Re: [SLUG] [pjtraynor@eircom.net: Anyone care to read this!]

2004-04-20 Thread Ian Wienand
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 10:38:51PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: Just in case anyone reading this actually buys into Paul's comments, it's not Linux's fault, it's the hardware manufacturer's for not providing support. There's three ways to get support for your hardware into any operating

Re: [SLUG] c/c++ floating point error

2003-12-21 Thread Ian Wienand
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:08:45AM +1100, Alex Sutcliffe wrote: I am trying to compile and run a c/c++ program on my woody box. It compiles fine but when I run it, it dies with a floating point error. Admittedly there are several compiler warnings. One odditiy of i386 is that an integer

Re: [SLUG] Online banking

2003-11-30 Thread Ian Wienand
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 11:20:07AM +1100, Benno wrote: Points will go to the first person to make a light weight interface to the gecko engine, get it into a debian package, and most importantly, doesn't then go on to make it totally bloated. epiphany? -i [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] easy debian networking?

2003-11-23 Thread Ian Wienand
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 08:41:36AM +1100, Richard Hayes wrote: After installation is there a way of access the network setup tool or another similar tool? I'm not sure about a pointy-clicky thing, but it's very easy to just edit the networking config file /etc/network/interfaces. man 5

Re: [SLUG] Power supply for router

2003-11-18 Thread Ian Wienand
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 12:32:10AM +1100, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote: I have a D-Link router, and a US power supply. Does anyone know of a supplier of power supplies for Australia? I got a good one from jaycar, put MF1091 in the keyword search at www.jaycar.com.au It's $49.95 -- I don't

Re: [SLUG] work apparently available yet no-one seems interested

2003-11-12 Thread Ian Wienand
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 11:17:24AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linux support engineer fluent with Versions 7,8 and 9 to become a I don't want to sound like a pedant, but it's not a great start... -i -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] virus puzzle

2003-11-11 Thread Ian Wienand
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 11:21:48AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yesterday, the IT support people at my work place informed me that my local workstation (which is running debian testing/unstable) was broadcasting windows Randbot worm throughout the internal network and several win2k

Re: [SLUG] Re: Verisign wildcard DNS hijacks .net and .com for advertising purposes

2003-09-15 Thread Ian Wienand
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 02:34:30PM +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: It also does a nice job of destroying the non-existant sender spam defense, since every non-existant .com and .net apparently now has a mail server: http://linuxchix.org/pipermail/techtalk/2003-September/016294.html well i'm not

Re: [SLUG] Re: Verisign wildcard DNS hijacks .net and .com for advertising purposes

2003-09-15 Thread Ian Wienand
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 05:53:39AM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote: you don't need an MX record.. an A is tried if no MX exists.. True -- i didn't realise this. For those interested, seems to be a requirement of RFC974. I wonder what prompted the author to give the 'benefit of the doubt' to servers

Re: [SLUG] *debian* on ibook

2003-09-02 Thread Ian Wienand
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:57:36AM +0800, Adam Hewitt wrote: drm-trunk-module which I have also done (against a kernel I compiled myself from ppckernel.org) and I got an 'unresolved symbol' error on radeon.o and rage128.o (I think?) which kernel is this? If you used rsync, try back dating to

Re: [SLUG] basename files and paths with embedded spaces

2003-08-14 Thread Ian Wienand
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 09:52:04AM +1000, Stuart Guthrie wrote: Bug or feature: I'm wondering why the standard basename and dirname commands in gnu do not handle spaces in file names and paths. They do : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ianw]$ basename /this is/a path/with / spaces spaces are you quoting

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-09 Thread Ian Wienand
On Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 11:55:59AM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Think sick building syndrome. Basically, new office/office works and factories produce lots of fumes that can deposit on nice new shiny pins and provide an insulating layer of gunk that causes intermittent problem. This reminds me

Re: [SLUG] UPS woes.

2003-06-21 Thread Ian Wienand
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 07:54:28AM +1000, Chris Barnes wrote: Hi everyone, The other day my boss bought a UPS which was on special at Dick Smith Electronics for $100 (400Va, 9pin Serial-to-pc, 6 minutes @ half-load), an ok price i guess. yep, a good little buy. I'm not sure why they even

Re: [SLUG] Really interesting project (qemu, an x86 processor emulator)

2003-03-27 Thread Ian Wienand
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 12:08:55AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: QEMU is an x86 processor emulator. Its purpose is to run x86 Linux processes on non-x86 Linux architectures such as PowerPC or ARM. By using dynamic translation it achieves a reasonnable speed while being easy to port on new host

Re: [SLUG] PHP MySQL help

2003-03-19 Thread Ian Wienand
On Thu, Mar 20, 2003 at 09:21:37AM +1100, Robert Maurency wrote: (I'm making the tranistion between ASP Access to PHP and MySQL and am having a tough time with this GUI-less database.) If you haven't tried phpmyadmin get it. It's brilliant for admining your mysql databases and just keeps

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-16 Thread Ian Wienand
On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 11:09:57AM +1100, Angus Lees wrote: This allows you to show your postscript file full screen and scroll through it. *Very* handy if you use a PPC notebook and thus can't get acrobat reader, and xpdf doesn't do full screen. I always use xpdf for presentations:

Re: [SLUG] make menuconfig ncurses

2003-02-13 Thread Ian Wienand
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 09:18:38AM +1100, Daniel Harper wrote: I have just installed Redhat 8.0 professional on a Dell PowerServer, however I am having problems with make menuconfig. Now make menuconfig works, however what is displayed is a jumbled mess, and the selection displays (The

Re: [SLUG] Using dpkg-buildpackage

2003-02-10 Thread Ian Wienand
(./configure --enable-gui=motif) then make. I then tried to make a deb package with 'dpkg-buildpackage' but it goes and reconfigures it and makes it again. I have already done that as I wanted it compiled with the motif gui (thats why I want to replace the default vim). How do I make a deb

Re: [SLUG] LaTeX slides

2003-02-09 Thread Ian Wienand
On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 01:05:00AM +1100, Patrick Lesslie wrote: On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/presentation/presentation.html or grab the chaksem package on Debian (sid) systems. Manuel Chakravarty makes some interesting points. TeX

Re: [SLUG] Code information

2003-02-04 Thread Ian Wienand
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:39:38PM +1100, Andy Eager wrote: Anyone know of a program that will tell me the code static data segment sizes of an executable ? readelf --segments [executable] MemSiz gives you the size of the segment in memory. -i [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au

Re: [SLUG] Code information

2003-02-04 Thread Ian Wienand
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 02:54:20AM +, Dave Airlie wrote: oops I replied to Andy and no the list.. one word size huh? ianw@mingus:/bin$ readelf --segments ls Elf file type is EXEC (Executable file) Entry point 0x10001368 There are 6 program headers, starting at offset 52 Program

Re: [SLUG] weird Mac scanner file format

2002-12-19 Thread Ian Wienand
On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 10:18:41AM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, What format is this, please? gimp doesn't know it nor does file $ od -c barbara/Lindsay1 | head 000 F S P A 003 \0 \0 \0 037 004 \0 \0 211 003 \0 \0 did you try running the 'file' command on it?

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