Re: [SLUG] Net connection: welcome to debian/credativ/whatever

2003-09-28 Thread Patrick Lesslie
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003 at 11:05:29PM -0500, Hal Ashburner wrote: I believe the hostname of the computer is being set by the modem, as when I disconected this computer from the modem and connected another, the name of the other computer is imposed upon this one when I reconnect it. As far as I

[SLUG] Sekali sms ke hp siapapun dapat 250

2003-09-28 Thread Agung Andik Wibawa
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[SLUG] talks

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Collins
I've put the slides from my talks up (finally!) http://www.robertcollins.net/talks/ Cheers, Rob -- GPG key available at: http://members.aardvark.net.au/lifeless/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group -

[SLUG] Firewall / router for BigPond

2003-09-28 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear list, Before I reinvent the wheel. I am looking at using VNC to control Win98 boxen remotely. I need a firewall / router for basic protection, is there any cheap routers eg DLink that are worth it? It is easy enough to just use IPTables but is there a template / pre-written rules

[SLUG] anti-propietry info

2003-09-28 Thread bill
hi, peoples, does anyone have favorite sites giving reasons for not doing so, for sites that offer info in propietry formats? thanks. bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Firewall / router for BigPond

2003-09-28 Thread Oscar Plameras
Dear list, Before I reinvent the wheel. I am looking at using VNC to control Win98 boxen remotely. I need a firewall / router for basic protection, is there any cheap routers eg DLink that are worth it? It is easy enough to just use IPTables but is there a template / pre-written rules

[SLUG] kernel 2.6 (again)

2003-09-28 Thread Ken Foskey
Has anyone tried the -mm patches mentioned on /. a while ago. Are they safe and worth the effort? http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/09/21/1723236mode=threadtid=106tid=185 Can someone give me a web like that can give me a complete download of K 2.6 test6 source? Debian has

Re: [SLUG] kernel 2.6 (again)

2003-09-28 Thread Chris Deigan
It is said that Ken Foskey wrote: Can someone give me a web like that can give me a complete download of K 2.6 test6 source? Debian has patched theirs and I want to have a clean source tree to start with. http://kernel.linux.pacific.net.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.0-test6.tar.bz2 - Chris

Re: [SLUG] supermount no longer works after kernel recompile.

2003-09-28 Thread James Gregory
On Sat, 2003-09-27 at 23:58, Chris Barnes wrote: Hi, me again. I recently compiled a new kernel (2.4.21) for my mandrake 9.1 system, and it seems to be working fine (even my wireless card works! Dlink dwl-520+ with TI chipset), but my supermounted filesystems dont want to work and Im not

[SLUG] Paintball

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Tillsley
I'd like to say thanks to Pia Smith for organising paintball. It was a shame that more slugites didn't attend, but I think all who did had a ball. Or several balls, to the head, chest, fingers etc... Cheers Rob T * This mail, including

[SLUG] SPAM

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Tillsley
All this talk about spam and the problem it causes and the debate over where it should be stop has made me think. I personally don't have the technical/infrastructure/legal expertise in general or linux in particular to do a topic on it, but I was wondering whether some net guru would be willing

RE: ADSL uptake is smalll. Re: [SLUG] Yuk

2003-09-28 Thread Robert Tillsley
As one of those lucky ones, all this talk is making me wonder where its possible to stipulate adsl compatible exchange as one of the lease agreements, so you can back out if its not available. Rob T -Original Message- From: Shaun Oliver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 28

Re: [SLUG] SPAM

2003-09-28 Thread Kevin Saenz
Rob, Great idea. Especially in school environments where most parents would not appreciate their child receiving porn related spam. I will offer any assistance to anyone willing to develop such a document. It is practically impossible for me to attend SLUG now I no longer work in the city, and

Re: [SLUG] anti-propietry info

2003-09-28 Thread Matthew Davidson
A couple of obvious ones: What are web standards and why should I use them? http://www.webstandards.org/learn/faq/ We Can Put an End to Word Attachments http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Matthew. (And never underestimate the power of a nag .signature:) -- Please avoid

Re: [SLUG] kernel 2.6 (again)

2003-09-28 Thread Andrew Bennetts
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 08:02:40AM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: Has anyone tried the -mm patches mentioned on /. a while ago. Are they safe and worth the effort? I'm still running test4-mm1 on my home box. I've got no complaints; it works very nicely. I'll probably upgrade again to the latest

[SLUG] copying whole disks with knoppix

2003-09-28 Thread Simon Males
A friend is getting a 120g drive to replace his current 40g (which is defectivly noisy). Its a windows system so some of you may wish to turn around now. What I wish to do is have both drives in, boot knoppix and basically do the following (or similar) to copy the disks: # dd if=/dev/hda1

Re: [SLUG] SPAM

2003-09-28 Thread James Gray
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 09:14 am, Kevin Saenz wrote: Rob, Great idea. Especially in school environments where most parents would not appreciate their child receiving porn related spam. I will offer any assistance to anyone willing to develop such a document. It is practically impossible for me

Re: [SLUG] copying whole disks with knoppix

2003-09-28 Thread Dave Kempe
dd is a low level stuff - you will end up with everything exactly the same and it will take ages. you might want to look at a more parttion level tool like partimage with comes with knoppix its like a ghost equivalent. ghost is really what you want - a partition level tool that can keep the

Re: [SLUG] Help requested in reinstall of Linux onto Ti PowerBook

2003-09-28 Thread Michael Lake
Hi all, This is a followup and what I did to fix it - or not. Michael Lake wrote: I need some help in doing a partial reinstall from CD1 onto a Ti PowerBook that has a non bootable kernel. The rest of the system is fine, the boot loader is fine - its just that the kernel (a benh kernel)

Re: [SLUG] kernel 2.6 (again)

2003-09-28 Thread DE LUCA Ben
hmm what happened to http://www.au.kernel.org/ it looks a little un healthy On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 08:14, Chris Deigan wrote: It is said that Ken Foskey wrote: Can someone give me a web like that can give me a complete download of K 2.6 test6 source? Debian has patched theirs and I want to

Re: [SLUG] copying whole disks with knoppix

2003-09-28 Thread Tony Green
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 11:29, Dave Kempe wrote: that dd command so it might work - i just found dd to be really slow for even an 8GB drive. Usually caused by a lack of the option 'bs=8192k' (or similar) Make sure you have dma etc enabled on the drives too -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] kernel 2.6 (again)

2003-09-28 Thread Dave Airlie
looks okay to me, it doesn't have to have the index page to work... all the kernels are there... www.au is also only a pointer to planetmirror and pacific anyways.. Dave. On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, DE LUCA Ben wrote: hmm what happened to http://www.au.kernel.org/ it looks a little un healthy

[SLUG] Detecting an external display on a laptop

2003-09-28 Thread David Gillies
Does anyone know of anyway of detecting an external display on a laptop? What I have is a ThinkPad. Most of the time it is stand alone, but occasionally I'd like to hook in an external display to have xfree86 running in xinerama mode. So I'm basically looking for perhaps something in /proc, or

RE: [SLUG] supermount no longer works after kernel recompile.

2003-09-28 Thread Chris Barnes
Nup I'm not using mandrake kernel sources, using the stock ones from www.kernel.org. Actually Damien Solley told me to download Con Kolivas' supermount patch so I'll give that a try. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Gregory Sent:

Re: [SLUG] Detecting an external display on a laptop

2003-09-28 Thread James Gray
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:02 pm, David Gillies wrote: Does anyone know of anyway of detecting an external display on a laptop? What I have is a ThinkPad. Most of the time it is stand alone, but occasionally I'd like to hook in an external display to have xfree86 running in xinerama mode. So I'm

RE: [SLUG] copying whole disks with knoppix

2003-09-28 Thread Chris Barnes
Just a quick question, is there any easy way to determine the block size on a hard disk? Because most people might omit the 'bs'option because they aren't sure of the block size and they don't want to stuff anything up. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] copying whole disks with knoppix

2003-09-28 Thread Visser, Martin (Sydney)
The dd blocksize argument is basically the a buffer allocation size when reading and writing. A large block size simply makes the kernel and system calls more efficient (less of them). It has no bearing on the actual disc structure. (to dd, everything is a file,it knows nothing of disks) Martin

Re: ADSL uptake is smalll. Re: [SLUG] Yuk

2003-09-28 Thread DaZZa
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Oscar Plameras wrote: You obviously have never frequented the australian wireless list where you would be told time and time again that this sort of activity is illegal and you need a carrier liscence (sp?) for it. Without being cynical can you advise which legal

[SLUG] Smtpfwdd + sendmail - Upgrade Potato - Woody

2003-09-28 Thread pip+slug
Hi Sluggers, (this is about a mail problem, which is why it's not from my normal address) I have upgraded our firewall from Debian Potato to Woody finally. Everything went smoothly apart from mail. We have smtpd installed which accepts the connections from outside, and sendmail which smtpfwdd

Re: [SLUG]

2003-09-28 Thread DaZZa
On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Jan Schmidt wrote: Details on becoming a financial member are available here: http://www.slug.org.au/membership.html Dare I ask if any progress has been made on accepting membership remotely? I am unable to get to SLUG meetings - my work pattern is too varied to allow me

Re: [SLUG]

2003-09-28 Thread John Clarke
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:23:24PM +1000, DaZZa wrote: Dare I ask if any progress has been made on accepting membership remotely? From http://www.slug.org.au/membership.html: On the other hand if you wish to join and are currently unable to attend - simply send your name, address,

Re: [SLUG] Financial Membership

2003-09-28 Thread Bruce Badger
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:23, DaZZa wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Jan Schmidt wrote: Details on becoming a financial member are available here: http://www.slug.org.au/membership.html Dare I ask if any progress has been made on accepting membership remotely? I am unable to get to SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Financial Membership

2003-09-28 Thread Benno
On Mon Sep 29, 2003 at 13:44:03 +1000, Bruce Badger wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:23, DaZZa wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Jan Schmidt wrote: Details on becoming a financial member are available here: http://www.slug.org.au/membership.html Dare I ask if any progress has been made on

Re: [SLUG] Financial Membership

2003-09-28 Thread Michael Lake
Benno wrote: What is wrong with PayPal? I've used this successfully for paying money before. (Though not for accepting money.) http://www.paypalsucks.com/ I have had no experience with paypal but given sites such as these I would be wary. I have used kagi (something like that) to pay for some

Re: [SLUG] Financial Membership

2003-09-28 Thread Dave Airlie
http://www.paypalsucks.com/ I have had no experience with paypal but given sites such as these I would be wary. I have used kagi (something like that) to pay for some sofware last year and there are many other alternatives to paypal which dont seem to have to anti-web sites. this is a very

Re: [SLUG] Financial Membership

2003-09-28 Thread Del
Michael Lake wrote: Benno wrote: What is wrong with PayPal? I've used this successfully for paying money before. (Though not for accepting money.) http://www.paypalsucks.com/ Not wanting to start another flamewar but: (a) don't believe everything you read on the internet (*). (b) searching

Re: [SLUG]

2003-09-28 Thread DaZZa
On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, John Clarke wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:23:24PM +1000, DaZZa wrote: Dare I ask if any progress has been made on accepting membership remotely? From http://www.slug.org.au/membership.html: On the other hand if you wish to join and are currently unable to

Re: [SLUG]

2003-09-28 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:33, DaZZa wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, John Clarke wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:23:24PM +1000, DaZZa wrote: Dare I ask if any progress has been made on accepting membership remotely? From http://www.slug.org.au/membership.html: On the other hand if

Re: [SLUG]

2003-09-28 Thread DaZZa
On 29 Sep 2003, Peter Hardy wrote: On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 15:33, DaZZa wrote: On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, John Clarke wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 01:23:24PM +1000, DaZZa wrote: Dare I ask if any progress has been made on accepting membership remotely? From

[SLUG] GNOME Settings Daemon error

2003-09-28 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, trying to login today I found myself looking at a blank screen and the message There was an error starting the GNOME Settings Daemon. Some things such as themes, sounds, or background settings may not