Re: [SLUG] GMail invites.

2004-09-10 Thread Dave Airlie
Dudes, if you have to broadcast gmail invites to random people on mailing lists, please do so on slug-chat, not the main slug list. this just happened on the ILUG (Irish list), can the list admins nuke the posts out of the archives, as you start getting muppets who have nothing to do with the

Re: [SLUG] GMail invites.

2004-09-10 Thread nico earnshaw
yeh fair enough /getting rid of these damn gmail things On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:35:47 +1000, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Eddie F The first 20 replys to [EMAIL PROTECTED] can have one. Dudes, if you have to broadcast gmail invites to random people on mailing lists,

Re: [SLUG] GMail invites.

2004-09-10 Thread nico earnshaw
actually just found a little web site which will help me: http://www.gmailswap.com/ nico goes searching for someone trading their soul nico.e On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:44:19 +1000, nico earnshaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeh fair enough /getting rid of these damn gmail things On Fri,

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX qn

2004-09-10 Thread Michael Lake
James Gregory wrote: I have a latex document which I need to publish as both pdf and html. I'm using pdflatex to generate the pdf and latex2html to generate the html. I thought that doing something like this: \ifx\pdfoutput\undefined

[SLUG] Westpac and W3C

2004-09-10 Thread David
Westpac's site presently has certain functions that don't work on anything except IE, so I did a dummy spit at their help desk about it. Surprise, surprise, I got a very personal phone call two days later about the problem, and a follow up letter (snail mail!) that you might all be interested in:

[SLUG] Win2k Server and Linux - Active Directory and BIND

2004-09-10 Thread Matt Hyne
Folks, I have a question on adding a W2K server into a Linux environment. I don't know a lot about W2KS, but I do have a lot of Linux experience so I am hoping someone has already done this. We have been forced to upgrade our old 1998 NT 4.0 server to a W2K server. Now the new server will run

Re: [SLUG] Australian F/OSS distributed on peer to peer networks?

2004-09-10 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: She's asked me if I know of any open source/free-software authors in Australia that use p2p technology to distribute their works. The best that I could come up with off the top of my head is Linux distributions w/ Australian copyright

Re: [SLUG] Westpac and W3C

2004-09-10 Thread Richard Hayes
On Fri, 10 Sep 2004 05:06 am, David wrote: Westpac's site presently has certain functions that don't work on anything except IE, so I did a dummy spit at their help desk about it. Surprise, surprise, I got a very personal phone call two days later about the problem, and a follow up letter

[SLUG] Linux media player ...

2004-09-10 Thread Jason Rennie
Hi all, I just got through putting gentoo on my desktop, and it occurs to me that I really only need 1 more good application for linux and I will pretty much never need windows again. Specifically I need a replacement for winamp. More specifically I need a replacement video file player. Igot got

Re: [SLUG] Linux media player ...

2004-09-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Jason Rennie So what is the best easiest media player for linux with the most supported codecs and so on ? What ever is recommend need XviD and DivX support. Totem with the libxine backend. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2005: Canberra, Australiahttp://linux.conf.au/

[SLUG] Wins netbios name resolution in /etc/nsswitch.conf

2004-09-10 Thread Ryan Tsai
Hi all, I'm having this problem that I'm unable to using wins for netbios name resolution with /etc/nsswitch.conf. Whenever I try to ping a hosts using its netbios name it almost instantly returns unknown host, putting wins in front of file and dns or just have wins by itself does not

[SLUG] Re: (Mis)Configuring 0x04b8:0x010c

2004-09-10 Thread Adam Bogacki
Using modconf I installed 'uhci-hcd' but could not find 'usbfs'. I've mounted both on /etc/fstab none/proc/bus/usb usbfs defaults0 0 none/proc/bus/usb uhci-hcd defaults 0 0 and now I find Tux:/proc/bus/usb# ls 001 devices and

Re: [SLUG] Wins netbios name resolution in /etc/nsswitch.conf

2004-09-10 Thread Keith Hopkins
Ryan Tsai wrote: Hi all, I'm having this problem that I'm unable to using wins for netbios name resolution with /etc/nsswitch.conf. Whenever I try to ping a hosts using its netbios name it almost instantly returns unknown host, putting wins in front of file and dns or just have wins by

[SLUG] NTFS vs EXT3

2004-09-10 Thread Rod Butcher
Can anybody tell me about or point me to writing on differences between comparative strengths weaknesses of EXT3 NTFS ? I used NTFS for years and found it bulletproof, in fact the only part of Windows I would like to keep. thanks rod --

RE: [SLUG] Wins netbios name resolution in /etc/nsswitch.conf

2004-09-10 Thread Ryan Tsai
Hi Keith, Thanks for the reply, I have wins support = no wins server = 192.168.0.9 #the wins server on the LAN In my Samba config file, I tried disabling wins on host 192.168.0.9 and enabling wins support on this box, but didn't seem to help. Just in case it's a configuration problem I also