Re: [SLUG] FLAME WAR call to arms!

2003-03-27 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy wrote: I'm still looking for team mates for the upcoming SLUG quiz, and I dare say Jamie is too. There's no real barrier for entry. You don't have to be titanic, or bulgy. Being of a geekish persuasion will probably help, but the questions are apparently

Re: [SLUG] apt-get weirdness lately

2003-03-27 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, John Ferlito wrote: a) register on a website to setup a Demo account which expires every 2 months unless I fill in a survey. Ever tried doing this if you are managing 5+ machines. It's a bit of a pain. b) pay for the luxury of not having to do the above c) install

Re: [SLUG] apt-get weirdness lately

2003-03-27 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Stewart wrote: On Thursday, March 27, 2003, at 09:23 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Having said that, Mandrake's urpmi is a big leap in the right direction, but still lacks the simple elegance of apt-get/dpkg/dselect in both operation and configuration. now i'm

Re: [SLUG] apt-get weirdness lately

2003-03-27 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Tim White wrote: Does anyone know of any other RHN type servers for free? Mentioned elsewhere in this thread, current, from some admins at Duke University. Google will show you the path. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg

[SLUG] Modem on compaq persario 1550A

2003-03-27 Thread Malik Jayawardena
Howdy Trying to get the modem going on this compaq presario 1550a. It seems to have a conexant soft 56k modem. I've installed the HSF linux package from conexant which seems to find the modem and loads the modules, but I can't seem to activate the ppp. Doesn't do anything and probing doesn't

[SLUG] binary

2003-03-27 Thread Amanda Wynne
There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] binary

2003-03-27 Thread Gonzalo Servat
On 27/03/2003 8:13 PM +1100 Amanda Wynne wrote: There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. There are 2 types of jokes in the world, those that are really old, and those that aren't. :) Gonz. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] FLAME WAR call to arms!

2003-03-27 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 19:03, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: I'm looking for people who might not know a lot, but can make it up and sound like they know what they're talking about! I do this all the time at work. -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

Re: [SLUG] binary-sorry

2003-03-27 Thread Amanda Wynne
Sorry, didn't mean to do that. On Thursday 27 Mar 2003 8:31 pm, Gonzalo Servat wrote: On 27/03/2003 8:13 PM +1100 Amanda Wynne wrote: There are 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary, and those who don't. There are 2 types of jokes in the world, those that are really

Re: [SLUG] Modem on compaq persario 1550A

2003-03-27 Thread Tom Massey
* Malik Jayawardena [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-03-27 19:32]: Trying to get the modem going on this compaq presario 1550a. It seems to have a conexant soft 56k modem. I've installed the HSF linux package from conexant which seems to find the modem and loads the modules, but I can't seem to

Re: [SLUG] Web page/Formatted print - ideas sought

2003-03-27 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 10:16, Michael Lake wrote: Howard Lowndes wrote: I want to develop an application that uses a background database but delivers the displayed data in a web browser. OK, no big deal so far. The problem is that I also want to be able to deliver printable material

[SLUG] Really interesting project (qemu, an x86 processor emulator)

2003-03-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
QEMU is an x86 processor emulator. Its purpose is to run x86 Linux processes on non-x86 Linux architectures such as PowerPC or ARM. By using dynamic translation it achieves a reasonnable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs. An obviously interesting x86 only process is 'wine' (Windows

[SLUG] HP/RH news

2003-03-27 Thread Stewart
HP's Linux Legions give tip of the hat to Red Hat Software http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=8559 fyi, fwiw. :) ..S. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] apt-get weirdness lately

2003-03-27 Thread Mike MacCana
On Thu, 27 Mar 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Mike MacCana Of course, the ability of those packages to integrate with the rest of the system is fairly limited if they're turned into dumb archives by a program such as alien, which, when run on an rpm based system, will turn rpm into

Re: [SLUG] apt-get weirdness lately

2003-03-27 Thread Mike MacCana
Hrm, a few typos. Keep in mind, I'm er, drunk :^) Mike Mike MacCana ConsultantRHCE, MCSE, MCP+I Cybersource: Providing Quality IT Professional Services for 11 Years Specialists in Unix/Linux,

[SLUG] OpenLDAP and Outlook XP...

2003-03-27 Thread Anthony O'Hara
Evening Jeff, Stuart, Kevin, et al, I'm happy to say I've discovered all but one field in the address book.. Unfortunately I couldn't find any of the 'in development' schema's Jeff mentioned, but, Stuart's suggestion of using Ethereal turned out to work a treat. (Jeff, if you can be

Re: [SLUG] Really interesting project (qemu, an x86 processor emulator)

2003-03-27 Thread Ian Wienand
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:08:55AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: QEMU is an x86 processor emulator. Its purpose is to run x86 Linux processes on non-x86 Linux architectures such as PowerPC or ARM. By using dynamic translation it achieves a reasonnable speed while being easy to port on new host

Re: [SLUG] Mandrake 9.1 released

2003-03-27 Thread mkraus
You mean you'd resize a partition without backing up??? You always want to back up before fiddling with partitions. All the best... Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings Group (NSW) Pty Ltd p: (02) 9955 8000 Chris D [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Really interesting project (qemu, an x86 processor emulator)

2003-03-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Ian Wienand I'd go with bochs if you want something like this. Bochs is a full virtual machine, however. :-) - Jeff -- There's always a new bogeyman - every two months, there's a new axe to add to the axis of evil. - Michael Moore -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Really interesting project (qemu, an x86 processoremulator)

2003-03-27 Thread Mike MacCana
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Ian Wienand wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:08:55AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: QEMU is an x86 processor emulator. Its purpose is to run x86 Linux processes on non-x86 Linux architectures such as PowerPC or ARM. By using dynamic translation it achieves a reasonnable

Re: [SLUG] OpenLDAP and Outlook XP...

2003-03-27 Thread Stuart Guthrie
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 07:13, Anthony O'Hara wrote: I'm happy to say I've discovered all but one field in the address book.. Hope this helps someone .. :) Definitely helps me. Thanks Anthony. Stu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Really interesting project (qemu, an x86 processoremulator)

2003-03-27 Thread Mike MacCana
On Fri, 28 Mar 2003, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Ian Wienand I'd go with bochs if you want something like this. Bochs is a full virtual machine, however. :-) Ah, QEMUs just a CPU I see. Still useful for a lot of Linux PPC users ignored by people who only build / test against x86. I wonder

Re: [SLUG] Exim and Custom routing

2003-03-27 Thread Gareth Walters
I _think_ you need to use a system filter to do this. Have a look at the exim home page(http://www.exim.org), the documentation is pretty thorough and there are examples. I have something like this as my system filter, it rejects overlarge messages and archives a particular users mail to disk.

Re: [SLUG] Really interesting project (qemu, an x86 processoremulator)

2003-03-27 Thread James Gregory
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 00:08, Jeff Waugh wrote: QEMU is an x86 processor emulator. Its purpose is to run x86 Linux processes on non-x86 Linux architectures such as PowerPC or ARM. By using dynamic translation it achieves a reasonnable speed while being easy to port on new host CPUs. An

[SLUG] Dumping mySQL output into text files.

2003-03-27 Thread mkraus
G'day... As per the subject line. Anyone know of a simple way of doing this. I've an database of user details and email addresses and want to output the emails into a flat file so they can be easily dumped into a mail out. Thanks... Mike --- Michael S. E. Kraus Administration Capital Holdings

[SLUG] rpm/dpkg

2003-03-27 Thread Geoffrey Cowling
My thanks to all who contributed to this debate. Without descending to religious disputes (or not far) we amateurs got a clear picture of both systems. I almost think I understand it now ... both for my old RH system and new--still crawling--woody. Geoffrey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Dumping mySQL output into text files.

2003-03-27 Thread Tony Green
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day... As per the subject line. Anyone know of a simple way of doing this. I've an database of user details and email addresses and want to output the emails into a flat file so they can be easily dumped into a mail out. mysqldump,

[SLUG] Committee Nomination: Mary Gardiner

2003-03-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hey, I'd like to nominate Mary Gardiner for Secretary. [ She previously declined her nomination, but has been convinced otherwise since then. :-) ] Thanks, - Jeff -- 100% Pure Slashdot Wisdom: Source code gives a whole new meaning to free software.

Re: [SLUG] Dumping mySQL output into text files.

2003-03-27 Thread Craig Ayliffe
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:18, Tony Green wrote: On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 11:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day... As per the subject line. Anyone know of a simple way of doing this. I've an database of user details and email addresses and want to output the emails into a flat file so they

[SLUG] Re: convert downloaded ASCII to binary?

2003-03-27 Thread Angus Lees
At Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:42:22 +1100, Stewart wrote: Well, time came to bite the bullet and go Debian. This afternoon I downloaded the net installer using wget on my Mac. Only it seems that wget fetched it in ASCII mode, aargh... $ file woody_netinst-20020626-i386.iso

[SLUG] Re: Testing for a SEGV before it happens

2003-03-27 Thread Angus Lees
At Thu, 27 Mar 2003 16:01:54 +1100, Andy Eager wrote: Is it possible to test the accessability (rw or ro) of a memory region before writing to it? install a signal handler for SIGSEGV that longjmps to somewhere safe, and then just write. note that a strict reading of the specs says all

Re: [SLUG] FLAME WAR call to arms!

2003-03-27 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Ken Foskey wrote: On Thu, 2003-03-27 at 19:03, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: I'm looking for people who might not know a lot, but can make it up and sound like they know what they're talking about! I do this all the time at work. You're hired! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SLUG] Cell Phone antenna boosters. Cheap and effective. kbuyf o of

2003-03-27 Thread
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Re: [SLUG] OpenLDAP and Outlook XP... (shudder)

2003-03-27 Thread Glen Turner
Anthony O'Hara wrote: Specifically, I'm trying to find which object populates the 2nd business number and perhaps the company name.. (o: company name results in nothing..) Not unreasonable, as O= has been deprecated in favour of multiple DC= for some time. Search Google for ldap recipe for a

Re: [SLUG] Re: convert downloaded ASCII to binary?

2003-03-27 Thread Del
Angus Lees wrote: At Tue, 25 Mar 2003 19:42:22 +1100, Stewart wrote: Well, time came to bite the bullet and go Debian. This afternoon I downloaded the net installer using wget on my Mac. Only it seems that wget fetched it in ASCII mode, aargh... $ file woody_netinst-20020626-i386.iso

Re: [SLUG] Dumping mySQL output into text files.

2003-03-27 Thread wm
part of normal select syntax? SELECT a,b,a+b INTO OUTFILE /tmp/result.text FIELDS TERMINATED BY ',' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '' LINES TERMINATED BY \n FROM test_table; On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 11:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day... As per the subject line. Anyone know of a simple way of doing

[SLUG] keybindings

2003-03-27 Thread Stuart Guthrie
OK I've put up with this for a while but I need some help. I can't get the character in terminal windows. It's obviously some sort of keybinding or locale issue. I've searched alot and can't find a solution. What could be wrong. Laptop config: Mandrake 9.0 Gnome Desktop 2.0 The same issue is

[SLUG] PHP SIG?

2003-03-27 Thread Del
Hi, Since we already have a Python SIG, is anyone interested in forming a PHP SIG? Talk to me at the meeting tonight if you are. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] PHP SIG?

2003-03-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Del Since we already have a Python SIG, is anyone interested in forming a PHP SIG? Cool! There was a Sydney PHP Users Group around a while back, but I think it's defunct... Might be worth getting in touch to see if they're still active, or let them know about the SIG when it starts.

RE: [SLUG] PHP SIG?

2003-03-27 Thread Theo Julienne
Since we already have a Python SIG, is anyone interested in forming a PHP SIG? Definatly. I'd be interested.. PHP is the main language I code in. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] PHP SIG?

2003-03-27 Thread Mary
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 04:05:24PM +1100, Del wrote: Since we already have a Python SIG, is anyone interested in forming a PHP SIG? You should ask during Q+A. But I'm really replying to remind people that SLUG's SIGs are a grassroots thing - if you want a Thing SIG, you should start one. As

[SLUG] Minutes of 01/02 AGM for your perusal

2003-03-27 Thread Jeff Waugh
Hi all, We don't have official minutes of last year's AGM, but we do have the President's Report and results of the election as a rough guide. Pete (SLUG Secretary, 02/03) will be doing proper minutes of the AGM this year. President's Report:

Re: [SLUG] PHP SIG?

2003-03-27 Thread Del
Mary wrote: ... if you want a Thing SIG, you should start one. As Del is doing ;) Hey! I'm starting a PHP SIG! Not a Thing SIG! Your Thing Is Your Own Problem (TM). :) -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] problem adding source during debian install

2003-03-27 Thread Mick Boda
Hi All, LOOK OUT, got some time off, and we all know what happens when I have time off! The story so far. After windows self destructed, I refomatted my entire hardrive. I've reinstalled Win XP ON /dev/hda1 (Funny how I feel compelled to keep reinstalling Crap software on the basis of how

[SLUG] Mobile phone usb connectivity

2003-03-27 Thread Amanda Wynne
I'm thinking of updating my mobile phone, and am looking at a Nokia 5510. It has a built-in MP3 player, with usb connectivity. Does anyone know if this is a problem to connect to. I'm using Mandrake 9, but have never played with anything usb. Any advice welcome. Amanda -- SLUG - Sydney Linux