\begin{Jeff Waugh}
quote who="Angus Lees"
apt-get install xfree86-common-
"apt-get remove" makes much more sense.
heh, you can tell who uses "dpkg --purge"
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\begin{[EMAIL PROTECTED]}
installing software on linux is a pain - compared to windows. - you
have to find the right file - read a readme - figure out how to
decompress/run/do somethngt with that file - get a Cd of 3rd party
software (linux has distros - but they will never answer everything
\begin{John Ferlito}
On Thu, Nov 30, 2000 at 02:36:21PM +1100, John Ferlito wrote:
OK this is driving me crazy. I've fixed it once before but can't
remember how. I have a debian box and if you run dnsdomainname it just
returns nothing instead of printing out the domain. Where on earth do
\begin{David}
There is all this jargon that you guys throw around with gay
abandon.
the indented blocks below are from the "free online dictionary of
computing"
(there's probably a web page somewhere, i'm just using the "dict"
command)
What the hell is a wrapper? (fantales?)...
wrapper
\begin{Craige McWhirter}
I *still* cant get my Maestro sound chips to work under Debian when
they worked under RH
works for me without any hassles..
are you actually loading the module? (or told kerneld that that is
the sound module it should use?)
(either add "maestro" to /etc/modules to
\begin{[EMAIL PROTECTED]}
whilst playing w/ apt-get ;-) *ahem* i seem to have stuffed up X
(==) Using config file: "/etc/X11/XF86Config"
Parse warning on line 43 of section Keyboard in file /etc/X11/XF86Config
Ignoring obsolete keyword "LeftAlt".
Parse error on line 43 of section
\begin{Jason Rennie}
It's just a text file that points to the archives you're interested in.
Here's my one that I use for woody (with comments!):
k
I know it is just a text file, but it would be nice if they left a verion
around that would work with the different mirrors.
\begin{Craige McWhirter}
Loading driver:
Starting sound driver: (es1968)
Setting the PCM volume to 100% and the Master output volume to 50%
The ALSA sound driver was not detected in this system.
Could not initialize the mixer, the card was probably
not detected correctly.
you're using the
\begin{Jason Rennie}
The problem seemed to be with tcl-tk.
I reran apt-get -f install a few times and eventaully the only probalmatic
packages where these ones.
The software is claiming that it can't be removed becasue of package
dependencies, but when i try to remove the packet it
\begin{Terry Collins}
I'm lost. Can someone help with interpreting what these errors mean?
The perl stuff below is from the O'Reilly MySQL Msql book. Page 138
7/99 edition.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
print HTML;
Content-type: text/html\n\n
\begin{Jason Rennie}
I'm planning on installing debina on a box i have at home. However i have
a few quick question as to how to go about it.
have a quick flick through:
http://www.au.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/install.en.html
particularly the chapter on install methods
Firstly i
\begin{Dean Hamstead}
FreeBSD's tcpip stack is a popular thing to take.
ack!
my (undergrad) thesis is to port the freebsd stack to some new
whizzbang research os (Mungi). i'm frantically writing it up now, as
its due this week.
lets just say, the most portable thing about the freebsd stack
\begin{[EMAIL PROTECTED]}
Don't want a few more Bravo 486/66's, do you Terry ? I
have a workshop full of the buggers, and I don't
particularly want to junk them.
i'm thinking beowulf.. (or rather, "mosix")
terry:
i've never had a problem with installing (debian) onto 486's. our
current
\begin{Scott Howard}
The real benefit of multi-proc machines is when you're running multiple
CPU intensive processes, or when you're running multi-threaded processes.
and with the way unix is designed, most tasks are made up of multiple
processes. so unix adapts to smp very well (unlike the
\begin{[EMAIL PROTECTED]}
i am hoping to get a new MB and cpu soon which will be cool but any
recomendations etc..
i am thinking aroung a PIII 500-800 or so hopefully.. or would an AMD be
better. I am not looking for bleading edge so the latest stats from
tomshardware dont really help so
\begin{Anand Kumria}
On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 07:29:04PM +, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
I hope the PGP key signing mentioned on the web page is still on. I'm
hoping to become a Debian Developer and need to meet up with a Debian
Developer as part of the induction process.
Unfortunately
\begin{Jon Biddell}
I basically wish to create a linux gateway out onto the internet. The linux
box has a dedicated line to it.
I do not really want a proxy/firewall setup as this can limit applications
that can run on the rest of the network.
Try looking at IPMASQ - if you
\begin{Brett Esra}
To those of you using DHCP and DNS, besides the Perl scripts and Cron
stuff I found, how are you keeping the DNS A records in sync with the IP
leases that change every so often.
use large lease times or use fixed addresses
i believe most dhcp clients request the same ip
\begin{Anand Kumria}
Only recent rfcs (rfc3007/3008 iirc) begin to provide a way to
securely update a zone file -- some companies, notably microsoft,
have proprietary ways to do it however.
rfc2136 "dynamic updates in the domain name system"
see nsupdate(8). its really good for scripting dns
\begin{James Morris}
One example of usage is to allocate page-aligned memory by mmap()ing
/dev/zero (see http://www.intercode.com.au/jmorris/rawutil/), instead of
using the deprecated valloc() function.
on some unices (solaris?) that don't support MAP_ANON, you mmap /dev/zero
to get a chunk
\begin{Rick Welykochy}
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Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 16:06:54 +1100
From: Fred Pilcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [LINK] Shh - don't tell Johnny
One person got taxed on six Linux/star office
setups based on the valuation that they
\begin{Rodos}
ls *.JPG | perl -ane 'chop; system("mv $_ " . lc($_));'
perl has its own file ops you know ;)
ls *.JPG | perl -lne 'rename $_, lc;'
and the ls isn't really doing anything except passing through the shell's
expanded glob, so:
perl -e 'rename $_, lc for @ARGV' *.JPG
same
\begin{chesty}
On Mon, Nov 20, 2000 at 06:42:55PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to disable hardware flow control on the port using minicom to
get it going.
However, I'm wondering how I would do this without minicom. As far as
apt-get clean glasses :)
man stty
search
\begin{Michael and Louise Hosemans}
I am trying to get nfs locking working, but it does not seem to want to
work for me.
ANd I have the following daemons running on both Machines
portmapper, nfs, nfslock,
But record looking is not working - when it tries to lock
I get the message on
\begin{John Ferlito}
Anyone know of a sound app that will let me record something and
play it back at the same time so that I can monitor it?
there's a new whizzbang app called tee(1).
tee record.raw /dev/dsp /dev/dsp
if you look hard enough, some miguided gui person has probably even
\begin{Dean Hamstead}
ALSA was spawned from drivers written for a card
(name eludes me) to exploit its potential more fully.
the authors are all from the gravis ultrasound project
since the GUS (you see, i just had to get one) was one
of the first cards to have wavetable stuff, etc. the
OSS
\begin{James Wilkinson}
What is on this /ghoti directory? Sounds like you've made a typo and
chown'd your whole filesystem to be owned by salmona. Hence all your
suid programs are now running suid salmona, not suid root.
or rather, they are now owned by salmona and no longer suid.
chown
\begin{Peter Rundle}
Does anyone have any insight into the serial nature of the DNS
resolve on Linux and when this problem might be addressed. It's
my current understanding that name to IP resolution is a single
serial queue for all processes on the box.
err.. its not.
.. at all .. as in:
\begin{Jeff Waugh}
(I have to admit, I still use Netscape a fair bit. I should just delete the
icon on my panel, but the X resources I use make it come up in *such* a
pretty purple...)
hah.
so when is gtk / gnome / mozilla going to support defacto standards
like Xresources and "-display"
\begin{[EMAIL PROTECTED]}
I have a client who is interested in getting ADSL and running it through a linux
box. Does anyone have any experience/knowledge on the subject in regards to Telstra's
ADSL setup that they could either impart or point me towards.
yes. see archives.
from memory, both
\begin{James Wilkinson}
whenever I do an apt update, my new kernel image gets dusted by the
version in the distro.
add an epoch. ie: make-kpkg --revision 1:willow.1
or make your version start with a letter, so its always greater than
the official versions (which start with a number)
some
\begin{Jobst Schmalenbach}
UN*X is sexy
who - grep -i blonde - date; cd ~; unzip; touch;
strip; finger; mount; gasp; yes; uptime; umount;
sleep
a case-insensitive grep? well, if you're into that sort of thing..
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\begin{Jamie Honan}
i presume you're putting your gpg fingerprint on the front where it
belongs?
Would you type this in? What about using a barcode for if / when
we get cheap hand held scanners like the Cue's.
the fingerprint will only be compared against the fingerprint you get
from gpg
\begin{James Wilkinson}
This one time, at band camp, Angus Lees said:
\begin{James Wilkinson}
whenever I do an apt update, my new kernel image gets dusted by the
version in the distro.
add an epoch. ie: make-kpkg --revision 1:willow.1
or make your version start with a letter, so its
\begin{Rodos}
So what would your average geek find handy to have on the back of a card?
i presume you're putting your gpg fingerprint on the front where it
belongs?
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\begin{Andrew Dick}
Has anyone got outlook2000 to work with wine? (I know I know, why bother
you say)
I am using the most recent wine binary and have got other win95 programs
working but none of the office2000 suite to work. I'm using RedHat 6.2 with
kernel 2.2.14. It comes up with some
\begin{Jeff Waugh}
Hah - nothing, I'm just being a pain. :) I'm using vim right now to type up
this message, only the host I'm on won't allow me to use my favourite little
vi trick, 'gqap'.
When you type it over a paragraph, it lines it up, pulls out the space, and
makes it purdy. :) It
\begin{Howard Lowndes}
Well, setting TCP_NODELAY in telnet certainly improved things and got rid
of the 200 ms delay between packets, but I still have a problem in that
the packets are still going:
DATA1 - ACK1 - DATA2 - ACK2 ...
only now the delay is only the length of the circuit
\begin{bart bunting}
Angus Lees writes:
the default is to only allow people logged in on the (text) console
ok this is my problem I was trying to launch X from within an emacs
shell buffer. It seems to not work from there, but perfectly from the
console.
I'd like to know how to get
paul, do you realise your sig is about twice as long as your actual
message?
if its possible, try and cut it down a bit when posting to a public
list (that really doesn't care what your ACN is)
\begin{paul}
regards
Paul Wood-Bradley
Analyst/Programmer
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\begin{Jeff Waugh}
Okay, do you really need php to do the logging, etc? When Apache does all
this for you, you may as well use it's logging features. Much easier. :)
CustomLog /home/jdub/public_html/stats/access.log full
if you need something super exotic, you can write your own logging
\begin{bart bunting}
user not authorized to run the X server aborting.
I'm using debian 2.2 potato.
debian uses an suid wrapper, to avoid making the entire X server suid.
it has all of two options configured by the first two lines in
/etc/X11/Xserver
the default is to only allow people
\begin{David Kempe}
why is this happening to me? I'm booting off a redhat boot.img from 6.2
It gives me the above error.. I've found the code that makes it happen...
what does it mean?
#define INIT_REQUEST \
if (!CURRENT) {\
CLEAR_INTR; \
return; \
\begin{Howard Lowndes}
Where should I be looking for the telnet source tarball?
roach:~ grep tp: /usr/doc/telnet/copyright
It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Networking/netkit/.
i've found the debian copyright files (accessible from
packages.debian.org if they aren't
\begin{John Ferlito}
anyone remember how to switch debian over to md5 passwords after
you've finished the install?
add the "md5" option to your pam setup
converting the passwds over (ie: cracking DES and then re-encrypting
with MD5) is left as an exercise for the reader..
(you could
\begin{Simon Bryan}
Anyone know where I can get this from?
libxml.so.2
roach:~ grep ftp /usr/doc/libxml?/copyright
/usr/doc/libxml1/copyright:It was downloaded from ftp.gnome.org.
/usr/doc/libxml2/copyright:It was downloaded from ftp.gnome.org.
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\begin{Howard Lowndes}
No, you're missing the point. I want the xterm running on the local
machine, not the remote machine, so that it can use the tunnel set up by
the redirection; IOW on the same machine that starts the redirection.
in that case, try:
xterm -e ssh -x cwsvr
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Angus Lees wrote:
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:42:35PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
I'm using dvilj and dvilj4 on some of the lilypond documentation and
output and finding that it does not draw the joins between quavers, etc
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 07:28:08PM +1100, Malcolm Tredinnick wrote:
To solve this problem without needing to upgrade your entire system to
rpm4, you can use rpm-3.0.5 or later. This understands version 4
packages and away you go.
if rpm-3.0.5 understands v4 packages, what makes it different
\begin{Howard Lowndes}
Alternatively, does anyone know how to disable Nagle in telnet?
hack telnet to enable TCP_NODELAY
see tcp(7) and setsockopt(2)
most likely this isn't the right solution to the wrong problem.
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\begin{Howard Lowndes}
Is anyone able to confirm, or otherwise, whether the ability to enable or
disable the Nagle algorithm is still in the 2.2.x kernels.
(i need to enable my email-nagle algorithm)
grep -r TCP_NAGLE /usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.17 gives:
net/ipv4/af_inet.c:
#ifdef
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 10:10:14AM +1100, George Vieira wrote:
For Tel$stra you must set up your NIC for DHCP which then it gets an IP and
then you run the Tel$stra profile program which enables your connection (
which i assume rp-PPoE does).
err, no.
ppp does all the authentication and IP
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:00:34PM +1100, Stephen Graham wrote:
I have gotten a fair way down the track... I can print text files to
the printer (ie 'cat /etc/fstab | lpr'). The only problem with doing
this is that the file prints out but no page feed is delivered to the
printer (ie the
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:36:32PM +1100, Patrick Mougin wrote:
Another good thing about apsfilter is that it can configure different styles
of the one printer (I think), so let's say you want to print b+w one time
and colour another. It can make different aliases to point to different
setting up adsl under linux: (from memory, hence missing some details)
get/install rp-pppoe (debian package is just "pppoe").
bring an ethernet card up. you don't have to give it an IP (ie: just
run "ifconfig eth0 up").
setup your pppd command line, ppp/options, or ppp/peers/provder
On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:42:35PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote:
I'm using dvilj and dvilj4 on some of the lilypond documentation and
output and finding that it does not draw the joins between quavers, etc.
Is this a problem in my latex installation (i.e. do I need to upgrade
latex) or is it
\begin{Bravard, Mark}
1) How do you configure an account so that each time you logout the system
will execute the fortune command and sleep for 15 seconds?
assuming bash:
put
sleep 15 fortune
at the end of the user's ~/.bash_logout
2) Modify the startup file so that each time you log into
\begin{Jeff Waugh}
and make sure ~/.bash_profile includes:
. ~/.bashrc
(silly bash design decision - other shells don't need this)
Hmm. Why do you say this? I always found the distinction between
.bash_profile and .bashrc quite neat. For others, a snippet of the
applicable sections in
\begin{Doug Stalker}
samedi:/tmp# apt-get --fix-missing install ssh2
Failed to fetch
http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian/dists/woody/main/binary-i386/base/libc6_2.1.95-1.deb
--ignore-missing will let you continue as far as you can (safely).
then just keep retrying until the mirror gets
\begin{Jeff Waugh}
Not a chance - why is Debian special? Because it's a community as well as an
operating system. The more manpower the better, and that's why you'll find
that Debian people are amongst the most helpful you can find.
Without any profits or shareholders to-- wait a moment,
\begin{Robert Martinovic}
I'm not game to try this, as the file seems pretty cryptic to me.
I have tried this:
incursion:/home/rob# dpkg -r --force-confold mysql-server
dpkg: error processing mysql-server (--remove):
Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should
reinstall it
\begin{Rodos}
The maintainer is the "Debian QA Group" and I a little uncertain as to who
they are. Do I just enter it as a bug.
this means the package is "orphaned". its unlikely that there will be
a new package version until someone offers to maintain it.
ie: don't hold your breath.
if
\begin{Rick Welykochy}
So all I really want is a preforking multi-IP highly configurable
POP-3 server that functions basically the same way that Apache
does.
i went looking earlier this year, my conclusion is:
*all* IMAP/POP3 server suck.
which surprised me greatly, considering they
\begin{Jeff Waugh}
So, Tripwire has been released under the GPL... http://www.tripwire.org/
I haven't had the opportunity to play with it so far - would anyone like to
give a quick review (based on previous versions, whatever)? Especially with
regards to how GPLing it will enhance it...
\begin{Jeff Waugh}
quote who="Doug Stalker"
So lets assume for a moment I want to get X windows working, preferably
with Helix Gnome.
First off, run either:
a) tasksel, and choose the "X Window System" task, or,
b) apt-get install task-x-window-system
apt-get install
\begin{Anand Kumria}
This means, though, that in order to be effective more spam should be
reported to MAPS if possible. Gus pointed out
URL: http://spam.sourceforge.net/ and that you can interface that with
Pine / mutt. As well you can sort/score on the basis of that header
using things
On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 06:52:05PM +1100, chesty wrote:
XTerminal Firewall --- XServer
ie XTerminal displays the screens, XServer runs the apps and
the firewall blocks all forwarding. I want to run an X proxy
on the firewall that forwards packets between the XTerminal
\begin{chesty}
The idea is to only let certain users through, not just certain ip addresses.
xauth cookies do this.
in an office/lab environment, the easiest thing to do is use NFS
/home's. then you just make sure DISPLAY is set correctly.
for other places, just setup a simple script that
\begin{John Ferlito}
Anyone know if it's possible to get apt to use a different
sources.list even if it's via an option i atp.conf. I've trawlled the
docs but can't find anything.
all apt.conf options are listed in
/usr/doc/apt/examples/configure-index.gz (woody) or
\begin{Matthew Sanderson}
I'm trying to get a SPARCStation SLC working as a diskless x terminal. I'm
using ARP/RARP to give it its IP address and TFTP to serve it its kernel.
consider using something like bootp/dhcp, since that lets you pass
many more options to the kernel (and bootup scripts)
\begin{chesty}
I'd be interested in hearing more about application proxy servers with
authentication, in particular I'd like to know more about proxying X
with authentication.
random ways of doing this (off the top of my head):
xhost - authentication by IP (not very secure)
xauth -
\begin{Peter Rundle}
I've been asked by my um...friend whether they could run Linux with
a graphical web browser on an old Toshiba laptop (Pentium 90 with
20meg of ram).
X will run fine. no need to skimp, just keep it simple. don't do a big
fancy 24bit colour background. don't run a zillion
\begin{Nick Croft}
Does anyone regularly use a script, program whatever to print envelopes?
Maybe there's a latex package?
latex's letter class does mailing labels / mail merges from a list of
addresses, if that was what you wanted..
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\begin{Bernhard Lüder}
How would I need to set up my DNS zone file in order to have the name
www.xyz.com.au resolved to multiple (2 in this case) IP addresses?
just give two A records:
www IN A 10.0.0.1
A 10.0.0.2
Would this setup lead to, if www server 1 is down, that the
\begin{Brad Thomson}
I've never seen much said of NIS on Linux here on SLUG.
Are there people out there using it, and if so, have you found many
problems with it?
i use it and it works fine. i think its just that LDAP is getting all
the hype these days.
NIS is still *much* faster than ldap
some of the files in your spool directory aren't writable by lp.lp
i'd feel better if they were, try:
chown -R lp.lp /var/spool/lpd/lp
(make sure you get the .seq file too - i don't know what that one's
for.. a job number?)
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\begin{Howard Lowndes}
Is there any ability in Linux to associate filename extensions, or
similar, with applications. I have been fiddling with Staroffice and
that works OK, but I am curious as to whether the ability exists in
Linux on a broader basis, more to do with such associations in
\begin{Peter Hardy}
The one thing I really miss about windows is the command-line
"start" command. :-(
see see(1)
(just in case that was buried a little too deeply in my other post)
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\begin{Dave Kempe}
Wondering where I would start to write a script that checked to see if the
PPP link was up and if it wasn't brought it up? I know that the modem lock
files would be useful cos nothing else uses the modem, so the existance of
/var/lock/LCK..ttyS0 is reasonable. Or is there a
\begin{Dave Kempe}
Is there a way to make the persist option wait a bit until the last pppd is
finished?
see "holdoff" in pppd(8)
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\begin{Dave Kempe}
I set persist="yes" in /etc/sysconfig/network-script/ifcfg-ppp0 and added a
line that said holdoff="30" ala the man pages.
it does this:
Oct 19 06:27:53 gateway pppd[31753]: Exit.
Oct 19 06:27:55 gateway ifup-ppp: pppd started for ppp0 on /dev/ttyS2 at
115200
Oct 19
\begin{John Ferlito}
Has anyone played with automating debian installs? So far I've
come across fai and replicator which both seem fairly young packages so
don't really work seamlessly. What I'm really after is something similar
to redhats kickstart disk. Basically put a disk in the
\begin{John Wiltshire}
NT4sp3+, Win2000 and Linux all execute a HLT instruction when idle on a
single CPU machine. I'm pretty sure there are issues with SMP machines that
means you have to busy idle.
if you have the APM stuff enabled, you also get a "make IDLE calls
when idle" option. i
\begin{RunTimeError}
I recently aquired a game that brings back memories from when I was a kid
staying up late to get to try to finnish the game. The game is The Secret of
Monkey Island.
Unfortunatly i cant seem to get it to work on my linux system. I installed
Dosemu for linux. I run
\begin{Jon Biddell}
Oh, gateway can browse http pages, but not https.
tcpdump is your friend.
tcpdump everywhere and see what is being blocked where..
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\begin{Howard Lowndes}
I would be interested to know what OSS Linux/sendmail email virus scanners
folks are using out there.
i've been very happy with procmail-sanitizer at:
http://www.impsec.org/email-tools/procmail-security.html
i liked it enough to package it:
\begin{Dean Hamstead}
as for swap space, you can have more than one swap drive, so even if
there is a size limit, you can just break it up and the kernel will use
them all happily
"mkswap -v1" and a 2.2 kernel allows you to use swap partitions 128Mb
see mkswap(8)
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\begin{Jason Rennie}
I think iread in the linux journal articel recently on postfix that it
could use sendmails config files.
err.. not quite.. postfix will read all the same /etc/aliases,
~/.forward files, etc
but it won't read sendmail.cf just yet ;) (hell, humans with practice
and a
\begin{Nick Croft}
I keep getting batches of jpegs without the .jpeg extension (or any other
permutation).
What area of scripting should I look to in order to add the extension. Is
sed able to work on filenames in a directory as it doeson words in a file?
for f in *; do
test -z
\begin{James Wilkinson}
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Stephen Graham generated:
I am able to partition this drive as a Linux (type 83 in cfdisk) partition,
but not as an Linux Extended (ext2 - type 85 in cfdisk) partition. I want
it all in one ext2 partition if possible - the other drives are 34Gb
\begin{Jeff Waugh}
begin Angus Lees quotation:
1. /opt exists on your system. thats sufficient grounds for failure in
my book.
What's the easiest way to remove compiled software (other than sifting
through the executables and mish-mash)? Some things have make uninstall
\begin{Jeff Waugh}
(what do you actually have in there?)
CVS GTK+, Naughtylus, GnomeICU, various GTK+ engines, yada, yada, yada.
A while back I compiled XFree4 in there (which didn't work anyway), but I'm
now using Branden's packages - that's what I wanted to remove.
But, X is
\begin{Jeff Waugh}
begin Howard Lowndes quotation:
I'm intrigued by these i7 dot thingys. Does anyone know anything about
how they work.
Seems there's an explanation on the website (for anyone else who didn't even
know what the idea was in the first place).
would you believe i had to
imo, we are getting way too many off topic threads on slug. I believe
the quality of this list has dropped in the last year or so, and i
believe it is from the large number of off topic threads.
i'd like to come up with some rough guidelines about what is or isn't
allowed on the list.
can
\begin{Alex JuniorBurger}
I have a 486 that was to be set up as a gateway,
however some strange crashes and suggestions have led
me to believe that the memory (physical RAM and/or
swap) may be corrupt. I know the HD is old, so I would
hope the problem is with bad blocks on the disk, and
\begin{Matthew Dalton}
Alex JuniorBurger wrote:
I have a 486 that was to be set up as a gateway,
however some strange crashes and suggestions have led
me to believe that the memory (physical RAM and/or
swap) may be corrupt.
Also make sure that your 486's power supply fan is still
\begin{Alan Lee}
.. Has anyone noticed how slow samba filesharing with MS clients can be?
Ive got like 3 installs, and all of em perform very badly...
thats not a lot of information to go off..
how slow?
slow when doing what exactly?
what versions of what servers/clients?
what else is the
ing people to these points when they
"break the rules" (and don't break them ourselves ;)
bugger it, lets just change this thread to:
"can everyone refrain from off-topic posts for a few months and we'll
see if we like it better"
Angus Lees said something along the lines
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 05:36:28PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
We had a long list of talks a while back, and they've finally dwindled away,
leaving us with the opportunity to find some more...
i probably shouldn't give two talks in a row, but if there's no other
suggestions, i could give a talk
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 05:12:58PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Peter Rundle wrote:
(is mppp working on linux yet or is that a 2.4 kernel thing?)
No, the pre-2.4 solutions are ugly to say the least. Closer to horrible,
evil and atrocious.
2.4 works in the "Linux Way" very nicely, but then
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