is anyone else

[SLUG] xprob, and su prob??

hi all firstly thanks for all the prime help it was really usefull and i have alot to play with.. i now have 2 problems and i have know idea what caused them.. the first is. salmona@vila:~$ startx XFree86 Version 3.3.6 / X Window System (protocol Version 11, revision 0, vendor release 6300)

Re: [SLUG] Use of Gnu tar

On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Dennis Gray wrote: I have read the manual from gnu.org but it is not very good on examples. I know I should be able to read a --files-from control file but cannot figure out the syntax of how to set up the file. In it I would like to specify to start by changing

[SLUG] mutt

Quick mutt question. When I write someone an email I want mutt to fcc a copy to local disk. Now what I've noticed is that it only does this if the folder on the disk already. eg if I email anthony@blah it will put in an Fcc=anthony field and save it because an anthony folder exists.

Re: [SLUG] mutt

On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 05:43:09PM +1100, John Ferlito wrote: but if I email sakjdgh@blah it doesn't because the folder doesn;t exist. Anyone have any ideas on how to make it always save a copy to the relevant folder? force_name