Re: [SLUG] apache2 documentation - howto read on local server

2007-08-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18/08/07, Zenaan Harkness <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Anyone know what the magical google search should be to figure out how > to read the apache2-doc docs on my local webserver? > > Each HTML file has various versions named *. where is two > char language code, and the links point to the fi

[SLUG] Ruby speaker at SLUG (for Ruby project)?

2007-08-13 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, A few months ago there was an excellent talk about Ruby given on SLUG's monthly meeting. I can't find the details of this talk (and most interesting - the speaker) anywhere on the SLUG web site. Could the speaker, or anyone know her contact details, please contact me? We might have a proj

Re: [SLUG] I've stuffed up my display

2007-08-09 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/08/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My environment is Fedora 6 with KDE and I went to change the display > resolution using system-config-display. > > The display is set to generic LCD 800x600 but it will only permit 640x480. > > I've tried editting /etc/X11/xorg.conf but tha

Re: [SLUG] Injecting information into a bind server

2007-08-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 08/08/07, Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Named does have a backends system, where you can do untold evil. This reminds me - maybe Power DNS (pdns, http://wiki.powerdns.com/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi) can help you do that - forward all DNS queries to the original server except for some recor

Re: [SLUG] Injecting information into a bind server

2007-08-07 Thread Amos Shapira
On 08/08/07, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All I want to be able to do is say to my dns server bind9 if you get a > request > for mail.example.com don't go the net give it this address. > > Is this possible ? I think you should lookup "views" in bind9 documentation: http://www.isc.org

Re: [SLUG] Removing a snd module

2007-08-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 06/08/07, Denis Crowdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Amos Shapira wrote: > > On 05/08/07, Denis Crowdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I'm sure this has worked for me in the past (distant though), but now I > >> just get a long list of "mod

Re: [SLUG] Removing a snd module

2007-08-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 05/08/07, Denis Crowdy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm sure this has worked for me in the past (distant though), but now I > just get a long list of "module is in use" messages, despite trying to > shut down everything that might be using the card. I have tried fuser, > and the entries under

Re: [SLUG] SSH attack

2007-08-02 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/08/07, Morgan Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I prefer to use something like denyhosts to simply block the offending > ip's > as moving the port seems somewhat to be security through obscurity. Yes it is. But it keeps your logs much cleaner (so any attempt to hack is noticed much more

Re: [SLUG] Audio skipping on Ubuntu kernels

2007-07-31 Thread Amos Shapira
On 01/08/07, James Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good thinking, but DMA was enabled. I checked the other settings, and > twiddled them, but it's still skipping. Current config is as follows: You keep assuming that it's an IO issue - what about creating a short file which can fit in memor

Re: [SLUG] [ot] Using an australian proxy server to access australian sites

2007-07-31 Thread Amos Shapira
On 01/08/07, Richard Hayes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dear list, > > I have some employees in China and when they try to use some Australian > sites auction sites > such as eBay, the companies exam the IP address and flag it as a > potential fraud and remove the listings. > > If I setup a Squi

Re: [SLUG] SSH attack

2007-07-31 Thread Amos Shapira
On 31/07/07, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi > > Seems like I am getting attacked from these ip's > 59.124.57.147 > 61.180.85.226 > 155.230.106.163 > 202.107.245.4 > 202.188.161.66 > 210.164.31.91 > 212.210.63.18 > 219.149.182.145 > 219.94.132.52 > > > any one else seeing any new activ

Re: [SLUG] buying new linux dedicated PC, advice sought

2007-07-23 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23/07/07, Darren Hannah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just a few extra notes on this topic... > Some things I learned about this issue in the last few days: > 1. If you want Adobe Flash, Skype, Google Earth or many other proprietary > programs to run then you need a 32-bit environment Any sensi

Re: [SLUG] buying new linux dedicated PC, advice sought

2007-07-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 22/07/07, Rufi_Dukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I was wondering if there is anyone here who could help me by looking at the quote below (from pioneer) and telling me if there are any obvious specs that jump out and strike the reader as odd, or as overkill, or under-resourced, or in any other

Re: [SLUG] Re: linux dedicated computers in australia?

2007-07-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 22/07/07, Rufi_Dukes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: so, are you saying that Dell won't actually sell me a machine with ubuntu on it (i know they do in the states, and i think in UK) but that if i were to buy the one you recommend, this would be the same one they are using in the States to load ub

Re: [SLUG] Retrieving Data from formatted drive

2007-07-20 Thread Amos Shapira
On 20/07/07, Kevin Waterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Are there any linux tools to recover data from formatted drives? I can do this using windows, but wondered if there was a better way. "testdisk" is the tool included in SysRescCD for this job: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk --Am

Re: [SLUG] re: Not good publicity for Linux, is it?

2007-07-19 Thread Amos Shapira
On 20/07/07, Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Of course, a good idea with these sites would be to work out a method to stagger the traffic. If you only anticipate ridiculous load in the first few days after launch, it's silly to build capacity to cope with that one-off demand. Inste

Re: [SLUG] Not good publicity for Linux, is it?

2007-07-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/07/07, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Of course one never seems to see the following: 'This latest virus/worm attack installs a key logger and result in your bank details being stolen. The virus only affects Windows.' since they'd probably get sued in Australia for saying it

[SLUG] Not good publicity for Linux, is it?

2007-07-18 Thread Amos Shapira
"Aussie film archives launch … and then crash" - ZDnet mentions how a 2.5years project implementing a home-built content management system based on Janga melted on the first morning it went public. They bother to mention that the servers run Linux. Netcraft doesn't have this web site on its data

Re: [SLUG] please unsubscribe all wildtecnology.net / wildit.com.au email addresses from SLUG lists

2007-07-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18/07/07, Dean Hamstead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is all getting a tad childish. Indeed. observe the footer >> Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ >> Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >> SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http:/

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 15/07/07, Heracles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Amos, Everything pauses, but if she kills Firefox then there are no further problems. I got her to move to Opera and the problem has gone away so I guess the problem is in Firefox. That's very strange. The only thing that I encountered which

Re: [SLUG] [OT/2] Dual layer DVD media?

2007-07-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13/07/07, DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Officeworks. Last time I looked, a 5 pack of dual layer {verbatum} media cost about $13 or $15 or so. There's one near Chatswood, from memory, and also one at Brookvale. Thanks. I think I know which one you are talking about - there is one on Paci

[SLUG] [OT/2] Dual layer DVD media?

2007-07-12 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'm looking for a good place to buy Dual-Layer DVD media. I found some places on the net but was wondering: 1. Whether anyone can recommend some place on the North Shore where I can just walk in and buy good media in stead of having to order over the Internet. 2. Are there any points to

Re: [SLUG] Firefox pausing

2007-07-12 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13/07/07, Heracles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Compaq S720 screen) and all works OK except when she is on the net with Firefox it stalls from time to time. It never did this to her under XP What exactly do you mean by "stalls"? The Firefox network traffic or the entire X display? --Amos --

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop repairs?

2007-07-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/07/07, Martin Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When I have had to send my work notebook in for repair, I have always removed the hard disk and just sent in the unit. That way I can either just use it in a spare (which I sometimes have had the luxury of) or at worst case stick it into a US

[SLUG] Windows Subversion client?

2007-07-10 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'm trying to convince the windows programmers at my workplace to adopt SubVersion instead of Source(Un)Safe (which they already hate anyway) but the best Windows GUI client I found is TortoiseSVN which the programmer doesn't like because it relays on Windows Exploder which can get stuck f

Re: [SLUG] removing duplicate files

2007-07-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 09/07/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Zhasper> find . -name "" -print0 | xargs -0 rm >> >> Actually lighter weight, less forking less execing, because this version >> runs two procsses only, rather than a new invocation of rm for each file >> found. > > It runs at least three p

Re: [SLUG] removing duplicate files

2007-07-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 08/07/07, Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Zhasper> find . -name "" -print0 | xargs -0 rm Actually lighter weight, less forking less execing, because this version runs two procsses only, rather than a new invocation of rm for each file found. It runs at least three processes if it

Re: [SLUG] installing Debian Etch on Dell E520 (Intel Core 2 Duo)

2007-07-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 05/07/07, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: > I've finally got my Dell Dimension E520 desktop (don't trust the delivery > but sticking the ia64 CD-ROM 1 or ia64 netinst of Debian Etch If its Core 2 Duo then its not ia64. Ia64 if the

Re: [SLUG] Sound in Ubuntu

2007-07-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 05/07/07, Simon Males <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Do it from outside the Operating System. Disable it in BIOS. That's basically what I did back when I bought my SoundBlaster. Another possible option if you want to play around with the on-board sound card without having to switch to BIOS m

[SLUG] installing Debian Etch on Dell E520 (Intel Core 2 Duo)

2007-07-05 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I've finally got my Dell Dimension E520 desktop (don't trust the delivery company they use, stood me up three times in two days) and managed to boot System Rescue CD to shrink the Windows XP partition on it, but sticking the ia64 CD-ROM 1 or ia64 netinst of Debian Etch on memory stick causes

Re: [SLUG] removing duplicate files

2007-07-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 04/07/07, Kevin Shackleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To explain more about my remove duplicate file problem . . # rm -rv returns: rm: cannot lstat `': No such file or directory Is "somefile" the exact file name (e.g. full path name or full path between current working dir and the file

Re: [SLUG] removing duplicate files

2007-07-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 04/07/07, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: p.s. I know what you mean by the vague concept of "seeding". For many of the GNU shell utilities it would be nice to be able to specify that -r is to work recursively on the file/pattern specified as the argument(s), i.e. ls -R currently

Re: [SLUG] removing duplicate files

2007-07-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/07/07, Kevin Shackleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a directory tree with a lot of duplicate "leaves". The command "rm -r " does not work, saying: "cannot lstat ''" Does it give any more information in the error message? Usually such errors are followed by the exact system call e

Re: [SLUG] Etax 2007

2007-07-02 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/07/07, Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 23:22 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > Dean Hamstead wrote: > > ran perfectly in wine (whatever is current). > > That should not be used as an excuse for the ATO not to provide a Linux > port. Out of interest, why is a na

Re: [SLUG] Etax 2007

2007-07-02 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/07/07, Rich Buggy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think a better question is why can't the ATO produce a real web application that only requires a web browser? The rest of the planet seems to have managed to do it. That's the right question (the kind that made MS suddenly so scared about N

[SLUG] Trojan Horse Loaded Version Of Ubuntu 7.04 Spreading Over Torrent Sites

2007-06-27 Thread Amos Shapira
For the benefit of those who might not follow such news (e.g. Linux newbies who take their first steps in downloading and installing such software), I post this here as a warning - don't download just any copy of a Linux distro unless it's coming from an official distro site and (or?) without veri

Re: [SLUG] Can SAMBA 3.0.24 be a BDC for a Windows 2003 domain controller?

2007-06-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 26/06/07, DaZZa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You need to get your terminology straight first. I suspected so :). Windows networking is so foreign to me. There's no such thing as a "PDC" or "BDC" in an Active Directory environment - especially a 2003 AD environment. There are PDC and BDC _e

[SLUG] Can SAMBA 3.0.24 be a BDC for a Windows 2003 domain controller?

2007-06-25 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I kept hearing that Samba 3 can join and do anything as a Windows Domain Controller even better than Windows itself. But now that I need it to replace a Backup Domain Controller (fka Secondary Domain Controller?) to a Windows 2003 Active Directory server I keep bumping into the following

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail Startup

2007-06-24 Thread Amos Shapira
On 24/06/07, Malcolm Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Amos, Thanks for your comments. Do you have the problem with the slow startup as well? No. I don't run sendmail on my home machine. I don't have an SMTP server on my machine since it doesn't expect any incoming mail, all outgoing

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail Start-up

2007-06-23 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23/06/07, Malcolm Johnston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: but I have noticed two (almost certainly related) problems. One is that, on invoking "dnsdomainname" or the "hostname" equivalent, nothing is printed, although the command returns success. The second problem is that both I don't know

Re: [SLUG] linux dedicated computers in australia?

2007-06-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 22/06/07, Richard Neal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know www.pioneercomputers.com.au have an "Ubuntu" option on most of their laptops models, you will have to click on the "Build Your Own" button once you have selected the general model your after. Also: 1. Search the SLUG archives, some li

Re: [SLUG] A file transfer problem

2007-06-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 22/06/07, Leslie Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm trying to transfer a large file from computer A to computer B using a null modem cable. The file is a compressed file which, when transferred, will allow me to install on computer B the distribution called Delilinux. I have no other way of g

[SLUG] setting debian mirror manually during net install?

2007-06-22 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I have two situations with basically the same question: 1. A few weeks ago I tried to install Debian Etch from a net install disk using a repository served through apt-cacher but couldn't find a way to overwrite the sources.list file during the install. I ended up using a full installatio

Re: [SLUG] MySQL transfer from one host to another over SSH (pull)

2007-06-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/06/07, Michael Chesterton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What I am trying to do is... > > $ ssh DBMASTER "mysqldump --opt -u root -p live" | mysql -u dbuser -p live > Enter password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > ERROR 1045 (2

Re: [SLUG] Joining and a Question

2007-06-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/06/07, Marghanita da Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Bowskill wrote: > Dear Slug, > > I am a retired TAFE teacher (and Electronics Engineer) living at > Wentworth Falls in the Blue Mountains. > > As I am no longer employed, would the annual subscription for me be $15 ? Welcome. I d

Re: [SLUG] troubles installing mediawiki1.7 on Debian Etch - extensions?

2007-06-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18/06/07, Steve Granger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Template:Cite web any pointers? I might then be able to make off an item in the TODO list Have you looked at the documentation at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Cite/Cite.php (referenced from a comment at the top of Cite.php)? According to

Re: [SLUG] troubles installing mediawiki1.7 on Debian Etch

2007-06-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 17/06/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And it's most likely failing on the very first time the enclosing function (doQuery) is called. Or actually, "is called with that user". After getting your reply I found how to turn on debug messages: 1. Add a call to "$wgDatabase->debug(true

[SLUG] troubles installing mediawiki1.7 on Debian Etch

2007-06-17 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I've managed to install mediawiki 1.7 on Debian Etch using the debian packages flawlessly before, but now that I try to do the same on another system I keep getting an error as follows when I try to configure it by accessing the /mediawiki/config/index.php page: Warning: mysql_query(): su

Re: [SLUG] Re: Graphics Card/Laptop

2007-06-14 Thread Amos Shapira
On 14/06/07, bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Amos I recently purchased an LG widescreen monitor which runs fine with Kubuntu ( Debian) 6.06 and the nv driver at 1680x1050 My Benq laptop widescreen also runs fine with LinuxMint ( Ubuntu/debian) My other 2 pc's, one with an onboard SIS vid c

Re: [SLUG] Graphics Card

2007-06-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 14/06/07, Gav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Could anyone recommend a low to midrange graphics card for box running Ubuntu Feisty. Want to run applications like 3d Desktop, 3d chess, virtualbox etc. Not really for high end games. Present 32mb matrox card is really struggling. In simil

Re: [SLUG] BoM coastal rain radar mashup

2007-06-07 Thread Amos Shapira
Here is where I go to watch the current weather: http://tinyurl.com/2a86gz Hope it gives you some ideas. If you (or someone else) is looking for an idea for a meshup then the pages at http://www.gfa.org.au/clubs/ contain list of Australian gliding clubs (I think they maintain them as static HTML

Re: [SLUG] ssh questions

2007-06-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 05/06/07, Phil Scarratt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Voytek Eymont wrote: > my logs are littered with the usual failed login crap; > > is moving ssh to a different port 'good idea' ? > preferabley some port that will still allow me access from various places. > what port ? port range ? > yes,

Re: [SLUG] Upgrading one package in deb (vserver)

2007-05-27 Thread Amos Shapira
On 27/05/07, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I have currently installed the Linux Vserver utils package util-vserver_0.30.212-1_i386.deb on Debian/Etch. There is a bug fix I require and it is available on the net in certain places, package util-vserver_0.30.213. I can google

[SLUG] using apt-cacher in debian install time?

2007-05-24 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi all, We have a CD of Deiban Etch netinst and I've just configured apt-cacher on another debian machine. Now I'd like to force the network install to use apt-cacher but it seems to force me to pick out of a pre-compiled list. Is this possible somehow? (e.g. edit the file containing that list

Re: [SLUG] Can someone get this to work...

2007-05-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 22/05/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ...or tell me where I am going wrong: svn co http://svn.digium.com/view/asterisk/team/group/res_config_ldap You are using the svn web viewer instead of the SVN URL. Just guessing the right URL worked for me: svn co http://svn.digium.com

Re: [SLUG] fixing or deleting file system

2007-05-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 11/05/07, Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Ben" == Ben Donohue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> Hi all, I have a new centos box with a boot partition and a large Ben> raid array of over 3TB. Ha. So you're using XFS? ext[23] on 32-bit systems have problems with such a large sy

Re: [SLUG] I'd like to know...

2007-05-09 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/05/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The recommendation of swap == 2x RAM is oldfashoned and may even be bad. Googling will give you more than you ever wanted to know ... IMHO you'd hardly ever want more than 512M of swap. If you did you'd know and understand why. This is

Re: [SLUG] recommendations for SATA RAID controllers?

2007-05-09 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/05/07, Jeremy Portzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: device. But software RAID 1 or 1+0 on a modern Linux system of any type should be fine in my opinion. If you do go with HW RAID, keep in mind you also want a card that interfaces well with Linux not just for the drive contorller itself, bu

Re: [SLUG] recommendations for SATA RAID controllers?

2007-05-09 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/05/07, Ben Donohue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Amos, I have an Adaptec SATA II raid model 2820SA which is an 8 port working in centos (RH) 5. I don't know offhand if it will do the raid you want but it's PCI-X and works. Hi Ben, Thanks very much for the pointer. We are planning to

[SLUG] recommendations for SATA RAID controllers?

2007-05-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Does anyone have recommendations on which SATA RAID PCI controller cards should I look for a 4-disk mirror array? I got a recommendation for LSI Logic MegaRAID SATA 150-4 64-bit PCI ( http://tinyurl.com/2zkljw) but need to find an explanation why that controller and not something other (c

Re: [SLUG] Symbolic links

2007-05-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 08/05/07, Matthew Hannigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:31:16PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: > > What about "find -L -samefile give-target"? > > e.g. > > $ touch target > $ ln -s target link-to-target > $ ls -l > total 0 >

Re: [SLUG] Symbolic links

2007-05-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/05/07, John Ferlito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:15:51AM +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: > Is there some easy way to find all the symbolic links that point to a > given target? > No real easy way since for symbolic links there is no reverse lookup table in the filesyst

Re: [SLUG] downloading multiple files using MIME multipart/related

2007-04-29 Thread Amos Shapira
On 29/04/07, Sam Lawrance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2. Depending on the server's side, this particular program could > get into a > deadlock since it relays on the server having large enough buffers > to send > files and receive requests before the client finishes sending all > the file > nam

Re: [SLUG] downloading multiple files using MIME multipart/related

2007-04-27 Thread Amos Shapira
On 28/04/07, Sam Lawrance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes, single file at a time would suck over a network. HTTP/1.1 is a good suggestion, but you need to use pipelining. Demonstrated use (at least in my mind :-) is FreeBSD's portsnap, which is becoming the preferred method to transfer hundreds

[SLUG] Re: AcetoneISO (apols for not changing the header in the previous post)

2007-04-26 Thread Amos Shapira
On 26/04/07, elliott-brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Amos, I haven't tried that function. I'm not quite sure what you mean by what it does do though (??). What does 'split (1) mean? It means that it calls the "split" standard unix command line utility. You can read about this command

Re: [SLUG] Re: AcetoneISO

2007-04-26 Thread Amos Shapira
On 25/04/07, elliott-brennan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of the other cool things this program does is it allows you to quickly mount an ISO made of a movie and run that in a program like Xine. That's nice, but on the other hand I was very disappointed to learn that its "split ISO" functio

[SLUG] Fwd: Time Drifting Back & Forth on SMP [Was: Re: System Clock is crazy? [was: Re: vixie-cron acting weird (actually not acting at all)]]

2007-04-22 Thread Amos Shapira
Just as this question was raised on SLUG someone on linux-il had the same problem. Disabling SMP solved it. --Amos -- Forwarded message -- From: shimi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 23-Apr-2007 08:03 Subject: Time Drifting Back & Forth on SMP [Was: Re: System Clock is crazy? [was: Re:

Re: [SLUG] downloading multiple files using MIME multipart/related

2007-04-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 21/04/07, Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Last I checked RC2616 does not defnied multipart/related semantics for HTTP. So here is a though I had after reading your response - how about sending back one MIME content contain multi-parts inside it? As far as I follow the following l

[SLUG] downloading multiple files using MIME multipart/related

2007-04-21 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Does anyone have a pointer for a sample of code which sends multiple files as a single HTTP response using MIME multipart/related? All the code or explanations I found so far are talking about either creating MIME e-mail messages or parsing multipart responses (or even upload of multiple

Re: [SLUG] Doing a demo of Ubuntu at my place of work

2007-04-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/04/07, David Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks to all for your valuable feedback. I should of made myself a little more clearer. The boss is looking to offer it as a OS with the Desktops we sell. So its more a pitch to show its a viable option for our customers. None the less, the

Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations

2007-04-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/04/07, Adam Kennedy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The biggest example is probably SQL placeholders, which pretty much remove any chance of SQL injections attack in one fell swoop. I know for DBI it's very difficult to do any non-trivial work without using them. I was just bitten (again) by

Re: [SLUG] An interesting thought on virus liability

2007-04-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18/04/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am thinking that I should recommend to my client that he maintains a dedicated PC under engineering control for the purpose of these transfers. What are your thoughts. Sounds reasonable. Maybe it's worth checking on pilot forums on how o

Re: [SLUG] Doing a demo of Ubuntu at my place of work

2007-04-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18/04/07, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Shakthi Kannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3. Mention the important of open documentation > standards (.odp or .pdf), and use of Openoffice for > their day-to-day activites. You should stress the importance of open

Re: [SLUG] Doing a demo of Ubuntu at my place of work

2007-04-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 17/04/07, Sridhar Dhanapalan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, David Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any tips or points for catching the attention of mostly IT 'dumb' ales > staff ? I am thinking Beryl/Compiz, the mention of no spyware and > viruses and the backing of big nam

[SLUG] Web app to upload files?

2007-04-08 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'd like to let a friend of mine to upload a file to my home server. It's a one-off need. Does anyone know of a simple web application I can install to let him do that through HTTP without too much hassle? I'm using Debian Etch. Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailin

Re: [SLUG] Tagging PNG files

2007-04-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 08/04/07, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of a tool that can tag a PNG file with meta data? I've found pngmeta which will dump it, but nothing that will add it. A quick search of CPAN came up with Image::ExifTool::PNG at http://search.cpan.org/~exif

Re: [SLUG] PC h/w and s/w Inventory apps - OCS Inventory

2007-04-01 Thread Amos Shapira
On 02/04/07, Dave Kempe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Simon Wong wrote: > I just came across OCS Inventory in SF's top 30 list > (http://ocsinventory.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=features) and was > wondering if anyone had used it and hwat their thoughts were. It looks > quite good on the surface

[SLUG] late entry to slug meeting

2007-03-29 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I've just realized I might be able to make it to the meeting this week but I'll be a bit late. Is anyone here willing to give me their mobile number so I can call them to open the doors downstairs for me? Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.

Re: [SLUG] Skype freezes computer

2007-03-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 26/03/07, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: However, it doesn't seem right that an application can totally freeze the entire system. No keyboard, no mouse, nothing. I can't even log in remotely until it unfreezes. That would suggest that it's more than just a skype bug, wouldn't it?? Yes, it

Re: [SLUG] Skype freezes computer

2007-03-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 26/03/07, Alan L Tyree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I use Ekiga connected to a Gizmo account to talk to lots of people. The Gizmo client for Windows is good - I haven't tried the Linux one for ages since Ekiga is so good. Ekiga allows you to register to multiple accounts. I tried Ekiga a while

Re: [SLUG] Skype freezes computer

2007-03-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 25/03/07, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I contacted skype about this.. but of course they didn't properly read what I said. Ah well.. at least they replied. See their reply and my original message below. Skype freezes ubuntu 6.10 completely, but for about one or two minutes, after which th

Re: [SLUG] AMD based computers.

2007-03-12 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12/03/07, Del <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How does that relate to home PCs? If you're looking at 64 bit then you can expect your average Intel machine to be hotter and noisier than your average AMD machine in the same price/performance range. Is this correct with the new Core Duo II stuff?

[SLUG] Commercial Debian support

2007-02-26 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, One of the questions during the latest distro comparision discussion was about commercial support. My answer as the Debian supporter was that I know there is but I can't give a name off the top of my head. Today I learned a few things: 1. HP just repported that it made 25 millions US$ from

Re: [SLUG] Oddball memory usage?

2007-02-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23/02/07, Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > IBM do a good book on Linux Performance Tuning, which explains this > well. Oh, cool. I'll have to add it to my reading list. Thanks. I was looking for a link to include in a "to read" list when I found the following review: http://www.li

Re: [SLUG] Oddball memory usage?

2007-02-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23/02/07, Martin Visser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think you'll find the formula dated to the time when most people said "I really need my total memory address space to be n megabytes, but I can only possibly afford n/3 megabytes of RAM, so I have to just make do with 2n/3 being on a relati

Re: [SLUG] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [activities] Call For Participation: Distro Discussion Panel @ Friday's meeting]

2007-02-21 Thread Amos Shapira
Do you need Debian reps or was this spot filled out the quickest? :-) I'm NOT a Debian Developer but I use it for many years so might be able to fill in. --Amos On 22/02/07, Lindsay Holmwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: G'day all! We're running low on volunteers - anyone else want to represent t

Re: [SLUG] Postfix, LDAP, NFS, virtual domains, Mailman, et al

2007-02-20 Thread Amos Shapira
On 21/02/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: An even further alternative thinking might be to not NFS mount anything anywhere, but to have Postfix on the mail server relay all inbounds to the mailing lists on the mail server directly to the MTA on the web server. Does that all make se

Re: [SLUG] Silencing ldapadd, ldapmodify and ldapdelete

2007-02-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/02/07, Christopher Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2/19/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is out of the script that I an calling from cron: > > ldapdelete -x -D uid=admin,dc=$DB -w secret > cn=nospam$MONTH_NOW,ou=valias,dc=$DB &1>/dev/null &2>1 > > and this is the ou

Re: [SLUG] Silencing ldapadd, ldapmodify and ldapdelete

2007-02-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/02/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This is out of the script that I an calling from cron: ldapdelete -x -D uid=admin,dc=$DB -w secret cn=nospam$MONTH_NOW,ou=valias,dc=$DB &1>/dev/null &2>1 and this is the outout I get: ldap_delete: No such object (32) matched DN:

Re: [SLUG] Silencing ldapadd, ldapmodify and ldapdelete

2007-02-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/02/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does anyone have a clue how to silence the outputs from the subject commands? I have tried the usual redirections of STDOUT and ERROUT to /dev/null but to no avail. That's very strange - strace'ing ldapsearch on RHEL4 shows that it writ

Re: [SLUG] Close encounters of a Vista type

2007-02-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/02/07, Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think if you execute a command tool window (surely they still have that in vista still), and execute "ipconfig /all" it will show all Actually I remember a few years ago, back when Vista was "Longhorn" and they still though they can make i

Re: [SLUG] Close encounters of a Vista type

2007-02-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/02/07, Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: then get the standard nag box - hey, M$, this lappy only has one account on it, and therefore its the administrator account. Please - for the common health of the network community at large, as well as for your own Windows machine, please

Re: Hosting stuff on ADSL [Was: [SLUG] Should I host my own domain?]

2007-02-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 17/02/07, James Purser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That said if what you're hosting is a) Not mission critical and b) low bandwidth, there is nothing to stop you doing it so long as you have a static IP (dynamic just gets to be a major pain). Its a nice way to play with different technologies

Re: [SLUG] Bulk Mail Etiquette

2007-02-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 16/02/07, Ben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Some ISPs place restrictions on the total # of emails you can send, not just the total number of recipients. I got the following link in a Google Ad in GMail while reading Ben's reply. It's more about accepting mail on port 25 when the ISP blocks it

[SLUG] revoking and unrevoking uid looses signatures?

2007-02-13 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I've mistakenly revoked an old uid then realized that what I should have done is to add my new e-mail address to that key. I've "unrevoked" the key by removing the revocation signature but now it doesn's list all the signatures I had on this key before. I haven't updated key servers with

[SLUG] Re: GnuPG key signatures - tools to automate accepting them?

2007-02-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 14/02/07, Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: caff deliberately does not upload other people's signatures directly, though I don't know if there is some etiquette-related reason for doing that. Yes actually there is - people might not want their key to be available on public servers

[SLUG] Re: GnuPG key signatures - tools to automate accepting them?

2007-02-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 14/02/07, Andrew Ruthven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I save the signatures into a directory (easy with Evolution's "Save All" button) and then in a shell run: gpg --import 0x* Easy. Thanks to you and others who replied. I ended up using mutt's "^K" to extract most of the keys, though qu

Re: [SLUG] Memory profiler for web applications and other processes.

2007-02-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13/02/07, Mike Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Googling for 'memory profiler web applications' and things brings up things that you use to find memory leaks in apps which I dont want. Naturally top just gives me instantaneous values which don't mean much when a web app is only getting a few h

Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-11 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12/02/07, Michael Lake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yeah I saw that when I read into it in more detail. It also looks like you have to have SSL setup too. I'll try it sometime this week but I don't think its a 5 minute thing to setup. I certainly want my from: to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] In GMai

Re: [SLUG] Edgy /etc file permissions

2007-02-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/02/07, Linley Caetan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: accidentally stuffed the permissions on all of /etc. Did not realise I was in this directory and did a sudo chmod -R 777 ./ Is there a way of getting these back to a useful state? Maybe an "aptitude reinstall", or otherwise wirte a script

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