Re: [SLUG] IDE ?

2001-03-04 Thread Daniel Finn
you can have 8 devices when you have a motherboard like the Abit Kt7-raid as it has two standard ports that are ata66 compitable... and then another two ports which are on an onboard highpoint controller, and are ata-100 comp and raid 0 and 1 comp... so you have the standard two + two extra

Re: [SLUG] Re: Editing python scripts in emacs

2001-03-04 Thread Ken Caldwell
Angus Lees wrote: \begin{Jeff Waugh} quote who="Ken Caldwell" At the moment dpkg -l shows emacs20 and emacsen-common installed. I did not see any packages containing "emacs" and "python" what should I be looking for? lazarus: ~ $ apt-cache search emacs | grep python

Re: [SLUG] IDE ?

2001-03-04 Thread Martin
With a KT7 etc you get an extra controller on board. However, be aware that companies like Highpoint provide no support for linux whatsoever. They are happy to provide links to Andre Hedrick's work on their website, but these drivers are not fully functional, and as far as I can tell, Highpoint

[SLUG] Introducing Linux/Open Source Into The Coporate World

2001-03-04 Thread Shaun Cronin
G'day Y'all, If the PHBs pull their proverbial out of their proverbial I soon will be working on a project of removing all our old windozw boxes (200 odd machines) and "upgrading' to Windows 2000. No before you say "What does this have to do with Linux?" let me continue (and I hope this is

Re: [SLUG] Introducing Linux/Open Source Into The Coporate World

2001-03-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Two approaches I can see. First, get the servers running Linux wherever possible. Benchmark the process so you have future ammunition. Do this with MRTG and some sort of monitoring tool on uptimes/availability etc. Compare, wherever possible, the results with equivelent non-free platforms.

Re: [SLUG] Introducing Linux/Open Source Into The Coporate World

2001-03-04 Thread Jon Carnes
On Sunday 04 March 2001 16:52, Shaun Cronin wrote: G'day Y'all, If the PHBs pull their proverbial out of their proverbial I soon will be working on a project of removing all our old windozw boxes (200 odd machines) and "upgrading' to Windows 2000. No before you say "What does this have to

[SLUG] SSH woes.

2001-03-04 Thread Grahame Kelly
Hi Sluggers. I have two machines running sshd. Both have the same /etc/hosts.allow /etc/hosts.deny and ipchains setups. On machine A I can ssh x -l bigbird without any problem, account bigbird is on each machine. However doing so the opposite way round ends in: ringtail:~ # ssh

Re: [SLUG] Introducing Linux/Open Source Into The Coporate World

2001-03-04 Thread Crossfire
Rev Simon Rumble was once rumoured to have said: Next, get the developers of your in-house desktop tools to start developing them on open-source platforms. GTK or QT spring to mind for GUI apps. You could even (ugh) go the TK route. Qt would be the serious avenue - also whatever the new

[SLUG] Capture cards - physical layout

2001-03-04 Thread Terry Collins
I'm looking for a video capture card of a certain physical layout as I would prefer not to have to mutilate the computer case(s). The problem I have in both my current cards is that the foot of the card is too long/low for the backing slot. The cards I have both have a lug at the bottom that

Re: [SLUG] SSH woes.

2001-03-04 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:18:54AM +1100, Grahame Kelly wrote: ringtail:~ # ssh 210.23.144.217 -l bigbird Secure connection to 210.23.144.217 refused. Anyone provide suggestions. Is sshd running on 210.23.144.217? Cheers, John -- whois [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

Re: [SLUG] SSH woes.

2001-03-04 Thread Grahame Kelly
On Mon, 05 Mar 2001, John Clarke wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2001 at 09:18:54AM +1100, Grahame Kelly wrote: ringtail:~ # ssh 210.23.144.217 -l bigbird Secure connection to 210.23.144.217 refused. Anyone provide suggestions. Is sshd running on 210.23.144.217? Yes... Thanks John.

[SLUG] ess solo-1 pci

2001-03-04 Thread Joshua Burvill
Dear Most Slimy Fat Slug, I have bought an ESS 1938 Solo-1 pci sound card. *laughter* Is the esssolo1 module supposed to make this work? $ modprobe esssolo1 doesn't work. ( I am using debian 2.2r2 ) I am aware that OSS and alsa may be avenues but would prefer to just use a

Re: [SLUG] Introducing Linux/Open Source Into The Coporate World

2001-03-04 Thread Peter Rundle
Shaun, If ya just have to have the dreaded doze in the place one solution you might like to play with is diskless clients running win4lin. Win4lin ver 2 is in beta and it allows you to run multiple win4lin sessions on the server. I'm running it in test using the LTSP diskless clients. I setup

[SLUG] rpm specfile problems.

2001-03-04 Thread Marcus Dillury
Chuin Nee, I have the following spec file to try and build a pgsql rpm. -- Summary: PostgreSQL database 7.1 Beta. Name: postgresql Version: 7.1beta5 Release: 5 Packager: Marcus Dillury [EMAIL PROTECTED] Copyright: GPL Group: Applications/Databases Source:

[SLUG] Proof! Proof!

2001-03-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
http://www.xach.com/debian-users-are-beatniks.html [ One line link, no extract! Bite my tortoise-shell glasses! ] - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://linux.conf.au/ -- "Socks for the foot menu!" - Liam Quin (Ankh) -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Proof! Proof!

2001-03-04 Thread Martin
Craige McWhirter wrote: Where'd they get that pre-head shave photo of you Jeff? ...and when does the goatee make a comeback? ;) later marty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Proof! Proof!

2001-03-04 Thread Craige McWhirter
Where'd they get that pre-head shave photo of you Jeff? ;) On 05 Mar 2001 15:11:48 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: http://www.xach.com/debian-users-are-beatniks.html [ One line link, no extract! Bite my tortoise-shell glasses! ] - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

[SLUG] Getting email when dialled in

2001-03-04 Thread Alister Waller
Hi. I would like to be able to get email on my home PC while dialed into our work machine. I can Dial in fine and can browse the net etc but for some reason or other I can't get my email client (outlook) to connect. has anyone got a step by step guide as how to do this? I would have thought it

[SLUG] Open Government- No linux interface for BAS lodgement.

2001-03-04 Thread Ron Skeoch
Today Monday 5 March Page 21, Australian Financial Review. We have media coverage, not as strong as I had hoped but a very good start, The tax office is saying their reason for not providing a Linux interface for Linux to lodge BAS returns is because there are only 60 requests Australia wide.

RE: [SLUG] Getting email when dialled in

2001-03-04 Thread Alister Waller
yeh, good point I should elaborate a bit more I guess. This server is already used internally as the email server. We can send and receive email fine on our internal net. The server used to be our internet gateway as well before we got an ADSL modem/router connection. So we used to actually surf

Re: [SLUG] Proof! Proof!

2001-03-04 Thread Matthew Dalton
Jeff Waugh wrote: http://www.xach.com/debian-users-are-beatniks.html That's uncanny... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] Getting email when dialled in *SOLVED*

2001-03-04 Thread Alister Waller
hmm..thanks for the pointers.. was just the IP addresses and routing that was screwed. sending this email while dialed in hmm..sorry about the questions. alister -Original Message- From: Daron Barndon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 5 March 2001 3:11 PM To: Alister

[SLUG] Install Fest Announcement

2001-03-04 Thread Craige McWhirter
Here it is again, it's on this Saturday (doesn't time fly?). Maps are completed and should be online as soon as we drag the webmaster from his death bed (I didn't want to flood the list with them). Still need lots of people to put their hands up as helpers/lurkers. Some other things on the

Re: [SLUG] Install Fest Announcement

2001-03-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Craige McWhirter" Here it is again, it's on this Saturday (doesn't time fly?). Maps are completed and should be online as soon as we drag the webmaster from his death bed (I didn't want to flood the list with them). ...and in the (oxymoronically) immortal words of Michael Palin:

Re: [SLUG] Open Government- No linux interface for BAS lodgement.

2001-03-04 Thread Rick Welykochy
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Ron Skeoch wrote: "OPEN ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT" with Business and the people. There is *no* mandate for the TATO or the FEDS to be open ;-( · - Microsoft Windows/NT · - Unix/Linux · - MacIntosh · - Other ? BeOS, Amiga, Apple II, Win/CE,

Re: [SLUG] Install Fest Announcement

2001-03-04 Thread Craige McWhirter
Thanks Jeff. One minor change, in map 3 you might want to add that the beige colouring is for free parking. On 05 Mar 2001 16:48:42 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who="Craige McWhirter" Here it is again, it's on this Saturday (doesn't time fly?). Maps are completed and should be online as

Re: [SLUG] Install Fest Announcement

2001-03-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Craige McWhirter" Thanks Jeff. One minor change, in map 3 you might want to add that the beige colouring is for free parking. Feh. I'll just throw the captions in for real, as well as the alt tags. :) - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---

Re: [SLUG] Open Government- No linux interface for BAS lodgement.

2001-03-04 Thread David
ATO solution that uses SSL, HTML/3.2 and HTTP/1.1. Will work on *all* platforms, *all* browsers and require *nothing extra*. See the online banking websites like Westpac for an idea. I love to hate banks with the best but Westpac have actually got this part right! I use Westpac on

Re: [SLUG] Open Government- No linux interface for BAS lodgement.

2001-03-04 Thread Crossfire
Rick Welykochy was once rumoured to have said: 2. That software solutions will utilise true open standards, without proprietary extensions. (ASCII, HTML, RTF, PDF ... But NOT M$ Word) PDF: proprietary Abode format PDF is a published `standard' which is availible

Re: [SLUG] Open Government- No linux interface for BAS lodgement.

2001-03-04 Thread Rick Welykochy
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Crossfire wrote: Rick Welykochy was once rumoured to have said: 2. That software solutions will utilise true open standards, without proprietary extensions. (ASCII, HTML, RTF, PDF ... But NOT M$ Word) PDF: proprietary Abode format PDF

Re: [UNIX ECI] Re: [SLUG] Open Government- No linux interface forBAS lodgement.

2001-03-04 Thread Dan Shearer
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Crossfire wrote: RTF is also a published `standard' which is availible to the public. Both of these formats when used, are used to the letter of the availible documentation. They are not normally proprietarily extended. Are you sure about that? Last I heard the RTF