[SLUG] Code Page 500

2001-06-30 Thread Anand Kumria
At last night's meeting Andrew explained how he would validate he had found all the string interfaces to/from Samba by switching it to a different internal code page: unknown code page 500. According to URL: http://www.sharmahd.com/tm/codepages.html it appears to be EBCDIC a.k.a IBM500. Also

Re: [SLUG] Telstra Outages

2001-06-30 Thread Morrissey
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: no chance of a refund on that I am not sure but wouldnt this be a case for the ACCC? Not from the perspective of misleading statements, there's a much better part of the Trade Practices Act that Telstra is probably running fowl of as we speak. Informed bush

[SLUG] hd head crash = what, exactly?

2001-06-30 Thread cpaul
hlo slugsters shame i missed your last meeting with tridge! i was using smbclient to back up a windows system over my local network to a local ext2 partition... when the copy crashed. on reboot fsck choked and from then on whenever i apply power to the drive it goes click, click, click, click

Re: [SLUG] hd head crash = what, exactly?

2001-06-30 Thread Terry Collins
cpaul wrote: ...snip i was using smbclient to back up a windows system over my local network to a local ext2 partition... when the copy crashed. on reboot fsck choked and from then on whenever i apply power to the drive it goes click, click, click, click for ever until power is

RE: [SLUG] hd head crash = what, exactly?

2001-06-30 Thread Daniel Finn
Or it could be covered under warranty =) Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Terry Collins Sent: Sunday, 1 July 2001 7:52 AM To: cpaul Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] hd head crash = what, exactly? cpaul wrote:

Re: [SLUG] hd head crash = what, exactly?

2001-06-30 Thread cpaul
...snip If you have no further use for the scrap metal, I know of a sculpter whose uses hard disk platters in his work, and a model engeering club that uses cast metal to make model parts. The circuit board can be recycled through MIR. great idea..warranty sounds like a goer tho

Re: [SLUG] hd head crash = what, exactly?

2001-06-30 Thread Terry Collins
cpaul wrote: great idea..warranty sounds like a goer tho :) I wish mine were covered. The fourth one has just started giving trouble. I am starting to suspect it must be something else, perhaps the scsi card. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email:

Re: [SLUG] hd head crash = what, exactly?

2001-06-30 Thread Matthew Moor
That doesn't sound like a head crash. More like the drive motor has locked up (bearings, or whatever). So you may not be completely SOL. 2600 had a guy from a data recovery company talking about this at their last seminar (might be worth checking out. I think they have audio of the talks on their

Re: [SLUG] Telstra Outages

2001-06-30 Thread Howard Lowndes
Flow would be nice if you could get it. They tried to offer a static IP service in Albury Wodonga, but apparently were told by Telstra that there was no space in the racks. Telstra then launched their dynamic IP broadband ADSL about a month later to a great fanfare, but promptly withdrew it

[SLUG] Email Dream Team list, my configs, vernon and Mozilla

2001-06-30 Thread Jeff Waugh
Email Dream Team List: For far and wide discussion of email-related Free Software - both client and server. edt is focussed particularly on the integration and cross-pollination of ideas and projects. To subscribe: http://lists.perkypants.org/listinfo/edt To post: [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Telstra Outages

2001-06-30 Thread Andrew Foster
I was going to ask Pacific whether they provided a service like this, on behalf of a client of ours, who was affected by the recent outage - they're a bookshop with a cybercafe and so having no redundant connection loses them customers. Do they allow www et cetera or is it email-only? Thanks

[SLUG] Identd - silly question

2001-06-30 Thread Bernhard Lüder
Hi, this might be a silly question, but what is identd used for? Does it need to run? What for? Bernhard Lüder This electronic mail is solely for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is confidential or privileged. If you receive this electronic mail in error, please delete

[SLUG] Problems with useradd -p switch

2001-06-30 Thread Laurie Savage
I am running a batch update of my users with a small script that includes useradd -m -p password -u uid login. The users get added with correct uid and correct login, but the password seems to get garbled. e.g useradd -m -p gtaskf23x -u 600 fred creates /home/fred, creates an account