Re: [SLUG] Mail Server Software...Which One???

2004-02-10 Thread Mary Gardiner
/openexchange/ -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Debian install process not recommended (Re: [SLUG] Trouble finding Linux)

2004-02-09 Thread Mary Gardiner
their toe in the water unless they get someone else to install it for them. Therefore, I think the original correspondent's choice of Mandrake is a better choice. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] \setlength{\parsep}{15mm}

2004-02-09 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004, Terry Collins wrote: Latex question. I am not getting any space between paragraphs in Latex. \setlength{\parsep}{15mm} Is this the setting that I fiddle? I believe it's parskip. Is it affected by \usepackage{fancyhdr}? No idea, sorry :( -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney

[SLUG] Change of SLUG resturant?

2004-02-07 Thread Mary Gardiner
meals) are available for $20 per person If anyone has any suggestions, let us know on activities, otherwise Spice Boys will remain our regular haunt. thanks, mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] Reminder: Installfest tomorrow (Saturday 7th February)

2004-02-06 Thread Mary Gardiner
Replied off-list too... sorry Rob. On Sat, Feb 07, 2004, Robert Collins wrote: On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 11:53, Mary Gardiner wrote: Reminder that there's an installfest tomorrow at the Computer Bank Warehouse in Seven Hills. If you didn't RSVP to the activities list, that's OK, all welcome

Re: [SLUG] anti virus tool

2004-02-06 Thread Mary Gardiner
with amavisd (nice to have as long as it could be used in a procmail script)? clamav. You want clamav-freshclam to do the updating of the database, and clamav-daemon so that amavis can talk to it. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

[SLUG] Reminder: Installfest tomorrow (Saturday 7th February)

2004-02-05 Thread Mary Gardiner
, if you've got any cool toys on your Linux machine to show off, feel free to bring it along. Computerbank has lots of spare power cables and extension leads, however it would be useful if people could bring along networking hubs. -Mary [1] http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/activities

Re: [SLUG] Virus scanning bounce strategy

2004-02-02 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004, Mary Gardiner wrote: However, I'm wondering whether I keep be the default setup, or tell amavis not to warn the sender that they have a virus. Its config file claims that it knows which viruses forge senders, but it looks like I have to update this by hand (practically

Re: [SLUG] Virus scanning bounce strategy

2004-02-01 Thread Mary Gardiner
no longer exist at the primary host, for which a DATA check is of course useless (of course, the primary is right to reject those at SMTP time, there's nothing I can do about it). I suppose I could compile that list myself too. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Virus scanning bounce strategy

2004-02-01 Thread Mary Gardiner
if it's a direct connection or a relayed mail. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Amavis summaries (Re: [SLUG] Virus scanning bounce strategy)

2004-02-01 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sun, Feb 01, 2004, Mary Gardiner wrote: On Sun, Feb 01, 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: Option 2: No alerts at all. This is best combined with a weekly or daily summary email of quarantined virus mails, but that's more work. ;-) Anyone got any pointers on doing this? getting a mail for every

Re: [SLUG] Recommend hosting

2004-02-01 Thread Mary Gardiner
want better than 99.5% uptime neither of those would make the grade. That should give you an idea of the prices you're looking at, but I would definitely check Google and Google Ads for other providers. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

[SLUG] Virus scanning bounce strategy

2004-01-31 Thread Mary Gardiner
with their virus scanners? Not warning senders? Warning only senders of non-forging viruses? How do you keep your forging list up to date? -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Virus scanning bounce strategy

2004-01-31 Thread Mary Gardiner
both spam and viruses seem to send to the secondaries as a matter of course now :( By the time the primary has rejected the mail at the SMTP level, the secondary has disconnected from the sender, so it has to send a bounce message. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Virus scanning bounce strategy

2004-01-31 Thread Mary Gardiner
, Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Virus scanning bounce strategy

2004-01-31 Thread Mary Gardiner
rejects of spam and viruses -- this will tend to mean that the secondary has to queue endless bounce messages because most of the spam and an increasing number of viruses go through secondaries. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

[SLUG] Helpers needed: SLUG installfest Sat Feb 7th

2004-01-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
months, with a followup config fest 3 or 4 weeks later. Thanks, Mary PS People interesting in helping out with SLUG activites should really join the activites list! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] Re: Helpers needed: SLUG installfest Sat Feb 7th

2004-01-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004, Mary Gardiner wrote: We need people on hand as installers: if you're going to come along, can you reply to this message on the activities list? Messed up the Reply-To, if you like that kind of thing reply to this one. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Installfest: Saturday 7th February

2004-01-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004, Mary Gardiner wrote: SLUG is having an installfest a week from today. For those who've never been to an installfest, we'll be installing Linux on people's computers. If you're curious about Linux but don't want to install it yourself, then the installfest is for you

[SLUG] Installfest: Saturday 7th February

2004-01-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
as a volunteer, you only need to bring yourself. However, if you've got any cool toys on your Linux machine to show off, feel free to bring it along. Computerbank has lots of spare power cables and extension leads, however it would be useful if people could bring along networking hubs. -Mary [1

Re: Catching Mydoom bounces ([Fwd: [SLUG] Virus Alert])

2004-01-27 Thread Mary Gardiner
? That's kind of nasty, it'll force all virus discussions into moderation :( -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: Stale AU Debian sources (Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts - nvidia TwinView setup)

2004-01-26 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004, Mary Gardiner wrote: I'm using mirror.aarnet.edu.au and ftp.wa.au.debian.org. The latter seems to update every night. mirror.aarnet now seems to have up to date Debian packages again, although I don't know how often the mirror is refreshed. It was as up to date

Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts

2004-01-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
* two (although it's been a nice day aside from OpenOffice). -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts - nvidia TwinView setup

2004-01-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
running a single card with dual output, and you're right it works fine... except that it regularly fails to render fonts, or occasionally it renders them on the wrong screen. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts - nvidia TwinView setup

2004-01-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
config off-list? I'll reply to this post if a comparison of our configs turns up anything interesting. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Stale AU Debian sources (Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts - nvidia TwinView setup)

2004-01-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004, Ken Foskey wrote: On Thu, 2004-01-22 at 09:46, Mary Gardiner wrote: There are other a dist-upgrade fixed it! comments on this issue around the net. I'm running up-to-date unstable (according to the .au mirrors anyway) and I still have it :( ftp.au.debian.org

Re: [SLUG] Xinerama and fonts (X 4.3 works better with Matrox?)

2004-01-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Jan 22, 2004, Jeff Waugh wrote: Perhaps it's worth trying X 4.3 from experimental (which is perfectly stable, I run it on all my machines). Thanks, early indications for this one are good. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] MySQL rpm upgrade

2004-01-21 Thread Mary Gardiner
...) you're running, but I'd recommend using one of the tools that automatically works out dependencies for you and automatically installs other packages as needed. yum is one such tool, another is urpmi and up2date is a third. You don't need it for to solve this problem though. -Mary -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] position available

2004-01-20 Thread Mary Gardiner
is a one man show, but has found that he doesn't have the time to do testing and needs someone who can fulfill the following: You might want to post this to the SLUG jobs list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Building subversion

2004-01-20 Thread Mary Gardiner
stage. But I don't have the chance to set up an entire server. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Xinerama and fonts

2004-01-20 Thread Mary Gardiner
a draw by highlight text or clicking on a button or otherwise forcing widgets to redraw but of course this is making it hell to use certain applications (OpenOffice, Evolution). Got any suggestions? -Mary PS 4KB X config attached. # File generated by XFdrake

[SLUG] URI for preauth IMAP?

2004-01-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
mailboxes without authenticating). archivemail uses this form of URI for IMAP: imap://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/path/to/mailbox Is there an equivalent form for preauth IMAP? -Mary [1] http://archivemail.sourceforge.net/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] URI for preauth IMAP?

2004-01-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, Jan 20, 2004, Robert Collins wrote: OR use a command line switch to tell the method. This or the preauth:// method is probably the most sensible. I think this one because it's a little hard to work out how to embed a command like imapd ~/Maildir into the URI itself. From what I can see,

[SLUG] Building subversion

2004-01-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
0x30/usr/local/lib/libz.a(zutil.o) ld: fatal: relocations remain against allocatable but non-writable sections collect2: ld returned 1 exit status Is there anyway I can recover from this without being root or asking root to install things for me? -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Building subversion

2004-01-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
that subversion is only something you can use if you can get pre-built packages for your system. I don't know how true that is for arch, but I don't think I'm going to continue fiddling with its build process either. So CVS it is. Thanks for the suggestion, Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] apt NVIDIA driver - how to get it?

2004-01-13 Thread Mary Gardiner
build using the NVidia makefiles and scripts, because apt sometimes blats them with software mesa rendering stuff. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Using SSH/SFTP and Nautilus

2004-01-10 Thread Mary Gardiner
(my desktop) in the authorized_key file on host remote.example.com. I have verified that a normal ssh shell login to remote.example.com does not ask for a password or passphrase. I am typing ssh://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/home/mary in the location bar of nautilus, running on local.example.com Instead

Re: [SLUG] Using SSH/SFTP and Nautilus

2004-01-10 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004, Mary Gardiner wrote: I installed gnome-vfs-sftp 0.1.2-4 as suggested by [1] and still get that error message. Update: as the Debian package info for gnome-vfs-sftp points out, URLs for sftp over Nautilus start with sftp:// rather than ssh:// This causes some progress

Re: [SLUG] Using SSH/SFTP and Nautilus

2004-01-10 Thread Mary Gardiner
Solved sftp:// part : On Sun, Jan 11, 2004, Mary Gardiner wrote: This causes some progress -- Nautilus does seem to attempt to connect to the remote server, and strace shows that it is repeatedly polling for data, but it ceases to redraw the screen nautilus had printed: The authenticity

[SLUG] Linux Australia committee nominations

2004-01-04 Thread Mary Gardiner
/archives/linux-aus/ -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Guide for SLUG speakers

2004-01-02 Thread Mary Gardiner
/meetings/guide.html I'd particularly be interested in links to add as Resources at the end of each section, I only have one so far but other feedback is also welcome -- please direct it to the activities list or privately as you see fit. (Note the reply to.) -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] Trouble building alsa modules for Debian kernel 2.4.23

2004-01-02 Thread Mary Gardiner
, anyone have a workaround? -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Trouble building alsa modules for Debian kernel 2.4.23

2004-01-02 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004, Mary Gardiner wrote: This compiles fine, but fails trying to build the .deb: OK, one solution is to delete the entire /usr/src/modules/alsa-driver directory and then attempt the build. It built cleanly then. There must have been bits of old builds lying around (maybe source

Re: [SLUG] Spambot for indvidual Users?

2003-12-28 Thread Mary Gardiner
the links I provided help. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Spambot for indvidual Users?

2003-12-28 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003, Mary Gardiner wrote: The reason for this is that if your users subscribe to a mailing list like techtalk and the bot responds to the From address, then *every single poster* gets a please add yourself to my whitelist! mail. I don't want to have

Re: [SLUG] Mutt and IMAP redux

2003-12-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003, Mary Gardiner wrote: But the real question is: are there any workarounds for mutt's IMAP support. I don't care about folder searching, speedy folder changes or anything like that, but fast reads and writes over a local connection is something I'd rather like. OK

Re: [SLUG] Intel EtherExpress Pro 100 - debian

2003-12-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
of the not-so-minor problems it fixed for me (on a Red Hat system) was a tendency for the entire system to completely freeze when doing bursty network transfers (cvs checkouts were a guarenteed freeze). I would definitely recommend the e100 driver. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Use this patch immediately !

2003-12-19 Thread Mary Gardiner
Bah, marking .*microsoft.com to be held for moderation as of now. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Courier MTA Alias

2003-12-17 Thread Mary Gardiner
virtual domains, and the Courier MTA FAQ discusses it here: http://www.courier-mta.org/FAQ.html#virtual -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Repurposing your LCA reject and other talks

2003-12-16 Thread Mary Gardiner
us a talk based on that. Anyone wanting to give a talk at SLUG meetings should mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a topic and a very informal abstract (just a paragraph summary of the material and some idea of the intended audience will be fine). -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

Re: [activities] Re: [SLUG] Repurposing your LCA reject and other talks

2003-12-16 Thread Mary Gardiner
, and the LUGs are generally struggling a bit for speakers. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Educational tools and contacts

2003-12-10 Thread Mary Gardiner
about this, so if people can offer suggestions (or themselves as a contact), could you mail me offlist and I'll pass your names onto him. Thanks, Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Mutt and IMAP redux

2003-12-08 Thread Mary Gardiner
is something I'd rather like. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Mutt and IMAP redux

2003-12-08 Thread Mary Gardiner
transferring the attachment through my ADSL connections three times more than the read mail on server solution does. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Reminder: SLUG End of Year Picnic this Sunday

2003-12-08 Thread Mary Gardiner
. (There are BBQs available.) Family and friends are welcome. -Mary pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] keys for digital signature

2003-11-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
be as paranoid as I desire about checking that that key belongs to that person, and that person is who they claim to be, which is why you shouldn't be trusting of many of the keys in your key ring. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] keys for digital signature

2003-11-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003, Andrew Cowie wrote: On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 09:02, Mary Gardiner wrote: which is why you shouldn't be trusting of many of the keys in your key ring. Of course, this is the whole reason for key signing events. If you show me a copy of your key [fingerprint

Virtual Machines (Re: [SLUG] good Oz-based mail host)

2003-11-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
Hosting have a virtual machine versus co-located server page: http://www.bytemark-hosting.co.uk/vmhosting/compare.html Full disclosure: I run a Bytemark virtual server purchased through http://jvds.com/ -- but as far as I'm aware I don't get referral discounts :) -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] SLUG End of Year Picnic

2003-11-28 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sat, Nov 29, 2003, Ken Foskey wrote: On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 16:09, Mary Gardiner wrote: Bicentennial Park is part of Sydney Olympic Park, and so is accessible by car, train and bus. This is the one with the good kids bike track isn't it? Yes, I think so. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] SLUG End of Year Picnic

2003-11-28 Thread Mary Gardiner
of transport -- note that Concord West station is closer to Bicentennial Park than Olympic Park station is. BYO food and drink. (There are BBQs available.) Family and friends are welcome. We'll post details of wet weather plans in a reminder announce before the event. -Mary pgp0.pgp Description

Re: iis vs apache - Re: [SLUG] win2003 vs samba

2003-11-27 Thread Mary Gardiner
for a particular software choice, but it is a reason, nonetheless. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Online banking

2003-11-24 Thread Mary Gardiner
netbanking that works with linux browsers? St George's internet banking (a Java applet) works using a JDK = 1.4 and Mozilla. I don't think it is officially supported. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] ssh error message

2003-11-18 Thread Mary Gardiner
of that Google query for more info. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Change email address

2003-11-18 Thread Mary Gardiner
. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Committee meeting minutes: 5th November

2003-11-17 Thread Mary Gardiner
/listinfo/activities --- Present: Chris Deigan, Mary Gardiner (minutes), Peter Hardy, Ben Leslie, Jan Schmidti (chair), Jamie Wilkinson Apologies: Jaime Hemmett, Michael Kortvelyesy Meeting open: 6:45 1. General business 1.1 Transfer to new exec - Signatory transfer not complete, Pete

Re: [SLUG] No more Red Hat Linux support after April 30 2004 - Q uick Survey

2003-11-04 Thread Mary Gardiner
fees than it is to contribute to Free Software development (often because this requires paying someone's salary) -- the fact that the reverse is true for other people doesn't mean they are somehow failing to put their resources where their mouth is. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] List policy vote: outcome

2003-10-31 Thread Mary Gardiner
could post to the list. --- If you feel absolutely compelled to discuss this any further, do so on slug-chat. (Unless you are asking about configuration for lists YOU run.) Thanks, Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Re: Mailing List Changes: the definitive answers

2003-10-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003, Mary Gardiner wrote: On Thu, Oct 30, 2003, Jan Schmidt wrote: It has been pointed out that the actual motion to be voted on at tomorrow's meeting is: a) Leaving it alone. b) Moving to a moderated list. c) Changing it to a members only list. d) Changing

[SLUG] Re: Mailing List Changes: the definitive answers

2003-10-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003, Mary Gardiner wrote: b) Moving to a moderated list. Non-subscriber posts will be moderated. Subscriber posts will be allowed through. Jan has noted that this option requires three willing moderators. Incidently, we have one willing moderator

Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Re: [SLUG] Monthly Meeting Friday 31 October 2003

2003-10-29 Thread Mary Gardiner
these options further? Leaving it alone is clear. By moving to a moderated list, do you mean a list where a moderator reads every single post and must explicitly approve it? And I assume you mean a list where only subscribers can post by a members only list (often also called a closed list)? -Mary

[SLUG] Reminder: linux.conf.au NSW regional delegate nominations close TODAY

2003-10-16 Thread Mary Gardiner
midnight tonight (NSW time). -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Re: linux.conf.au: Regional Delegate Program

2003-10-08 Thread Mary Gardiner
bit of free trip to Adelaide, free entry to Linux conference sounds bad to you? ;) Please pass this message on to non-SLUGgers too. -Mary On Fri, Oct 03, 2003, Mary Gardiner wrote: Hi everyone, Sun Microsystems and linux.conf.au are doing it again: the Regional Delegates Program, sending

[SLUG] SLUG Committee Meeting minutes: 1st October 2003

2003-10-05 Thread Mary Gardiner
PROTECTED] --- Minutes --- Present: Chris Deigan, Mary Gardiner (minutes), Peter Hardy, Jaime Hemmett, Michael Kortvelyesy, Ben Leslie, Jan Schmidt (chair), Jamie Wilkinson. Meeting open: 7:10pm 1. New committee members We welcomed Michael, Benno and Chris to committee. Michael asked whether

[SLUG] linux.conf.au: Regional Delegate Program

2003-10-02 Thread Mary Gardiner
.linux.org.au/ -- to find out who to contact in their own state. -Mary pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Notice of motion at the next meeting.

2003-10-01 Thread Mary Gardiner
list delivery off. Whether we'd choose maintaining an accept filter, or asking people to subscribe their other address with delivery off, or some combination, would be up to the admins probably, in the event of the vote being in favour of a closed list. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Notice of motion at the next meeting.

2003-10-01 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Thu, Oct 02, 2003, Mary Gardiner wrote: it's probably best to limit the options to those that Mailman 2.1 (our mail software) makes relatively easy That should read list software -- slug.org.au's MTA is Postfix. Since not all list admins have the ability to change the Postfix setup, it would

[SLUG] ADMIN: Spam, how we're fighting it, and why you should stop talking about it...

2003-09-30 Thread Mary Gardiner
with a note containing your name, email address, and postal address, to the address listed at http://www.slug.org.au/contacts.html (make sure it reaches us before the meeting). In the meantime, let's get SLUG's signal to noise ratio back to normal. Mary Gardiner, SLUG Secretary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] SLUG Commitee Meeting, 10th September 2003: minutes

2003-09-27 Thread Mary Gardiner
Present: Jamie Wilkinson (minutes), Jeff Waugh (chair), Tony Green, Jaime Hemmett, Peter Hardy, Jan Schmidt Apologies: Mary Gardiner Meeting opened 19:35 1. Ongoing tasks * Investigating discounts for SLUG members. Jamie announced that Anchor Systems are happy to provide discounted

[SLUG] Re: Results of election of new committee members

2003-09-26 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Sat, Sep 27, 2003, Mary Gardiner wrote: Ben Leslie and Michael Kortvelyesy were elected unopposed to the two vacant SLUG committee positions at this evening's SLUG meeting. Congratulations to Benno and Michael. And I intended to say that Chris Deigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] has also been added

[SLUG] Results of election of new committee members

2003-09-26 Thread Mary Gardiner
PROTECTED] Secretary: Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Treasurer: Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Other members: Jaime Hemmett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ben Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Kortvelyesy [EMAIL PROTECTED] The entire committee can be contacted at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank

[SLUG] Call For Nominations for SLUG committee

2003-09-22 Thread Mary Gardiner
half a year's membership fee -- $12.50, which will cover membership until the AGM in March 2004. If you have any questions about the new SLUG committee or the election, please contact the SLUG committee -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mary Gardiner, SLUG Secretary pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

[SLUG] Resignation of the SLUG President and Vice President and election of 2 committee members

2003-09-20 Thread Mary Gardiner
, and we look forward to that. After consideration of the SLUG constitution[1] and consultation amongst the committee, we have decided upon the following course of action: - Jan Schmidt will step in as President; - Peter Hardy will tackle Vice President; - the rest of the committee (Mary Gardiner

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

2003-09-15 Thread Mary Gardiner
as advertising. See http://advogato.org/article/707.html for a possible response to this: change the software to ignore Verisign's stupid DNS hijack. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

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

2003-09-15 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003, Mary Gardiner wrote: Point your browser at http://dfgdfgsfdgd.net/ or http://sfhjsjfhkshfjshdfjkhsdfhjsd.net/ or http://www.fdjlfdjkfdskdsfhjdsfhjdshdsfjkl.com/ Those .net domains aren't registered... but they now point at a Verisign webpage rather than not resolving

[SLUG] SLUG Committee Meeting, 6th August 2003: minutes

2003-09-05 Thread Mary Gardiner
Hi everyone, These are the minutes from last month's SLUG committee meeting. Send comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] as appropriate. We would be especially interested in additions to our upcoming talks list, I'll post a separate mail. Mary Gardiner, SLUG Secretary. --- Minutes

[SLUG] Talks and talk ideas for monthly SLUG meetings

2003-09-05 Thread Mary Gardiner
with a particular topic, let the meeting organiser know. Alternatively, you might like to suggest a topic if there's been a lot of discussion of it on [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply to committee and let us know if you want to give a talk or have talk ideas. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

[SLUG] Linux.Conf.Au 2004 registrations open

2003-09-02 Thread Mary
Hi everyone, Registrations for next year's linux.conf.au 2004 [ http://lca2004.linux.org.au/ ] are now open, and they've already received a number of registrations. Details below. - Forwarded message from Michael Davies - From: Michael Davies Subject: [CTTE] Linux.Conf.Au 2004

Re: [SLUG] Where has my Gnome desktop gone?

2003-08-19 Thread Mary
that contains: #!/bin/sh /usr/bin/gnome-session GNOME session should launch on startup. But even then, you may need to select Xsession from the Sessions dialog box, so you should try my first strategy before the ~/.xsession one. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Random System Freezes

2003-08-14 Thread Mary
though -- freezes will occur during network activity (a CVS checkin of 1000 files was a 100% reliable trigger). -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Evolution - how does it send the mail?

2003-08-14 Thread Mary
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003, Mary wrote: The first thing to check is to dig around in the settings of Evolution and KMail and make sure they're set to use the same mail relay/SMTP server/mail server (different names for the same thing) to send mail. Sorry, missing solution: set Evolution's mail relay

Re: [SLUG] mirrorring with scp is it possible?

2003-08-14 Thread Mary
, e.g. rsync -ave ssh path/ remote:path/ The pure scp solution is something like: $ cd $ scp -rp . [EMAIL PROTECTED]: That is, change to your home directory and do a recurive (-r) scp that preservers permissions (-p) -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info

[SLUG] Linux Professional Institute Seminar and Discount exams (minutesfollowup)

2003-08-14 Thread Mary
On Wed, Aug 06, 2003, Mary wrote: 6. Evan Leibovitch's visit to Australia - Evan Leibovitch, the president of the Linux Professional Institute, will be in Australia to give a seminar in August - SLUG might be able to help publicise, or possibly invite Evan to speak separately

Re: [SLUG] UWS IE5 Policy

2003-08-14 Thread Mary
if you want to. (Since the Evangelism folks are behind it, I suspect the aim is to be able to mail people and say Mozilla can render your site if it pretends it is IE, so why not drop the browser check?) -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] Evolution - how does it send the mail?

2003-08-11 Thread Mary
for the same thing) to send mail. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] SLUG Committee Meeting, 9th July 2003: minutes

2003-08-10 Thread Mary
Please see http://www.slug.org.au/minutes/ for previous committee minutes. Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED] (whichever you feel is appropriate) to discuss anything mentioned in the minutes. Present: Mary Gardiner (minutes), Tony Green, Peter Hardy, Jaime Hemmett, Jan Schmidt, Pia

Re: [SLUG] open source windows software

2003-08-07 Thread Mary
to specify windows AND osi approved licence in their search engine. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] stripping CtrlM: CRLF vs LF vs CR dillema

2003-07-29 Thread Mary
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote: - what can I use to strip the CR ? The command dos2unix will do this. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] stripping CtrlM: CRLF vs LF vs CR dillema

2003-07-29 Thread Mary
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote: ** Reply to note from Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:50:53 +1000 The command dos2unix will do this. thanks, Mary is this part of some utilities ? my RH73 seems devoid of it: Google (search phrase dos2unix red hat) gave me

Re: [SLUG] updating kernel, rebbot after ?

2003-07-28 Thread Mary
On Mon, Jul 28, 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote: ** Reply to note from Mary [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon, 28 Jul 2003 09:41:58 +1000 On Sun, Jul 27, 2003, Voytek Eymont wrote: what do I now need to reload the (new) kernel...? reboor or what else ? Reboot. is there any 'special' way

Re: [SLUG] updating kernel, rebbot after ?

2003-07-28 Thread Mary
-19.7 seems to be newer than the one you have installed.. so possibly the next upgrade will work. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

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