May I direct your attention to the following URL;
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?taxid=1284011332id=431700105eid=-50
Has SCO gone over to The Dark Side ?
-
Tony Blair phones George Bush, and asks What
proof do you have that Iraq has weapons of
http://www.linuxworld.com.au/index.php?taxid=1284011332id=431700105eid=-50
Has SCO gone over to The Dark Side ?
I think it all depends on what they do. At the moment everyone is panicing
over who they've hired, there don't seem to be any details of what patents
they think they
That would be very interesting if, for example, the author is in Russia
- lack of jurisdiction hasn't stopped them in the past, though (the
Lawyers, I mean - look at the ARIA)..
As well as the Sklyarov/Elcomsoft affair.
Ah yes, but he made the mistake of ENTERING US territory - true, no
Also take a look at www.shorewall.net - and the config file comments...
Jon
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
On Behalf Of Kevin Saenz
Sent: Sunday, 9 February 2003 22:57
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [SLUG] For that guy that asked about
Take a look at shorewall (www.shorewall.net) - distro-independent, has a
VERY simple configuration system, and the latest webmin (1.060) has a
module for configuring it.
Jon
Hi all,
I was just asked for recommendations of a good linux distro
to run as a router/firewall. The user in
I've just downloaded the source of Gnome 2.2.x, and am preparing to
compile it... After fscking up the GARNOME release (of Gnome 2.0) that
one of the magazines had on their cover CD (Gnome 2.0 - easy to
run - wonder how many newbies fell for that !!), just wondering if
anyone has struck any
Hi Terry,
I had this exact same problem under Redhat 8.0 using the IMP/2 driver -
only in my case I was getting two cursors
I don't know if this was an exact fix or not, but I changed back to 800
x 600 x 16, 60Hz refresh rate, and installed the latest NVIDIA drivers.
Rebooted and it was
Title: Message
I am
wondering the same thing - currently I don't think you
can...
Of
course, installing linux on the PDA is quite another matter... There are several
sites that detail techniques to do this, as well as to recover if/when you fsck
it up...:-)
My
e740 would run Linux VERY
1)The drive bays are of the 'Lazer brand, whilst the box
says they are hot
swappable, I have some reservations about doing this, for
fear of spiking the drive and damaging it or the others on
the machine. I know that one has to be present in the machine
for the bios to detect the
1)The drive bays are of the 'Lazer brand, whilst the box
says they are hot
swappable, I have some reservations about doing this, for
fear of spiking the drive and damaging it or the others on
the machine. I know that one has to be present in the machine
for the bios to detect the
Mick - see off-list email...
Hi all,
I'm looking for freebie crapper PC's so that I have network
flexability when I
start TAFE. Freebie because I have 2 Kids and my meager part
time wage makes AustStudy look good.
Crapper because it's only going to run internet sharing and
is not
a viable option
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pressuring all of the ISVs we deal with, to either shape up or f**k
off WRT Linux. Residual stuff we can run on a Win2K server with TS and
rdesktop on Linux. Voila! Company transferred to Linux, my life becomes
about 100 times easier...
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This is a must read.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=storyu=/usatoday/20030122/tc_
usatoday/4798893
Microsoft loses showdown in Houston
Byron Acohido USA TODAY
HOUSTON -- The people who run this city recently heard a familiar
pitch
from Microsoft: Sign up for a multiyear, $12 million
Even better than Firestarter is ShoreWall - www.shorewall.net -
firewalling on Redhat (or anything else !!) couldn't be simpler.
Mine is running on Redhat 8 at the moment with no problems.
Jon
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On
Behalf Of Robert
Don't know about 1Tb on a *single* tape, but you could look at the IBM
LTO tape drives...
The one I used to use had a 7 tape auto-changer, with 100Gb per tape -
assuming 1 tape was a cleaning tape (auto cleaning is VERY nice), and a
2:1 compression (whether you like compression or not -
Greetings all,
The SUN gear mentioned previously has gone, as has the P90 server and
the SCSI hard drives.
The following I still available, plus all the extra junk in the
workshop to be ratted through.
1. Olivetti Netstrada 7000 Fileserver - QUAD OPENTIUM PRO 200's, 256MB
RAM, 6 x 4.3Gb SCSI
Greetings all, and a Happy New Year to all our readers
Whilst engaging in SWMBO's annual inventory and relocation of resources
(I believe the alternative title for this activity is clean this shit
up and throw out what you aren't going to use NOW), I have come across
a plethora of SUN gear
= My Palm 3 is on it's last legs, so I'm looking for a
= replacement handheld device.
=
= Can anyone recommend a Linux friendly device? (Palm or
= otherwise). The one app I need is something that does
= encryption, so I can encrypt all my PINS, passwords etc
= carry them around with me, and
This is indeed excellent news - it's good to see what we laughingly
refer to as government at least attempting to do the right thing.
My congratulations to ComputerBank.
Jon
= -Original Message-
= From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
= On Behalf Of Craig Warner
= Sent:
There was a 2CD set available on the cover of APC a couple of months ago
(I have them here but there's no date on the cover, and I can't find the
magazine !!!)
Jon
= I'm after some Mandrake 9 CDs (so I can have a go at
= replacing my W2k Laptop).
=
= Does anyone know where I can get them
You should be able to disable the touchpad in the laptop's BIOS - generally you can
have internal, external or both. Plugging in the external PS/2 rodent *should*
disable the internal touchpad.
Jon
-Original Message-
From: Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 14/12/02 10:30:09
Ah, yes... Compaq The BIOS setup tools are in a hidden partition
on the hard drive (and I think the actual BIOS may be loaded from there
as well on some models)... Didn't think the laptops went this way, but
it doesn't surprise me...
Jon
= Thanks for this - I had put the problem aside. The
Hmmm... Last time I ordered some radio gear from the UK, it took about 3
weeks by low-altitude carrier-pidgeon.. Depends on the size and how it
was sent, although this time of year it's likely to be longer...
I've had software from germany (ApplixWare) take 5 weeks, and I've had
stuff from
The only store that I'm aware of would be Nepean Micro, and they don't have much...
DSE have an old (2.1.x) version of Linux for something ridiculous, like $120.
Electronics Boutique in the Plaza used to carry some things, but I have no idea what
they have now.
jon
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at
Shameless plug time...:-)
www.alwaysonline.net.au
Reasonably good pricing, they *don't* use Telstra, and GREAT service
= On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 07:08:43PM +1100, Trevor Rhodes wrote:
= Hello All,
=
= I'm about to trade in the putt putt and get a vroom vroom.
= ie. 56k to
= ADSL.
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Now THERE's an idea...:-)
How about a clustered environment?
A bloke is selling 'reasonable boxes' for $89
I hate to see computers going to waste.
Can anyone suggest good uses for the boxes?
There are only so many firewalls and print servers you can make grin
Acer PII 266 Desktop 3.2Gb
After spending the last 40 odd days fighting bushfires, I decided it was
time to clean up the email that had accumulated.
Problem is - there are a number, a very LARGE number, of duplicated
messages (I was using Kmail, but have switched to Evolution)
Does anyone know of a script / program that
Can anyone explain why I get this on a LAN:
# ping -n 192.168.40.129
PING 192.168.40.129 (192.168.40.129) from 192.168.40.1 : 56(84) bytes of
data.
64 bytes from 192.168.40.129: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=999.649 msec
64 bytes from 192.168.40.129: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.000 sec
At 08/10/02 18:37, you wrote:
just spotted this on the console:
[xxx@xxx root]# hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady
SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 { DriveStatusError BadCRC }
hda: dma_intr: status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error }
hda: dma_intr: error=0x84 {
At 19:57 02-10-02, knet wrote:
Don't forget the digital camera. Oh, and the software. Oh, and the time and
labour. Oh, and... ;-)
But, hey, I'm in. I'll be a beta-tester. ;-)
I saw this (and played with it before SWMBO started hitting me - something
about NO - NO MORE GADGETS !!) at the
At 12:11 01-10-02, you wrote:
I have checked in the hosts.deny file and no entry in there. Besides if
the ip address was in that file then I wouldn't be able to connect to
the alternate ip address would I?
I am not running prelude on the server either.
Have you checked the routing ?
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At 12:29 28-09-02, you wrote:
On Thu, 26 Sep 2002 13:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Has anyone received a replacement disk yet for the faulty disk that was
sold with the Next Linux handbook? Has anyone even received a reply? If we
don't hear anything soon, would anyone be interested in
Hi people,
Regarding the faulty CD #3 from the Operating in Linux Handbook, I've
just spoken to the lovely Jennifer at Next Media and the CDs *are* being
shipped already (mine was sent yesterday). They are being shipped in the
order in which people contacted her.
Apparently they are about
I am the person you amusingly describe as the gentleman (what's that?)
who enquired about support for the DMX 6Fire.
Thank you very much for making that enquiry on my behalf, even it the
answer wasn't what you'd call a lot of help.
I'd suggest, for a good all around card, the SoundBlaster
At 27/09/2002 07:21, Kevin Saenz wrote:
I thought that it was every non Ozzi that talks foreign. :)
Wot a load of crud. Is there anyway to kill spammers?
I know Oz has a law against spam haven't we?
Gimme a break - we have no law against spam - we don't even have a law
preventing junk snail
I heard from Lisa last week, the disks were being TESTED, then cut and
posted out... I'll see if she has an upodate.
Jon
Has anyone received a replacement disk yet for the faulty disk that was sold
with the Next Linux handbook? Has anyone even received a reply? If we don't
hear anything
You have to ask yourself how long it takes to produce and TEST the CDs,
then get a list of people together and mail them all out... Fair Trading
won't take any action, and anything they Do do is not binding anyway...
Just wait. I've just telephoned them and I'll post their reply shortly.
Jon
At 20/09/2002 08:04, Amanda Wynne wrote:
1: Anybody know what baud rate PS2 mice run at? I seem to recall the old
serial mice ran at 9600.
Probably 1200 baud... At least that's how mine's configured and it works
fine...
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At 18/09/2002 22:17, Steve Kowalik wrote:
At 7:20 pm, Wednesday, September 18 2002, David Fitch mumbled:
Those of you with intel cards (eepro100 driver) might want
to try the e100 driver instead. It's only available as a
module from intel's website but it works a lot better than
the
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 12:42, Kevin Chi Wai Tong wrote:
Has anyone got a reply from Next Publications yet? And does anyone know if they'll
be sending a replacement CD in return for the faulty one?
Michael Fox wrote:Quoting Jon Biddell :
I spoke to Lisa Mills yesterday (the Editor
At 12/09/2002 11:33, you wrote:
Yes - that work-around simply does not work. How pathetic can they get?
First of all, don't they at least pull one CD set off the production line
and test it before selling it to unwary consumers? And even worse, the so
call solution they offer is just total
On Monday 02 September 2002 06:47, Bill wrote:
Ron, I also purchased the RedHat 7.3 Next publicationsHandbook, and during
the Install process the system won't see
CD 3 as CD3, but keeps telling me that it is the wrong disk.
I get exactly the same problem - the permissions on CD 3 look wrong,
I thought it was about time I gave Gnome a serious try (being a firm KDE user)
and I have to admit I *like* what I see in 1.4 - don't know about 2.0 yet
tho...
Question: I have the applet panel set as an edge panel, at the mottom of
the screen, but all the icons are right-justified. Is there
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 12:00, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Simon Wong wrote:
I don't think there's a setting but you can use the middle mouse button
to drag them along to where you want. Actually, there is a setting for
pushing/swapping icons when you move
On Wednesday 11 September 2002 13:40, Erich Schulz wrote:
Must get a 3 button rodent !!!
You should be able to simulate 3 buttons by pressing both buttons simult.
Yes, I discovered that, but this ancient MicroSloth mouse needs replacing...
Plus it gives me an excuse to hit SWMBO up for a
At 31/08/2002 08:10, DaZZa wrote:
On 29 Aug 2002, Stuart wrote:
Just a side issue. $$ for ADSL are coming down fast. There is an
advertised TPG(1) deal that looks good at $26.99/month(2).
If ADSL works on your line, I'd price it against a Telstra permanent
modem dial up. 512/128 has
All that download traffic has to have reply packets going back up
the line saying send the next packet.
So you will never get 56Kbit download speeds with tcp.
5.5Kbyte * 8 = 44Kbit, I'd be pretty happy with that.
* 10 - 1 start and 1 stop bit, this is assuming no parity...
Also IIRC,
At 29/08/2002 09:38, Matthew Dalton wrote:
Jon Biddell wrote:
[...] and Telstra claim that their PSTN lines are rated at 2400 baud
only !!!)
'baud' and 'bits per second' aren't the same thing.
snip
I was oversymplifying, but yes you are completely correct
I guess the upshot of all
I can proudly say that my nephew, in yr 12, got into Linux in yr10 after
seeing my set up at home. Nowadays he leaves me for dead, but he still
needs some help when it to interfacing some neat robots he is working on.
With all of his firends, it has really taken off, mainly because of the
At 22/08/2002 16:14, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=DaZZa
OK, I don't want to be an arse here, but I have to ask.
Is this directive coming in any official capacity?
If so, which one?
snip
There have also been a lot of rumblings about Microsoft bashing. I fully
support the notion that
Dazza,
I was not acting on behalf of the committee, but as a member of the list
who's fed up with the level of poor advocacy SLUG portrays.
Snide comments, MS bashing and flame wars really don't make the group
look to good from the inside, let alone the outside.
Perhaps I should have read the
[...]
And I thought you were intelligent enough not to let personal issues
affect things like this... I was obviously mistaken.
What personal issues are you refering to ? Not that email about Marsh
? I'd forgotten about that...
You post something I disagree with, I'll say so. Learn to
At 22/08/2002 17:39, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Jon Biddell
No, YOU learn that your attitude is inappropriate for a committee member -
you have NO right to make policy (nor enforce same) for SLUG.
Tony was speaking for himself. If he were speaking for the committee, or
attempting
No, but the majority of subscribers (and definitely the list admins) prefer
open posting to the SLUG mailing list, leaning towards more anti-spam work
than moderation work. If you see the following thread from today, you can
see that we're doing an awesome job:
Are you saying that the amount of
At 22/08/2002 20:00, you wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Tony Green wrote:
If I'd have been representing the ctte, I would have said so in the
mail.
The unwritten vibe I have from the rest of the committee is: if the mail is
sent from a slug.org.au address, we're speaking as committee; if
What concerns me with a subscriber-only posting policy is the amount of
work that will be required to keep mail flowing in a timely manner. I
know I don't have the time to approve 5-10 emails a day as soon as they
arrive, and I doubt the other admins do, either.
What approval ? If the
No, we're restricting it to people who kiss Der Fuhrer Jeff's butt twice
Debian needs 3 kisses and a rodgering:-)
top stories
Microsoft backlash boosts Linux
MICROSOFT'S hold on corporate Australia appears to be
weakening, with a rise in the number of big companies
At 20/08/2002 16:04, Howard Lowndes wrote:
I have an AT mobo with Intel VX chipset and Award BIOS which has the BIOS
password set.
I can see no obvious jumper on the mobo to clear the password, neither can
I see anything I recognise as a battery, though there are a couple of
small solder pads
At 20/08/2002 20:32, you wrote:
Luke Szymanski wrote:
Terry,
Not actually directly answering your question, but having followed a
reasonably long discussion on this topic in a local electronic magazine
essentially you need to complete an apprenticeship to get a licence.
Well, in my
At 31/07/2002 17:51, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm there with SLUG hat on (not CBNSW hat).
Oh God... There goes the neighborhood
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On Monday 29 July 2002 22:23, Simon Bryan wrote:
OK, missed the beginning of this thread, but here is my two cents worth. I
have taught for 20 years so have some experience, have introduced a number
of CS courses and worked on Syllabus committees, HSC MArking etc, I only
mention these as
Just a warning to all (and also sundry) - if you see any positions advertised,
wither here or in the press, for a company called MARSH, do yourself a favor
and contact me off-list before applying
I've just left there after 3 years and they are a thoroughly unprofessional,
anally retentive
Come on Jon, that was a little out of order.
Keep you personal feeling and attacks off the listplease?
I'm glad I didn't take the job at Marsh though
Sorry all - 18 months of soul-destroying hell with these idiots caused an
error in judgement.
Jon
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On Monday 29 July 2002 17:06, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Otherwise we'll get walked all over... Sure, you will get individual
schools, where the staff are Linux-aware, on-side (Orange High is one
such)
Mary - know anyone at Orange High?
Laurie Savage - I believe he
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 04:11:39PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
Large scale backups - regardless of platform - are hideously expensive. A
tape library {given that the largest tape drive I know of is only about a
max of 80 gig per tape} will set you back literally tens of thousands of
dollars -
On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 11:59:01AM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
Hi all,
I now have (or will soon have) up to 180GB of user data I need to backup,
currently it is under 4GB but users have just been given much larger home
directories that I am sure they will fill, as well I am adding a 70GB drive
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 01:51:12PM +1000, ramon buckland wrote:
Ahh I love days like today! (NOT)
snip
(** ahh yes, and of course, my last backup was 2 months ago --
always look after you own stuff the worst, 'a builders house is never
finished')
You're lucky it was development work you
Have a look at www.linuxjournal.com . There is a very good article on
exacly that from CyberSource in Melbourne !!
Hi there,
This is probably OT but someone on the list might be able to point me in
the right direction.
As part of an effort to get Linux into a large site (more than 400
ObDisc: I have one comment about ArcServe - UGH. What an abortion of a
piece of software. It should have been strangled before birth.
Still a cynical bastard, I see, Dazza ?? ...:-)
Having said that - IIRC, there _was_ an agent which allowed you to backup
NFS volumes. It's possible you could
Why can't a government IT person simply state that there are standards
for HTML and Java and any government-created website should comply to
those standards.
Take a look at jobs.nsw.gov.au - they prefer IE 5.x or Netscape... If you
call them with a problem, they deny that you can view the site
They ported everything over to PCs running Linux - and OLD PCs at that !!!
Then they canned the free email accounts...
The cheap bastards !
Wait - large, household name migrates to Linux as part of a cost-cutting
drive, and they're cheap bastards?
No, that was directed at the canned free
At 09:01 10/05/02 +1000, Hartono, Susanto wrote:
If you are talking about the Solaris team from Excite@Home, I think your
source may be mistaken. I believe everyone from the Solaris team was
graciously let go to say the least. Only one person from the Solaris team
was kept temporarily and he
If anyone finds the ORIGINAL MS letter in English, please let me know -
I'll make web space available for it...:-)
At 22:24 6/05/02 +1000, you wrote:
Brian Robson wrote:
Hi Mike,
It was working two hours ago, but now it has stopped!!!
.
The original, from Google is here until
I used to use a Jazz 1Gb for back up and it was hopelessly unreliable..
the removable drives would turn out to be corrupted for no obvious
reason.
Yeah, I had the same experience about 2-3 years ago. Jaz sucks. Better off
copying your backup data to a harddrive and throwing it in
ok any1 offer any advice on this... need a backup solution, on a
data backup of about 20gigs a day, however has to be taken off site,
and tapes isn't an acceptable solution as the client did accept it
as a solution... also can't shut the box down...
At this stage some
At 18:01 1/05/02 +1000, evilbunny wrote:
Hello slug,
ok any1 offer any advice on this... need a backup solution, on a
data backup of about 20gigs a day, however has to be taken off site,
and tapes isn't an acceptable solution as the client did accept it
as a solution... also can't
At 10:12 30/04/02 +1000, Matthew Dalton wrote:
Jon Biddell wrote:
The reason I ask is I fell into the trap of installing a pair of 40Gb
Seagates ($168 odd each at the moment !!) and my bios would only recognise
them as 32Gb An Ultra TX/2 ATA100 controller fixed that, although
At 14:16 29/04/02 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
Hi all,
I am looking at putting RH7.2 on the following machine and wondered if
anyone had heard anything good or bad about the system. I would be upgrading
to 512MB RAM and a 40GB 0r 60GB HDD.
Simon,
The spec seems to look fine - the only concern is
Does anyone have any worthwhile information (not just bitching please)
that I can use to address this issue, (threats that I can make to the
hardware vendor that will have them grovelling on the floor and promising
to change their evil ways most welcome).
Only offer to buy 100 machines IF
At 14:12 23/04/02 +1000, Andre Pang wrote:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 10:42:27AM +1000, Crossfire wrote:
Due to the misfortune of having the IDE drive in my laptop die
unexpectedly, I'm now in the market for inexpensive 2 1/2 form factor
IDE drives.
If anybody knows any suppliers for
This is true, Microsoft itself cannot stop you from selling or reselling a
pc new or second hand but an australian law can (i have no idea which one).
From what i understand, a computer system may only be sold if that computer
has an os on it...that os can be anything...it can be a cutdown
At 12:44 21/04/02 +1000, Malcolm V wrote:
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 15:44, Zhasper wrote:
You seem to have missed this paragraph:
If you feel it is in the best interest of your school to accept the
donated PCs, make sure that the hardware donation includes the original
operating system
According to a Slashdot story, Microsoft has published a page which
implies that replacing a copy of Windows on a computer donated to a
school is illegal. See the Slashdot story at
http://slashdot.org/articles/02/04/18/1623240.shtml?tid=109 and the
Microsoft page at
I'd turn up but Im pretty sexy so I fear that I would be singled out
and ogled and drooled over.
Okaay, then.
No, not drooled, so much as vomited over !!
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At 20:06 13/04/02 +0100, Kevin Saenz wrote:
Me think there is something wrong with Dane.
like a few to many marbles missing. :)
Yeah - one CD short of an Install !
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At 14:51 9/04/02 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote:
Hi Slugs,
Is there a way to get at the mailing list slug archives of prior to mid
2000?
Dunno about the server, but I have them here on the workstation at home...
yess, get life and all...:-)
Anything in particular ?
Jon
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At 16:52 9/04/02 +1000, Simon Bryan wrote:
Thanks to those who answered my queries here this afternoon. The result of
the disaster recovery was that i was able to get the dodgy HDD back up one
more time, so used Samba to drag all the files over onto a CD using XP
(sorry about that). We then
At 08:27 1/04/02 +1000, S Lee wrote:
Hi
Can someone recommend a good book (or good sources for online and
downloadable references) for a Linux newbie (me :o) please? Hopefully the
book covers both introductory and intermediate-levels. I have just
installed Redhat 7.1 and I am intending to
At 10:33 22/03/02 +1100, Richard Hayes wrote:
Dear list,
Anyone interested in free Linux training can register with IBM DeveloperWorks.
Thanks for that, Richard - the iptables tutorial was a godsend ...
Jon
P.S. anyone have any experience with star (supposed to be a faster, more
reliable
At 12:57 22/03/02 +1100, Kevin Saenz wrote:
Peter,
Firstly don't try by trial and error. Someone has already gone thru the
same trouble as yourself. I would suggest that you go to freshmeat.net
and do a search for iptables, there is a tutorial there I think it's
boingworld.com or something like
At 12:47 19/03/02 +1100, Andy Eager wrote:
Hi all,
Has anyone ever installed Linux from a USB CDROM?
I have a machine that supports USB CDROM boot which I have duly selected.
The machine boots OK from the USB CDROM but then fails to recognise itself
(using RedHat 7.2 install disks). It seems
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002 22:03, DaZZa wrote:
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Ben de Luca wrote:
Im just wondering if any one knows of the top of there head what
cards support the changing of mac address whilst the machine in in
use?
None that I know of. The MAC address should always be hardwired into
On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:15, Christopher Booth wrote:
Almost got a working system between us :)
I have a working processor, you have a working motherboard.
:D
I have parts of a Compaq Proliant (P75 I think) that are up for
grabs...:-)
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On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 13:15, Christopher Booth wrote:
Almost got a working system between us :)
I have a working processor, you have a working motherboard.
:D
I have parts of a Compaq Proliant (P75 I think) that are up for
grabs...:-)
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Jon
At 14:57 27/02/02 +1100, Stuart Guthrie wrote:
FYI: Another big win for GNU/Linux.
For those of your out there promoting Linux, the German Government just
decided to go Linux on their 150 internal servers.
Bad luck Microsoft!
Wonder if our government is conducting similiar evaluations?
No,
At 09:39 27/02/02 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Andrew Burrows wrote:
I was wondering if someone could advise me on the best firewall produce to
use on a Linux OS.
Oh dear.
We shall all don our asbestos underwear before getting into this one again.
Ouch !!!
Firewall-1
On Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
iptables -A INPUT -j DROP
or set the INPUT policy to DROP.
Or if the offending attacks are from a particular IP address, get
IPTABLES to re-direct that address to your favorite porn site...:-))
Jon
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 22:30, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone
Could anybody help with some constructive comments on which OS would
be the better for running ISP related services ( web, dns radius etc
) ? Which one is better for stability, available software,
scalability ?
We've just
On Tue, 26 Feb 2002 01:27, Henry T Wijaya wrote:
Ken Foskey wrote:
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 12:36, Colin Humphreys wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2002 at 10:49:52AM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
snip
I still have not figured out the little thumb mouse pointer on the
toshiba. Does anyone have this set
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