Re: [SLUG] How to email on the run

2011-04-06 Thread Phil Scarratt
On 06/04/11 15:41, Daryl Thompson wrote: I have a real need to be able to send my mail from different locations with my laptop. I need to be able to send the email with out configuring the smtp on the Laptop Email all the time. I not always able to know the ISP i am connected i am unable

Re: [SLUG] How to email on the run

2011-04-06 Thread Phil Scarratt
On 06/04/11 16:34, Daryl Thompson wrote: On 6 April 2011 16:25, Phil Scarratt f...@draxsen.com mailto:f...@draxsen.com wrote: On 06/04/11 15:41, Daryl Thompson wrote: I have a real need to be able to send my mail from different locations with my laptop. I

Re: [SLUG] How to email on the run

2011-04-06 Thread Phil Scarratt
On 06/04/11 17:19, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: Phil == Phil Scarratt f...@draxsen.com writes: Phil On 06/04/11 15:41, Daryl Thompson wrote: I have a real need to be able to send my mail from different locations with my laptop. I do this all the time. I've set up a server that listens

Re: [SLUG] Disappearing Title Bar

2010-09-30 Thread Phil Scarratt
On 01/10/10 11:12, Heracles wrote: The title bar on the windows that open within gnome sometimes go away. This is a random sort of happening. I may be using the system fine for an hour or so and then the next window I open has no title bar and when I look at the other open windows I find that

[SLUG] Petabytes on a budget

2009-09-02 Thread Phil Scarratt
Pods: 67 terabyte 4U servers for $7,867. -- Phil Scarratt Draxsen Technologies m: 0403 531 271 -- The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. - Terry Pratchett -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] New in the mailing list, just saying hello

2009-08-06 Thread Phil Scarratt
Arnaldo Ariel Arrieta wrote: Today I joined this mailing list and just wanted to say hello to everybody. My name is Ariel (just in case: I am a guy, In Spanish, Ariel is a male name :-) ) and I live in Argentina. I know this is the Sydney LUG and that we are more than 12000 km. apart, but

Re: [SLUG] Extracting string from a file - shell script

2009-07-02 Thread Phil Scarratt
Kyle wrote: Hi Folks, I am trying to extract a substring from a string found in a file. The string is: *** End of TF0220 at Thu Jul 2 10:06:51 EST 2009 - RC = 0 and the substring I want to extract is TF0220. This is a program name and the length of this name varies. In other

Re: [SLUG] Extracting string from a file - shell script

2009-07-02 Thread Phil Scarratt
Peter Chubb wrote: Phil == Phil Scarratt f...@draxsen.com writes: Phil Something like this would work: Phil cat file | perl -nle Phil 'if(/^\*\*\*\s+End\s+of\s+([\S]+)\s+at\s+.*/){print $1;}' Why use cat? Why not file perl ... The extra process plus pipe just wastes resources

Re: [SLUG] Lenovo wins $150m NSW schools deal or April Fools joke?

2009-05-17 Thread Phil Scarratt
Marghanita da Cruz wrote: david wrote: snip I'm not an expert but I believe that the lack of native CMYK is fundamental to the printing problems. It's rather more than a fancy feature. Printing photos and artwork is fundamental to a whole industry (or two). There are other software with

Re: [SLUG] A little SAMBA help, maybe?

2009-03-09 Thread Phil Scarratt
Kyle wrote: Hi folks, version 3.0.28-1.el5_2.1 with a share config of; [media] path = /home/shares/media comment = Movies, downl. Videos, Music, etc guest ok = Yes writable = No write list = @restrict force group = +extended according to the man files, everyone in group 'restrict'

Re: [SLUG] A little SAMBA help, maybe?

2009-03-09 Thread Phil Scarratt
Phil Scarratt wrote: Kyle wrote: Hi folks, version 3.0.28-1.el5_2.1 with a share config of; [media] path = /home/shares/media comment = Movies, downl. Videos, Music, etc guest ok = Yes writable = No write list = @restrict force group = +extended according to the man files, everyone

Re: [SLUG] Document Management Systems or ECM

2008-12-10 Thread Phil Scarratt
Grant Allen wrote: Phil Scarratt wrote: Hi all Wondering what people's recommendations/experiences with document management systems (or ECM systems) are? I've got to select a DMS/ECM for a non-profit organisation (actually a publisher) and have Nuxeo, Alfresco and OpenKM on the shortlist

[SLUG] Document Management Systems or ECM

2008-12-09 Thread Phil Scarratt
Hi all Wondering what people's recommendations/experiences with document management systems (or ECM systems) are? I've got to select a DMS/ECM for a non-profit organisation (actually a publisher) and have Nuxeo, Alfresco and OpenKM on the shortlist. TIA Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Getting my GNOME desktop panel back

2008-12-08 Thread Phil Scarratt
Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, My son found another trick and somehow wiped all the buttons off my wife's Ubuntu desktop top panel (the one which has Applicationsm, Places, System and a few application buttons). I managed to add a few application buttons back but couldn't find how to put

Re: [SLUG] How to restart sound?

2008-11-30 Thread Phil Scarratt
bill wrote: Quite often after viewing youtube clip in Firefix 3 on Kubuntu 8.10 I lose sound - ie if I load another clip or try to play anything sound-related, - there is no sound. What is the command to restart sound - a Service I assume, but cant see which one. There is perhaps a

Re: [SLUG] Calendar Server?

2008-10-28 Thread Phil Scarratt
James Dumay wrote: TBH, I've never been able to get Zimbra to work correctly for me - it suffers from timezoning and caldav compatibility issues (Evolution won't work against the version I am using, at least). What sort of problems? I'm having some problems responding to meeting requests - the

Re: [SLUG] creating svg from open document?

2008-08-18 Thread Phil Scarratt
Amos Shapira wrote: Hello, My environment: Ubuntu 8.04 i386. I have a single-page price list borchur in OpenOffice (ODT) format which I'd like to print three times on each sheet of paper. The way I did it before is to create an SVG file with one copy of the page, edit the file with

Re: [SLUG] inbound email checking

2008-08-04 Thread Phil Scarratt
Peter Hardy wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 14:10 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote: On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Voytek Eymont wrote: is there any req on me having an 'apache@' address if I'm sending emails as such ? (i.e., who misconfigured their server ?) Sender address verification is a fairly common

Re: All messages being moderated (Re: [SLUG] inbound email checking)

2008-08-04 Thread Phil Scarratt
Mary Gardiner wrote: On Mon, Aug 04, 2008, Phil Scarratt wrote: Can we try changing the subject of this thread? All messages are being moderated. The thread Voytek started is to do with a specific error he got sending a mail from a particular address to a particular mail server. It doesn't

Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs

2008-05-29 Thread Phil Scarratt
On Thursday 29 May 2008 19:23:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: was wondering if anyone has any thoughts. I've got a feisty desktop that has grown like topsy. It's running several services eg: webserver, mail , postgres, mysql, apt-caching, Nvidia proprietary drivers, accounting software, etc

Re: [SLUG] Read MS Access files on Linux (using php?)

2008-05-04 Thread Phil Scarratt
Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, I've been given some data in .mdb format from one of our lovely government departments. (don't even mention the issue of proprietary formats propagated by public services or I'll scream and possibly kill some brain dead public servant). So I need to read

Re: [SLUG] Joomla Opinions requested

2008-04-19 Thread Phil Scarratt
Peter Rundle wrote: Sluggers, I'm looking for a Content Management System written in PHP, Joomla has been recommended. However I'm a little disappointed to find that it is tied to MYSQL and doesn't use a generic dbms interface such as Adodb. The application that I have in mind will probably

Re: [SLUG] asd

2008-03-19 Thread Phil Scarratt
Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Hi. How can I stop this net to appear? 169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 eth3 Whenever I stop and start one of my network cards on one of my servers, this net appears and stuffs up DHCP on a WIFI router that is attached to that machine. I do not have the

Re: [SLUG] receiving Attachments.

2008-03-13 Thread Phil Scarratt
Chris Allen wrote: For mu emails, I use Evolution 2.6.1 on Ubuntu LTS Some friends try to send me attachments created as DOC or XLS files on their MS boxes or even as PDF files. This works sometimes bur not always. 2 or 3 time now the attachment has listed in the email as a file named

Re: [SLUG] [ot] cheap sms?

2008-03-10 Thread Phil Scarratt
Adrian Chadd wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008, Martin Visser wrote: On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Adrian Chadd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 160 bytes a transaction (normal SMS length), 2000 a day is roughly 300 kilobytes uncompressed. * 31 days is ~ 10 gig of data. ^^^ ~ 10 Meg me

Re: [SLUG] motherboard error signals

2008-03-08 Thread Phil Scarratt
Tony Sceats wrote: I'd suggest you do that then, although in my experience it has usually been the CPU or the RAM that's faulty if you're getting beeps. if you can't find the full manual, try taking out all the PCI cards then remove RAM chips and/or the CPU.. not that it will be useful without

Re: [SLUG] Xorg Multiple Monitors

2008-03-07 Thread Phil Scarratt
jam wrote: On Friday 07 March 2008 10:00:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: please post xorg.conf xorg.conf follows with irrelevant bits snipped (ie Files, InputDevice sections). Current setup is TwinView off the 8600. I am sure there are a few (lots?) of options which are not needed, but the plan

[SLUG] Xorg Multiple Monitors

2008-03-06 Thread Phil Scarratt
Hi I've been beating my head against this for many hours now (and not the first time either), trawling through endless Google results, howto's manuals, and hints, and still no further. I am trying to get multiple monitors (just 2 for now, 3 eventually) going using a two-head GeForce 8600

Re: [SLUG] Xorg Multiple Monitors

2008-03-06 Thread Phil Scarratt
Peter Rundle wrote: Phil, I'm currently running dual monitors on FC5 with a Matrox G400. I have my machine setup dual boot with Gutsy but cannot get it to do dual monitors in spite of all the googling I've done. My problem appears to be that it requires the binaries from Matrox to support

Re: [SLUG] Xorg Multiple Monitors

2008-03-06 Thread Phil Scarratt
Dean Hamstead wrote: twinview merges the two screens in the driver save yourself the pain, sudo nvidia-settings and use the happy gui then set them up as seperate screens. i have personally set up a machine with 8 screens (4 dual head hards) with current nvidia hardware. what you are after is

Re: [SLUG] Xorg Multiple Monitors

2008-03-06 Thread Phil Scarratt
Dean Hamstead wrote: please post xorg.conf xorg.conf follows with irrelevant bits snipped (ie Files, InputDevice sections). Current setup is TwinView off the 8600. I am sure there are a few (lots?) of options which are not needed, but the plan was to get it working then look at all the

Re: [SLUG] do I need /dev/snd for ALSA, if so how to create it ?

2008-03-05 Thread Phil Scarratt
Rod Butcher wrote: greetings from sunny Northmead ! I've cruised along with a 2.6.18 kernel that I compiled myself, for a while now, on a Gigabtye board with NVidia NForce 430 southbridge, AMD Athlon X2 cpu. For various reasons I've had to upgrade to the 2.6.24.3 kernel, so I compiled it with

[SLUG] French police take up linux

2008-01-30 Thread Phil Scarratt
May be old news to some, but just in case :) http://news.smh.com.au/french-police-deal-blow-to-microsoft/20080130-1p2v.html The French paramilitary police force said Wednesday it is ditching Microsoft for the free Linux operating system, becoming one of the biggest administrations in the

Re: [SLUG] Restricting access to certain IP addresses with OpenVPN

2008-01-29 Thread Phil Scarratt
Andre Kolodochka wrote: Hi sluggers, We have OpenVPN server running internally for employees to access our network from home. We have a request from a potential client to access some internal demo systems. They are happy to install and use OpenVPN client, however I won't be happy giving them

Re: [SLUG] Restricting access to certain IP addresses with OpenVPN

2008-01-29 Thread Phil Scarratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Andre Kolodochka [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi sluggers, We have OpenVPN server running internally for employees to access our network from home. We have a request from a potential client to access some internal demo systems. They are happy to install and use OpenVPN

Re: [SLUG] Call for the likeminded.. Assistance with Local Linux Distro

2008-01-22 Thread Phil Scarratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody.. I have stumbled into something which I think is too big for me and I am looking to reach out to people who might find some value. By Trade, I am a Programmer/Project Manager. Last year I worked at the Department of Commerce and they were talking about

Re: [SLUG] Call for the likeminded.. Assistance with Local Linux Distro

2008-01-22 Thread Phil Scarratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I simply use the server version of ubuntu and apt-get any other extras I may or may not need depending on the function of the server. Yes.. but it takes some time to do all that... I guess you are talking about not having

Re: [SLUG] RegEx question

2007-11-08 Thread Phil Scarratt
Rick Welykochy wrote: Stuart Guthrie wrote: Not being a regex expert I was hoping someone could point me at a list, forum or just give me a pointer on how to achieve this: Field that must have 2 out of 3 of these: standard a-z/A-Z arabic numbers 0-9 special chars %$#@ [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] RegEx question

2007-11-08 Thread Phil Scarratt
Rick Welykochy wrote: Stuart Guthrie wrote: Not being a regex expert I was hoping someone could point me at a list, forum or just give me a pointer on how to achieve this: Field that must have 2 out of 3 of these: standard a-z/A-Z arabic numbers 0-9 special chars %$#@ [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] RegEx question

2007-11-08 Thread Phil Scarratt
Phil Scarratt wrote: Rick Welykochy wrote: Stuart Guthrie wrote: Not being a regex expert I was hoping someone could point me at a list, forum or just give me a pointer on how to achieve this: Field that must have 2 out of 3 of these: standard a-z/A-Z arabic numbers 0-9 special chars

Re: [SLUG] RegEx question

2007-11-08 Thread Phil Scarratt
Phil Scarratt wrote: Rick Welykochy wrote: Stuart Guthrie wrote: Not being a regex expert I was hoping someone could point me at a list, forum or just give me a pointer on how to achieve this: Field that must have 2 out of 3 of these: standard a-z/A-Z arabic numbers 0-9 special chars

Re: [SLUG] Bluetooth Headsets

2007-06-10 Thread Phil Scarratt
Richard Neal wrote: Sorry just found out kmail doesnt do hyperlinking. The Plantronics Voyager 510 is a bluetooth device, I have sold a truck load of them over the last year so I should know :-)

Re: [SLUG] Bluetooth Headsets

2007-06-07 Thread Phil Scarratt
Richard Neal wrote: The actual headset itself is peripheral, what hardware your using to interface with the PC is what really matters. The Plantronics Voyager 510USB bluetooth headset works with Ubuntu (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=459977). I should get the whole Plantronics USB

[SLUG] Bluetooth Headsets

2007-06-06 Thread Phil Scarratt
Hi Have many people had success with getting bluetooth headsets working? I use Ubuntu Dapper/Feisty. Fil -- 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] ssh questions

2007-06-04 Thread Phil Scarratt
Voytek Eymont wrote: On Tue, June 5, 2007 11:57 am, Phil Scarratt wrote: Voytek Eymont wrote: my logs are littered with the usual failed login crap; yes, if only to save the crap in the logs. Any port above say 4 should do I would think, but you may have other restrictions depending

Re: [SLUG] ssh questions

2007-06-04 Thread Phil Scarratt
Voytek Eymont wrote: On Tue, June 5, 2007 11:57 am, Phil Scarratt wrote: Voytek Eymont wrote: my logs are littered with the usual failed login crap; yes, if only to save the crap in the logs. Any port above say 4 should do I would think, but you may have other restrictions depending

Re: [SLUG] ssh questions

2007-06-04 Thread Phil Scarratt
Voytek Eymont wrote: my logs are littered with the usual failed login crap; is moving ssh to a different port 'good idea' ? preferabley some port that will still allow me access from various places. what port ? port range ? yes, if only to save the crap in the logs. Any port above say 4

Re: [SLUG] ssh questions

2007-06-04 Thread Phil Scarratt
Voytek Eymont wrote: if I'm on an ssh connection, how do I restart sshd...? shouldn't the ssh session I'm on drop me off ? # service sshd status sshd (pid 13182 10855 10853 7350 7348) is running... # service sshd restart Stopping sshd: [ OK ]

Re: [SLUG] JFS on RAID Disappeared

2007-05-15 Thread Phil Scarratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not sure if this is a dumb question, but why use JFS2? I imagine the market share of JFS2 on Linux is probably only a few percent, whereas EXT3 is probably 80% plus. While there may be some technical advantages of

Re: [SLUG] JFS on RAID Disappeared

2007-05-15 Thread Phil Scarratt
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Phil Scarratt I really have no stick-it-out-through-everything-loyalty to JFS. ... but ain't it painful that choosing filesystems (sensibly) generally involves actively using them with data you care about for a reasonable period of time? :-) :( unfortunately

Re: [SLUG] JFS on RAID Disappeared

2007-05-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
Martin Visser wrote: Not sure if this is a dumb question, but why use JFS2? I imagine the market share of JFS2 on Linux is probably only a few percent, whereas EXT3 is probably 80% plus. While there may be some technical advantages of JFS2, I imagine the level of support available is going to be

[SLUG] JFS on RAID Disappeared

2007-05-13 Thread Phil Scarratt
. TIA Fil -- Phil Scarratt Draxsen Technologies m: 0403 531 271 -- -- 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] JFS on RAID Disappeared

2007-05-13 Thread Phil Scarratt
Phil Scarratt wrote: Hi all I've got a raid (1+0) system which I formatted as JFS. It has worked fine for weeks now. The power dropped out suddenly this morning whilst reading from the RAID via NFS. On reboot, the RAID is empty - won't mount. Complains about fs type, which, even if specified

Re: [SLUG] JFS on RAID Disappeared

2007-05-13 Thread Phil Scarratt
Phil Scarratt wrote: Phil Scarratt wrote: Hi all I've got a raid (1+0) system which I formatted as JFS. It has worked fine for weeks now. The power dropped out suddenly this morning whilst reading from the RAID via NFS. On reboot, the RAID is empty - won't mount. Complains about fs type

Re: [SLUG] JFS on RAID Disappeared

2007-05-13 Thread Phil Scarratt
David Lloyd wrote: Phil, A hint for my own problem: it may have been caused by a badly configured mdadm.conf file (and this may well be the first time the system was rebooted since generating the mdadm.conf file). Answering my own question: RTFM in 3 steps: 1. man mkfs.jfs and note that

Re: [SLUG] JFS on RAID Disappeared

2007-05-13 Thread Phil Scarratt
David Lloyd wrote: Phil, sudden drop out. I guess another good idea is to protect with a UPS of some sort - they are relatively cheap (compared to losing all the data) and only need offer a minute or 2 up time to be able to unmount the partition correctly and shutdown. True; I wonder

Re: [SLUG] I'd like to know...

2007-05-09 Thread Phil Scarratt
P. G. Schmitt wrote: Looking at installing for the first time. The drive is currently NTFS. Will Linux install to this or do I need to redo it as FAT(32)? Will Linux read NTFS formatted partitions? Thanks, Paul. Currently, out of the box, it will read NTFS but not write it so you will

Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-11 Thread Phil Scarratt
Michael Lake wrote: Hi all I have to really get mutt setup for replying to email and it looks like DynDNS is what I need but I'd like to check here that my understanding is correct. SNIP It says one relay is counted for each recipient of a message you send. That is, one message, sent

Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-11 Thread Phil Scarratt
Michael Lake wrote: I have a gmail account but I rarely use it. I get all my mail in via fetchmail and read it with mutt and then I want to reply to something from mutt by just hitting reply. Copying from mutt into any other email system is a pain and I shouldn't be doing silly things like

Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-11 Thread Phil Scarratt
Robert Thorsby wrote: If you intend your ISP to be your real mailserver then there is no need for you to set up any of the Big 4 as your internal mailserver. In fact, mutt (and most other MUAs) have a setting sendmail=... or similar that simply gets interpreted as send the mail using

Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-11 Thread Phil Scarratt
Robert Thorsby wrote: You are right -- my response was not very well worded. All the lightweight MTAs hand off delivery to the upstream (ISPs) server. The real problem is, indeed, when you have your own domain name (as do I). I have never used frogpond but I have had no problem with my

Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-11 Thread Phil Scarratt
Michael Lake wrote: Phil Scarratt wrote: I meant I have used gmail's SMTP server to send from an email client on a laptop before, the laptop connecting to the internet with different internet connections depending on the country at the time. The from address was not gmail's - I can't

Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-11 Thread Phil Scarratt
Michael Lake wrote: Hi Mike wrote: and also here: http://lifehacker.com/software/email-apps/how-to-use-gmail-as-your-smtp-server-66.php Byron Hillis wrote: That link says that gmail rewrites the from and reply-to addresses to your gmail address. Yeah I saw that when I read into it

Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-11 Thread Phil Scarratt
Michael Lake wrote: Phil Scarratt wrote: This was sent via gmail Great. The headers are fine and dont show the gmail when I click reply so looks very useful. I think Gmail will be fine for what I need. I'll work on that when I have my laptop handy. The only issue I can see is if you

Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-11 Thread Phil Scarratt
Phil Scarratt wrote: Michael Lake wrote: Hi Mike wrote: and also here: http://lifehacker.com/software/email-apps/how-to-use-gmail-as-your-smtp-server-66.php Byron Hillis wrote: That link says that gmail rewrites the from and reply-to addresses to your gmail address. Yeah I saw

Re: [SLUG] e-mail content filter

2007-01-23 Thread Phil Scarratt
John wrote: Hi list, I've just had someone try and send me an e-mail with a .zip file attached containing a .exe file. It was rejected and an automatic message sent back to the sender explaining the situation. This is great you'd suppose but it isn't the way I'd like this to happen. What I'd

Re: [SLUG] IPTABLES rule change to allow interface with AD

2007-01-19 Thread Phil Scarratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have a server running in a DMZ servicing intranet and extranet. In the past we have blocked all traffic originating on the server from the two internal networks we run (eth1 and eth2) but have accepted traffic coming from the networks outside of the server. Eth0 is

Re: [SLUG] Spamassassin effectiveness

2007-01-17 Thread Phil Scarratt
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, Scott Ragen wrote: IMHO its better for a sender to get Your Mail has been rejected due to suspected spam, then the email getting lost in the spam box never to be seen. Except that they don't get that message. Instead they get a long,

Re: [SLUG] Spamassassin effectiveness

2007-01-17 Thread Phil Scarratt
Scott Ragen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 18/01/2007 10:18:30 AM: And then people start getting bounced messages for emails they didn't even send (faked from address) which adds to the spam. IMHO spam should not be bounced. Not bounced, rejected. This means the sending mta sends the

Re: [SLUG] Spamassassin effectiveness

2007-01-17 Thread Phil Scarratt
Scott Ragen wrote: That is unlikely, as spam programs will not bother creating a bounce message for the originating sender, it would just be a waste of its time. That's assuming all spammers are using spam programs with built in MTA Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] NAS SCSI/SATA

2007-01-11 Thread Phil Scarratt
Thanks to Amos and David for their replies. It confirms my own investigations. There is NAS and there is NAS. Cheap low end NAS are no better than a home build linux file server, in fact some that I found are worse (in terms of performance). Anyway, to get anything decent (ie better than what

[SLUG] NAS SCSI/SATA

2007-01-10 Thread Phil Scarratt
Hi esteemed ladies and gentleman... I have a couple of questions which I am currently googling which I would value people's opinion on: 1. Never having used NAS before, I am looking to find out the relative performance benefits of NAS as opposed to the plain ole' linux box file server, and

Re: [SLUG] Looking for a geographic IP tool

2006-12-17 Thread Phil Scarratt
Howard Lowndes wrote: Is there a tool similar to the RBL tools that are on the Internet, that I can supply an IP address to in the form of 11.22.33.44.iptooldb.com or similar and have it return to me a geo location for that IP address. I know the geo location won't be dead accurate but it

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
Chris Deigan wrote: Must be referring to the use of Exchange perhaps? On that point, I am having difficulty getting other solutions in to schools other than Exchange. What I am finding: - they (as in the decision makers at the school) don't necessarily like Exchange but say something like

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
Penedo wrote: Just looked around for Linux-based Exchange Replacements the other day and got a hunch that Scalix looks like a good candidate. Have you evaluated it yet? Not yet. I am currently evaluating Zimbra. Just took a quick look and will add Scalix to the list to evaluate. Fil --

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
David Lloyd wrote: Howard, I don't think there is too much likelihood of getting M$ products out of schools when you consider the predatory prices that M$ charge education for licences. I think it's time to change the way we think of this concept. The pricing of MS products to educational

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, Phil Scarratt wrote: Places always say they want all this stuff and generally never use anything beyond email. - requirements are generally: + email + private and shared calendars A lovely idea, nearly always implemented

Re: [SLUG] Newcomer

2006-07-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
Roberto Arias Alegria wrote: Hello there, I'm Roberto from Mexico and I barely have around a month here in Sydney, I'm going to study at Macquarie University a master in IT, and I'm also interested in Linux and OSS so I think your group is very interesting to me. I'm not sure if this is the

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: Firewall Device Opinions

2006-07-11 Thread Phil Scarratt
Ben Buxton wrote: Alexander Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: I have an Asus WL-500gP. 8Mb Flash and 32Mb DRAM (more than most other openwrt devices). It also has 2 USB ports. where did you buy this from ? I bought it in Europe...not sure if it's available in Aus, though

[SLUG] Firewall Device Opinions

2006-07-10 Thread Phil Scarratt
Hi I'm after opinions on the following two options in terms of a straight firewall. Since I have never used OpenWRT devices before I don't have any idea how they rate against a full pc running as a firewall. The options are: 1. OpenWRT on a Linksys device 2. Small form factor pc with some

Re: [SLUG] Firewall Device Opinions

2006-07-10 Thread Phil Scarratt
Christopher Vance wrote: On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 12:31:16AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: The biggest problem I have come across looking at these is finding something with 3 NICs without spending a fortune on a multiple interface card from Intel. The soekris and pc-engines wrap both have 3 NICs,

[SLUG] Re: [chat] Firefox as IE

2006-07-09 Thread Phil Scarratt
Alan L Tyree wrote: Can someone remind me how to make web sites think that Firefox is IE? There are other ways but easiest is to download User Agent Switcher extension. Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] Microsoft kinda do ODF

2006-07-07 Thread Phil Scarratt
Thought this was interesting and worth posting just in case someone out there hadn't read it. Fil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Microsoft kinda do ODF

2006-07-07 Thread Phil Scarratt
Phil Scarratt wrote: Thought this was interesting and worth posting just in case someone out there hadn't read it. Fil Oh dear http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/2911 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] Dapper Drake

2006-07-06 Thread Phil Scarratt
John Gibbons wrote: Sridhar, Is EasyUbuntu installed on top of Dapper or is it a separate distro? and once more for the list... On top of -- 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] Recent Webcam Purchases that work on Linux

2006-07-05 Thread Phil Scarratt
Metrics wrote: Hi all, First time poster, hope to get involved in slug a bit more in the future but I'm in a bit of a bind at the moment. Has anybody recently purchased a webcam that works under linux? I've googled and searched, and I have no problems getting one working, but it's just a matter

Re: [SLUG] Dapper : slow disk access?

2006-06-22 Thread Phil Scarratt
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Problem disappears with 2.6.15-23-686. Looks like 2.6.15-25-686 is borked. Ooops, I spoke too soon. First run on my test suite after booting to 2.6.15-23-686 ran fine. Second run was slow again. I do notice that when things are running

Re: [SLUG] Dapper : slow disk access?

2006-06-22 Thread Phil Scarratt
Simon Wong wrote: On Fri, 2006-06-23 at 10:00 +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: I stopped it from running altogether, which I believe means you have to stop using locate (no big deal). It shouldn't take too long to update anyway. I find locate very useful to have. In most cases it doesn't - just

Re: [SLUG] better visual diff tools?

2006-06-19 Thread Phil Scarratt
Sonia Hamilton wrote: On a different topic, I had a play with meld and kdiff3. Both only seem to allow you to merge *all* differences from one file to another, not allowing you to choose differences line-by-line. (You can manually copy and paste lines, but not easily move one line of diffs from

Re: [SLUG] Google Earth available for Linux

2006-06-13 Thread Phil Scarratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Methinks that it's graphics card related: I'm using SuSE10.1 AMD64 6600GT nvidia. Apart from 3 Seg Faults, its perfect. Good scenery, no visual artifacts, fast (just this makes me question the wine theory), and many reports here of some sort of woes. (panning, tilting

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

2006-06-12 Thread Phil Scarratt
Michael Fox wrote: On 6/13/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, a question for the Debian, Gentoo etc. users: have any of you have had a problem when you tried to get the system to upgrade itself from an older release (e.g. Debian 3.0 to 3.1)? Or does it always work perfectly

Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird automatic update not working

2006-06-07 Thread Phil Scarratt
://www.mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/ I have mine to automatically update but warn if extensions are incompatible. Fil -- Phil Scarratt Draxsen Technologies 0403 53 12 71 -- www.getfirefox.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] Gnome Keybinding Volume

2006-06-04 Thread Phil Scarratt
Phil Scarratt wrote: Craige McWhirter wrote: On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 12:06 +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: Just wondering what other people do with their keybinding on Gnome for media keys. I use System - Preferences - Keyboard Shortcuts to set all my media keys. As do I - but the problem

Re: [SLUG] Gnome Keybinding Volume

2006-06-04 Thread Phil Scarratt
Phil Scarratt wrote: Craige McWhirter wrote: On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 12:06 +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: Just wondering what other people do with their keybinding on Gnome for media keys. I use System - Preferences - Keyboard Shortcuts to set all my media keys. Thanks to all who replied

Re: [SLUG] Re: ubuntu

2006-06-04 Thread Phil Scarratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi A last request for help: a) I want to configure my soundcards. They are there: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# lspci |grep audio :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02) :02:0c.0 Multimedia

Re: [SLUG] Gnome Keybinding Volume

2006-06-04 Thread Phil Scarratt
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Phil Scarratt All this cause Gnome (or Ubuntu - not sure which but I suspect Gnome) can't change the bloody default sound card properly. That selection thingy is an Ubuntu patch for GNOME. All of this stuff is very badly integrated and broken, and I blame several

Re: FLOSS audio, polypaudio [Was: [SLUG] Gnome Keybinding Volume]

2006-06-04 Thread Phil Scarratt
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Phil Scarratt If only there was a reliable patch that could be implemented temporarily. Two comments - huge integration tasks like fixing the FLOSS audio and media subsystems are not fixed with patches... and temporary fixes are often the most permanent (cf. esd

Re: FLOSS audio, polypaudio [Was: [SLUG] Gnome Keybinding Volume]

2006-06-04 Thread Phil Scarratt
Andrew Bennetts wrote: On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 01:27:25PM +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: [...] Two very good points. I guess I wasn't thinking that broadly. The only problem I was thinking about was device order, everything else works well enough to wait for bigger-better-brighter subsystems

[SLUG] Gnome Keybinding Volume

2006-06-03 Thread Phil Scarratt
Hi Just wondering what other people do with their keybinding on Gnome for media keys. Most of mine work but the volume and mute don't - they control the wrong thing. I've found - well actually Google did - quite a lot of people who report the keybinding controls the master when they need it

Re: [SLUG] Gnome Keybinding Volume

2006-06-03 Thread Phil Scarratt
Craige McWhirter wrote: On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 12:06 +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: Just wondering what other people do with their keybinding on Gnome for media keys. I use System - Preferences - Keyboard Shortcuts to set all my media keys. As do I - but the problem is not so much the key

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