Re: [SLUG] Biggest Corporate Contributions to Free Software

Where does sourceforge/va come into it? I mean geez, i call that a contribution ;) Redhat are probably right up there... suse puts money into alsa and others i believe, and im not sure about turbo =\ transmeta let linus work linux on the job, i mean geez ;) Dean Jeff Waugh wrote: Who has

Re: [SLUG] language jihad

Mason is a component of mod_perl mod_perl rocks my world ;) Dean David wrote: Noted with interest about the use of mason as a potential language for the development of the SLUG site... and I need to learn a language for web development and database (postgres? mysql?) similar to the SLUG

Re: [SLUG] XMMS?

You need to cd plug in installed then you need to tell it the mount device and the directory it will appear in you can also change i few other trivial things my setup is /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom i then put in a cd and click open browse to /mnt/cdrom and i see a whole bunch of files, each

Re: [SLUG] Ximian GNOME 1.4 is out

John Gunning wrote: http://ximian.com/desktop/download.php3 With support for Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, and 7.1 SuSE 6.3, 6.4 and 7.0 on x86 Mandrake 7.0, 7.1 and 7.2 Debian GNU/Linux (Potato) on x86 LinuxPPC 2000 TurboLinux 6.0 Yellow Dog Linux Champion Server 1.2

Re: [SLUG] Game Players of the World Unite

I got tribes 2 at fragfest3 hehe good old pre-release date, and i dont mean "borrowed" a copy /me pats tribes 2. Now all i have to do is play it (and get my voodoo3 working in x4) I wouldnt mind getting my mits on heavy gear 2. Not that i play games mind you. I just buy them, go "ohh they

Re: [SLUG] Nokia Phones and Linux Dial up

gnoki or something like that im pretty sure its on freshmeat Dean Dion Curchin wrote: Hi there, I was wondering if anyone in the group has had experience with or can recommend any good websites on using Nokia Phones as modems {ie to get on the net}. I have an 8210 so I need to

[SLUG] The Universal Answer

http://www.kernel.org/LDP/ I dont see this being refered to alot... but just so people who *dont* know know, the LDP is basically _the_ place for linux doco ( next to man and info ) so go there, theres alot of cool stuff to read regardless. IMO a good unix admin can still learn something

[SLUG] make menuconfig

make menuconfig has no kernel options in it awk complains about something before the (empty) menu appears. im missing some tool but i cant put my finger on what it is. thanks guys ;) Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] NVIDIA geforce2 mx

Jan, you can get drivers that allow you to access the i2c chips in the card, wow you can view registers! alas thats it. I spent alot of time looking into a tnt2 with tv out. shut down, unplug monitor, plug in tv, boot, tv out works with all tv out cards ive used (inc v3tv, tnt2tv geforceddrtv)

Re: [SLUG] Digital camera's for linux

v4l drivers for the logitech quickcam express exist please refer to the slug archive as i have previously mentioned the url. It works reasonably well. Dean Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Michael Covi wrote: Hi Sluggers, I wanted to get a digital camera for linux. I know nothing about

[SLUG] Logging Ethernet Data Transfer

This is the story, net here at PCL is SLW. So to help determine net usage i want to get an output of recieved data per hour. Obviously i just use cron to time the increments. But i need something that will read recieved data from the ethernet devices. I could probably even do this with

[SLUG] Old LIbraries

I dont suppose anyone has a nice quick way of detecting and removing old library versions? some fancy regex's or something? Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] SQL servers and Apache

Perl has an Ms-SQL module, ODBC and JDBC drivers no doubt exist. Lets not get flaming going, but mod_perl is so the way to go. And i like jserv as well. Php is good, but i see so many poorly done sites using php is makes me sick. I mean, SSI will suit 90% of sites ;) But anyway, your other

Re: [SLUG] Dual Screen Problem

Peter, Maybe you had best talk to rasterman or mandrake then. possibly some E groupy so as not to bug them. I believe Xinerama makes the two heads appears as one with an od res. Which the window manager shouldnt have problems with as one can easily define any crazy res you want in XF86Config,

Re: [SLUG] re: mailman

Ill give pnc a plug www.pnc.com.au Dean Martin wrote: Also, anyone recommend any reasonable hosting companies? depends what you need i guess... i use pair.com mainly because i have multiple domain names hosted and they have a plan (US$30/month) which allows your 2nd, 3rd etc.etc.

Re: [SLUG] usb webcams

logitech quickcams work in linux... observe at http://bong.com.au/zortcam/ drivers at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=12924release_id=18002 buggy, but usable Dean Peter Hardy wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:51:08PM +1100, Alexander Else wrote: from doing a few

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

Mboards have just about everything on board now. Our latest roll out is an i810 and soundMAX (?) onboard with a 530tx card. These machines are about the size of 2 laptops. (not inc 17" obviously) have 1 x lil fdd and 2 x big fdd Who upgrades on a mass basis? And the littleness gives peope more

Re: [SLUG] Hardware recommendation

Netgear 310 10/100 cards are well supported with the tulip driver. However up until 2.2.18 (and possibly still) you need to reload the kernel module if the cable is pulled out or something. So be sure to have a really solid connection as short inteferences you normally wouldnt notice will cause

Re: [SLUG] Email Programs

Exchange can also talk pop and smtp. Im using it now with moz ;) Dean Andrew Reilly wrote: On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 12:57:42PM +1100, Wylie Edwards wrote: anyone know of a good client that will allow access to that damn thing called exchange and its schedules etc?? i doubt there will be

Re: [SLUG] Firewall with 3 x NIC's

Its not unreasonable on telstras behalf. I dont think its possible for them to support every OS And windows (mr defacto standard) comes in a million forms is bad enough. Messing with windows networking is 'fine' 90% of the time. But some times it really does end in tears. They dont support

[SLUG] M 0.8

Incase people didnt notice mozilla 0.8 is now available for download. Notably, mail-news is much improved and security center now looks right. Preferences dont start expanded the contract a second later when their window appears. No doubt a comprehensive list of changes is on the mozilla site.

Re: [SLUG] Video Card ?

I like voodoo3's (or better) ATI's probably arent too bad either and ill upgrade my work pc to an intel i810 soon and see how that goes. 3dfx makes rocking cards though... did make rather. Dean Richard Blackburn wrote: Would like to hear people's recommendations for a snappy video card,

[SLUG] Squid

quote While trying to process the request: GET /squid-internal-static/icons/anthony-dirup.gif HTTP/1.1 Host: mrblonde.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au:8080 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux 2.4.1-ac9 i686; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010105 Accept: */* Accept-Language: en Accept-Encoding:

Re: [SLUG] Is Linus killing Linux?

So what's the solution? Of course it's to bring critical functionality in house, even if that means you duplicate work that is being done externally. This is what happened with Nvidia, for example, producing inhouse kernel modules for driver support. If you can't afford to do this, you are

[SLUG] Mozilla and SPAM

I think its cool how mozilla translates character sets so well. At least now the silly spam slug gets is in its proper language. Sure i cant read it, but it gives me a chance to admire the technology Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Microsoft Executive Says Linux Threatens Innovation

(*) he's concerned that the open-source business model could stifle initiative in the computer industry. (*) Open source is an intellectual-property destroyer No, Open Source is just intellectual-property people have chosen to give away. MS can still sell its slop. If it was say...

Re: [SLUG] Microsoft Executive Says Linux Threatens Innovation

(*) I'm an American, I believe in the American Way. I worry if the government encourages open source, and I don't think we've done enough education of policy makers to understand the threat. Sounds like cold-war propaganda. Lol. MS are really peeing their pants at the moment.

Re: [SLUG] Microsoft Executive Says Linux Threatens Innovation

The same america that doesnt export strong encryption. Dean Raoul Golan wrote: Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: and the winner is: (*) I'm an American, I believe in the American Way. Hmmm... yet another reason to use Linux. :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

Re: [SLUG] Microsoft Executive Says Linux Threatens Innovation

In communism everything is owned by the state, then is given out as needed. Sounds like MS. They buy everything, then let you have it in restricted user license packages. The only difference is Russia made lots of cool stuff and achieved alot of cool things, auto-play is just annoying ;) Dean

[SLUG] LIL- (lilo even)

i get LIL- at boot on one of our servers. Not being silly, i read the lilo docs and it idicates this occurs when something is wrong with /boot/map so i fire up a repair disk, remove /boot/map, lilo, installed linux * reset. same thing i have copied the kernel and tried booting to that, lilo -l

Re: [SLUG] Why do all mail servers suck? (Maildir + POP3)

Exim is cool as. www,exim.org. crossfires persistance in bagging qmail is amusing though. However the joy of opensource is choice. (be it license, theory of implementation, debianization etc) I think its silly to bitch about qmail's non-gpl license. (personally im more a fan of BSD's freedom,

Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: those who live in glasshouses ..]

If you wana hook into credit cards and debit systems and the like quite often your not given alot of options. Only their store is using NT, its not like its mission critical stuff. Dean Jason Rennie wrote: Interesting message received on our internal linux mailing list here at Canon...

Re: [SLUG] Re: Sparc boot floppy label

With sparc problems its seriously worth looking through the linux-sparc mail archives and even mail archives of openbsd and netbsd. i believe sparc linux is at www.ultralinux.com (or org or something) Dean Angus Lees wrote: \begin{Terry Collins} Does anyone know what the error that sort

Re: [SLUG] Password protecting specific web folders

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_auth.html http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_access.html The second isnt exactly what your after for but might come in handy Dean Daniel Finn wrote: Apache with .htaccess would prolly be the best way just read up on apache... it is commonly talked

Re: [SLUG] You get the weirdest email when you...

Holly said "I have alot of respect for" not "*we* have" i also dont think we should confuse the calibre of software with the calibre of its programmers. Clearly MS doesnt =) Marketing is all about making yourself look good, and one of the easiest ways is to make others look bad. Like in politics

Re: [SLUG] Sun Hardware from ComputerBank.

. Thankfully you can go "help command" (eg. help boot) and it gives you info. Dean Terry Collins wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: Just a suggestion. Network install the lot. That is a distinct possibility as they all have NICs built in. FGI - they also have SCSI built in as well.

Re: [SLUG] Sun Hardware from ComputerBank.

Just a suggestion. Network install the lot. Will make your lives a lot easier. Just grab a linux xmachine (i386 even) and set up rarp, bootparams nfs etc. plug the sparcs in and let them install. No disks (discs) no fuss. That is, if they all have nics. Debian supports sparc doesnt it =) I hear

Re: [SLUG] Driver for Ensoniq Maestro 3i PCI audio drive

www.alsa-project.org if its supported, alsa will likely cover it (dont build a box without it) Dean Jin Ting Liew wrote: me again... does anyone know where I can find a driver for the laptop sound card mentioned in the subject? I use Redhat 7 - it's sndconfig program can detect the

[SLUG] Perl + Mysql + Strftime

Im trying to get a value from a timestamp field into a format that strftime can manipulate. UNIX_TIMESTAMP(field) doesnt seem to produce a value strftime can use. If you hadnt guessed im in (mod) perl Id prefer not to have to use mysqls time functions to extract the values needed. Strftime

Re: [SLUG] Perl + Mysql + Strftime

derstand Dean John Clarke wrote: On Tue, Jan 30, 2001 at 08:49:34PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: Im trying to get a value from a timestamp field into a format that strftime can manipulate. Here's an example from the perlfunc man page: use POSIX qw(strftime); $now_string

Re: [SLUG] Perl + Mysql + Strftime

Thanks John! Dean John Clarke wrote: On Wed, Jan 31, 2001 at 10:11:46AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: Thats not the problem Sorry, my misunderstanding ... localtime() and gmtime() will convert a Unix timestamp to hours, minutes, seconds etc, which is exactly what strftime needs

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla 0.7 Bug or works as designed.

No. This is valid behaviour - its peforming a URI encoding. Just NS4.x doesn't URI encode '.', but Mozilla 0.7 does. Your CGI handlers should decode these automatically. Ok but when I try to login to a bunch of sites around the place I get errors about my login e-mail address being

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

netscape 4.75 is pretty damn rock solid. Although ive found that it has become less stable since i first installed linux (2 years ago) and its most likely some underlying library quirk. Im totally hooked on mozilla. Mozilla m17 was good, m18 was better, 0.6 was batter again and 0.7 absolutely

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

at 09:04:50PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: I beleive Mozilla also conforms to w3c standards and http 1.1 unlike IE in some (maybe all) cases. I don't know enough javascript to get myself out of whatever trouble it can get you into, but the Web guy at work curses Netscape-6 around the block

Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.

Greetings. I am new to both this mailing list and to Linux. I am striving to have a Microsoft (opps, I said that dirty word) free computer. good luck! :) If you really want to become MS free then just format and dont install windows. Jumping straight into the deep end is the best way

Re: Web browsing stupidity [was Re: [SLUG] Greetings. New user question.]

Haha, cant surf the web in linux, you should be a comedian. heres a tip www.mozilla.org most dists install netscape by default. I honestly cant think of anything windows has over linux. maybe divx, ill give windows divx for now as libavifile is kinda shakey. Windows has mastered crashing, and

Re: [SLUG] Ogg Vorbis Pluggins / Debian (PPC)

if source is provided i cant see there being any problems. Dean Craige McWhirter wrote: Hope everyone's had a good weekend thus far. I'm converting my MP3 library into Ogg Vorbis land. GRIP does a nice job using oggenc (from "Vorbis Tools") of ripping and encoding (aside from the fact that

Re: [SLUG] Good web design package

CodeCommander has syntax highlighting with a html template Mozilla's composer is fairly reasonably, although you have to get used to its misbehaviours Dean James Gifford wrote: Hi I'm trying to wean myself off Windows. Does anyone know of web design software similar to Dreamweaver

Re: [SLUG] like we care but....

They are exercising their "freedom to innovate" Dean Andrew Best wrote: Anyone able to get to the M$s DNS servers? I cant get a response from them at all from here. ;; ANSWER SECTION: microsoft.com. 5h9m1s IN NSDNS7.CP.MSFT.NET. microsoft.com. 5h9m1s IN NS

Re: [SLUG] slightly off topic php/apache question

You can only use the get method through server side includes post wont work. (cookies work though ssi i might add) so talk straight to the script Dean blinddog wrote: I am just after hopefully a quick answer to a php/apache question. I have just begun dabbling in Linux over the past

[SLUG] Slug Tonight

Is anyone from the blue mountains area going to slug tonight? It would be nice to have a train buddy rather than my trusty sony discman. Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] OT: MS hacked again

The Microsoft doesnt need to be hacked, asl quake players might say "it owns itself" meaning no one needs to mock it as it does a good enough job already =) freedom to innovation lol freedom to purchase innovations Dean Alan Lee wrote: server1:~$ whois microsoft.com [whois.internic.net]

[SLUG] So im not at linux.conf - LattisHubs

I got another email about them, so i finally made a site http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au/usrpages/Dean/synoptics.html Id appreciate any links, pics and info you may have. Dean -- http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au | Penrith City Council http://www.bong.com.au |

Re: [SLUG] Dial-in network browsing

the proxyarp option in ppp helps =) and as has been mentioned, use of wins servers helps if your using ipx over ppp i got nothing =) Dean Alister Waller wrote: Hi, Is it possible to have a user dialed in to Linux Server over a PPP conection browse using network neighborhood as if they

Re: [SLUG] Computer Literacy in Schools

and algorithms are great if you want to be a coder but what about the rest of us who cant code to save themselves but would have liked to have learned a few more practical skills at school? I did computing and got nothing out of it.. -Original Message- From: Dean Hamstead

Re: [SLUG] Computer Literacy in Schools

logy areas that are now standard and required knowledge in industry. Education is about being employable isnt it? Murf Dean Hamstead wrote: 2u and 3u computers is supposed to be computing theory and logic the courses didnt have programming components, only psuedo code. Teachers just g

Re: [SLUG] linux.conf.au diary

Slug this coming monday then?? Same time/place with a few extra faces and me playing the openbsd bigot =P Dean Jamie Honan wrote: Was someone going to organise a SLUG BOAF? I saw Jamie around but he is the only person I recognise, there had to be a lot of other sluggers there. I think

Re: [SLUG] [IMP] Meeting, Monday 22nd January - YOUR LUG NEEDS YOU!

have one of those impromptu thingys (i think i even spelt that right) that would be cool, and possibly very funny maybe a FAQ night. Dean Jeff Waugh wrote: Hi all, It seems that no one is interested in having a SLUG meeting on the 22nd, to which we could invite many of our overseas and

Re: [SLUG] The origins of vmlinuz and mgetty

ge = generic perhaps? generic tty? m for modem? modem generic teletype Dean Jill Rowling wrote: Well you've caught me out on that one. I figured that getty is just a get from a serial device but I didn't work out the "m" bit. Disclaimer: I have used modems a lot (even designed them) and

[SLUG] [ot] fixing apm the ms way

http://support.microsoft.com/support/windows/tshoot/apm98/apmflagreset.asp this is just bizare Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] PAM and SAMBA

man smb.conf /ldap o ldap filter o ldap port o ldap root o ldap root passwd o ldap server o ldap suffix did you check all these? Dean James Peter Gregory wrote: hi all, I'm trying to set up a network

Re: [SLUG] PAM and SAMBA

Perhaps you should be posting questions such as this to the samba mailing lists. Although i do think AT and a few other samba-heads watch SLUG. Dean James Peter Gregory wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2001, Marty wrote: man smb.conf /ldap o ldap filter o ldap

Re: [SLUG] Computer Literacy in Schools

I think its a very per-school thing. Having just finished high school i though comput*ing* studies (which is now a string of other subjects) was reasonable. The subject studies computing, and as such you learn pseudo-code flow charts, you also learn elementry stuff about error checking and

Re: [SLUG] The origins of vmlinuz and mgetty

on the subject of mgetty, whilst pottering about on google doing searches like "history of mgetty" and not finding anything i came to think that peraps m stands for MIT, or alt. someones name like Michael etc. Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] The origins of vmlinuz and mgetty

someone could just email him and ask =) since he still maintains mgetty i can only assume hes alive Dean Ken Yap wrote: |i came to think that peraps m stands for MIT, or alt. someones name |like Michael etc. Not MIT, the author was a German, Gert Doering. His name, possibly, but it would

Re: web proxy filtering, was [SLUG] Re: Telstra

Im pretty sure squid will use more memory if it has too i recall reading something to that effect when configuring PCC's proxy cluster. Squids FAQ is pretty ace ;) Dean Squid. That would explain trhe delay - swapping. I think squid designed more for using lots of memory, and many

Re: [SLUG] hubs, switches etc

a switch that was bad. Most are better than a hub Dean Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 03:59:48AM +1100, Dean Hamstead ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Youll want switches probably when you can fill a 16 port hub (dependant on just how much traffic is moving about) Both

[SLUG] TTF in X4

Ive loaded the freetype module. and my ttf dir is in the fontpath i get the impression more work is needed but as far as i can see its undocumented on the X4 site. Please someone tell me im wrong and/or what to do to get some ttf action Dean "gimp just aint the same without ttf's" Hamstead

Re: [SLUG] Cannot open Shared libraries

run ldconfig then try again Dean Scott Ragen wrote: Hey all, I installed Xfree86 4.0.1 and after setup I have recieved this error; "xinit: error in loading shared libraries: libXmu.so.6: cannot open shared object" I havn't seen this error before, and has stumped me. any help would be

Re: [SLUG] Web Server Tuning

Do you mean servlets or java through CGI Sun has an official jdk port for linux and the JSDK runs on linux (i think it may be platform independant) Dean Daron Barndon wrote: In addition to my earlier post, does anyone have any detail on how to tune a Linux (probably RH) box particulalary

[SLUG] HTML Templates (java)

Basically what i want is a substitute function. Like 'replace()' but for strings rather than characters. I would like the servlet to open up a template file replace keys with strings (which are values taken from a database... not that that matters) then print the resulting data to the browsing

Re: [SLUG] Back and USB

USB Backport is in kernel 2.2.18 if not just wack on a 2.2.19 prepatch from ac and it will be in USB has its sub menu, under character devices and above Filesystems =) Turn on support for USB then configure your usb controller (if in doubt, put in both) Youll want preliminary usb devfs if you

Re: [SLUG] Which Linux disto on a Sun Ultra 10 ?

Sparc based RH dists are now "community" based or something. Meaning that they dont look after it but they are happy for people to do the work for them. Something like that anyway. Dean David Kempe wrote: hi All, I am interested in finding out which Linux disto are poeple using for their

Re: [SLUG] 2.2.18 kernel and AGP video cards?

it should be in by default if not its in the ac patches, otherwise just get the patches from the utah-glx? site. its a character device possibly experimental Dean DaZZa wrote: Folks. Anyone know if the AGP support is available in the 2.2.18 kernel, and if so where you enable it?

Re: [SLUG] 2.2.18 kernel and AGP video cards?

Im pretty sure the reiser patches should work they problee do otherwise they would release a new one try and see (im interested also) Dean DaZZa wrote: On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Dean Hamstead wrote: it should be in by default if not its in the ac patches, otherwise just get the patches

Re: [SLUG] 2.2.18 kernel and AGP video cards?

theres a patch for 2.2.18 ftp://ftp.lugoj.org/pub/reiserfs/devlinux.com/pub/namesys/linux-2.2.18-reiserfs-3.5.29-patch.gz Dean DaZZa wrote: nOn Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Dean Hamstead wrote: http://www.namesys.com/ I find that the main ftp server is usually ahead a version Yeah, I

Re: [SLUG] 2.2.18 compilation problems.

Try ac patching the kernel (reverse reiser first) and trying turning stuff on and off sometimes compiling as a module doesnt work for me. worth fiddling with Dean DaZZa wrote: Sluggers. Any kernel hackers/people who know how C works can tell me what in hell is wrong here? On

Re: [SLUG] frame rate..

software specs please. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi i am just wondering if anyone could guess what framerate i should be getting in quake 3 demo with. 800x600 all settings on the lower end. celeron 633 96mb of ram tnt2 m64 . with a voodoo2 which i borrowed i got about

Re: [SLUG] GUI SQL tool

You can access any db you like in star office using a variety of drivers including JDBC drivers Havent used it though. Dean Grahame Kelly wrote: On Wed, 03 Jan 2001, John Ferlito wrote: Anyone know of a GUI tool to edit DB contents? Basically I'm after something that will do a select on

Re: [SLUG] Email Server

First, lets verify with the maths: a 56K modem's uplink is 33.6Kbps, 10 bits per byte [due to Async framing]. thats a maximum transfer speed of 3.3KB/sec. your 12K message would take approximately 3 seconds (actually, a little over) to transmit. Next, let's re-verify the maths.

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla 0.6

I've tried it on RH6.2 and it is a lot more stable and generally better but has a couple of nasty bugs. Any dialog/form that you enter a "." into gets converted into "%A9" which makes it really really hard to put your e-mail address into a form. Java Script still doesn't work for quite a

Re: [SLUG] Email Server

sendmail is installed on most systems by default. It works, and its not too bad when all is said and done im a fan of qmail and exim. i think exim maybe a little easier to set up but possibly qmail has more available software. www.qmail.org www.exim.org smail is supposed to be good have a

Re: [SLUG] Email Server

correctly. Its kidna buggering me up.. heh Regards, Alan Lee - Original Message - From: "Dean Hamstead" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Alan Lee" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 29, 2000 10:55 AM Subject: Re: [SLUG] Email Server sendmail

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla

get the mozilla installer i like it =) move the file into /tmp mv mozilla*gz /tmp cd /tmp tar zxvf mozilla*gz cd created directory ./mozilla-install saves time... works for me and the installer package is smaller than the other *boggle* Dean "Adam F. Bogacki" wrote: Thanks Jeff. I was

Re: [SLUG] nsa developes secure version of linux

OpenBSD people =) Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mike Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nsa developes secure version of linux Thats a bit misleading. Its more of a demo of certain security features, rather than a secure OS. well it's not a full blown linux distribution, and I

[SLUG] [ot] Happy Christmas All!

Happy Christmass all! Have a safe and fun holiday (if you get one) Dean "Linux as a christmas present is very economical" Hamstead -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Not detecting all my RAM

mem just has to be equal to or less than how much physical ram is in your system. One byte more and the kernel will crash and burn. Lilo counts ram in using 1024, so 128MB is correct. cat /proc/meminfo gives me the same value as the ram check does. my lilo.conf.. boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map

[SLUG] XFree86

Did I miss it? Or has no one mentioned that X4.0.2 is out? Oh well, it is. I suppose yall read /. so its barely worth mentioning alsa 0.5.10 is alsa out with fixes when compiling for k 2.2.18 I also notice that a new reiser patch for 2.2.17 is out but hasnt seeped out through the mirrors yet

Re: [SLUG] Netgear FA310TX NIC

tulip Dean Michael Sztachanski wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to find a driver for the NETGEAR FA310TX NIC, any suggestions??? Thanks in advance. -- Michael Sztachanski Snr. Technical Engineer Turbolinux Aust. Pty Ltd Lvl1, 255 George Street, SYDNEY NSW Australia 2000 Ph:

Re: [SLUG] OK, so I'm Old School

gnapster is my personal favourite ive also used knapster and a java napster client. console based nap was my favourite for a long time but its binary only at last check (nap was good because it was fully functional while the gui based clients were still only chat clients) freshmeat.net Dean

Re: [SLUG] Is their HTMl code to have Apache show you what modules it has loaded?

Apache can cough up its info as http://url/server-info http://url/server-status status is how apache is doing, what its just done etc. info is how its configured on a per module basis. very cool. should be commented out in httpd.conf Dean Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who="Matt Allen"

Re: [SLUG] IBM and Linux

Michael Sztachanski wrote: Terry Collins wrote: Michael Sztachanski wrote: ...snip... FYI IBM offer a 50% dicount of their product range (Netfinity), not sure what the dicount is for RS6000, etc. This is for? (developers?) Yes, sorry - for DEVELOPERS How do they

Re: [SLUG] RADIUS Server

http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=radius theres a BSD and a GPL one, both free. Dean Daron Barndon wrote: Does anyone know where I can get hold of a free RADIUS server for linux? Thanks Daron Barndon Systems Administrator BTLôôkSmart L7/241 Commonwealth St Surry Hills NSW 2010

Re: [SLUG] Interfacing WWW to database

Not of shell scripts =\ You basically have to go pass sql statements to the cli program for the database then load them into a variable. Then whip out awk and break the data into usefull bits. Id recommend you just write in c. Youll need to check out the security issues involved though. Dean

Re: [SLUG] Help needed with html form and perl script

Your web server doesnt know to interpret the script, generally youll want it to be in the cgi-bin, or allowed to run via ExecCGI or even mod_perl. Dean Simon Bryan wrote: Hi, One of our students submitted a 'Guestbook' perl script as part of her assessment. We were able to assess it for

Re: [SLUG] Tape drive in RedHat 6.2

* an stinit craps out with Can't find the tape characteristics database. * no /dev/tape id venture to say that should be a symlink to /dev/st1 Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613

Re: [SLUG] How do I see what my modem reports?

You need to tell pppd to be verbose echo "debug" /etc/ppp/options or add debug to the pppd command line Dean Peter Vogel wrote: How do I see what my modem reports during the ppp connection sequence? It doesn't seem to appear in the /var/log/messages file. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

[SLUG] Another Perl Question

I need to save username and password as a cookie on the client. yeah thats easy, i would like a single encrypted cookie. Doesnt have to be insanely encrypted just something thats not easily readable. (did i mention perl?) Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Got a schwanky keyboard?

Use aumix, aumix :2 +XX where XX is a value to add or -xx to subtract or no sign for literal aumix --help w is pcm Dean Unless I've completely missed something, the keyboard itself isn't a USB device, it just happens to have a two-slot (socket?) unpowered USB hub in it, and the

Re: [SLUG] StarOffice won't start

Check if their is a soffice process (eg ps ax | grep so) when this occurs. It *could* be checking to see if its already running, then, seeing that it is (in a sense) is quits. *shrug* try openoffice Dean Howard Lowndes wrote: Does anyone have problems with StarOffice failing to start. I

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