RE: [SLUG] Recovering data from a Windows disk using Linux tools.

Hi Guys Thanks for all those who made me feel more stupid. not. Even though I'm not a newbie, I did a very stupid thing. I apologise for not measuring up to wizard status. Really though, thanks to all those who really gave some good pointers on retrieving the data. In the end, I installed a

RE: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems

Ay Caramba Does this do what I think it does and is equivalent to format c: in dos ? There should have been some warning to this, as not everyone is familiar with the dd command (including me) I stupidly as a joke tried this, thinking that the nc command would actually do what was thought.

RE: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems

[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 19 April 2002 12:28 PM To: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP Cc: 'Daniel Stone'; Matthew Sanderson; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems I really hope you're not trolling too., If not, your data is probably

RE: [SLUG] i need a sofware to penetrate in to systems

www.r-tt.com Has R-linux to recover from EXT2 file systems and EXT3 which is based on EXT2 Strangely though it runs on Windows Chris -Original Message- From: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP Sent: Friday, 19 April 2002 12:51 PM To: 'Matthew Hannigan'; Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP Cc

RE: [SLUG] pdf to text

I think Ghostscript has the tool called pdftotext Regards Chris -Original Message- From: David To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16/04/02 20:44 pm Subject: [SLUG] pdf to text Are there any tools for doing this? TIA, David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

RE: [SLUG] pdf to text

oops or maybe xpdf comes with the tool according to man pdftotext Chris -Original Message- From: David To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16/04/02 20:44 pm Subject: [SLUG] pdf to text Are there any tools for doing this? TIA, David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] lilo stopping booting at L

Sorry for this coming from Outlook. I've got this new CPU and motherboard, and RAM, or rather 2nd hand. Anyway, my RedHat 7.1 hard disk, which dual boots between 2k and RH7.1. I am getting this error on boot up in which lilo stops at L. Any reason, why on

RE: [SLUG] debian.potato-X

also midnight commander (mc) which comes on (at least) Red Hat and Mandrake distributions. This is a Norton Commander or XTree gold clone. F3 to view a file F4 to edit a file Chris -Original Message- From: Michael Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 19 March 2002 9:41 AM To:

RE: [SLUG] might be a stupid question

This would work for non ntfs partitions, eg. fat and fat32, as (at least with Mandrake 8.1) the ntfs driver only allows readonly access. A swap file would need to be on a partition that has read and write access Chris -Original Message- From: Manoj Mathew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]

[SLUG] Star Office 6.0 Beta and Open Office 6.0 hangs when printing large document

Has any one come across any issues and fixes with these printing ~150 pages with footnotes ? -- Christopher Booth Software and Production Specialist Technical Support Centre Fuji Xerox Australia Ph. 61 2 9469 2493 Fax: 61 2 9469 2303 Technical Support Hotline: 1800 028 962 Technical

[SLUG] routing

Hi guys At work I have my Linux laptop on the network with a static IP X.X.105.30 When I dial-in I am given another IP address X.X.143.187 Most things work, PROXY for websurfing, DNS, but if I wan't to access my email thorugh sylpheed, or ping the mail server X.X.104.13 it always trys to

RE: [SLUG] Deleting jobs from postfix queue

Thanks Jeff You pointed me in the right direction there was also /var/spool/postfix/deferred Thanks again Christopher Booth -Original Message- From: Jeff Waugh [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 5:50 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Deleting jobs

RE: [SLUG] Offline Email Reading that pre-fetches URL's

I stumbled across the command mail-file yesterday there is no man nor info on this, has anyone used this, does it do the same as metasend ? Chris -Original Message- From: Grant Parnell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2001 7:19 PM To: Mike Holland Cc: [EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] Offline Email Reading that pre-fetches URL's

That should have been mail-files also came across http://www.shelldorado.com/scripts/cmds/sendfile which is a script which doesn't require knowing the mime type of the file Chris -Original Message- From: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, November

RE: [SLUG] Argentina

Spanish spam spam en español just in time for Christmas justo a tiempo para navidad A stuffed pig un lechon Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] PostScript to PDF via virtual printer

Has anyone got this working with cups on Mandrake 8? Which funnily enough has the adobe distiller ppd listed as a printer driver, only outputs in *.ps though I am toying with making a cron job to check the directory every hour and convert any postscript files to pdf. I am trying to set it up,

RE: [SLUG] A PostScript file and a Printer.

on a PC use lpr -S servername -P Printqueue filename.ps Chris -Original Message- From: Bill Bennett [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, November 15, 2001 5:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] A PostScript file and a Printer. Dear Anyone, Another, alright a recurrent

RE: [SLUG] Filesystem flame^H^H^H^H^H discussion.

If you are dual booting, and partitioning with Partition Magic, I think it only recognises EXT2 and Swap as Linux partitions, could have changed for the latest version. Chris -Original Message- From: Andre Pang [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 1 November 2001 5:30 pm To:

RE: [SLUG] FW: Paul Thurrot - a Windows XP summary copycat OSes h ey ?

and I installed it.. it would recognise my USB board and that SURPRISED ME.. thanks, George Vieira Network Engineer Citadel Computer Systems P/L -Original Message- From: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2001 3:29 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [SLUG] XP launch

Wear your Penguin hats, Suse T-Shirts, Gnu-Overalls, and BSD Daemons socks :þ Chris -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 24 October 2001 4:11 pm To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] XP launch Anyone going to either session tomorrow

RE: [SLUG] Printing using CUPS

do you have gui ? check out kups and/or qtcups, there may even be a gnome config. also it should allow administration via the browser http://127.0.0.1:631 if I'm not mistaken is the administration page. You can use lynx to access it too, and has online help in html and pdf format It is very

RE: [SLUG] imagemagick install

In instances like these, I have used the -ivh -force and -nodeps and then got the later rpm from the install cd and done an rpm -force on that rather than a -uvh so that you get the earlier library files and the later library files as well. Does that explain it well. It is not an ideal

[SLUG] Lindows ? Is this a hoax or for real

http://www.lindows.com/index.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] FW: Optus@Home running on Linux.

-Original Message- From: Lane, Alex - (Aus) ATP Sent: Friday, 19 October 2001 12:28 pm To: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP Subject: Optus@Home running on Linux. Optus@Home network severs final ties to Excite --- By BARRY PARK, FAIRFAX IT Thursday 18 October, 2001 15:52 GMT+10:00

RE: [SLUG] Completely OT -el Presidente, perfect pitch and boids

I thought relative pitch was throwing the mother-in-law out of the top floor window Chris BTW what aural training programs are available for Linux. Advanced chord recognition programs ? like A7alt, Bm7b5, E7#9b13 -Original Message- From: Adam Kennedy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent:

[SLUG] NOW audio software for Linux

I think this was meant for the list -Original Message- From: Laurie Savage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 9:53 AM To: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP Subject: Re: [SLUG] Completely OT -el Presidente, perfect pitch and boids Nasty!! Any one seen any music

RE: [SLUG] Document management systems

Fuji Xerox Australia is trying to get this released on Linux, the present versions don't run on Linux. They run on Windows IIS, or Sparc Solaris using apache or Netscape Enterprise Server. Producing a Linux version should be trivial for them (just don't expect them to supply the source code as

[SLUG] Bootable CD Linux with Nessus, or ability to add to build

Hi guys, A guy here at work would like to get a bootable CD with Nessus on it, or a build which has the ability to add Nessus to it. Has anyone done this or do they know of anything ? PS We are searching on the web. He found something called Trinix -- Christopher Booth -- SLUG - Sydney

RE: [SLUG] Samba...

From one flamed to another :) look at smbadduser and smbpasswd There is also an option in smb.conf to sync with Unix passwords and you shouldn't use plain text passwords Security can be set to security=domain But you need to create a computer account name manually on the NT/2000 server. Chris

RE: [SLUG] Answer + Disappointment

A month to do it is childish but for 2 years now http://bad.debian.net/list/1999-October/000583.html BTW I'm not on a modem so I can't test mm Chris -Original Message- From: DaZZa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 9:06 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:

[SLUG] Help on Nessus

Hi Here at work after a typo in an IP-address, I got bombarded by a program called nessus from our IT security. It ended up being a DOS attack on my machine. Is here anyone familiar with the usage of Nessus, I have since downloaded it, and am running it against my own machine as localhost at

RE: [SLUG] Help on Nessus

, Christopher (Aus) - ATP [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, 5 July 2001 10:10 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Help on Nessus Hi Here at work after a typo in an IP-address, I got bombarded by a program called nessus from our IT security. It ended up being a DOS attack on my machine

RE: [SLUG] Help on Nessus

, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:18:35AM +1000, Crossfire ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP was once rumoured to have said: [snip] For firewalling, first learn about the IP protocol. TCP/IP Illustrated by W.R. Stevens is still the best reference on the protocol. Then you should

RE: [SLUG] alternative file systems

Dumb question time Are there conversion tools to convert from ext2fs to xfs or reiserfs ? Chris -Original Message- From: DaZZa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 2 July 2001 5:08 To: cpaul Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] alternative file systems On Mon, 2 Jul 2001,

RE: [SLUG] Is there a SSH for Win-nt/2000?

putty.exe is a good ssh, and telnet replacement client www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/ Chris -Original Message- From: Jobst Schmalenbach [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 29 June 2001 7:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Is there a SSH for Win-nt/2000? Is

RE: [SLUG] Apache: why doesn't allow from localhost work ?

I don't think that it is an apache thing at all. If you are using a proxy address, put as exclusions in your browser proxy settings - 130.10.11.12 127.0.0.1 localhost Chris -Original Message- From: Mike Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 27 June 2001 6:16 To: [EMAIL

RE: [SLUG] Re: XFree86 Version 4.0.3 / X Windows System

look for an XF86Config-4 which on Mandrake is the XF86Config file for X windows version 4, and the XF86Config file is for version 3.6 Chris -Original Message- From: Matthew Palmer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 27 June 2001 12:02 To: Adam F. Bogacki Cc: Slug@Slug. Org. Au

[SLUG] Linux servers growing in numbers out there

Just to advise that I had a call today from someone actually in Melbourne at a company called coogi, who were setting up a RedHat 7.1 server as a Printer server, running samba etc... He had added a printer through the print tool and called it lpd. This seemed to interfere with the daemon called

[SLUG] Mandrake 8 firewall

2nd question At work, I have installed Mandrake 8, I enabled the default proxy settings through the Mandrake Control Panel. This is called the tiny firewall. Great, no more hacks from people on the corporate network wanting to see what it is. That's another story... Ok, it disabled samba

RE: [SLUG] Linux servers growing in numbers out there

work faster. Chris -Original Message- From: Terry Collins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, 27 June 2001 5:49 To: Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: [SLUG] Linux servers growing in numbers out there Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote: ...snip

RE: [SLUG] xdvi displays RGB !

24bit colour depth does give problems on some apps, netscape being one. Corel Word Perfect 8 is another and so is ymessenger Don't know why though, just have to try another colour depth sorry -Original Message- From: Mike Lake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 26 June 2001 2:13

RE: [SLUG] Why does my executable not well.....Execute!

This is the case if you want to use Wordperfect 8 on Mandrake 7.2 or 8. Mandrake 8 actually comes with a libc compatible rpm (check out www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=libc for redhat versions as well) You also need ld-linux.so.1