Re: [SLUG] NAT stuff

2006-11-29 Thread Peter Hardy
John Clarke wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 04:08:48 +1100, Michael Fox wrote: Might be a silly question, but why NAT the 192 - 10 network, as its It's not a silly question. very likely a device is already doing on the 10 network to the internet. Basically why would you want to double NAT,

Re: [SLUG] DNS and resolv.conf

2006-11-29 Thread Peter Hardy
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:17 +1100, Ashley wrote: I have changed the resolv.conf to show the main DNSs of my provider in every place I can find but still I have to manually edit it each time I start up and several times whilst I am on line as it changes back to the address of my

Re: [SLUG] USB to Serial Converter that supports break

2006-11-22 Thread Peter Hardy
Greg Cockburn wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions on a good converter that supports break, is readily available, light, and easy to carry. The Aten UC-232A[1] works out of the box and is fairly compact. From memory, I've used it to send breaks without futzing with it. But I don't

Re: [SLUG] Making samba DWIM

2006-11-17 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 17:49 +1100, Adam Kennedy wrote: For some reason, saving from the Windows box seems to reset the permissions of the files. And in this particular case, that also means 644 (and thus not world-readable so nobody can do the CGI). Now, I assume that Windows is doing

Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux UI decision

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Hardy
James Dumay wrote: You could use GTK-Sharp - it works on Win32, Linux and Mac OS X. GTK still doesn't have a native OSX port. It works, but needs an X11 server installed, and just doesn't play along terribly well with the rest of the UI. So yeah, as much as I love GTK, I wouldn't really

Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux UI decision

2006-11-12 Thread Peter Hardy
James Dumay wrote: Peter, Have you seen gtk-macosx yet? http://developer.imendio.com/projects/gtk-macosx It'd been a little while before I last looked, and I checked the status before bothering to reply. The todo list looks a lot shorter than the last time I read the site, but from the

Re: [SLUG] Another anti-spam idea

2006-11-07 Thread Peter Hardy
David Lloyd wrote: Jeff, The most annoying anti-spam method in the world. A sure-fire way to not get mail from anyone. If you get *no* e-mail, it follows that you don't get any *spam* e-mail as well... I'm unplugging my computer RIGHT N -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Has anyone had the idea of making an RSS feed out of email?

2006-11-07 Thread Peter Hardy
Howard Lowndes wrote: ...as per the subject Depends. If you're talking about an RSS feed representing the contents of a mailbox, gmail does this. From memory, you can get RSS feeds of arbitrary searches in your gmail inbox, too. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Another anti-spam idea

2006-11-07 Thread Peter Hardy
Michael Brown wrote: On 08/11/06, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm unplugging my computer RIGHT N Wow, that's really cool. Can you teach me how to send an email character by character right up until the point that I pull the power? I wouldn't have to keep saving my multi page rants

Re: [SLUG] Multiple interfaces in iptables rules

2006-11-02 Thread Peter Hardy
Peter Hardy wrote: The solution I'm trialling is to mark all incoming packets like so: # Packets arriving from external links are marked 1 $IPT -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i $INET_IFACE1 -j MARK --set-mark 1 $IPT -t mangle -A PREROUTING -i $INET_IFACE2 -j MARK --set-mark 1 # Packets departing

[SLUG] Multiple interfaces in iptables rules

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Hardy
So, when you specify an input or an output interface in an iptables rule, I know you can use a + as a wildcard, so ppp+ will match all of your ppp interfaces. But I'd like a rule to apply to my eth0 and eth1 interfaces while ignoring all other ethernet interfaces. Rusty's Packet Filtering

Re: [SLUG] Multiple interfaces in iptables rules

2006-11-01 Thread Peter Hardy
Peter Hardy wrote: But I'd like a rule to apply to my eth0 and eth1 interfaces while ignoring all other ethernet interfaces. Rusty's Packet Filtering HOWTO doesn't specify any syntax for it. It's not possible to give multiple -i or -o flags, and splitting it in to seperate rules for each

Re: [SLUG] Pants off, SLUGsters

2006-10-26 Thread Peter Hardy
DaZZa wrote: On 10/26/06, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah, we figured that, instead of setting up an OCR anti-spam thingy, we would just block various bonkers content-types. I mean, who posts images to SLUG anyway? Only fascists, spammers, Spanish absurdists and the deranged. And

Re: [SLUG] How to correctly remove a Debian package whose status is 'deinstall'.

2006-10-26 Thread Peter Hardy
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, Michael Lake wrote: So how do I remove the files listed by dpkg and have the package manager know that it is now not installed? I know there is --force but I'm not sure if that's the right thing for here. The package isn't broken. apt-get

Re: [SLUG] Message to SLUG list moderators - don't forward to list

2006-09-19 Thread Peter Hardy
I think it would be neat if people sent future correspondence like this to [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's a few hundred people getting this message who either don't care about administrivia, or are in no position to actually do anything about it. On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 16:34 +1000, Lindsay Holmwood

[SLUG] Runlevels

2006-08-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 11:05 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As an arch bemoaner I think that you have rather succinctly made the point. I agree, my frustration is that so many really clever things have been dumbed-down and thereby lose the attributes that are not commonly used, but are so

Re: [SLUG] Seeking iptables interface-specific script

2006-08-22 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 11:51 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: Is there a canonical way of writing interface specific iptables scripts? At the moment, I'm trying to write a couple of scripts with this behaviour to put in /etc/network/if[action].d/: - when lo comes up, add an iptables rule - when

Re: [SLUG] Extracting `self-extracting' archives.

2006-08-21 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 12:58 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: I grabbed what the docco said was a ZIP file from the HP website to upgrade the firmware on one of the boxen I administer... but it doesn't appear to be one. $ file sp25879.exe sp25879.exe: MS-DOS executable PE for MS Windows

Re: [SLUG] apt questions - apt-cacher and /var/cache/apt/archives

2006-08-15 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 23:03 +1000, david wrote: Do the packages in /var/cache/apt/archives represent all the installed packages on a standard Ubuntu system? Unless you've removed packages, the contents of /var/cache/apt/archives represent every single package ever installed on that system,

Re: [SLUG] apt questions - apt-cacher and /var/cache/apt/archives

2006-08-15 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2006-08-16 at 07:52 +1000, david wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 23:27 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 23:03 +1000, david wrote: Do the packages in /var/cache/apt/archives represent all the installed packages on a standard Ubuntu system? Unless you've removed

Re: [SLUG] DHCP client vs sendmail

2006-08-09 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 08:14 +1000, Peter Miller wrote: Is it possible to have a DHCP server tell a DHCP client what the appropriate HELO string will be for the other side of the NAT? If not, is it possible to figure this out from everything else the client is given by the DHCP server? Debian

Re: [SLUG] Problem in using scp

2006-08-09 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2006-08-09 at 16:59 +1000, David Gillies wrote: Gavin Carr wrote: sed s/this/that/g file | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat /home/someplace' Wouldn't that need to be: sed s/this/that/g file | ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat - /home/someplace' Doesn't need to be. cat will just take input

Re: [SLUG] hosts.allow question

2006-07-24 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:46 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, DaZZa wrote: Any clues accepted. Do you have the reverse DNS set up correctly? I thought reverse DNS only mattered when you're using the PARANOID wildcard. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Running squid on a laptop. Silly?

2006-07-22 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sat, 2006-07-22 at 16:01 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: I'm thinking of running squid on my laptop. Is this a silly idea? I don't think that running a web proxy on your laptop is a silly idea. Choosing squid, though, might be. :-) I'm a big fan of wwwoffle (

Re: [SLUG] awk

2006-07-05 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 17:29 +1000, Shane Fishlock wrote: i've been scouring the local (sydney) book places for a couple of days looking for a good (in depth) book on awk. i need it asap (always the case eh). i'm hoping that there may be some (2nd hand is fine) lying 'round in a member's

Re: [SLUG] Re: Is there a truly upgradable Linux distro?

2006-06-13 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 17:40 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Jun 13, 2006 at 03:17:28PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: BTW, what approach do these upgradable distros take to installing new kernels? I.e. keeping the right modules available and matched to the kernel that's booting, and

Re: [SLUG] RE: slug Digest, Vol 5, Issue 36

2006-06-12 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2006-06-12 at 06:38 +, Paul Davies wrote: I work on page tables (I have Adam Wiggins GPT running under 2.6.17-rc5) on a clean page table interface (fed to linux-mm on May 30). At the moment I just get the default page table to be chosen at compile time from a config. But, one

Re: [SLUG] gnome-terminal and bitmap fonts on Ubuntu

2006-06-11 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 15:57 +1000, James Gregory wrote: Anyway, I've just worked this out. The trouble is that fontconfig on Ubuntu is configured to ignore my beautiful bitmap fonts. There's a file called /etc/fonts/conf.d/30-debconf-no-bitmaps.conf which has the express purpose of disabling

Re: [SLUG] How to build a kernel on debian (with modules enabled)

2006-06-11 Thread Peter Hardy
Heya. On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 12:23 +, Paul Davies wrote: INITIAL CONDITIONS: I downloaded Debian from the web. It installed a kernel on my behalf. I got the config from which this kernel was built from /boot to build my kernel. Just out of interest, why are you compiling a kernel? 1) I

Re: [SLUG] Re: Automatic wireless profiles

2006-06-09 Thread Peter Hardy
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 22:49 +, Mary Gardiner wrote: The user-space program to run is nm-tool. This probably shows up somewhere in the desktop menus, but I have no idea what it's called and $ find ~/.gnome2 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 grep nm-tool isn't helpful on that front. Let me know if

Re: [SLUG] Webdav fstab

2006-06-05 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 21:36 +1000, charles wrote: Guys I'm trying to mount a webdav directory via the fstab. I've looked at the man page for fstab googled it, but cant find a solution.. I need to mount it via fstab as i need/want to select a particular mount point, and doing it in gnome

Re: [SLUG] Re: SLUG on gmane.org

2006-05-31 Thread Peter Hardy
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 00:30 +1000, SLUG subscriber with a provocative title wrote: The issue isn't what you do with your email address, but what slug has been doing with it and whether it should continue to freely send everyone's email address out into the broad internet.. It certainly doesn't

Re: [SLUG] Spam and other crap?

2006-05-31 Thread Peter Hardy
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 12:52 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Yes, but your solution *will* *not* *work* for people receiving the SLUG list in digest mode. When subscribed in digets mode, people receive one email per day with all email posted to the list. That means all the rants, all the

Re: [SLUG] Spam and other crap?

2006-05-31 Thread Peter Hardy
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 14:28 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Jamie Wilkinson wrote: I actually remember seeing a procmail rule that did some formail/split magic to separate digests into individual mails, some trivial googling should reveal it :) When you find it, maybe someone might

Re: [SLUG] SLUG meeting announcements

2006-05-23 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2006-05-24 at 12:19 +1000, invisible ink wrote: Pia Waugh: I've noticed that the SLUG meeting announcements and such have been going out pretty late Also, it seems that the announce - slug alias isn't back in place, so those who don't want to bother with subscribing to announce

Re: [SLUG] Splitting MySQL dump

2006-05-10 Thread Peter Hardy
On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 01:30:17AM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Rob Sharp wrote: I'm thinking I somehow need to split this file into manageable chunks to import it, but the script I coded in PHP can't handle files of that size. Anyone have any pointers on how I

Re: [SLUG] X borked. How do I fix it?

2006-05-08 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 13:33 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, For some time I had a working Ubuntu breezy install on a machine with with an ATI Radeon X300 SE, with the Ubuntu fglrx driver. *snip dpkg brokenness* Now to try and get direct rendering

Re: [SLUG] booting linux without grub or lilo

2006-05-01 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 15:18 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Kevin Saenz Just have a question is there a way to boot linux without using a bootloader. So, in much the same way as you can copy a kernel to a floppy and it 'just boots', I'm sure there is some way of doing a similar thing

Re: [SLUG] Firefox 1.5 (FC5) and Plugins

2006-04-30 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 15:11 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: Nowhere in FF can I find any reference to determine what plugins are installed. Type about:plugins in to the address box. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Mounting Flash Drive

2006-04-30 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 13:06 +1000, john gibbons wrote: Would some kind slugger please tell me what I have to type into the terminal to mount my flash drive in Fedora 4? As mentioned elsewhere, there's a good chance Fedora is detecting it and mounting it for you. Run mount without any arguments

Re: [SLUG] LG LW 65 Laptop x.org screen res problems

2006-04-23 Thread Peter Hardy
Hey hey. On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 10:51 +1000, Menno Schaaf wrote: I helped a friend install Ubuntu (5.10) on her laptop this weekend, but couldn't get X to display in the native resolution (1280x800). It's using the i810 driver, and defaults back to 1024x768. The X output shows that it

Re: [SLUG] Moving multiple files....

2006-04-16 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 09:08 +1000, Charles Myers wrote: I have a heap of photos (sorted by iPhoto) and it does it in multiple directories of year, month,date etc. I have moved the whole photo tree over to my desktop (which runs ubuntu). I was hoping to move all the .jpg's into a single

Re: [SLUG] correct form of find - exec rm on RH5.2?

2006-04-12 Thread Peter Hardy
On Thu, 2006-04-13 at 11:27 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: Incidently the last time the -exec vs xargs came up the -exec script given worked, the xargs didn't. Then when this was pointed out the reply was well it was only an example I.E a polite way of saying go RTFM. For my money, I'll take the

[SLUG] kernel package management and third party modules

2006-04-11 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 22:44 +1000, Richard Neal wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 02:40 +1000, tuxta2 wrote: Hmm, strange that there is a perception that Ubuntu doesn't handle nvidia drivers with kernel upgrades. Not saying it does just saying when you do a kernel update it doesnt simple

Re: Those who do... [Was: [SLUG] Re: 2006 President's Report]

2006-04-06 Thread Peter Hardy
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 19:04 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:53:30PM +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote: Many great ideas, projects and partnerships have spawned from those meetings. Within a few meetings it had gone from being Debian only talk topics to more like

[SLUG] festy

2006-04-05 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 22:13 +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: On 4/5/06, Craige McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While many SCLUG members are involved in SLUG, unfortunately it's a been a while (years?) since SLUG has run an install fest. Something to think about. November 2004,

Re: [SLUG] shared calendaring

2006-04-05 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 21:38 +1000, ashley maher wrote: At a meeting tonight I was asked about shared calendaring on linux that plays well with outlook. At the moment I'm trialling Sugar CRM[1]. I'm using the open source release, but there's a couple of others with varying levels of features and

Re: [SLUG] 1ADSL, 1firewall, 2webservers

2006-04-02 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:12 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: If a second physical web server (i know name based hosting can be done on one web server) is added in the DMZ the firewall will still be forwarding port 80 requests to the first web server. I don't want a URL with say

[SLUG] Virtual machine recommendations?

2006-03-26 Thread Peter Hardy
I have one pesky Windows application that, after months of fiddling with straight wine and Crossover, still refuses to run in Linux. Seeing as everybody keeps asking, it's the graphical configuration manager at http://www.quintum.com/support/mgmt/index.shtml . It's written in Java - platform

Re: [SLUG] Virtual machine recommendations?

2006-03-26 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 10:53 +1000, Michael Fox wrote: If you dont want to buy a license, I'd recommend you download the current VMware Server beta product, which is free. So you could make up a virtual machine, and then continue to use VMware Server to run it and stuff. Or you could uninstall

Re: [SLUG] Virtual machine recommendations?

2006-03-26 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 11:56 +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: I'm in much the same position - I only need windows to run a single application (Folio Views for use with some reseach CDs). I have found qemu to be just fine for this limited use. Oh, you're using qemu without the accelerator? (

Re: [SLUG] Virtual machine recommendations?

2006-03-26 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 11:48 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: I need something able to run Windows XP Pro (that's the only current Windows licence I have). As an aside, I've been wondering about the legalities of this. My laptop dual-boots Windows XP and Linux. I'm planning on using the same licence

Re: Win4Lin [Was: [SLUG] Virtual machine recommendations?]

2006-03-26 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 14:09 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Peter Hardy (are Win4Lin still around, or am I just showing my age?). They are. Their new product, which runs the NT-based versions of Windows is actually built on top of qemu and the proprietary accelerator kernel module

Re: [SLUG] Virtual machine recommendations?

2006-03-26 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 11:25 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 11:59:18AM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: But if that's just another way to whip up an image for the Player, then I might give it a temporary whirl. Thanks for the heads up. You can also use qemu to make images

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 19:46 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 18:18 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: - edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf , and in the Device section for the video card, change the Driver line from Driver ati to Driver fglrx And then reboot. Are you

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 19:55 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 19:46 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 18:18 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: - edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf , and in the Device section for the video card, change the Driver line from Driver ati

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 20:10 +1100, Bruce Badger wrote: On 25/03/06, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 17:46 +1100, Bruce Badger wrote: The system hung with the blank screen there and nothing else happening. The system responds to pings, but does not visibly

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-24 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 17:46 +1100, Bruce Badger wrote: When the system rebooted, I saw the graphical boot stuff with the messages scrolling on the brown screen under the Ubuntu logo. Then the screen went blank except for a non-blinking cursor in the top left of the screen, then I heard the

Re: [SLUG] Filtering out robots

2006-03-22 Thread Peter Hardy
Peter Chubb wrote: How can I easily filter out all the 'bots and get an estimate of how many *real* people are using the website? It used to be relatively easy when there were fewer search engines, but now there seem to be dozens. You need to add the appropriate user agents to the

Re: [SLUG] sip soft phone ? sipura voip ?

2006-03-22 Thread Peter Hardy
Voytek Eymont wrote: what are current recommendations for a soft sip phone ? I'm a fan of linphone. It's just worked in all the configurations I've tried. My last ubuntu update included a package called Ekiga, which looks to be even simpler to use, but I haven't had a chance to stretch

Re: [SLUG] sip soft phone ? sipura voip ?

2006-03-22 Thread Peter Hardy
On Thu, 2006-03-23 at 18:03 +1100, Christopher Vance wrote: On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 04:55:32PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: I've got a Sipura 3000 on my test bench, and am running a Sipura 2000 at home. I've noticed the 2000 can take a *very* long time (read: hours) to re-register if your

Re: [SLUG] New User's Frustration

2006-03-20 Thread Peter Hardy
Bolero wrote: The modem has one USB and one Ethernet port. At present I use USB to connect to the Internet and the Ethernet port to enable Internet access to my second machine (XP Pro). By the way,I can switch both ports around, everything still works fine. In that case, you're probably

Re: [SLUG] Re: email self test tool ?

2006-03-14 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 12:51 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 12:12:09PM +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: I used to know of one, but, can not find it anymore, does anyone knows of an email self test system, where one can send an email and get a reply ? [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Line-oriented telnet clients?

2006-03-07 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 15:35 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Peter Hardy But the latency here is a real drag. So. Are there any good telnet clients around that are line-buffered? I want to be able to type a line and hit enter to send the whole thing over the wire at once, rather than

Re: [SLUG] fwd: [sydpug] March Sydney PostgreSQL Users Group Meeting at UTS

2006-03-06 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 11:45 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: 6:30pm every day in March? It started at 6:30pm on the 1st, and will continue non-stop until the end of the month. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] AMR files in Linux?

2006-03-06 Thread Peter Hardy
Hey. I've got an AMR sound file that I've downloaded from my Sony Ericsson phone, and I'm wondering what to do with it. sox doesn't understand the format, and some googling has only turned up conversion tools for some other operating system. freshmeat gave me a pointer to the helix player (

Re: [SLUG] AMR files in Linux?

2006-03-06 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 13:38 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy wrote: I've got an AMR sound file that I've downloaded from my Sony Ericsson phone, and I'm wondering what to do with it. *snip* http://spacepants.org/blog/converting-wav-to-amr (I didn't

[SLUG] Line-oriented telnet clients?

2006-03-06 Thread Peter Hardy
My second wacky request for the day! I'm logged in to a device on the far end of a satellite link, so latency is on the order of a couple of seconds. Due to vagaries that I haven't yet sorted out, the regular telnet client that Ubuntu ships in the telnet package doesn't like talking to these

Re: [SLUG] Line-oriented telnet clients?

2006-03-06 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 15:31 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: I'm curious why the regular client doesn't like these devices... So am I, actually. But the occasions when I have time to check it out, and the occasions when I care enough to check it out never seem to intersect. The manpage for telnet

Re: [SLUG] AMR files in Linux?

2006-03-06 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2006-03-07 at 17:17 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: IIRC most projects that tout AMR support require you to download and patch the 3gpp reference code: ffmpeg, mplayer, helix... I recall Erik mumbling something about adding AMR support to libsndfile on IRC once :-) I'll furnish him with

Re: [SLUG] Spam

2006-02-17 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:39 +1100, TongMaster wrote: On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 12:59 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Thats really nice, but it seems a little strange to have everyone subscribed to list all devoting cpu cycles to filtering if a single filter on the list input would serve the

Re: [SLUG] Spam

2006-02-17 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 16:12 +1100, Scott Ragen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/18/2006 04:01:44 PM: On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:39 +1100, TongMaster wrote: On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 12:59 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Currently spamassassin via a mailman plugin, and a handful of

Re: [SLUG] Spam

2006-02-17 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 16:20 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 16:12 +1100, Scott Ragen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 02/18/2006 04:01:44 PM: On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 14:39 +1100, TongMaster wrote: On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 12:59 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote

Re: [SLUG] blocking recurrent attempted access ?

2006-02-13 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 14:25 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: One word of caution, esp if you are using a laptop; make sure that your private key on your lappy is passphrase encoded. It will be the same from any site you might access from but it does lock out casual passing hackers if you leave

Re: [SLUG] Unzip and install

2006-01-19 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 16:09 +1100, john gibbons wrote: Thanks Miachel and Gottfried. I now have an opened file sitting as follows: /home/john/vym-1.7.0 Any advice on how I get it to actually run? From the FAQ on the website ( http://www.insilmaril.de/vym/faq.html#id47367 ) Make sure you

Re: [SLUG] Linux client and windows dhcp server

2006-01-16 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 17:54 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: In addition, the windows machine also manages to publish its name to the windows dns server while the Linux machine doesn't. Does anyone know what I need to do to get the Linux machine to publish its name to the windows dns? If

Re: [SLUG] Linux client and windows dhcp server

2006-01-16 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 23:26 +1100, Chris Deigan wrote: On 1/16/06, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 17:54 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: In addition, the windows machine also manages to publish its name to the windows dns server while the Linux machine doesn't

Re: [SLUG] Rpm questions

2006-01-15 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sun, 2006-01-15 at 23:31 +1100, Simon wrote: If I do rpm -q php it tells me that I have php-5.0.4-10.5, but any reference to either rpm -U php or rpm -U php-5.0.4-10.5, fails with unknown file errors. Maybe -U isn't what I need but I can't even get started. I also looked at the

Re: [SLUG] bash question - how to tell if apache has stopped?

2006-01-12 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 22:48 +1100, Ben Donohue wrote: ps ax|fgrep pppd|fgrep -v fgrep /dev/null || /usr/sbin/pppd Just a neat little trick that I picked up... on this list, I think, some time in the dim past. You can put square brackets around some of the process name you're looking for to

Re: [SLUG] Linux distro for pentium 166 Mhz

2006-01-12 Thread Peter Hardy
Dean Hamstead wrote: ipcop.org Dean Kasim, Yosep wrote: Hi there I have a very old pc that I want to serve into linux gateway. Is there any good distro for this old machine. I have a P200 that's running Debian, although it doesn't do too much these days. Pretty much any current

Re: [SLUG] SSH port forwarding

2006-01-06 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2006-01-06 at 16:01 +0800, James wrote: Hi can anybody set me straight here please: I'm (ssh'd) onto a host deep inside a 192.168.1.0 network. That host is connected to an ADSL router over a seperate network (192.168.0.0) I want to browse the ADSL router. So i want to forward

Re: [SLUG] Re: pentium M series

2005-12-20 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 16:07 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=O Plameras #define spin_lock_init(lock)do { (void)(lock); } while(0) #define _raw_spin_lock(lock)do { (void)(lock); } while(0) Is this euphemism for in ubuntu SMP is not implemented ? *boggle* Dude. Seriously.

Re: [SLUG] Linux on a Dell Latitude X1

2005-12-12 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 23:10 +1100, Nick Croft wrote: If you use vim for your scripting, code or html, comments are rendered in xterm colour 12. Sometimes you want the comments to be unnoticeable, so stick with the default. Sometimes you want them very legible. Within vim type ':hi Comment

Re: [SLUG] php strtotime too smart for it's own good.

2005-12-01 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 15:40 +1100, Peter Rundle wrote: strtotime doesn't have a timezone argument. Does anyone have a good alternative? 2005-10-30 01:59+0 didn't work btw. (Php 5.0.4 on FC4 if that's of importance) PHP5 apparently has a date_default_timezone_set()[1] function. Haven't

Re: [SLUG] C Gurus

2005-11-22 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 19:35 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Yes, its a lovely story. However, Benno spends 40 plus hours a week writing OS kernel (not Linux) code and device drivers in C. Few people on this list are more qualified to say

Re: [SLUG] C Gurus

2005-11-22 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 19:45 +1100, O Plameras wrote: Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Yes, its a lovely story. However, Benno spends 40 plus hours a week writing OS kernel (not Linux) code and device drivers in C. Few people on this list

Re: [SLUG] procmail help (again)

2005-11-22 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 11:05 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However I've now setup virtual pop/imap users which have no real unix account and these users mailboxes exist as /home/vmail/[EMAIL PROTECTED] So thus my rules in procmail to send spam to $HOME/Maildir/.Junkmail fails for virtual

Re: [SLUG] pop, imap opinions

2005-11-10 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2005-11-11 at 10:56 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, O Plameras wrote: Mail server means also SMTP in addition to POP/IMAP. *assuming* that this is an MX -- it might be a box at home which is running, say, fetchmail to the ISPs mailserver, in which case it

Re: [SLUG] Crond message in logs

2005-11-07 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 12:32 +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Simon wrote: Hi all, I get heaps of these in the logs on a FC server and I have no idea what they mean! crond[28991]: pam_succeed_if: requirement uid 100 was met by user root In

Re: [SLUG] Debian

2005-11-07 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 21:54 +1100, Paul Maloney wrote: Hi all, It's the pest again. been playing with debian and when i try to use Kppp the following error shows. Failed to execute child process /usr/bin/kppp (permission denien). Kppp is loaded and works and if i start ppp when i do the

Re: [SLUG] Debugging init problems (on Debian)

2005-11-05 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 10:48 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: If I boot into single user mode I can remount the file system rw, switch to runlevel 2 and get a login, but when I look for the init scripts that were reported missing, they are in the places I would expect them to be and do not

Re: [SLUG] Debugging init problems (on Debian)

2005-11-05 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 13:20 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Peter Hardy wrote: but are you using an initrd? There's no initrd entry in the lilo.conf so it seems not. Bugger. On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 10:48 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: The machine now boots, but there are some init

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:36:20AM +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: Phill wrote: I'm told that one of the big pros of the X server/client is that the server and the client can be on separate machines ( I guess like a remote desktop). How can I use my windows machine to run applications on the

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:56:50PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: In case you are not up to date with it (which I suspect from your definition of Gygwin as a simple unix-api) then it also includes a full port of the core XFree86 to Windows. Minor point of order: it's even more up to date than

Re: [SLUG] PDA development help

2005-09-29 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2005-09-30 at 11:27 +1000, Benno wrote: As for a database connection. I'm not sure that running a fullblown (or even half blown) database server on a PDA is necessarily the best way to go. Maybe you mean connecting to a remote database server? I suspect an sqlite db (

[SLUG] Installing X in Debian

2005-09-27 Thread Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 21:28 +1000, Dean Hamstead wrote: youll need to install x and then gdm or xdm apt-get install gdm To expand on this slightly: You'll need an X server with a couple of support packages, and having a display manager like gdm is also a good idea. First, I'd suggest

Re: [SLUG] minimal live CD

2005-09-21 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 21:30 +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote: On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:38 +1000, David wrote: I just used a live CD for the first time (Ubuntu), and as good as it is, all I really want is a shell for diagnostics. It took ages to install. Can anyone suggest a live distro that

Re: [SLUG] usb audio device for kernel 2.4

2005-09-21 Thread Peter Hardy
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:41 +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote: i have checked the support for external storage of linux and this works fine, but i havent seen a list of supported usb-audio-devices. on the web are hosts of pages that describe sometimes that usb-audio is no problem, sometimes that

Re: [SLUG] Modem Dialing software

2005-09-16 Thread Peter Hardy
On Sat, 2005-09-17 at 08:13 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have any suggestions to a program that might be able to do this with a script? It must including branching, send this if get that then, else, and timeout I.E send command, if no response within X seconds then send

Re: [SLUG] Parking near UTS

2005-08-25 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 13:02 +1000, Michael Kraus wrote: G'day all, Just a pragmatic question regarding tonights meeting - I'll need to drive there and was wondering if someone can recommend a cheap parking station? (I'll be staying afterwards for dinner as well.) Address details and

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