[SLUG] Way OT: UK net access (was: Bigpond Cable)

access. They're as slow as Telstra were until Optus came along. sigh -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]Travel site: http://www.rumble.net/travel http://www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] UK sub branch of SLUG?

:P (Hey, I have to have _something_ that makes up for missing your beautiful Summer.) -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]Travel site: http://www.rumble.net/travel http://www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Resend: Bigpond Cable

local calls eek -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]Travel site: http://www.rumble.net/travel http://www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Back and USB

. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]Travel site: http://www.rumble.net/travel http://www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Back and USB

2.4.0 has it as a seperate section -- have looked everywhere. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]Travel site: http://www.rumble.net/travel http://www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] [OT] BIOS setup on an old 386

Call me weird but at the slightest sign of trouble I'd be ditching the 386 and moving onto another one. Not like there's any shortage of 386s around... -- Rev Simon Rumble "Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial [EMAIL PROTECTED]city interested in p

Re: [SLUG] OT NT on train timetable screens vs indicator boards

$50 donation to the Open Source project of your choice in the name of the first person to post a genuine image of the new train indicators with a BSOD. -- Rev Simon Rumble "Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial [EMAIL PROTECTED]city interested in p

Re: [SLUG] OT NT on train timetable screens vs indicator boards

some lucky open source project. -- Rev Simon Rumble "Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial [EMAIL PROTECTED]city interested in purely materialistic things. Today http://www.rumble.net we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples,

Re: [SLUG] that web page that tests for open mail relays

whether or not your server can be used to relay mail? I think either MAPS or ORBS used to do it, but canned it after it was abused. http://mail-abuse.org/rbl/ http://www.orbs.org/ (PS: totally OT but is it just me or is Telstra Cable absolutely fscked at the moment?) -- Rev Simon Rumble

Re: [SLUG] Storage Area Networks

with new acronym. Attempt to become more than a hard disk manufacturer and get a bigger piece of the action. (That was my understanding of it. Feel free to prove me wrong.) -- Rev Simon Rumble "Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial [EMAIL PROTECTED]city inter

Re: [SLUG] Junkbuster Proxy

) -- Rev Simon Rumble "Athens built the Acropolis. Corinth was a commercial [EMAIL PROTECTED]city interested in purely materialistic things. Today http://www.rumble.net we admire Athens, visit it, preserve the old temples, yet we hardly ever set

[SLUG] Debian mirror at mirror.aarnet.edu.au

Is it just me or is the Debian unstable mirror @mirror.aarnet.edu.au in a bit of a state at the moment? Getting 404s when I do an apt-get from dselect :( What does one do when this happens and you need to apt-get install something? (sgml-tools2 in this case) -- Rev Simon Rumble "A

Re: [SLUG] interesting rumour

and memory leaks to get it to work. -- Rev Simon RumbleIt seemed the world was divided into good [EMAIL PROTECTED]and bad people. The good ones slept better http://www.rumble.net ... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more

Re: [SLUG] Debian Newbie Update :-)

think it may have been /etc/apt.sources in 2.1) and away you go. Do apt dist-upgrade first. I'd upgrade to 2.2 before trying to get X going if I were you. -- Rev Simon RumbleIt seemed the world was divided into good [EMAIL PROTECTED]and bad people. The good ones slept better

Re: [SLUG] postgres vs mysql

fast on read-only stuff and ridiculously slow if you have 1 concurrent user and one or more of them are making changes. -- Rev Simon RumbleIt seemed the world was divided into good [EMAIL PROTECTED]and bad people. The good ones slept better http://www.rumble.net ... while

Re: [SLUG] postgres vs mysql

Wait a second, this is from the same company that runs: http://www.weather.com/weather/cities/as__sydney.html Which can't seem to deliver you a nice, easy weather map in a reasonable unit of measure. Obviously database gurus! -- Rev Simon RumbleIt seemed the world was divided

Re: [SLUG] Billy Boy is arriving

this for me? -- Rev Simon RumbleIt seemed the world was divided into good [EMAIL PROTECTED]and bad people. The good ones slept better http://www.rumble.net ... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen

[SLUG] Fwd: Communist?

. Here's what I wrote in to LWN. - Forwarded message from Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2000 12:09:39 +1000 From: Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Communist? The communist label for free software is always a laughable one. When

Re: [SLUG] Broadband access with permanent IP address?

server etc elsewhere and go for the non-permanent. Do you REALLY have the infrastructure to support it 24/7 anyway? UPS? 24/7 support? Air conditioned computer room? Generator? -- Rev Simon RumbleThe problem with most conspiracy theories is [EMAIL PROTECTED]that they seem

[SLUG] IP Accounting

(losing old data) and mrtg uses snmp which is (I'm told) not very complete or reliable in the Linux kernel... Ideas? It's for an old kernel machine 2.0.36 and I can't upgrade it but ip accounting is compiled in. -- Rev Simon RumbleThe problem with most conspiracy theories is [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] good advocacy article

for people who can't afford it, builds useful web sites to stimulate discussion, dissent and ideas [www.active.org.au and www.indymedia.org being the main output] and a great place for geeks to help out generally.) -- Rev Simon RumbleThe problem with most conspiracy theories is [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Apache hits 62.8%

, however makes sense when reporting "this many sites use this software" as opposed to "there are this many public web servers running this software". -- Rev Simon RumbleThe problem with most conspiracy theories is [EMAIL PROTECTED]that they seem to believe t

Re: [SLUG] Debian printer setup

is available on Debian. It was the only way I managed to get my printer to work. -- Rev Simon RumbleThe problem with most conspiracy theories is [EMAIL PROTECTED]that they seem to believe that for a group http://www.rumble.net of people to behave in a way detrimental

Re: [SLUG] A comment on Linux Security Reviews

apt-get fairly regularly -- I tend to do it at least weekly and sometimes more when I'm looking for a specific package. (though that's unstable -- frozen would be less frequent) -- Rev Simon RumbleThe problem with most conspiracy theories is [EMAIL PROTECTED]that they seem

Re: [SLUG] ATO's keys and certificates

another Australia Card by default. (see Tax File Number which achieved all the aims of the Australia Card without the privacy safeguards) -- Rev Simon Rumble Opinions expressed in this email may [EMAIL PROTECTED] not reflect those of the host brain. http://www.rumble.net

Re: [SLUG] ATO's keys and certificates

escrow and reducing the public's access to strong crypto. A good start, written by some anonymous EFA legend with a good grasp of the issues: http://www.efa.org.au/Issues/Crypto/crypto2.html -- Rev Simon Rumble Opinions expressed in this email may [EMAIL PROTECTED] not reflect those of

Re: [SLUG] Specify which processes run on which processor

nearly as much as it wants anyway. Of course if you're IO bound, you're not going to find much help from more CPUs or better scheduling. -- Rev Simon Rumble Opinions expressed in this email may [EMAIL PROTECTED] not reflect those of the host brain. http://www.rumble.net

Re: [SLUG] Replacement for Netscape Mail

an't find it, grepmail -i blah Mail/* |less Very very cool :) -- Rev Simon Rumble Opinions expressed in this email may [EMAIL PROTECTED] not reflect those of the host brain. http://www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Kickarse GIMP Plugins (and stuff)

with GIMP but the keys aren't very sensible. I use VMWare for my Photoshopping. Best of both worlds :) If it weren't for that and the fact that colleagues send me Word files, I wouldn't need Windows at all except to play some games and watch DVDs. -- Rev Simon Rumble Opinions expressed

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