[SLUG] OT: DNS secondaries.

I use optus, who don't provide a secondary DNS service. That's one thing that Telstra actually get right! Optus died for a while, which meant that my system vanished from the world. Questions: Are there sluggers in the same situation as me? Does anyone want to set up a secondary DNS

Re: [SLUG] OT: DNS secondaries.

David wrote: Questions: Are there sluggers in the same situation as me? Does anyone want to set up a secondary DNS co-operative? Something rings a bell about this one. You might want to search the archives. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL

[SLUG] Re: Re: Re: cp question

\begin{Jeff Waugh} quote who="Rick Welykochy" what is the *nix equivalent of active directory? Well, not solely *nix, but LDAP is the current fad (which AD is based on, funnily enough). In days gone by, NIS(+) filled this role, although I don't believe it did everything that AD does.

[SLUG] Sun optical mice

I wonder if someone can help me get my Sun optical mouse working? I finally got around to trying out X on my SparcStation LX today and had some trouble with the mouse. Firstly - what should the protocol be set to in XF86Config? The kernel driver message said "Sun Mouse-Systems mouse driver

[SLUG] NVIDIA geforce2 mx

Any sluggers out there that have had success setting up a geforce2 mx card to use the tv out successfully? Really I'm only interested in using it to display the video overlay as a scaled fullscreen image on the tv output so I can play movies on my telly, which I can do in win98se, not at all in

Re: [SLUG] NVIDIA geforce2 mx

Jan, you can get drivers that allow you to access the i2c chips in the card, wow you can view registers! alas thats it. I spent alot of time looking into a tnt2 with tv out. shut down, unplug monitor, plug in tv, boot, tv out works with all tv out cards ive used (inc v3tv, tnt2tv geforceddrtv)

Re: [SLUG] Boot from HDD but run from ramdisk

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2) Is there any other way to do this? i.e. maybe boot from the HDD then dd the HDD to /dev/ram and remount?? or something? as that would be easier to work with.. Initrd with pivot root. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu

Re: [SLUG] Sun optical mice

On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 10:23:28PM +1100, Ian Tester wrote: I wonder if someone can help me get my Sun optical mouse working? I printed out the mouse mat, but the cursor doesn't move when I move the mouse. is that supposed to work?! (printing it out) I just assumed the Sun mats had some kind

[SLUG] gdm murdered mysteriously

G'day I booted my machine (RH6.0) and got the following message: According to /var/run/gdm.pid, gdm was already running (393) But seems to have been murdered mysteriously. How can I fix this? Thanks Murray. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] Sun optical mice

Ian Tester was once rumoured to have said: I wonder if someone can help me get my Sun optical mouse working? I finally got around to trying out X on my SparcStation LX today and had some trouble with the mouse. Firstly - what should the protocol be set to in XF86Config? The kernel driver

Re: [SLUG] gdm murdered mysteriously

Sounds like redhat died and gdm was still running, remove the pid file (/var/run/gdm.pid) and you'll be fine -Thom * Murray Waldron ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Fri Mar 23, 2001 at 08:30:20 +1100: G'day I booted my machine (RH6.0) and got the following message: According to

[SLUG] xfree86

Hi, It appears my work PC is using a Intel 810 DC100 onboard graphics adapter. But support is only in xfree 4.0.3 I believe, and Debian 2.2r2 is of course well behind this. My thoughts on getting to work, are grabbing source for 4.0.2, since source for 4.0.3 is not out yet, or not as of

[SLUG] Why we don't allow Agencies to advertise on this list

From Jobnet POSITION: Linux Guru's - C/C++, Java, Delphi, Visual Basic, ASP, COBOL, HTML, GUI, Open Source Linux The Agency HiTech Personnel Nuff Said! -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au WOA Computer

Re: [SLUG] xfree86

get the potato binaries, which are linked - i think - from people.debian.org/~branden/ use them :) -Thom * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Fri Mar 23, 2001 at 09:10:15 +1100: Hi, It appears my work PC is using a Intel 810 DC100 onboard graphics adapter. But support is only in

Re: [SLUG] xfree86

There is a 3.3.6 driver for it. You can download it from intel. It's rpm format which alien will turn into a deb for you. You also need the agpgart kernel module and maybe something else(don't remember to long ago) but there website has all you need to know to get it working. On Fri, 23 Mar 2001

Re: [SLUG] Sun optical mice

is that supposed to work?! (printing it out) I just assumed the Sun mats had some kind of "depth" (like the way CDs work). It's just a grid.. a shiny one mind you, but still a grid.. so it should work.. //umar. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

RE: [SLUG] Sun optical mice

Hello I printed out the mouse mat, but the cursor doesn't move when I move the mouse. I used Sun's optical mice about 5-6 years ago, so I'm refering to technology from way back when. From memory the mouse mats were a grid on a shiny metal pad. They depended on these mats, and would not work

Re: [SLUG] xfree86

http://people.debian.org/~branden/i810-agpgart-module.tar.gz also has the specific agpgart stuff that you need. bez On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Thom May wrote: get the potato binaries, which are linked - i think - from people.debian.org/~branden/ use them :) -Thom * [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] xfree86

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any thoughts on what process I should take on getting it all working :) This is just the tip of the iceberg, as I will then work on getting the onboard sound going, but for now, 1 problem at a time. Look here: http://www.internatif.org/bortzmeyer/debian/apt-sources/

Re: [SLUG] xfree86

http://people.debian.org/~branden/i810-agpgart-module.tar.gz also has the specific agpgart stuff that you need. bez Thanks, this is cool. I notice a listing about packages for 2.4 kernel running... which is what I want to do on my home PC. Want to reboot into kernel 2.4 and experiment

Re: [SLUG] Sun optical mice

Ian Tester wrote: I printed out the mouse mat, but the cursor doesn't move when I move the mouse. Perhaps I should mention that there's only one LED shining out the bottom. There are two holes in the bottom with LED-type devices in them. Only one shines and they're not close together. Is

[SLUG] Opinions on PS/PDF Output?

Welcome to Friday people. I've got a need to start outputting my documents in postrscript or PDF. I currently use a variety of tools from Vim to StarOffice but I'm open to other suggestions and not afraid of markup languages (I mainly do HTML in Vim at the mo.). My need is to start outputting my

Re: [SLUG] Opinions on PS/PDF Output?

Docbook XML. it's ubiquitous, it's standard, it's pretty damn easy. www.oasis-open.org or apt-get install docbook-xml -Thom, wondering why he's still at work at 01:00 * Craige McWhirter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Fri Mar 23, 2001 at 11:54:20 +1100: Welcome to Friday people. I've got a need

Re: [SLUG] Trojan binaries - ever spotted for open source?

http://ciac.llnl.gov/ciac/bulletins/k-035.shtml This was a problem which resulted in a backdoor on some Redhat 6.2 back in April last year. Does anyone know if binary rpms from places like rpmfind.net are peer reviewed at all? Is it purely a trust system, even for the user contributed areas?

[SLUG] Re: [bugs] Terminal Freebies.

Sydney, 22 March 2001 Mark, I would be interested in 1 x C.itoh CIT 224 w/ keyboard, or in one of the C.itoh CIT326 w/ keyboard. I have an older Sun 10 workstation, and I would like to have a console attached to the serial port. Please let me know. Ioan Nemes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark wrote:

[SLUG] Hylafax - setting up faxgetty

Hello Folks Having check the archives and found none, I'm asking does anyone have any tips/howto on setting up Hylafax. Specific stall point is getting faxgetty to answer. I have done the cu -l ttyS1 and all is okay. AAH- you have to run faxanswer to tell the process to answer the modem - not

Re: [SLUG] Hylafax - setting up faxgetty

* This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said: Having check the archives and found none, I'm asking does anyone have any tips/howto on setting up Hylafax. Specific stall point is getting faxgetty to answer. Its been a while since I played with Hylafax - Does it require 'auto-answer' to

[SLUG] [OT]spam - this time its personal. Piranha Computers.

I just got my biggest SPAM ever. 174K of HTML, gif, and win32 binaries. from Scott Warren at Piranha, flogging web hosting. I'm posting here, because it seems to be from Sydney, and I'm hoping some of you might be keen for a little revenge at the Spam menace. Details given are: Phone (02)

Re: [SLUG] [OT]spam - this time its personal. Piranha Computers.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mike Holland wrote: I just got my biggest SPAM ever. 174K of HTML, gif, and win32 binaries. from Scott Warren at Piranha, flogging web hosting. I'm posting here, because it seems to be from Sydney, and I'm hoping some of you might be keen for a little revenge at the Spam

[SLUG] Re: Opinions on PS/PDF Output?

\begin{Craige McWhirter} [producing PDF] Would anyone who uses tools that allow this efficiently care to share what they like about their tool(s) of choice? LaTeX (and pdflatex) or Docbook (and jade/pdfjadetex) depends on whether what you're doing is structured (computer) documentation

Re: [SLUG] [OT]spam - this time its personal. Piranha Computers.

* This one time, at band camp, Ian Tester said: On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Mike Holland wrote: I just got my biggest SPAM ever. 174K of HTML, gif, and win32 binaries. from Scott Warren at Piranha, flogging web hosting. I'm posting here, because it seems to be from Sydney, and I'm hoping some

Re: [SLUG] [OT]spam - this time its personal. Piranha Computers.

Details given are: Phone (02) 8902-3958 fax: 9882-3639 address: 36 MacMahon St. Willoughby 2068. Woah! Right near me! Just a 20 minute walk up Penshurst road. Should I go say hi for you? ;) Make sure you take brick :P -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] [OT]spam - this time its personal. Piranha Computers.

http://www.piranhacomputers.net/ i got a laugh out of his website... seems the guy bought a bit too much of the flash hype... send an email to abuse@HIS_ISP and forgot about it... later marty -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] Re: Fun with Debian

\begin{Shaun Cronin} Two questions for the deb heads. One: Browser reccomendations? I use Mozilla on Redhat but would like to explore the alternatives. a list of every package that provides "www-browser". have fun. roach:~ grep-dctrl -n -F Provides -s Package www-browser

Re: [SLUG] Fun with Debian

Thus spake Shaun Cronin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Two: Has anyone tried Evolution on Debian? Yeah, on PPC and i386. It is in Sid and works OK from the last time I updated it. It's still very much dev software but if you want an "Outlook" for Linux - this is it. Me, after 7 years in the GUI MUA

Re: [SLUG] [OT]spam - this time its personal. Piranha Computers.

On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 03:27:19PM +1100, Martin wrote: http://www.piranhacomputers.net/ send an email to abuse@HIS_ISP and forgot about it... yep make sure you complain to ihug - they supposedly have a policy against spam. Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] [OT]spam - this time its personal. Piranha Computers.

And oh my god that site is ugly. Especially the pulsing "Coming Soon" POS Ugh. -Thom, still awake * Martin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Fri Mar 23, 2001 at 03:27:19 +1100: http://www.piranhacomputers.net/ i got a laugh out of his website... seems the guy bought a bit too much of the flash

Re: [SLUG] Re: Opinions on PS/PDF Output?

Thanks for all the feedback. I got a range of tools to play with. Looks like I'll be using htmldoc to convert exisiting HTML based methods and I'll play with LaTex and Docbooks (I suspect LaTex may be more appropriate). -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] [OT]spam - this time its personal. Piranha Computers.

Mike Holland wrote I'm posting here, because it seems to be from Sydney, and I'm hoping some of you might be keen for a little revenge at the Spam menace. In a way I should not continue this thread as I didn't get the spam but as newer members or others are here I think I should mention

[SLUG] nailing down those ports - gnome

We have a Linux box running gnome. And once X is up running with gnome, there are about 10 ports open to the Internet, ports like 1099, etc, that belong to various gnome-tasks. Question: is this really necessary? It seems terribly insecure. Can one tell gnome to use Unix sockets instead? I'd