Re: [SLUG] DVD playing

2002-10-29 Thread JM Alonzo
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 06:52:32PM +1100, JM Alonzo wrote: From: JM Alonzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mail-Followup-To: JM Alonzo [EMAIL PROTECTED], SLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] DVD playing Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 18:52:32 +1100 ogle or xine? i tried

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 9

2002-10-29 Thread Heracles
On Tuesday 29 Oct 2002 4:23 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mandrake 8.2 has Gnome 1.4 which is slower (esp Nautilus) and more buggy than Gnome 2.0. For this reason alone I'd upgrade (if you use Gnome) Gnome 2 is a much better/faster desktop. snip I've upgraded from 8.2 but had problemos

Re: [SLUG] DVD playing

2002-10-29 Thread John McQuillen
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 19:06, JM Alonzo wrote: at the back of the DVD, there's a globe that says 4. should i set my region to 4? suggestions? comments? how do i make my drive region-free? Download the regionset utility which is included in the dvd_disc archive.

Re: [SLUG] DVD playing -FIXED

2002-10-29 Thread JM Alonzo
On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 08:51:08PM +1100, John McQuillen wrote: Download the regionset utility which is included in the dvd_disc archive. http://www.linuxtv.org/download/dvd/dvd_disc_2215_css.tar.gz I have used this successfully to change the region of my dvd-rom to 0 (meaning that

[SLUG] New Red Hat case-instupitivity

2002-10-29 Thread lukekendall
I gather that the default collation sequence compiled into glibc in Red Hat 7.2 or later is whatever comes with en_US, which basically tries to make the system case insensitive in many respects. I suspect it's trying to be more appealing to people migrating from Windows. shrug One symptom is

Re: [SLUG] New Red Hat case-instupitivity

2002-10-29 Thread mlh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I gather that the default collation sequence compiled into glibc in Red Hat 7.2 or later is whatever comes with en_US, which basically tries to make the system case insensitive in many respects. I suspect it's trying to be more appealing to people migrating from

Re: [SLUG] DVD playing -FIXED

2002-10-29 Thread John McQuillen
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 23:23, JM Alonzo wrote: fixed it. i set the region of the drive to 4. so setting it to 0 means i can use it to play dvds from any region right? thanks a lot. Yes, but be careful, some drives only allow 4 or 5 changes to the region, so if you intend playing discs from

Re: [SLUG] DVD playing -FIXED

2002-10-29 Thread Tony Green
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 05:37, John McQuillen wrote: On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 23:23, JM Alonzo wrote: fixed it. i set the region of the drive to 4. so setting it to 0 means i can use it to play dvds from any region right? thanks a lot. Yes, but be careful, some drives only allow 4 or 5

Re: [SLUG] DVD playing -FIXED

2002-10-29 Thread John McQuillen
On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 07:30, Tony Green wrote: On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 05:37, John McQuillen wrote: On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 23:23, JM Alonzo wrote: fixed it. i set the region of the drive to 4. so setting it to 0 means i can use it to play dvds from any region right? thanks a lot.

[SLUG] Deskpro 4000S with Redhat 8 Xfree86 issues

2002-10-29 Thread Michael Fox
Hi, Got a deskpro 4000s (pentium 200mmx, 128mb ram) and having difficulty getting X windows to load. I've done some reading in the archives, and emailed someone who has a similar machine, but not yet heard back. Anyone care to help. I google searched and tried to use what people said, but

Re: [SLUG] Deskpro 4000S with Redhat 8 Xfree86 issues

2002-10-29 Thread Paul L Daniels
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:18:15 +1100 (EST) Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Got a deskpro 4000s (pentium 200mmx, 128mb ram) and having difficulty getting X windows to load. I've done some reading in the archives, and I've got a similar machine, but with a S3 Trio 64V2/GX chip in it.

Re: [SLUG] New Red Hat case-instupitivity

2002-10-29 Thread Glen Turner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To revert to traditional behaviour, put this into your /etc/profile.d/local.sh: LC_COLLATE=C export LC_COLLATE Or add a file /etc/sysconfig/i18n LANG=en_US LC_COLLATE=C LC_CTYPE=C LC_MESSAGES=C LC_MONETARY=en_US LC_NUMERIC=en_US LC_TIME=en_US It's debatable if

Re: [SLUG] Deskpro 4000S with Redhat 8 Xfree86 issues

2002-10-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
Do you know what sort of graphics card it has? AFAIK the model number does not necessarily determine the graphics card. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Deskpro 4000S with Redhat 8 Xfree86 issues

2002-10-29 Thread Michael Fox
Quoting Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do you know what sort of graphics card it has? AFAIK the model number does not necessarily determine the graphics card. Indeed your correct, and from I have seen it changes from generation to generation. Important information; [root@bindi

[SLUG] Maintenance tool

2002-10-29 Thread Chris Rennie
Hi, In the olden days I used Norton Utilities to check and exercise the various HW components of PCs. It was a great sanity check when confronted with a machine reportedly does funny things, sometimes. So is there anything similar for Linux? fsck is the only maintenance tool I know. Chris --

[SLUG] RedHat 8

2002-10-29 Thread Gunawan Widodo
Could comebody tellin me where I can get the CDs of RedHat 8? I live somewhere in the city, near chinatown. Is there any problem with the CD? Coz I heard in the previous ver there are some problem after installing it. Best Regards, Phillip. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 8

2002-10-29 Thread Michael Fox
Quoting Gunawan Widodo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Could comebody tellin me where I can get the CDs of RedHat 8? I live somewhere in the city, near chinatown. Is there any problem with the CD? Coz I heard in the previous ver there are some problem after installing it. planet mirror has the

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 8

2002-10-29 Thread Alan L Tyree
Could comebody tellin me where I can get the CDs of RedHat 8? I live somewhere in the city, near chinatown. Is there any problem with the CD? Coz I heard in the previous ver there are some problem after installing it. I just noticed that the latest version is in my newsagent. Katoomba

RE: [SLUG] RedHat 8

2002-10-29 Thread Gunawan Widodo
Is the pocket book sell in newsagent is the same as in everythinglinux? I'am looking to buy on local shop somewhere near city... Coz I want to save my bandwith downloading it :) -Original Message- From: Alan L Tyree [mailto:alant;law.usyd.edu.au] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:00

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 8

2002-10-29 Thread Alan L Tyree
Is the pocket book sell in newsagent is the same as in everythinglinux? I'am looking to buy on local shop somewhere near city... Coz I want to save my bandwith downloading it The one that I saw in the newsagent is the official redhat publication: CDs and a small booklet. I got my CDs a few

RE: [SLUG] RedHat 8

2002-10-29 Thread Gunawan Widodo
Ahhhkk... The problem is coz I don't have any credit card and everythinglinux shop is far from city. How about dymocks or agus bookshop? Are they have it? Hopefully I can find the one that the same as in everythinglinux. Sorry for the trouble. -Original Message- From: Glen C

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 8

2002-10-29 Thread Tom
you could try cetustech www.cetustech.com.au they might have it and afaik you dont need a credit card. it can be money order i think tom Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you. -F.

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 8

2002-10-29 Thread Graeme Robinson
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Gunawan Widodo wrote: Could comebody tellin me where I can get the CDs of RedHat 8? I live somewhere in the city, near chinatown. I doubt you'll find them in any shop. I orded mine from www.lsl.com.au Is there any problem with the CD? Coz I heard in the previous ver

[SLUG] (no subject)

2002-10-29 Thread Terry Denovan
Hi There, Just wondering, the company that I am currently working for is looking at setting up a Linux server to host Mail on. I have been informed that the best one to use is Mandrake, 1. Its Free, 2. Its EasyCould you please confirm what software I should be using and who may be able

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 8

2002-10-29 Thread Paul L Daniels
I doubt you'll find them in any shop. I orded mine from www.lsl.com.au Likewise, I also ordered Mandrake 9 and pretty much everything else from them. They can process direct-debit too, so no need for ccard. -- Paul L Danielshttp://www.pldaniels.com Linux/Unix systemsInternet

Re: [SLUG] Problems with wvdial/PPP - URGENT

2002-10-29 Thread Graham Smith
On Tue, 29 Oct 2002 03:01 pm, dan wrote: Hi Chris, Thanks for the reply. Yes there is a firewall on both the box I am dialing in from (SuSE personal firewall) and the box I am dialing into. I have had this working before so I am really unsure it is the firewall causing the problem (much

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2002-10-29 Thread Paul L Daniels
the best one to use is Mandrake, 1. Its Free, 2. Its Easy.Could you please confirm what software I should be using and who may be able to help set it up. Personally, I'd rather recommend something like Slackware 8.1 + Webmin Things like Mandrake/RedHat, whilst visually simple to start out

RE: [SLUG] RedHat 8

2002-10-29 Thread Marc Lawrence
Graeme Robinson [mailto:graemer;graenet.com] wrote: I doubt you'll find them in any shop. I orded mine from www.lsl.com.au Not that it's in the city but I got mine at a newsagent at Westfield, Paramatta, so, they're finding there way into the shops. Installed no problems here (dual boot and

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2002-10-29 Thread Sebastian Welsh
Terry, as Paul Daniels and othes have mentioned, everyone has their preferences regarding linux distributions and mail server software (MTA). This is probably not what you need to consider. Instead, I'd work from the other direction. Once you have the mailserver working, you'll want to maintain

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2002-10-29 Thread Graeme Robinson
On 30 Oct 2002, Sebastian Welsh wrote: Instead, I'd work from the other direction. Once you have the mailserver working, you'll want to maintain it. Your company will replace staff, software will need upgrading, you may want to add further functionality. So, the first thing to do is to look

Re: [SLUG] RedHat 8

2002-10-29 Thread Brad Thomson
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 12:32:35PM +1100, Graeme Robinson wrote: On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Gunawan Widodo wrote: Could comebody tellin me where I can get the CDs of RedHat 8? I live somewhere in the city, near chinatown. I doubt you'll find them in any shop. I orded mine from www.lsl.com.au

[SLUG] rxvt, rh-8.0 and color in man pages

2002-10-29 Thread Broun, Bevan
Im using my compiled rxvt (2.7.8 and 2.6.4) and have also tested with an rh-7.3 rpm. Where other termial programs (gnome-terminal and xterm) show color in man pages, rxvt shows control codes. Color for ls listing is working fine. Anybody else having this problem. Better still, anybody else solved

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Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2002-10-29 Thread Tom
personally id be using debian, for pretty much the same reason, either debian or a bsd based machine. as for mta i prefer qmail sendmail is a bloated satanic bug riddled heathen. but thats just my opinion. dont forget fetchmail etc too tom Either you think, or else others have to think for you

[SLUG] Hangup (SIGHUP) - modem keeps hanging up....

2002-10-29 Thread dan
Hi, Don't know if anyone can shed any light on this but I am trying to connect to a modem using wvdial on SuSE 7.2. I have configured wvdial with all the relevant settings and it is dialing connecting for different periods of time before I get the Modem has hung up message. The weird thing is

Re: [SLUG] Maintenance tool

2002-10-29 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Wed, Oct 30, 2002 at 10:50:18AM +1100, Chris Rennie wrote: Hi, In the olden days I used Norton Utilities to check and exercise the various HW components of PCs. It was a great sanity check when confronted with a machine reportedly does funny things, sometimes. So is there anything

RE: [SLUG] Maintenance tool

2002-10-29 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
http://www.memtest86.com/ is the new site for MemTest86. I have found it to be very efficient at proving that the cheapo DIMMs that my father bought (that passed the standard BIOS mem check) weren't much much chop. Martin Visser Network Consultant Technology Infrastructure - Consulting

[SLUG] Fw: Red Hat 8.0

2002-10-29 Thread Lyle Family
- Original Message - From: Conrad Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Lyle Family [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 10:18 AM Subject: Re: Red Hat 8.0 Hi, this message appears to have been sent to me personally -- you probably want to send it to the SLUG list, [EMAIL