Re: [SLUG] Linux netbook?

Thanks for the people who gave me advice on this. I've ended up getting an Acer Aspire One - 1GB of RAM, 8GB SSD - which is happily runing Fedora 11. http://danny.oz.au/tech/notes/acer-aspire-one-original.html If SSD prices drop I'd be tempted to put a faster SSD in there, and I might buy a

[SLUG] book on Fedora for beginners?

Can anyone recommend a book on Fedora suitable for non-techie users? I'd prefer something that wasn't too version-specific, and something shorter rather than longer (not one of those tomes made up by banging a chunk of free documentation together haphazardly). Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] petition for multi-platform etax software

There's an online petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/FreeEtax/ asking that the ATO produce cross-platform etax software. Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Linux netbook?

Does any vendor in Australia sell Linux netbooks? The only one I can find is the original 7 Asus EeePC - everything else seems to be XP. Dell in the US or UK will happily configure me a Mini 9 with Ubuntu, but Dell Australia doesn't offer that as an option. Danny.

Re: [SLUG] Linux netbook?

Henare Degan wrote: What kind of netbook are you looking for Danny? I did a search on a price comparison site[0] and that returned results for Acer Aspire Ones[1], 9 eeePCs[2], etc. Thanks! Those are useful comparison sites, though some of their information is out of date (or the vendors are

[SLUG] free software alternative to Big Brother

Does anyone know of a free software server monitoring tool with similar functaionality to Big Brother? I'm having trouble as all the obvious search terms are overloaded. Danny. -- http://dannyreviews.com/ - over eight hundred book

Re: [SLUG] free software alternative to Big Brother

Nagios it is! Several recommendations, an RPM for Fedora Core, and config files I can look at and start editing -- what more could I ask for? Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Re: Mozilla/Firebird issue with stgeorge.com.au

Kanwar Plaha wrote: A BIG thanks to all who replied and helped out. I can now access my stgeorge account through Mozilla/Firebird. I'm still having trouble getting this working... I'm running Fedora Core 1, with Mozilla 1.4.1 and j2re 1.4.2 from Dag Wiers repository. Faking a Windows ID, it

Re: [SLUG] ssh over ADSL weeirdness

I wrote: It was the crappy nvidia nforce ethernet driver. I switched it to do CPU optimisation instead of throughput optimisation and now everything works fine. options nvnet optimization=1 in /etc/modules.conf Except that with optimization=1 set the the entire system locks up

Re: [SLUG] ssh over ADSL weeirdness

It was the crappy nvidia nforce ethernet driver. I switched it to do CPU optimisation instead of throughput optimisation and now everything works fine. options nvnet optimization=1 in /etc/modules.conf Danny. http://danny.oz.au/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] ssh over ADSL weeirdness

Thanks for all the suggestions. It's definitely a problem with network traffic confusing the X11 event handler. If I ssh from a virtual console it works fine and if I cut-and-paste into an ssh session in a GNOME terminal that works fine too. And if I run KDE the problem recurs, so it's not

Re: [SLUG] ssh over ADSL weeirdness

Grant Parnell wrote: I had to laugh at Michael's response but am having trouble fathoming how this could really happen with SSH. That was confusing me too. I now think it's actually some kind of GNOME problem, since sshing from a virtual console window works (poor latency, but no repeated

[SLUG] ssh over ADSL weeirdness

II've justt set my girrlfriend's ADSL coonnection up, and it appeears to be working finne -- 50ms flat pings to Sydney Uni, an 25kb/s downloads. The problemm? Well, my ssh ssessiions keep duplicating characterrs,, ass yyou cn see!! Dooeees anyone have aadvice on whhatt coould be

[SLUG] mozilla 1.5 and fonts

I've just upgraded Mozilla from 1.4 to 1.5, only to find that Times, Helvetica, etc. are no longer available (in Mozilla, the X font server still has them). Any idea what's happened here? Is it only showing me anti-aliased fonts, or something like that? Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] devfs on RedHat 8.0

Can anyone tell me how to enable devfs on RH 8.0? I think I must be missing something obvious... Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] XP dual boot debacle

Thanks to everyone who gave me advice on this. ntfsresize worked like a charm. I downloaded that and put it on a floppy, then I did a clean install of XP, defragmented it just in case, booted a RH 8.0 CD in rescue mode, and ran ntfsresize off the floppy. (After running ntfsresize you have to

[SLUG] XP dual boot debacle

My girlfriend recently bought a computer, a Compaq Presario 6000, and the first thing I tried to do was set it up to dual boot Linux. (Though she didn't previously have a computer, she's a programmer who uses AIX at work, and was quite excited by the prospect of getting C, perl, python, etc.

Re: [SLUG] mysterious Linux kernel crashes

I wrote: Both machines had EE Pro 100 onboard ethernet controllers, I've also tried using a 3com ethernet card without any improvement. David Fitch wrote: up until this bit I thought I may have had a suggestion for you, it was: the eepro100 is crap, download the e100 driver from the

[SLUG] mysterious Linux kernel crashes

I have a Linux server that's been crashing (ir)regularly for more than a year now, and I'm at my wits end to work out what's causing it. The symptoms: every so often (uptimes range from half a day to twenty days) the server crashes, hard - no response to ping, no response to Ctrl-Alt-Del or

Re: [SLUG] Peruvian letter on slashdot

Slashdot has just run a Linux Today interview with the man himself http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2002-05-20-006-26-IN-LF-PB he definitely exists and the letter is for real! Danny. http://dannyreviews.com/ - over

[SLUG] redhat 7.3 mirror (for universities)

For those of you on the NSW RNO (the university network), I have a Red Hat 7.3 mirror available at ftp.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/redhat-7.3 This contains * the six vanilla ISO images for Valhalla (3xbinaries, 2xsrc, docs) * updated binary ISO images (with updates incorporated)

Re: [SLUG] Peruvian letter on slashdot

Kevin Waterson wrote: So, I asked for a confirmation that it was a fake! And was reassured that this was condusive to a denial. Anyhow, the long and short of it is, The Peruvian Govt will not confirm that the letter originated from any Peruvian Govt Department. Of course they won't. It

[SLUG] grub query

I've managed to confuse a Red Hat 7.2 install so that instead of booting immediately it dumps me into grub. I can then run grub configfile /grub/grub.conf and have the machine boot normally, but I can't work out how to make it do that automatically -- the documentation suggests that grub

[SLUG] Re: quotas, Redhat 7.1

I wrote: Is it my imagination, or is the latest quota package update for Red Hat 7.1 totally broken? Half the commands won't use the version two quota files... I worked out what the problem was. The quota setup in the Alan Cox kernel series (used as the base for Redhat when they built their

[SLUG] quotas, Redhat 7.1

Is it my imagination, or is the latest quota package update for Red Hat 7.1 totally broken? Half the commands won't use the version two quota files... So when I run quotaon, it complains quotaon: using /home/quota.user on /dev/sdb3: No such file or directory and it doesn't try to use

[SLUG] hotswappable disk drives

I have a machine running Red Hat 7.0, with hotswappable SCSI drive bays... I've stuck a new drive into it, but what do I have to do to actually access it? (Or do I need to upgrade to Red Hat 7.1, which has devfs support?) I've hunted around the documentation but can't find anything in the

[SLUG] FWD: Copyright vs Contracts: the Copyright Law Review Committee

This issue may interest some of you. Danny. - Forwarded message from Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 12:09:04 +1000 From: Nick Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [LINK] Copyright vs Contracts: the Copyright Law Review

[SLUG] X DPMS question

When I upgraded to RedHat 7, I found myself running XFree86 4. X works fine, except for one problem - DPMS doesn't seem to work the way it did before. It used to be that when I went xset dpms force off the monitor went off (the orange power saving light went on instead of the green power

Re: [SLUG] X keyboard problem

I've just installed Redhat 7.1, but I think I did something bad when selecting keyboard/deadkeys... In X, the ~/` and '/ keys don't work - they are acting as some kind of deadkeys, and have to be hit twice to get any effect. Tom Massey wrote: Did you select 'International Keyboard' or

Re: [SLUG] X keyboard problem

Ok! Changing the keyboard to pc105 fixed everything. This is the first keyboard I've ever used with a Windows key on it - I should have realised that would cause problems :-) Danny. Tom Massey wrote: Oh, and are you sure you've got a 101 key keyboard? Just noticed that because I've got 105

[SLUG] X keyboard problem

I've just installed Redhat 7.1, but I think I did something bad when selecting keyboard/deadkeys... In X, the ~/` and '/ keys don't work - they are acting as some kind of deadkeys, and have to be hit twice to get any effect. Does anyone know how to fix this (either by editing X config files

[SLUG] ipchains question

When I try to turn firewalling on, I'm having long DNS delays, and reports like this in my logfile Feb 21 17:41:53 stravinsky kernel: Packet log: input DENY ppp0 PROTO=17 129.78.###.###:65535 129.78.###.###:65535 L=28 S=0x00 I=19120 F=0x4022 T=252 (#17) (with actual IP addresses #ed) But

[SLUG] old Macs, recycling of

I'm looking for a home for a large number of old Macs - does anyone know of an organisation that recycles old machines and takes Macs? Danny. --- http://dannyreviews.com/ - more than five hundred book reviews

[SLUG] seeking old Slackware distribution (Hamm)

A colleague - Patrick Taylor/SYD/CEtv [EMAIL PROTECTED] - is looking for a copy of the Hamm dist of Slackware (preferably an ISO). Can anyone help him out? Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] postgresql book now available

Norman Widders wrote: my copy of the postgresql book just arrived, yay! was i the first in .au? bruce reckoned i was the first in the world, cool heheh isbn: 0-201-70331-9 Who is the publisher? Danny, off to scam a review copy :-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Learning to program

Terry Collins wrote: For discussion - why teach Python? C or C++ I can understand. If I had to nominate A scripting language, I would suggest Perl soley on the basis of that is what is in demand from job adds (system admin). I'd then see PHP (web developers) more often than Python. It

[SLUG] copyright threat!

I believe some of these copyright proposals pose a serious threat to free software. It would be good to see SLUG write to the committee involved, putting the views of a Linux users group (to help oppose the BSAA-funded lobbyists pushing the case for Microsoft and their ilk). Danny. -

Re: [SLUG] banks

Thanks for all the advice about banks! It looks like the National is the only one bank that doesn't have platform independent Internet banking. Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] banks

I'm ditching the National Australia Bank because they won't support anything except Windows. Can anyone recommend a bank that has a working Internet banking system? (The Bendigo Bank does, and I've got money in their Ethical Investment Fund, but they don't have enough branches/ATMs in Sydney to

[SLUG] PPP server setup (again)

I've spend nearly a week trying to get PPP working between two linux boxes (home and work, both running Red Hat 6.2), without success. I can connect to my machine at work from a Windows box at work. I can connect to an ISP (the uni modem pool) from my machine at home. But I can't connect from

Re: [SLUG] PPP server setup

Ken helped me find the problem. I was trying to login in within the chat script, not realising that would interfere with AutoPPP. What really confused me in retrospect was that it worked occasionally - or at least got as far as starting pppd. I think it must have depended on the timing, whether

[SLUG] ppp server setup

Can anyone point me at a recent "howto" for setting up a PPP server? (I want to set up a Linux box at work so I can dial into it from home, and have a permament modem connection.) /usr/doc/HOWTO/PPP-HOWTO dates to 1997, and I suspect things have changed since then. (And searching for stuff

[SLUG] web-based booking app sought

I'm looking for web-based software to allow simple booking of a piece of equipment - nothing flash, just has to allow people to book time-slots and display the bookings. Any suggestions? Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] redhat 7 mirror

ftp://ftp.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/redhat7.0/ (Only accessible to NSWRNO - university - users.) There are ISOs for the two install CDs, plus a "live" directory that contains individual RPMs (and should contain everything needed for a network install according to the doco, though I haven't tested that

[SLUG] NFS help

I seem to have locked up NFS on my server so badly I can't shut it down. I've killed everything else (rpc.mountd, etc.), but the four nfsd processes won't respond in any way: root 24751 0.0 0.0 00 pts/0DW 12:42 0:00 nfsd root 24752 0.0 0.0 00 pts/0DW

Re: [SLUG] NFS help

root 24751 0.0 0.0 00 pts/0DW 12:42 0:00 nfsd root 24752 0.0 0.0 00 pts/0DW 12:42 0:00 nfsd root 24754 0.0 0.0 00 pts/0DW 12:42 0:00 nfsd root 24756 0.0 0.0 00 pts/0DW 12:42 0:00 nfsd James Wilkinson

[SLUG] daylight saving

Can anyone confirm that current Linux distributions understand our about to happen daylight saving change? Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Re: [LINK] Senator Alston, The Copyright Act, DVD...

Frank O'Connor wrote: Mmmm. 'Promoting a breach of copyright' is such a nebulous term, especially in view of the area which it covers. And if they really were talking about doing so by linking to other sites, then half the sites in the country would be up for 'promoting' same. If I linked

Re: [SLUG] Re: [Oz-ISP] Linux -v- M$ Costs

you might want to instead look at something by companies like cobalt networks or valinux. (standalone pre-configured, self-maintaining, _with support_.). Or e-smith running on generic hardware, which provides the same kind of thing (a web interface so the locals can adminster the

Re: [SLUG] DAT drive problem

Craige McWhirter wrote: Only the obvious: "Is the tape rewound?" Yep, "mt rewind" seems to work fine, as does "mt offline". Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Against intellectual property

A paper "Against intellectual property" by Wollongong activist and academic Brian Martin is now online, at http://danny.oz.au/free-software/advocacy/against_IP.html Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] linux everywhere...

When Linux is everywhere - in toasters and toys - when does it stop being Linux? There's an interesting article on this at: http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT538597.html Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Web Mail Chats

I'm using IMP (which uses PHP). It took a while to wrap my head around the installation, but it's been working nicely since I got it going. The standard Redhat IRC client (ircii) works fine for me. You'll need to know what server to connect to, though. (I've been using the oz.org network -

[SLUG] Linux on the desktop predictions

I'm going to stick my neck out and make some Linux on the desktop predictions. [Note: I'm only talking about the desktop, not about servers, where things are rather different! By "desktop" I mean something like "what a user spends a large amount of time sitting in front of", though I don't

Re: [SLUG] Linux on the desktop predictions

Jamie Honan wrote: * the influence of Unix / Posix / Linux ideas will be very pervasive, but largely unacknowledged. Just as the Internet today, as portrayed by the mass media, has nothing to do with a technical revolution (TCP/IP) and the self sacrifice of some great people, we will only

Re: [SLUG] Replacement for Netscape Mail

I'd really like to see a GUI mailer that sat on *top* of mutt. That way I could switch from command-line to GUI seamlessly, and novice users could use a simple GUI but have access to the full complexity if they want to edit config files... Danny. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Going around in circles

Conrad Parker wrote: In fact, -U works even when no previous version of the package is already installed (ie. it will install a fresh package for you) and consequently I never use -i, only -U, even for installing new stuff. Another useful option (recently added) is -F. -i = install