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

2001-01-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
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

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

2001-01-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
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, o

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

2001-01-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
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] GUI SQL tool

2001-01-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
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 selec

Re: [SLUG] frame rate..

2001-01-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
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

Re: [SLUG] Email Server

2000-12-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
> > 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 ma

Re: [SLUG] nsa developes secure version of linux

2000-12-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
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 distributio

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla

2000-12-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
get the mozilla installer i like it =) move the file into /tmp mv mozilla*gz /tmp cd /tmp tar zxvf mozilla*gz cd ./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 impressed wit

Re: [SLUG] Email Server

2000-12-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
h im trying to > get qmail to work correctly. > > Its kidna buggering me up.. heh > > Regards, Alan Lee > - Original Message - > From: "Dean Hamstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Alan Lee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAI

Re: [SLUG] Email Server

2000-12-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
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 loo

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla 0.6

2000-12-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
> 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

Re: [SLUG] Not detecting all my RAM

2000-12-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
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 ins

[SLUG] [ot] Happy Christmas All!

2000-12-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
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

[SLUG] XFree86

2000-12-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
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 (i

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

2000-12-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
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] Netgear FA310TX NIC

2000-12-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
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 Austral

Re: [SLUG] RADIUS Server

2000-12-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
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 20

[SLUG] mke2fs

2000-12-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
Im formatting a 70 gig device (go hardwar raid) which will be used to store a database. As you may / may not know MySQL (yes, we use that too) stores its data in only a handfull of very large files. For maximum performance i obviously want the largest block size possible, which is only 4k =( I wa

Re: [SLUG] IBM and Linux

2000-12-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
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

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

2000-12-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
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: > > > > > the only problem is

Re: [SLUG] Interfacing WWW to database

2000-12-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
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] Interfacing WWW to database

2000-12-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
Anything that will run in cgi-bin that can talk to a database; You could use shell scripts if you really wanted. Dean John Ferlito wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 04:31:27PM +1100, Terry Collins wrote: > > > > Is there any other way to interface a WWW page to a database? > > NOTE --- other

Re: [SLUG] Tape drive in RedHat 6.2

2000-12-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
> * 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: 168676

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

2000-12-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
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 fo

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

2000-12-03 Thread Dean Hamstead
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 Linu

Re: [SLUG] StarOffice won't start

2000-12-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
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. >

Re: [SLUG] Got a schwanky keyboard?

2000-12-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
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

[SLUG] Another Perl Question

2000-12-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
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] Linux news on slashdot

2000-11-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
Mus bash raster =) > i've had to read many.. like man pages for dhcpd which chanegdc config > file formats.. and if i wasnt so familiar with X and nvidia i'd have > spent a god extra few days getting X up.. but i've done it before so > many times i can roll my own xf86config off the top of my hea

Re: [SLUG] dnsdomainname

2000-11-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
hostname this value is also stored in /etc/HOSTNAME and often in /etc/sysconf/network Dean 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 pri

Re: [SLUG] Ease of use.

2000-11-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
Here here. Linux is made by the people for the people. Thats whats great about it, we arent told what were gunna get, we make it ourselves. If you dont like something, the nature of linux allows you to enhance or replace. Linux is also not an OS which is driven by profit (for the most part) as s

Re: [SLUG] Linux news on slashdot

2000-11-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
> I haven't read a README since going to Debian to get an application to > work. I'm still unsure whether that's good or bad. > > > decompress/run/do somethngt with that file - get a Cd of 3rd party > > software (linux has distros - but they will never answer everything - > > in the end 3rd party

Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux news on slashdot

2000-11-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
> > "install me" button or "uninstall" etc. - its just so much less pain > > and wokr than linux. linxu means u have to be nigh a guru to get 3rd > > party drivers working - getting nvidia's 3d to work is an example - > > everyone at work seems to keep coming to me to "fix" their machines by > > s

Re: [SLUG] Linux news on slashdot

2000-11-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
> 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 - > in the end 3rd part

Re: [SLUG] Linux news on slashdot

2000-11-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
Use open standards, document clearly any additions to these standards. Then let open source develop its own solutions. =) Dean Rachel Polanskis wrote: > > Sluggers, > > I read on /. about Applix and Adobe both making annoucements about > discontinuing popular products on the Linux platfrom. >

[SLUG] Strftime

2000-11-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
Is there a %X (where X is a letter) that returns the current number of the day of the month including suffix (st, nd, th etc) the man page doesnt seem to have one. Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: [SLUG] Quick Debian Question

2000-11-28 Thread Dean Hamstead
Redhat 3.0 will take 2.4.x if you upgrade enough stuff. Its just a matter of how much you can be bothered to update. you will need to update what was ipchains and glibc 2.2 would be worth going to. Dean Jason Rennie wrote: > > Hi again all, > > Well debian is finally finished installing. >

Re: [SLUG] Mail Setup

2000-11-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
Is fetchmail what your after? Dean Jon Biddell wrote: > > Can someone point me to the appropriate FAQ for mail setup ? I > need the server here (not the gateway machine) to collect my mail > from both my and SWMBO's POP accounts, and send any replies to the > appropriate SMTP server. > > I'd

Re: [SLUG] an ISP to avoid

2000-11-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
Not to give anyone specifically a plug but little isps are better in the linux arena. Im on RPI for home and rob is pretty ace (not that i need tech support for linux). I also deal with PNC alot and they are pretty cluey, but im not sure if they will help over the phone, but i dont think they wou

Re: [SLUG] email list

2000-11-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
http://www.listbot.com/ http://www.egroups.com/ Dean Russell Davie wrote: > > Hi > any thought who would host a email discussion group for a non-profit org? > My year at uni want to have an email list to stay in touch. This is our > final year and we are looking for a host for this > any sug

Re: [SLUG] speaking of HW ...

2000-11-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
on" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, November 26, 2000 10:37 PM > Subject: Re: [SLUG] speaking of HW ... > > > This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead said: > > >I dont recommend VIA based boards. My gigabyte-ali works well

Re: [SLUG] speaking of HW ...

2000-11-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
; This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead said: > >I dont recommend VIA based boards. My gigabyte-ali works well > >i havd found gigabyte to generally be good in linux. > > Have to disagree, my mobo is VIA based and it's smooth as. I've also > heard bad stories

Re: [SLUG] Re: PHP License

2000-11-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
I didnt say it was easy =P Dean Angus Lees wrote: > > \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 fra

Re: [SLUG] Compiling mod_perl into Apache.

2000-11-26 Thread Dean Hamstead
Having made an effort to see just how many modules i could compile into apache, by personal record stands at php+ssl+servlets+dav which isnt a bad effort. anyway, mod_perl isnt stable as a DSO. So its best to compile in. in the mod_perl dist file there is a whole bunch of INSTALL.* files giving

Re: [SLUG] PHP License

2000-11-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
> > > Licensing is a full topic. But just because its no gpl compatable > > doesnt mean it requires a license. > > What does that sentence mean? License, aka pay for it. Thats the impression i got from the initial email. Being that php needed to be paid for. > > Its not hard to break "compatab

Re: [SLUG] PHP License

2000-11-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
Licensing is a full topic. But just because its no gpl compatable doesnt mean it requires a license. Speculatively i would say you might not be allowed to create derived works from it. It may also offer some warranties *doubt*. Its not hard to break "compatability" with GPL considering how open

Re: [SLUG] speaking of HW ...

2000-11-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
I dont recommend VIA based boards. My gigabyte-ali works well i havd found gigabyte to generally be good in linux. Intel chips are usually ok also Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > hi > i am hoping to get a new MB and cpu soon which will be cool but any > recomendations etc.. > > i am thinking

Re: [SLUG] Linux Hardware sites.

2000-11-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
> Peter, who longs for the day when buying a Linux peripheral > doesn't have to involve a week of disappointing research. I think thats a severe exageration. Especially if youve used linux for a while. There are alot of good and bad brands. Its also generally not a good thing to invest i

Re: [SLUG] Linux Hardware sites.

2000-11-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
www.linuxhardware.net Ethernet-HOWTO (out of date?) make xconfig =) Dean > Peter Hardy wrote: > > I was speaking to somebody at the meeting last night (I'm sorry, I've > forgotten your name...), who asked me about lists of Linux-compatible > hardware. I referred them to http://linux.com/har

Re: [SLUG] IE, (Wu|Pro)Ftpd and symlinks

2000-11-23 Thread Dean Hamstead
I believe viewing of symlinks (probably called aliases by crap-dows) is a configurable option. If your using IE youll know where the config is. Dean Ho Ming Shun wrote: > > Hi, > > I have just went to a windows box and tried using IE 4 to access my linux box via >ftp when I found that IE doe

[SLUG] Secondary DNS

2000-11-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
Anyonw got an url for free secondary DNS server hosting? (if thats the term) Ive seen one posted here before. Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mail

Re: [SLUG] Poland taxes GNU/opensource/freebeer

2000-11-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
Not really, since money is a representation of value. Money is worth nothing if we place no value upon it. I think Ken got me good though. I still think taxing free software is silly. I wonder if it would be possible to create a license forbidding taxation on it. I guess if your selling it, it

Re: [SLUG] Poland taxes GNU/opensource/freebeer

2000-11-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
Software doesnt exist, so why should i pay for it? lets say i put a scsi disk with mac on it onto a sparc machine? nothing, its as good as a blank disk (basically) Why should i pay for a magnetic configuration? I mean, lets say i wave a magnet near a disk, in theory i could come up with somethi

[SLUG] Perl on CLI

2000-11-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
Is there an $ENV for command line variables? Are their modules to make this easier? eg ./myperlscript.pl options here Dean -- http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au | Penrith City Council http://www.bong.com.au | BONG LAN Parties [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTE

Re: [SLUG] Net Slowness... Telstra Dirty Tricks?

2000-11-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
> >From memory, telstra has some enormous caches for its cable and adsl > customers. > > The real question is how fast does a telnet or ssh get though to where you > want to go. The *real* real question is how fast does napster go =P Dean -- http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au | Penrith C

Re: [SLUG] Net Slowness... Telstra Dirty Tricks?

2000-11-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
I know bigpond isnt telstra. But when bigpond needs something done i have no doubts it gets done and it gets done promptly. ( i didnt have my second phone line installed by primus for nothing ). Its good that finally telstra is facing some competition, but its unfortunate that telstra still makes

[SLUG] Net Slowness... Telstra Dirty Tricks?

2000-11-21 Thread Dean Hamstead
Is it just me or does it only seem to be the little isps affected by this net downage. I can barely maintain an icq connection and yet my cable friends seem to be hammering down the files. The conspiracy theorist in me is yelling fake! What a great way to suck customers off the aussie battler I

Re: [SLUG] Video editing software for linux (home movies type stuff)

2000-11-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
http://heroinewarrior.com/bcast2000.html Havent tried it myself Dean Terry Collins wrote: > > Does anyone know of any video editing software for linux? > > Looking for stuff for home movies editing for a client. > -- >Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 >email: [

Re: [SLUG] [rant] Linux Unreal_Tournament is unbelieveable.

2000-11-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
Glide in x3.3.6... get a voodoo 3 =P If only glide 2 would be ported to x4 *grrr* Dean Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > > I've tried 2.4.0-test9 (and the reiserfs patch for the same) with the > > Matrox DRM and agpgart features > > *sniffle* > > Same card here, etc. (We've been through this befor

Re: [SLUG] Full Duplex Sound

2000-11-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
Whats in the kernel is OSS/Free which is like a clone of OSS i think in GPL as OSS is on like a gazillion OS's... well maybe a handful. Its a standard (kinda). ALSA was spawned from drivers written for a card (name eludes me) to exploit its potential more fully. ALSA isnt a kernel patch. I dont

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2000-11-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
aliases or virtual accounts? Dean john wrote: > > Hi > > Running sendmail , linux mandrake > > cheers > > john -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2000-11-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
What dist. or mail server software? Dean > john wrote: > > Hi there > > Just wondering if you can help me out here. > > I have installed virtual email accounts on linux, its receiving the > mail ok, but i cannot log into the pop accounts to recieve mail. > > I think it has something to do wi

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Dual motherboards

2000-11-13 Thread Dean Hamstead
Ive used gigabit and supermicro dual boards. (both pentium3 pased) Both work as well as could be expected i guess. USB works (the supermicro i used has 4 ports on the root hub...). On both, adaptec scsi/raid was used, the ide is only used for a single cdrom. I couldnt find out what chipset the id

[SLUG] tnt2 + 2.4.x?

2000-11-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
Anyone got 3d acceleration running in 2.4.x with a tnt2? The kernel modules compile, but alas, broken symbols. Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mai

Re: [SLUG] Dial on demand

2000-11-09 Thread Dean Hamstead
I nice bit of work i saw, it utilising active desktop Run a web server on the proxy, write a quick script to initialise of close the ppp connection. Use the page as your background, when you need to use the net... *click* then when your done *click* Its so foolproof, that your average wife/gf/f

Re: [SLUG] Via chipset sound configuration

2000-11-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
Try the ALSA sound drivers. Dean > Gareth Walters wrote: > > G'day all, > I have a number of VIA chipset motherboards with onboard sound > that I am having a great deal of difficulty getting to work. I have > tried configuring kernel 2.2.17 but when I try and install the > via82cxxx module

[SLUG] Perl Quicky

2000-11-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
I would like to strip special characters eg. anything not A..Z a..z 0..9 Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More In

Re: [SLUG] Asus TV out

2000-11-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
> > http://drama.obuda.kando.hu/~fero/cgi-bin/rivatv.shtml Cool, thanks > > Im pretty sure if i boot to windows, go into tv, then warm reboot > > i will get something, but thats just not cool =) > > Im not sure what you mean here. But if you restart, it will reset it to > the vga output. (at l

[SLUG] Asus TV out

2000-11-05 Thread Dean Hamstead
Has anyone had any experience with using the tv out function on ASUS nvidia based video cards (in linux of course). Im pretty sure if i boot to windows, go into tv, then warm reboot i will get something, but thats just not cool =) Im having a great week with with hardware... and its only just s

Re: [SLUG] dlink woes

2000-11-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
Ken Yap wrote: > > >I have three dfe530tx's (link 10/100s) > >ive got them to work with via-rhine before > >however these are "b1" revision cards with > >WOL capability. > > Try the latest driver from Donald Becker maybe? Unknown IDs means > they've modified the chip again. Maybe it's not Via-Rh

[SLUG] dlink woes

2000-11-04 Thread Dean Hamstead
I have three dfe530tx's (link 10/100s) ive got them to work with via-rhine before however these are "b1" revision cards with WOL capability. They are reported as via unknown devices with lspci or cat /proc/pci freebsd also doesnt recognise them either and ive used previous revisions of the card

Re: [SLUG] Squid performance

2000-11-02 Thread Dean Hamstead
Basically it depends on what people are looking at. Generally anything with cgi-bin or a ? are taken directly anlso your cache size, and how quickly things expire. You can also increase the % to continue downloading at if users hit stop. You can also set a maximum object size and a maximum cach

Re: [SLUG] sun stuff..

2000-11-01 Thread Dean Hamstead
I have a sparcclassic here running rh 6.2 quite well for a machine made in 1992 (486 era) it runs like a beast it even does opengl well (considering the 8 year old factor) and unlike on my amd, i can resize the opengl window with not change in performance =) has a sound card with a driver but al

Re: [SLUG] Extra buttons on the MS mice supported in X - Update

2000-10-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
> As you could tell, I wanted the MS optical mouse just for its side buttons. > And I wanted those just for quake3. From all the responses regarding this > matter, the side-button functionality under X doesnt seem too promising. So > I called up a (windows user) friend of mine who has one of these

Re: [SLUG] Extra buttons on the MS mice supported in X?

2000-10-30 Thread Dean Hamstead
gets ported sometime soon hopefully Dean Arunava Sen wrote: > > Dean Hamstead wrote: > > > The MS Intellimouse is a damned good mouse. Who cares abou their > > software writing skills. They should throw out all that and make > > peripherals. Logitech makes nice mic

Re: [SLUG] Extra buttons on the MS mice supported in X?

2000-10-29 Thread Dean Hamstead
The MS Intellimouse is a damned good mouse. Who cares abou their software writing skills. They should throw out all that and make peripherals. Logitech makes nice mice also, but im in love with the IM explorer. Works well in linux, esp. on usb (something that windows 95 would never do for me). the

Re: [SLUG] MS goes Open Source - sort of

2000-10-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
> [ We have a small problem with our 'normal' fests, in that most of them are > designed, or at least planned to be small. If you want to organise the next > fest and make it BIG, go for it! We had a small problem with the Installfest > last time, because no one wanted to come forward to coordinat

Re: [SLUG] MS goes Open Source - sort of

2000-10-27 Thread Dean Hamstead
> I haven't yet seen what the rest of the Linux community's reaction is, but > can we please put something together to send to the newspapers, television > stations, etc.? In regards to publicity in general, how much free publicity is slug making use of? are media releases going to newspapers and

Re: [SLUG] PHP vs Perl security.

2000-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
> So in this context I wanted to know what experienced > programmers though about PHP vs Perl as far as security is. > My thoughts so far having reached lesson 5 in the PHP > tutorial and noticing that the latest PHP 4.0.3 release has > some security patches is: > > Pro PHP / Con Perl: > * PHP of

Re: [SLUG] Adaptec 2100S

2000-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
put on it will fail. Even under Dos, or Linux. Will > just sit there and beep its head off... > > Regards, Alan Lee > Ecom Computers Australia > > - Original Message - > From: "Dean Hamstead" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "George Vieira&quo

Re: [SLUG] sound on sparc classic in linux

2000-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
get rpms bootstrap install Dean Michael Still wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Dean Hamstead wrote: > > > I got this whole sparc thing going, redhat 6.2 runs ok > > Can I ask where you got the install from? The downloaded one for > mirror.aarnet.ed

[SLUG] sound on sparc classic in linux

2000-10-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
I got this whole sparc thing going, redhat 6.2 runs ok i put on k2.2.16 from rpms (laziness) sndconfig detects and configures a module for sound "amd7930", this module loads ok mixers seem to work fine, aumix, gmix, xmixer etc. esound always fails to find a good sound mode xmms gives some buz

Re: [SLUG] Adaptec 2100S

2000-10-24 Thread Dean Hamstead
Having missed the first email of this thread, (so i dont know whats going on) I have a working adaptec 2100s raid (on a dual p3 800). Needless to say install was boot strapped on but now the drivers are in place everything is fine. Anyway yeah, so i may be able to help. But as far as RAID setup

Re: [SLUG] types of modems

2000-10-22 Thread Dean Hamstead
USB modems are also a good option these days. Esp. considering the usb backport is included in the latest kernels, (not that patching is hard) Dean Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 21, 2000 at 08:58:12PM -0700, computer computer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >wrote: > > > > hi > > can anyone

Re: [SLUG] Set UID programs

2000-10-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
An option (not so much for init, but for users running aps as root etc) is sudo A nice app brought to us from openbsd i believe, and much needed. Dean Scott Howard wrote: > > On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 10:53:05AM +1100, Jill Rowling wrote: > > What method do people prefer when wanting a program t

Re: [SLUG] Removing Dirs in CVS

2000-10-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
Thats what i meant thanks! Dean Adrian van den Dries wrote: > > Dean, > > Don't delete the directory! You: > > (make sure is empty, apart from the CVS dir) > cvs rm > cvs commit > cvs update -P > > and the directory should be gone. > > Wrote Dean: > > How does one remove a directory in a

[SLUG] Removing Dirs in CVS

2000-10-19 Thread Dean Hamstead
How does one remove a directory in a cvs repository? Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.a

Re: [SLUG] Set UID programs

2000-10-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
Setuid is the tidiest way i think su is good for one off stuff and it would also be a good way to ru nthings if you needed to run a program as several different users Dean Jill Rowling wrote: > > What method do people prefer when wanting a program to run as a particular > user? > Examples: >

Re: [SLUG] Script writing and understanding cron

2000-10-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
Whats wrong with the persist option on pppd? Dean Ben Donohue wrote: > > Hi Dave, > I use the following and it works a treat! > > put this extra line in crontab to run a file every 5 minutes. > */5 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.5minutes > > then create a directory called /etc/cron.5miutes

Re: [SLUG] Promise ATA/100 Linux Drivers

2000-10-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
> >Also, I was wondering if anyone knew how much faster of slower > >(I hope not!) > >Linux runs compared to NT/Win2K on dual processor machines. I > >heard someone tell > >me between 60-80% of the combined speeds of the two chips. > > 2.4 has support for the A7V built in. To install on the ATA-

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla M18

2000-10-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
I havent tried anything much more than mouse overs i got the bin, too lazy to compile Dean Peter Rundle wrote: > > Dean, > > > java script looks good. > > So you managed to get this working? I have a java script on my home page > (the spring that follows the cursor). It works fine in 4.75 bu

Re: [SLUG] Slug Pearls?

2000-10-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
Making suggestions is always a bad thing... Im willing to participate, gimme a few weeks i need to finish school though =) Dean Rodos wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > I await the emails. > > Jeff you did get my private mail didn't you? Dean can we count you > in? Thi

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla M18

2000-10-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
Its very stable and really blows IE out of the water. For 8 megs its damn good even without java (which i havent tried) java script looks good. I also like its excellent (and easy) control of cookies, form data and logins. I also like how you can block images from sites inside the browser (altho

aic7xxx.o (Re: [SLUG] One for the Kernel Guru's)

2000-10-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
With initrd.img based scsi booting, how does one tell the kernel which module to load inorder to access / Im running a nice dual p3 800 (gig ram, hardware raid..) and it persists in trying to load the aic7xxx.0 module, even now i have the raid driver inbuilt it still attempts to load... not

Re: [SLUG] Slug Pearls?

2000-10-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
Say you have a handful of people who grab out say 10 -20 goodens each month, (no doubt you'll have alot of doubling up) then someone (some-two maybe) collaborate and its done! Dean (full of good ideas to be scrutinized) Jeff Waugh wrote: > > Rodos said something along the lines of: > > > Jeff

[SLUG] perl quicky

2000-10-12 Thread Dean Hamstead
how do i get the name of current directory (basically pwd) in perl? Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: h

Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5

2000-10-11 Thread Dean Hamstead
A9 A10C > PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C > > -Original Message- > From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, October 12, 2000 3:33 PM > To: George Vieira > Cc: 'Howard Lowndes'; Sydney Linux Users Group in Sydney (E-mail) > Subject: Re: [SLU

Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5

2000-10-11 Thread Dean Hamstead
> AAaha Got it.. I ran Bleeding Edge 6.2 which has a working raid > support but found that I needed to patch the firmware on this server to 4.30 > and download the 4.30 drivers for linux. Im a big fan of roll your own (if you have the time) =) > I booted the CD and typed `linux dd` and w

Re: [SLUG] Locked out of system

2000-10-08 Thread Dean Hamstead
At boot, when lilo appear type init=/bin/bash linux will then run bash and youll have to remount the root fs rw, then you can fix things. something like that anyway =P Dean James Wilkinson wrote: > > On Sun, 08 Oct 2000, Mike Jones generated: > > >I have been locked out of my system an

Re: [SLUG] public_html permissions using samba server?

2000-10-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
The user skeleton is in /etc/skel other skeletons can be created and specified on the command line with adduser -k good luck! Dean Dean Hamstead wrote: > > public_html should be created when the user account is created > either by hand or by being added to the skeleton user. >

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