[SLUG] Truetype font support in Mozilla 1.01

2002-11-19 Thread Carl Osterly
Hi there, Any one had any luck in getting true type font support working with Mozilla 1.01 under Red Hat 8.0? I've followed some instructions found at: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/fonts/unix/enabling_truetype.html but still no joy. I can get KDE 3.x to see the typefaces, but not Mozilla.

Re: [SLUG] [OT] What can you do with a lots of PIIs?

2002-11-19 Thread Kevin Saenz
How about a clustered environment? Dear list, A bloke is selling 'reasonable boxes' for $89 I hate to see computers going to waste. Can anyone suggest good uses for the boxes? There are only so many firewalls and print servers you can make grin Acer PII 266 Desktop 3.2Gb HDD,

Re[2]: [SLUG] [OT] What can you do with a lots of PIIs?

2002-11-19 Thread evilbunny
Hello Jon, throw in a wireless card and build a secure wireless access point... -- Best regards, evilbunnymailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cacert.org - Free Security Certificates http://www.nodedb.com - Think globally, network locally

Re: [SLUG] Which Firewall to use?

2002-11-19 Thread Carl Osterly
Faiyaaz H wrote: What is a good firewall to use? The October 2002 edition of Linux Format (UK mag) found in most newsagents has a very good roundup of free/commercial firewall distributions. It's quite a comprehensive review covering six different products. Smoothwall -

Re: [SLUG] [OT] What can you do with a lots of PIIs?

2002-11-19 Thread Jon Biddell
Now THERE's an idea...:-) How about a clustered environment? A bloke is selling 'reasonable boxes' for $89 I hate to see computers going to waste. Can anyone suggest good uses for the boxes? There are only so many firewalls and print servers you can make grin Acer PII 266 Desktop 3.2Gb

Re: [SLUG] [OT] What can you do with a lots of PIIs?

2002-11-19 Thread Paul L Daniels
I hate to see computers going to waste. Can anyone suggest good uses for the boxes? Excellent source of warmth in Winter. -- Paul L Danielshttp://www.pldaniels.com Linux/Unix systemsInternet Development ICQ#103642862,AOL:cinflex,IRC:inflex A.B.N. 19 500 721 806 -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla StGeorge banking - *FULLY* working.

2002-11-19 Thread Peter Chubb
mary == mary-slug Mary writes: mary However, I suspect, without having done much investigating at mary all, that it might be the Java applet itself that isn't mary completely loading or executing. In any case, I'm not yet able mary to verify the original poster's claims about it *FULLY* mary

Re: [SLUG] [OT] What can you do with a lots of PIIs?

2002-11-19 Thread Heracles
Dear list, A bloke is selling 'reasonable boxes' for $89 I hate to see computers going to waste. Can anyone suggest good uses for the boxes? There are only so many firewalls and print servers you can make grin Acer PII 266 Desktop 3.2Gb HDD, 64M SDRAM, FDD, LAN, Soundcard,

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla StGeorge banking - *FULLY* working.

2002-11-19 Thread Mary
On Tue, Nov 19, 2002, Peter Chubb wrote: java.lang.ClassCastException: sun.plugin.navig.motif.MotifAppletViewer at components.ag.a([DashoPro-V1.1-081598]) at stGeorge.gui.a7.a([DashoPro-V1.1-081598]) at stGeorge.gui.a7.init ([DashoPro-V1.1-081598]) at

Re: [SLUG] [OT] What can you do with a lots of PIIs?

2002-11-19 Thread Richard Neal
and the Magic word is Beowulf or even better a nice Mosix cluster games server for a frag fest. On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 17:00, Richard Hayes wrote: Dear list, A bloke is selling 'reasonable boxes' for $89 I hate to see computers going to waste. Can anyone suggest good uses for the boxes?

[SLUG] Laptop bits for sale

2002-11-19 Thread Michael (Micksa) Slade
My Inspiron 8000's display conked out and it turns out that it's more economical for me to buy a new one than to repair this one. So I'm stripping it and selling some of the working parts. I have: - a charger (brand new!) - a battery (not much capacity left) - 2x64M and 1x128M memory modules -

Re: [SLUG] Which Firewall to use?

2002-11-19 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Faiyaaz H wrote: G'day What is a good firewall to use? I know of iptables and smoothwall. Is there any other Firewall that I can use or that would be good? I am using Debian Woody and the firewall will sit behind a TPG ADSL Router. I'd suggest filtergen, but it's

[SLUG] squid proxy setup

2002-11-19 Thread Ken Foskey
Schools net have disabled port 80 and I have to use the upstream proxy. As far as I understand it I have to setup the upstream under cache-peer and the type of parent. To actually find out the settings I 'should' be able to pull the .pac file and read it to find out the settings. Is there any

Re: [SLUG] squid proxy setup

2002-11-19 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 09:00, Ken Foskey wrote: Schools net have disabled port 80 and I have to use the upstream proxy. As far as I understand it I have to setup the upstream under cache-peer and the type of parent. To actually find out the settings I 'should' be able to pull the .pac

[SLUG] Linux to Windows network configuration problem

2002-11-19 Thread S Lee
I have two PCs, one on Linux Redhat 8.0 (say LinPC) and the other one on Win2k Professional (WinPC). I have Samba installed on the LinPC. However, the LinPC can see the WinPC but the WinPC cannot see the LinPC. I tested a few things on the LinPC and the results follow: 1. ifconfig reports:

Re: [SLUG] [OT] What can you do with a lots of PIIs?

2002-11-19 Thread mkraus
Err... what is the contact number for Computerbank again? Thanks... Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone (02) 9955 8000 fax (02) 9955 8144 Craige McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 19/11/2002 07:06 PM

[SLUG] KDE sound server dies

2002-11-19 Thread Andy Eager
Hi all, I have noticed that when KDE starts up the sound system works just fine (When I switch desktops, my machine makes a cute little 'quack' sound). After some (long) time, it stops and the following messages are sent to .xession-errors: Unable to open file

Re: [SLUG] KDE sound server dies

2002-11-19 Thread Andy Eager
Andy Eager wrote: Hi all, I have noticed that when KDE starts up the sound system works just fine (When I switch desktops, my machine makes a cute little 'quack' sound). After some (long) time, it stops and the following messages are sent to .xession-errors: Unable to open file

Re: [SLUG] xdmcp

2002-11-19 Thread Andy Eager
Gareth Walters wrote: - Original Message - From: Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mail List - SLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2002 11:18 AM Subject: [SLUG] xdmcp on a RH system running kdm, I have put the following into the /etc/kderc file: [Xdmcp] Enable=true

[SLUG] Red Hat spell breakages

2002-11-19 Thread luke . kendall
Just FYI. If you only care about American spell checking, you'll have no problems. Otherwise you may be interested to know that spell was replaced by a shell script that called ispell, around the time of RH 5 or 6. But RH's spell script was dead stupid. I think it accepted one option, instead

[SLUG] crontab under Mandrake 8.2

2002-11-19 Thread mkraus
G'day all... I'm wanting to set up some automated tasks (backups) via crontab. I found that root has an empty crontab, but /etc/crontab has things in it. (Mainly run-parts so that the cron.d directories run.) I editted /etc/crontab, and it had no effect - I take it I have to run crontab as a

Re: [SLUG] crontab under Mandrake 8.2

2002-11-19 Thread John Clarke
On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:06:27AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I editted /etc/crontab, and it had no effect - I take it I have to run crontab as a certain user to implement the changes. You should be able to add things to /etc/crontab and have them run. Is cron running? Note that the

Re: [SLUG] crontab under Mandrake 8.2

2002-11-19 Thread mkraus
/etc/crontab has an extra field? I didn't notice it from what was already there... This is my /etc/crontab: SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # run-parts 01 * * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts /etc/cron.hourly 02 4 * * * root nice -n 19 run-parts

Re: [SLUG] crontab under Mandrake 8.2

2002-11-19 Thread mkraus
BOC, now I see... :) Ahh... I haven't noticed any errors in either /var/spool/cron or /var/log/cron ... the logging level must be set on the lower side of that... It must have silently baulked at it... fingers crossed, all should go well now... Thanks! Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus

RE: [SLUG] December meeting

2002-11-19 Thread Pia Smith
I think on the 13th would be sweet, lock me in for A. (Work x-mas party on the 20th anyway) Alternatively 2nd choice of E: Other - Emu races, hardware floatation and aviation games, and then mud wrestling in spain please don't care which date. If its not too far outside the SLUG budget ;)

Re: [SLUG] Transparent proxying w/ Squid and iptables.

2002-11-19 Thread Martin
$author = [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; Just wanting to check something... When I manually set my browser to proxy via our squid cache, and I type in a mangled web address into my browser, I get a squid error message back. However, when I'm using transparent proxying via nat using iptables, and I

[SLUG] Interface configuration

2002-11-19 Thread Alan L Tyree
Hi, I have an ISA ethernet card (an IBM EtherJet) that I have configured using the software that comes with the card. It is configured to use full duplex. I am running a diskette based firewall that purports to be based on a debian distro (Bering with Shorewall). At boot time, it negotiates and

[SLUG] : How are you

2002-11-19 Thread Joyce Illguth
Do not send me any more rubbish thankyou or I wil report you! [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] : How are you

2002-11-19 Thread Paul L Daniels
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:36:03 +1000 Joyce Illguth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do not send me any more rubbish thankyou or I wil report you! This is interesting... I get emails like this all the time on my mailing lists... and, lo, behold, I actually write spam-blocking / email-virus-control

RE: [SLUG] December meeting

2002-11-19 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 15:35, Pia Smith wrote: Alternatively 2nd choice of E: Other - Emu races, hardware floatation and aviation games, and then mud wrestling in spain please don't care which date. If its not too far outside the SLUG budget ;) Last year we had a picnic. Fifteen people