Re: [SLUG] Toshiba Laptop and Debian

2001-04-04 Thread Dave Fitch
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 02:11:07PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: 2. Vwdial refuses to dial the modem saying that there is no dialtone when you can hear it loud as a bell coming out the speakers. The card in question is a xircom pcmcia network and 28.8 modem. The network part of the card is

Re: [SLUG] printing to NT print share

2001-04-04 Thread Shaun Cloherty
Ian Tester wrote: This won't work with lpd. lpd runs as a seperate user and shouldn't have permission to pop up any window on a users display. Perhaps you could write a two-stage system. Something like: 1. A tcl/tk program is run when the user starts their X session

Re: [SLUG] mp3 audio streaming

2001-04-04 Thread Dave Fitch
Ian Tester [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Dave Fitch wrote: - Does there exist mp3 encoders and decoders (or players) that will handle 3 channels? (all I can find in specs/ standards etc is "up to 5.1 channels" for the dolby/AC3 stuff, so I presume so) I'm no expert, but I

[SLUG] Re: DVD - Eye opener

2001-04-04 Thread Angus Lees
\begin{Andre Pang} selecting subtitles: hey, now to get a player that automatically chooses subtitle track based off $LANG ;) -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Making SUSE 7.0 Recognise More Ram

2001-04-04 Thread D.V.Rogers
Hello all wondering if someone can help with this one! I have 256mb ram on a pentium III 800 Using "free" on the SUSE command line tells me I only have 66mb available. I have heard that on a default install with SUSE 7.0 memory allocation is restricted? Can i change this as i want

Re: [SLUG] Making SUSE 7.0 Recognise More Ram

2001-04-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="D.V.Rogers" I have 256mb ram on a pentium III 800 Using "free" on the SUSE command line tells me I only have 66mb available. cat /proc/meminfo and see what *physical memory* your machine thinks you have. If it doesn't show 256Mb, you need to add: append="mem=256MB"

Re: [SLUG] mp3 audio streaming

2001-04-04 Thread Ian Tester
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Andre Pang wrote: there's a free GPL MPEG-2 encoder at http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~mikecheng/ called TooLame, $ man toolame TOOLAME(1) TOOLAME(1) NAME toolame - MPEG-1 layer 2 audio encoder ... NOT MPEG-2!

[SLUG] OT but interesting

2001-04-04 Thread Heracles
In case you're feeling a bit down. Student to Teacher: Sir, what's an oxymoron ? Teacher to Student: Microsoft security. Stay well and happy Heracles -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Making SUSE 7.0 Recognise More Ram

2001-04-04 Thread Ian Tester
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, D.V.Rogers wrote: Hello all wondering if someone can help with this one! I have 256mb ram on a pentium III 800 Using "free" on the SUSE command line tells me I only have 66mb available. I'm sure there's a whole FAQ devoted to this somewhere # free

Re: [SLUG] OT but interesting

2001-04-04 Thread Simon Bryan
Had a teacher send me a list of these, unfortunately his signature at the bottom appeared right at the end of the list without a break so that his name was also listed as an oxymoron! :-) At 09:36 4/04/2001, Heracles wrote: In case you're feeling a bit down. Student to Teacher: Sir, what's

Re: [SLUG] mp3 audio streaming

2001-04-04 Thread Dave Fitch
On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 07:07:17PM +1000, Ian Tester wrote: (okay, i'm curious now -- why 3 channels? i guess it's not because you have hot/cold/inverted signal lines coming from a mic ... :) Good question. Maybe a limited form of surround sound with a rear channel? Or maybe the third

Re: [SLUG] Making SUSE 7.0 Recognise More Ram

2001-04-04 Thread DaZZa
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, D.V.Rogers wrote: Hello all wondering if someone can help with this one! I have 256mb ram on a pentium III 800 Using "free" on the SUSE command line tells me I only have 66mb available. I have heard that on a default install with SUSE 7.0 memory allocation is

Re: [SLUG] Toshiba Laptop and Debian

2001-04-04 Thread Michael Still
On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Peter Rundle wrote: A Toshiba Satellite Pro 410 CDT. Well we've managed to subdue it with Debian. However, it still has two outstanding issues: 1. The LCD screen will only flick into 800x600 mode once, the I have a Toshiba Portege 3110CT working with X if this if of any

Re: [SLUG] Toshiba Laptop and Debian

2001-04-04 Thread Jon Biddell
2. Vwdial refuses to dial the modem saying that there is no dialtone when you can hear it loud as a bell coming out the speakers. The card in question is a xircom pcmcia network and 28.8 modem. The network part of the card is working fine and I think the modem is too, but just can't get it

[SLUG] The Universal Answer

2001-04-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
http://www.kernel.org/LDP/ I dont see this being refered to alot... but just so people who *dont* know know, the LDP is basically _the_ place for linux doco ( next to man and info ) so go there, theres alot of cool stuff to read regardless. IMO a good unix admin can still learn something

Re: [SLUG] The Universal Answer

2001-04-04 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who="Dean Hamstead" http://www.kernel.org/LDP/ Universal Answer? Bah... That's Google! But given that the LDP has excellent Google juice... ;) - Jeff -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- http://lwn.net/daily/ -- W.O.R.K: Weekend Over, Resume the

Re: [SLUG] dvd playback on linux (w/xine)

2001-04-04 Thread Gregg
Subject: hi all, i was doing a search on the mailing list archives about how to play back DVDs on Linux, but i couldn't anything about it. I've had pretty good success with OMS from http://www.au.linuxvideo.org/oms/index.html. I might just add that while your mileage may vary, trying to

[SLUG] Linux pptp connecting to Linux pptpd

2001-04-04 Thread Ian Ward
Hi all. I need a little help with local/remote ppp authentication and IP assignment I have a linux box configured with pptpd (PopTop) This is working fine for Windows clients the /etc/ppp/chap-secrets file looks like this: client1*xyzzy* client2*xyzzy* The machine name

[SLUG] MacOS CD = 8.5

2001-04-04 Thread Craige McWhirter
No, it's not off topic, honestly. I was trying to do the "impossible", run Linux on an "old-world" Mac without a MacOS partition or BootX. Well I paid handsomely for that and it now appears the MacOS cd's have walked. Joy. I was hoping, that some kind soul out there may have a copy of MacOS =

[SLUG] Upgrade RPM-3xxxx to RPM-4xxxxx

2001-04-04 Thread Bernhard Lüder
Hi, I am getting an error when I try to update rpm one my RH6.2 machine: only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM What can I do to get RPM4 onto that machine. Do I force it? Will that work? Bernhard Lder This electronic mail is solely for the use of the

Re: [SLUG] Upgrade RPM-3xxxx to RPM-4xxxxx

2001-04-04 Thread Matthew Dalton
Bernhard Lder wrote: I am getting an error when I try to update rpm one my RH6.2 machine: only packages with major numbers = 3 are supported by this version of RPM What can I do to get RPM4 onto that machine. Do I force it? Will that work?

Re: [SLUG] MacOS CD = 8.5

2001-04-04 Thread David
I have os9... give me a call... 0418 310312 On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Craige McWhirter wrote: No, it's not off topic, honestly. I was trying to do the "impossible", run Linux on an "old-world" Mac without a MacOS partition or BootX. Well I paid handsomely for that and it now appears the MacOS

[SLUG] dsl info

2001-04-04 Thread Moe
hi all, Well just ordered pacbell dsl. Do they have good service? Also, anyone know where I can pickup a used 'Westell Modem'(hopefully from a ex-pacbell dsl user). They also told me that I will need software: Enternet 300. How will this software interact with my linux box? Anyone went

[SLUG] Faulty PortScan

2001-04-04 Thread Brett Esra
Hello all, Strange things present themselves that I would greatly appreciate comments on. As a random act of paranoia I have portscanned one of the machines at work with the latest NMAP Beta (2.54BETA22) and got the following: (snipped version) 22/tcp openssh

[SLUG] Slightly OT: Hardware query

2001-04-04 Thread Gareth Walters
G'day all, Apologies if this is a bit off topic but I am a bit desperate for time and the input of the intelligent andexperienced people on this list would be greatly appreciated. I need to get a demo setup running which will have 2 LINUX boxes and 2 Win boxes, networked via 10/100Mb

[SLUG] Looking for a program that understands email Date: headers

2001-04-04 Thread Sonam Chauhan
I want to seperate messages stored in different mbox-format files into distinct files containing one email each, with filenames of the type: '20010101-1201-random_number.msg' (for a message sent on 12:01 Jan 1, 2001). I get the feeling with all these mail manipulation programs out there,

Re: [SLUG] Slightly OT: Hardware query

2001-04-04 Thread Gareth Walters
The LINUX boxes need only to be reasonably simple 256Mb RAMand as much CPU as we can stick in 'em, I guess anywhere from a PIII500 and upwards would be OK as long as the NIC is good. The windows boxes are the ones that need to be high spec. ---Gareth Walters - Original Message - From:

RE: [SLUG] Faulty PortScan

2001-04-04 Thread Jill Rowling
That does not look good to me at all. I thought Trinoo was similar to Steckeldracht (sp? == Barbed Wire) and all reports, binaries, programs and so on from a Trinoo'd machine should be considered untrustworthy. I'd re-install the os. Regards, Jill. -- Jill Rowling, Snr Des. Eng. Unix System

[SLUG] Network Server Identification

2001-04-04 Thread Craige McWhirter
Afternoon. I'm after a quick'n'easy tool to identify how many servers we have running Debian across our network so I can gather numbers for a case I'm putting together. Does anyone have nice and simple apps I can suck down and use? -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group