: Dinner, alcohol are available
Park: - Lincoln Cr (recommended, open til late)
- Domain (closes 21:00) or
- Beside the Bells Hotel
Cheers,
--
Peter Hardy
SLUG Secretary
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On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 12:31, Melinda Taylor wrote:
Usage is fairly simple:
1. mke2fs -b 2048 /dev/cdrom1
2. mount /mnt/dvd
3. Copy files using 'cp' to /mnt/dvd for backup - easy!
Nice! :-)
However steps 2 and 3 can be done by the user but the first step, creating
the file system on the
On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 11:59, henry wrote:
I used fetchmail -p POP3 zinwell.com.tw to fetch my mails from mail-server
(zinwell.com.tw)
but I get message as follows:
2 messages for henry at zinwell.com.tw (1257 octets).
reading message 1 of 2 (632 octets)
fetchmail: SMTP connect to
On Mon, 2002-06-03 at 14:12, Peter Hardy wrote:
This month, David McGuire will be giving a talk on installing Debian on
an iBook, more specifically how a non-expert did it.
In David's own words:
After 16 years of MacOS, I decided to turn my trusty iBook turned into
a dual boot OS9/debian. Easy
: $0,
$10 if you pre-order tea/coffee
Misc: Dinner, alcohol are available
Park: - Lincoln Cr (recommended, open til late)
- Domain (closes 21:00) or
- Beside the Bells Hotel
Cheers,
--
Peter Hardy
SLUG Secretary, and substitute Craige
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On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 09:36, Michael Still wrote:
On Thu, 30 May 2002, Richard Hayes wrote:
The other day there was an article on a new Transmeta based supercomputer.
Does anyone know an Australian distributor for any Transmeta-based systems?
There is a model of the Sony Vaio, and I
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 14:34, Howard Lowndes wrote:
As per the subject line.
Take an ext2 filesystem, and run tune2fs -j on it.
Modify fstab and remount.
--
Pete
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Things just happen. What the hell.
-- Didactylos the philosopher
(Terry
On Fri, 2002-05-24 at 10:05, Ken Foskey wrote:
I have to produce downtime reports catering for scheduled outages. Does
anyone know of any open source solutions?
netsaint, or its younger, and much more impressive brother nagios.
Have a web-based interface to show current status and schedule
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 23:13, Ken Foskey wrote:
ken@gandalf:/opt/jdk/bin$ ./javac
/opt/jdk/bin/i386/native_threads/javac: error while loading shared
libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory
Looking through my system I can see:
On Tue, 2002-05-21 at 13:35, Ben Donohue wrote:
I'm using an application that creates many jpg images. (motion detection
software). I've just managed to get it working.
It creates images into subdirectories like so...
year/month/day/hour/minute/second.jpg etc.
You're using motion, right?
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 21:56, Timothy Bateman wrote:
I want to find a solution so both Evolution and Pine can access the
same mbox file so I can choose to use either interchangeably. Is this
possible ?
I can think of two definite solutions I've tried. But you're probably
not going to
SLUG Committee Meeting, 30th April 2002
Present:Jeff Waugh
Jamie Wilkinson
Mary Gardiner
Tony Green
Jan Schmidt
Peter Hardy
Apologies: Craige McWhirter
Previous minutes
the sound to work at all. Any help would be
greatly appreciated.
Thankyou.
--
Peter Hardy
SLUG Secretary
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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So I've sorted out why my X setup was occasionally behaving strangely,
and was wondering if anybody else has seen it before.
Using X 4.1.0 with the vesa driver (only way I can get the external
display working on my laptop), I have the following in my ServerLayout:
Section ServerLayout
investigating evolution. There's a proprietary extension, called
Connector, that will let you do pretty much everything with an Exchange
2000 server that you can do with Outlook.
http://ximian.com/products/ximian_evolution/
http://ximian.com/products/connector/
--
Peter Hardy
Engineer
Bulletproof
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 16:48, Jim Clark (Compaq) wrote:
(and then there's keeping backups/multiple copies of important
data etc etc)
and since we all do this regularly cough, does anyone
know of a way of backing up large amounts of data (700MB)
across multiple CD-Rs?
The equivalent
On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 09:14, Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote:
I've no idea if what I've done is fixable, but I'm not happy if I've lost
all my data on my hard drive.
I don't care about programs but my personal stuff is hard to replace.
While it may be fun to take the mickey out of
On Sat, 2002-04-20 at 00:43, Mike Lake wrote:
On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:39:54PM +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
*snip*
Not a pleasant way to learn a lesson, but they've all stayed learnt. I
now back up, for a start. :-)
Great we have some experts here :-)
More of an expert at destroying than
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 22:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I could never complete the install, since at a certain point in the
install, text stopped being displayed. I sent them detailed information
about the problems, got one reply, asking for some more info, gave it
to them, and they said Hmm,
On Fri, 2002-04-12 at 12:50, Ken Foskey wrote:
On Thu, 2002-04-11 at 13:16, Peter Hardy wrote:
It's explained a little more fully at
http://www.linux-usb.org/USB-guide/x194.html
Once you work out you have to install the USB drivers :-} The page does
not clearly state that.
Ah
Minutes of the SLUG committee meeting 26th March 2002
Present:
* Jeff Waugh
* Craige McWhirter
* Jaime Wilkinson
* Peter Hardy
* Mary Gardiner
* Tony Green
* Jan Schmidt
SLUG Meetings
Decisions:
* Meetings to be more closely moderated
On Mon, 2002-04-08 at 19:03, Paul Copeland wrote:
Does anyone know how to make Evolution use nicer fonts (eg Times or
helvetica) for plain text messages? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I don't see any way of convincing evolution to do it, without patching
the gtkhtml widget it uses
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 19:31, Marko wrote:
I'm trying to delete a folder in a GNU bash shell, it's goes like this
# rm -d filename.d
rm: remove directory 'filename.d'? y
rm: cannot unlink 'filename.d': Is a directory
is there another option?
rm -r
rm has a surprisingly extensive
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 11:41, S Lee wrote:
Anyone can tell the differences between Crossover and Wine? My impression is
that Wine can do the same thing but it is free.
Wine is Free, distributed under the LGPL.
Crossover is a proprietary product produced by Codeweavers, who also
fund wine
On Thu, 2002-03-28 at 11:59, John Clarke wrote:
On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 11:52:27AM +1100, Matthew Dalton wrote:
Depending on which web page you read, the limits are something like 23
for DOS/Windows (it's an alphabet thing, ie 26 - 3),
I'd expect 26 - 2 (`A' and `B'), and the limit
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 09:39, Dennis Curnow` wrote:
I commented out the mouse and keyboard configurations in XF86Config to see if they
were causing the X problem.
Now the Startx proccess goes as far as indicated below and stops.
Again no command prompt but can enter text at bottom of screen.
On Wed, 2002-03-27 at 15:05, Ken Wilson wrote:
Hi the friendly people at ozemail telephone help, went Linux , we aren't
taught about that, bye, or was it 'buy'.
I have red hat 7.2 linux just installed, modem establishes connection via
internet dialer kppp and KDE and kmail but doesnt
On Sun, 2002-03-24 at 23:18, Christopher Booth wrote:
On 24 Mar 2002 18:52:23 +1100
Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
mount -t smbfs -o username=tgreen,passwd=mypass //windowsbox/windows
share /mnt/windowsbox
For security, reasons, you can leave out putting the ,passwd=mypass bit
and
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 08:24, David Fitch wrote:
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 07:22, Peter Hardy wrote:
This means you can mount Windows shares at boot time without storing
passwords in /etc/fstab, which is readable by anyone.
or you can make /etc/fstab rw by root only, which is a lot simpler
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 09:57, David Fitch wrote:
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 08:38:14AM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 08:24, David Fitch wrote:
or you can make /etc/fstab rw by root only, which is a lot simpler but
probably not as secure.
That's actually not very secure
There's now one less reason to run Windows on the corporate desktop.
http://ximian.com/about_us/press_center/press_releases/connector_launch.html
Connector is a proprietary extension to the Open Source evolution
groupware suite, allowing full interoperability with Exchange servers.
Yeah, I
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 11:58, Peter Hardy wrote:
paying ~$50 a head for the licences beats whatever Outlook is going for
these days.
Sorry, I was referring to outdated pricing information. The single-user
licence is $70US from Ximian.
--
Pete
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...if it is true that the act
On Mon, 2002-03-25 at 12:35, David Kempe wrote:
I don't know why you wouldn't want to use Openoffice.
Its damn nice and i'm sure that once the 1.0 release comes up it will be
very bug free stable and fast.
We are all using 641C here in the office and its great.
Support.
If we are indeed
Congratulations to the new committee:
President: Jeff Waugh
Vice-President: Craige McWhirter
Treasurer: Jamie Wilkinson
Secretary: Peter Hardy
Ordinary Committee: Mary Gardiner
Tony Green
Jan Schmidt
The new committee will be meeting shortly to settle
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 10:39, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Peter Hardy
Commercial software, but well worth the price, and the money gets poured
back in to wine development.
Proprietary! We use Free commercial software *every* day.
Pedant! :-)
Free software, with some proprietary
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 13:30, David Kempe wrote:
handed out rather than a /24. Just trying to save some pain of having
windows users manually adding routes to other subnets.
Isnt that what a default gateway is for?
If you set the default gateway, then the client will route *everything*
On Fri, 2002-03-22 at 16:00, Booth, Christopher (Aus) - ATP wrote:
Sorry for this coming from Outlook.
Nobody's perfect. ;-)
I've got this new CPU and motherboard, and RAM, or rather 2nd hand.
Anyway, my RedHat 7.1 hard disk, which dual boots between 2k and
RH7.1.
I
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 10:11, Jamie Honan wrote:
Pictures, frames, ssl, and text mode browsing.
Does w3m do http auth? This is the one sticking point that's stopped me
from replacing lynx with links on all of my machines.
--
Pete
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On Thursday a small war broke out between
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 22:43, Dan Treacy wrote:
anyone know either a list of apt repositories for woody in Oz or know of any
on the primus network??
ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/README.mirrors.html
I've tried mirror.aarnet and planetmirror and even pacific.net.au and all
three keep
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 06:19, Karl Bowden wrote:
I had my redhat machine crash on me last nite. And now when I boot it tells
me that fsck.ext3 has exited with and error level of 7. I can run fsck.ext3,
fsck.ext2, and e2fsck, and the all give me the message Bus Error. I then
brainstorm
Maybe
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 18:50, Bernhard Lüder wrote:
Can I use the native RedHat ftp client to automate this task?
How do I get it to log in as a user, then transfer files and the log out
after?
It's fairly easy to use ftp in shell scripts. I used to use the
following to upload webcam images
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 19:26, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Man, and it was only last year or so that I recommended tdb to someone on
this very list. Silly me! I'll have to write some bindings for it.
What's your poison? According to the changelog on freshmeat, v1.0.6
ships with a python module. I
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 19:11, Martin Morgan wrote:
I just ran chmod -R o-rwx on /home/users as root. (don't ask about why I
didn't check it out or even think about it first!)
Got a good command to reset only the dir's?
Something like:
find /home/users -type d | xargs chmod o+rwx
should do
On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 10:12, Jill Rowling wrote:
Anyone know, assuming a shell is not available to the remote host, can you
test for the existance of a directory on an ftp site in order to make a
decision as to whether to make a directory or not?
Something like if [ -d ] dirname ; then do
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 20:07, Terry Collins wrote:
It is a HP something or other and the system is RH7.1 if this
matters.
Are you sure it'll work in Linux? Some HP models work, some don't.
Check the working devices list at http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/
USB scanner clue can be found in
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 22:27, Terry Collins wrote:
Um, no. That is what I thought until I had an old compag P75 boxen. I
needed to feed it a MAC address for some reason. Since then realised you
can fiddle them all. It is only for the life of the boot or until
changed.
It was my understanding
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 23:08, David Kempe wrote:
The only practical reason I can think of is another security factor -
you limit network connects to only certain MAC addresses.
How is it you do this on linux? is there a MAC addresses filtering package
or some kernel patch?
I know
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 16:56, Adam Bogacki wrote:
Although Klez.e is aimed at Windows addresses and ICQ files, it is also
programmed to delete files with varied suffixes which may have affected
the Linux kernel. I could be wrong on this - but it all started with a
routine send/receive
On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 18:12, Adam Hewitt wrote:
Hi All,
I have just installed gnome with enlightenment and I want to run
Sawmill/Sawfish as the windows manager, however under the Gnome Control
Center Sawmill isn't listed in the Window Managers section, although I have
installed it. I am
On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 15:12, Bill Bennett wrote:
When I used to use pkzip, I could tell the programme to download
and if the floppy filled up it would add a to be continued and
tell you to bung in a second (or third etc.) floppy. The only
thing to be remembered was to upload the discs in
On Wed, 2002-03-06 at 09:10, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Grant Parnell wrote:
On Sat, 2 Mar 2002, Scott Howard wrote:
*snip, damn you, SNIP!*
Yes. Whats more, if you've got Linux and Windows dual-booting on a machine
it's even possible to share the same disk between
On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 10:52, DaZZa wrote:
mkfs under Linux is usually a symbolic link to mkfs.ext2 or mke2fs
{they're the same program with different names - depends on distribution}.
Not exactly.
From mkfs(8)
In actuality, mkfs is simply a front-end for the various
file
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 13:40, Matt Hope wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote...
: I would like to nominate Peter Hardy for the position of SLUG Secretary.
Seconded.
And, of course, I accept the nomination.
--
Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And it came to pass
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 10:44, Mark A. Bell wrote:
checking for gdk-pixbuf-config... (cached) no
*snip*
checking for imlib-config... (cached) /usr/bin/imlib-config
*snip*
I next tried:
export GDK_PIXBUF_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin/gdk-pixbuf-config
export
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:44, Simon Wong wrote:
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:28, Matthew Palmer wrote:
I don't think it will help, actually. Because the machine that needs to
know lonewolf's IP is the machine you're connecting to, which has no idea
that you've gotten that IP via DHCP, and
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 13:07, Matthew Palmer wrote:
http://www.linux.org.au/jobs/
and On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 13:07, Jeff Waugh wrote:
http://linux.org.au/jobs/
Time to bring in the video umpire:
From: Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
X-Original-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 13:07:23 +1100 (EST)
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:52, Peter Hardy wrote:
I'm sure somebody's going to give me a good reason why you shouldn't do
it, but:
Couldn't you just insert an entry in your hosts file aliasing lonewolf
to 127.0.0.1?
Something like:
127.0.0.1 fizgig localhost
That's pulled straight
at LinuxExpo a couple
of years ago. Unfortunately they don't seem to be running it this year.
--
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On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 12:01, Steve Downing wrote:
At 25 February 2002, Peter Hardy wrote:
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 10:48, Steve Downing wrote:
If you don't mind recompressing them in a different format, then
cramfs
should do the job fine. I don't know of anything to mount tarballs,
*snip
On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 03:06, Adam Bogacki wrote:
Hi, I thought that installing OpenOffice would follow Star Office 5.2 :
'/mnt/cdrom/linux/office52/setup '
but after mounting the CDRom I find
'Cyberia:/mnt/cdrom# ls
binaries odk ppc solver source '
I wasn't aware of any
On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 13:41, Richard Hayes wrote:
What is the format for /etc/networks/interface?
It's explained fairly thoroughly in man interfaces, but a basic setup
would look like:
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.32
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 14:54, Simon Wong wrote:
Section InputDevice
Identifier Mouse0
Driver mouse
Option Protocol PS/2
Option Device /dev/psaux
Option Emulate3Buttons
Option Buttons 5
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 17:40, Andre Pang wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:20:45PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t autops2 -Rms3 -M -m /dev/input/mice -t
autops2 -Rms3
The -R option repeats events to /dev/gpmdata, which X can use at its
mouse device
I would like to nominate Jeff Waugh, for the position of SLUG President.
--
Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And it came to pass that in that time the Great God Om
spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One:
'Psst!'
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 17:10, Bill Bennett wrote:
Could anyone point me, please, at a site that will
give me information on the buying of a CD burner
that will operate the usb of my laptop and will
operate on a Linux driver?
1) I *really* don't like the idea of running a CD burner off a USB
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 01:28, Richard Sullivan wrote:
Can someone pls explain which is better/easier to configure for Linux: USB
vs Serial modem ?
About the only problem you might have is compatability. Almost any
serial modem will work, but you'll need to do some research and be
careful you
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 18:18, Dennis M. Gray wrote:
Can anyone comment on the difference (pros and cons) between these two
products?
Wine is a Free Software project, with the aim of re-implementing the
Windows APIs. The hope is to make it easier for Win32 software vendors
to port to *nix, by
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 21:37, Michael Kraus wrote:
a) run Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Quark Express, etc?
There's a Linux-native version of Corel Draw kicking around I think.
Info about compatibility of other apps can be found at
http://wine.codeweavers.com
Remember, though, that wine is a
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 12:58, Michael Kraus wrote:
I'm working from the release that came with the advanced linux pocketbook.
The install is really fresh. 'pppconfig' has been used to configure the
connections, and pon/poff to connect/disconnect.
I guess you told pppconfig to assign DNS
On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 09:35, Howard Lowndes wrote:
Errr, no I'm not. So wtf is uhci? Is it a brand?
It's the chipset of the USB controller. You've got Universal Host
Controller Interface controllers, most common on Intel products, and
Open Host Controller Interfaces, which was designed by
Thought this might be of interest to a few people. Anything that makes
it easier to stop using Outlook can only be good. :-)
-Forwarded Message-
From: Paul Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Evolution Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Evolution] Migrating from Outlook
Date: 14 Jan
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 14:49, Howard Lowndes wrote:
How do I now get the correct entries into /etc/modules.conf?
I looked on another box and found
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
but when I try to modprobe usb-uhci on this box it conplains that it can't
find the module, even though it exists
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 13:52, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
--[start snip]--
#!/bin/sh
# Local delivery agent for Courier shared mailboxes from Postfix.
# Delivers to $SHAREDIR/.$1/cur/, and ensures that the mail is g+rw
# and owned by mail.$1
# (c) 2002 Jamie Wilkinson, in the public domain.
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 12:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brilliant! Actually, I remember a talk at SLUG, where afterward the
presenter mentioned that he and another engineer were secretly using
Linux on their machines instead of the mandated NT. They did a screen
grab of the NT desktop and
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 14:25, George Vieira wrote:
I'm thinking of making my own windows version for Linux.. called Windows
Xtinct... Using Gnome and patch up the icons to look like windows enough to
fool the Boss.
You could do that, but the screenshots at http://qvwm.org are scarily
MS-like.
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 18:16, Jeff Waugh wrote:
If pain persists, please read the man page, it's a much better reference
than my blabber. ;)
Am I the only one who read this as bladder?
--
Peter Hardy
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More
Well, I don't really have any experience with getmail, but:
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 10:39, Richard Luckhurst wrote:
Fetchmail is OK but the config file can be a bit tricky to set up. The
I just had to have my say here.
fetchmails config parser uses a syntax that closely resembles natural
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 02:05, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Realised that at least 10 SLUG people will be going?
If this is really the case, then maybe we should be looking into group
bookings for flights, possibly a SLUG bus, as well as trying to get
cheap and stodgy accomodation.
--
Peter (who probably
On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 08:12, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Your prayers have been answered!
http://www.opensky.ca/gnome-vim/
To get even more mileage out of gnome-vim, configure it with
configure --with-vim=/usr/local/bin/gnome-vim.sh
Now, the command-line options that our mutt brethren take for
On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 13:03, Christopher Booth wrote:
Of course we will see more and more attacks on Windows, but Linux will
be a target because its use is becoming more widespread, said Raimond
I agree with this. There are a couple of main reasons for the current
dearth of Linux virii.
Anybody successfully running Linux on one of these?
In particular, I'm having trouble getting the sound card working.
Google doesn't turn up much on these models, but I have found out that
it uses the opl3sa2 module. Even got as far as being able to play MIDI
sound out, but I'm stuck on the
?
Cheers,
--
Peter Hardy
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More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
It's been bugging me for ages. I downloaded the Java plugin package,
followed the instructions to the letter, and nothing. The plugin
doesn't show up in about:plugins, mozilla doesn't complain at all, it
just starts up and refuses to acknowledge the new plugin.
This was even more infuriating
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 14:47, Tony Green wrote:
OK, gotta chime up now.
*snip!*
Well, if we're going to brag.. :-)
Add to my list a 250Mb zip drive, which I've been using since
2.3.40-something. Support in the current kernels is rock-solid, and in
my opinion, it runs slightly faster than in
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 08:38, Fox, Michael wrote:
model of camera? phillips what?
Oh, it's a Vesta (PCVC675). The driver supports most models, check out
http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam for details, and the binary-only
decompressor module.
Sample output at
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 12:31, Dean Hamstead wrote:
This is slug-chat material i think. Unless anyone knows
any really neat usb/firewire hardware that works in linux.
Well, now that you mention it... :-)
I went out and bought a Logitech Internet Navigator Keyboard last week
for my laptop.
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 08:16, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Also afaik there're problems with the NetGear FA311s with 2.4.x ? and
people have suggested use of FA310s instead. Is this true ?
Get Intel EtherExpress cards or Tulips (chipset, not brand).
Tulips are nice cards, but apparently they
Tonight, special guest* Steven Kowalik will be discussing Debian's
package maintenance tools. Debhelper, dh-make, dpkg-dev-el and much
more will be covererd. Examples courtesy of his laptop-with-sid-chroot.
Also tonight will be a keysigning (bring you GPG key!), as well as the
usual food,
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 12:48, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
Another popular way to do it is rm -i * and say y when it asks.
At the risk of sounding like too much of a GUI weenie, another nice way
to do it is with one of the many GUI file managers out there. Your
favourite X or console based
So Linux has recently shot up from having one filesystem to having...
lots. And I'm sick of my hardware fscking on reboots, so it's time to
switch from ext2.
There's only so much you can glean from benchmarks, especially when
google only seems to know about results that are a couple of months
My money was on it taking at least a couple of days, but there you go:
http://sourcewire.com/General/Frames.php?page=Releases/ShowRelease.php?id=13489
--
Peter
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On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 11:36, Simon Wong wrote:
I have installed every dev lib I can find with something called wrap in
it (which I assume is some sort of wrapper) but to no avail.
Indeed. I believe it's libwrap, a tcp wrappers library implementing
some security stuff.
Any clues?
Make sure
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 18:12, Terry Collins wrote:
Check the Slug archives for previous discussions on Lilypond.
You can even get midi out, but NO tied notes.
I've played briefly with a package called denemo, which is a GTK
frontend to lilypond. It's quite nice, if a little cumbersome (not
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 21:56, Tony Green wrote:
Shame you didn't know earlier - my parents are coming over lightly
loaded. They could have packed it in a case for you!
P.S. Anyone know anything about laying tongue--groove floors (Uniclic
system I think it's called - damn, I *knew*
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 09:18, Rick Moen wrote:
I haven't used SNMP lately, so can't check to see what you mean.
I was discussing this with Jeff recently, as I've been trying to wrap my
head around snmp. Debian systems install the sample snmpd.conf file
that comes with the distribution, and then
Heya
On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 12:39, Adam Kennedy wrote:
I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for linux compatible
webcams, or rather, webcams that you can actually write applications for.
Almost everything you'll find conforms to the Video4Linux API, so in
theory your app should
CVS version of ALSA,
and I'm impressed. I don't think there's much difference in sound
quality, but I do get to access things like the 3D enhancement
featurette, and everything I've tried on the LiveDrive works perfectly,
but I'm yet to plug in any MIDI or digital devices.
Cheers,
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Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 14:56, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
Hi all.
xine likes to default to /dev/dvd for the location of my DVD-ROM, however,
I'm using devfs, who puts that device into /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. I manually
symlink this to /dev/dvd, but it gets lost on every reboot, obviously. What
can
On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 15:02, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
Strange headers you've got there.
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Bearded. hth.
This is the bit where I run away.
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On Sun, 2001-09-30 at 19:57, Jeff Waugh wrote:
(in regards to evolution)
* Exportable/Printable address book (Kmail fails badly here,
Mahogany
is good)
Excellent printing support - I'll have to check about the address book.
It can export to vcard, as well as the ldap support, which
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