Re: [SLUG] Generating an X.509 certificate from GPG key

2004-05-13 Thread Simon Wong
On Wed, 2004-05-12 at 11:34, Jeff Waugh wrote: You can get a free personal certificate from Thawte. Or used to be able true, true https://www.thawte.com/email/index.html tah. -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Setup eth card under debian (Knoppix 3.4)

2004-05-13 Thread Simon Wong
and it will bring up the home definition. Cool! -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- 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] Freeswan IPsec VPN through ADSL Modem doing NAT

2004-05-13 Thread Simon Wong
using the default of ESP so that should be okay. Now, I just need to sit and wait until the other party is home to try again. The speedtouch docos certainly indicate that outbound VPN connections should be fine so that will probably fix the problem. -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org

Re: [SLUG] Freeswan IPsec VPN through ADSL Modem doing NAT

2004-05-13 Thread Simon Wong
On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 14:32, Howard Lowndes wrote: I had a similar problem using Fortinet SSH Sentinel on the laptop. Ironically it worked fine when the laptop was running W2K but wouldn't work when running XP, so I'm guessing that it's an XP issue and not a NAT issue. I never did get it

Re: [SLUG] Modifying gnome mouse click menu

2004-05-12 Thread Simon Wong
menu. There's a RedHat project using D-Bus that should sort all his out in the near future... HTH Let me know if you need any more help. Cheers Erich -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Generating an X.509 certificate from GPG key

2004-05-11 Thread Simon Wong
. http://www.imc.org/smime-pgpmime.html http://www.slipstick.com/addins/security.htm http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/RBG/service/FAQ2/Anleitungen/smime4mutt-1.3.17-2/smime.html -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] Generating an X.509 certificate from GPG key

2004-05-11 Thread Simon Wong
are RSA keys. -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- 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] Kernel update causes kernel panic - devfs? lilo update?

2004-04-27 Thread Simon Wong
=on apm=power-off acpi=off -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

FIXED Re: [SLUG] Kernel update causes kernel panic - devfs? lilo update?

2004-04-27 Thread Simon Wong
help :-) -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Multi-function laser printer/copier recommendations?

2004-04-18 Thread Simon Wong
able to send/receive faxes would be useful but not essential as I can use efax to do that. I've been looking on linuxprinting.org and the HPOJ driver site for some info. Does anyone have any recommendations and experiences that they'd like to share? -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org

Re: [SLUG] Multi-function laser printer/copier recommendations?

2004-04-18 Thread Simon Wong
the HP3300mfp. I'll see how much the 3330 costs. Is the copying stand-alone i.e. no PC? Can you receive faxes to PC or even just direct print? -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] palm and usb, how to setup ?

2004-04-12 Thread Simon Wong
which I did and it works fine again. Let me know how you go and if you need more help... -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] Problem with X Window in Debian 3.0R2 Woody

2004-03-31 Thread Simon Wong
config file you have from your Mandrake setup. It's called XF86Config-4 and is located in /etc/X11 in Debian at least, search for a file of that name. -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] info on barebone laptos

2004-03-30 Thread Simon Wong
others may be interested as to what modems ELX believe are good. No matter... -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] info on barebone laptos

2004-03-29 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 09:53, Grant Parnell wrote: Depends what you mean by barebone. The following examples are just with no operating system no bundled software. http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/cat/systems/laptops What modems are in those laptops? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Forwarding netbios broadcasts

2004-03-25 Thread Simon Wong
this ? I think you can do some sort of bridge to join two subnets. I saw something about it when setting up Freeswan but some googling just then didn't turn it up :-( -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] Web blocking software - anyone know of any good stuff?

2004-03-24 Thread Simon Wong
if that will do the same in AD. -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Intel release Centrino wireless driver

2004-03-10 Thread Simon Wong
infrastructure connections (I used it at LCA2004 with NO problems). I hope this project progresses further and faster though... Did you try it out? How did it compare against ndiswrapper? -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] [OT] Light email replacement for Outlook Express

2004-02-25 Thread Simon Wong
reliable for my sister (until I get her laptop onto Linux ;-) -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Mail relay/proxy for Fedora Core 1

2004-02-24 Thread Simon Wong
with relay_recipient_maps. I'll have a look at how I might be able to do this using samba/winbind. Otherwise the user list doesn't change that frequently... So, setup summary: Thanks for the pointers Jeff. -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Mail relay/proxy for Fedora Core 1

2004-02-23 Thread Simon Wong
everything to a grinding halt :-( Will postfix be better able to handle this sort of problem and cut the connection or is it more likely the mail server? Also, I see that Fedora has no specific rpm, would an RH9 rpm work? -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] freeswan on debian

2004-02-23 Thread Simon Wong
Alexander? I would like to get Freeswan working again in Debian. -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] anti virus tool

2004-02-23 Thread Simon Wong
and how do you find them wrt the above, Jeff and others? -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Mail relay/proxy for Fedora Core 1

2004-02-23 Thread Simon Wong
of other ports open on the mail server itself. I want a mail proxy that will also help ensure that valid SMTP is passed onto the mail server. -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] Mail relay/proxy for Fedora Core 1

2004-02-22 Thread Simon Wong
something? I have seen perdition around but I can't find any rpms for Fedora and it looks quite complicated. Thanks. -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Mail relay/proxy for Fedora Core 1

2004-02-22 Thread Simon Wong
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 11:28, Mike MacCana wrote: I hear good things about Obtuse SMTPd. I've used Postfix in the past, but that's really overkill. Thanks. I'll have a look into them... -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Email to SMS gateway

2004-01-27 Thread Simon Wong
their service through www.telstramobileloop.com.au but wasn't able to catch anything useful with Ethereal (not that I'm experienced with using it). Do you know if it's possible? -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] moving net to ppp0 from ethX

2004-01-21 Thread Simon Wong
On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 22:41, Simon wrote: At home I use to get my net connection from eth1 and things have changed and I need dial up access. I swear there is some config file that says INTERNET=eth1 or similar. I can dial in and get an IP, but I cant ping google etc. System is mandrake,

[SLUG] Linux Conf Adelaide - LPI Exam anyone?

2003-12-10 Thread Simon Wong
like to catch up with some sluggers over there... -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] dialup problem

2003-10-24 Thread Simon Wong
On Fri, 2003-10-24 at 08:01, Mark A. Bell wrote: The problem is that occasionally, maybe every 5th or 6th time that I connect, wvdial runs perfectly and establishes a connection to my ISP (Bigpond), but my browser won't access any sites. Dillo tells me unable to resolve..., Firebird tells me

Re: [SLUG] Gnoppix 0.6.0-beta1 release

2003-10-17 Thread Simon Wong
it using a better DE!!) :-) Knoppix v3.2 worked 100% with my new IBM T40 laptop which is pretty impressive considering the mucking around I've had to do to get Debian working on it... I hope the new version is a *lot* better 0 it would be nice to have a G2 based disk. -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] OT: who sells old software

2003-09-03 Thread Simon Wong
it backon track soon... -- Thanks KenF OpenOffice.org developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] OT: who sells old software

2003-09-03 Thread Simon Wong
of project management which is all 99% of people need. What's the political weirdness? -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Debian install fails - cant downloadlibstdc++2.10-glibc2.2

2003-08-26 Thread Simon Wong
you could try installing it from the other terminal with dpkg -i /path/libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2_2.95.4-11woody1_i386.deb ? -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Which Laptop?

2003-08-25 Thread Simon Wong
... -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Gnome-gv deb package hanging on unpack

2003-08-25 Thread Simon Wong
killed by signal (Interrupt) dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-removal script killed by signal (Interrupt) Errors were encountered while processing: /usr/aptArchive/gnome-gv_2.0.0-1_i386.deb -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Partition resize...

2003-07-09 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 16:05, Douglas Stalker wrote: Is there something special you need to do to allow you to access drive paritions? Did you run the resize utility as root? The knoppix GUI starts up as user knoppix; to become root you need to switch to one of the consoles

Re: [SLUG] Partition resize...

2003-07-07 Thread Simon Wong
. Is there something special you need to do to allow you to access drive paritions? In the end I have found that LNX BBC (www.lnx-bbc.org) was excellent (has parted, fdisk and cfdisk). -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] Themes in nautilus?

2003-06-25 Thread Simon Wong
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 10:07, Kevin Saenz wrote: That bites. It's about consistency... Applications Desktop Preferences Theme. Themes are now the old meta-themes. Details will alow you to choose which icon theme you want to use. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] debian apt and jdk

2003-06-24 Thread Simon Wong
and fix it. I like to use the JDK straight from SUN (java.sun.com), it is quite straight forward to install. It's not free software but is straight from the horse's mouth. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] GCC debian question

2003-06-20 Thread Simon Wong
-kpkg ... The only thing I'm finding is that its NOT being used when building modules with the modules_image target. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

FIXED Re: [SLUG] Re: Building kernels with GCC 3.3

2003-06-16 Thread Simon Wong
bother looking any further into that! HTH. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Re: Building kernels with GCC 3.3

2003-06-15 Thread Simon Wong
with the Makefile set to use gcc-2.95 and it works OK. Thanks. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Building kernels with GCC 3.3 WAS Re: [SLUG] GCC debian question

2003-06-11 Thread Simon Wong
-2.4.19/drivers' make[1]: *** [_dir_drivers] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.19' make: *** [stamp-build] Error 2 Seems funny. I tried setting CC=/usr/bin/gcc-2.95 but same problem. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Root access to X server

2003-06-09 Thread Simon Wong
On Fri, 2003-06-06 at 11:36, Dave Airlie wrote: On Fri, 6 Jun 2003, Simon Wong wrote: The problem is with just the top one I get (with export DISPLAY=:0.0: try export DISPLAY=:0 No luck :-( have a look at the xauth list to see what you have... Good tip! What I had to do to get

[SLUG] Root access to X server

2003-06-06 Thread Simon Wong
. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Root access to X server

2003-06-06 Thread Simon Wong
somewhere? -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[OT] Windows XP CIPE client WAS Re: [SLUG] VPN security issue

2003-05-29 Thread Simon Wong
work okay? I was looking at this the other day as I need to setup some VPNs between Windows 9x/2000/XP and Linux clients and RedHat servers. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Kernel building under Debian...

2003-04-03 Thread Simon Wong
). -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] firestarter help

2003-03-31 Thread Simon Wong
as their gateway i.e. the machine to send all unresolved traffic to. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Re: dektop publishing

2003-03-18 Thread Simon Wong
for papers and articles as it really does let you focus on your content and less so on your formatting. It does allow you to embed latex commands for power users. As for DTP? Maybe, I'm not a power user... -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

[SLUG] EXT3 or HDD hardware problem?

2003-03-16 Thread Simon Wong
)): ext3_clear_journal_err: Filesystem error recorded from previous mount: IO failure Can anyone suggest any tools for helping identify a HDD hardware problem? Or is it an EXT3 problem? Thanks for any pointers. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Quiz

2003-03-16 Thread Simon Wong
in their National Geek IQ test...I think it was the Feb issue. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Debian: upgrading from testing to unstable

2003-01-29 Thread Simon Wong
this...I'm a little concerned/conservative about everything being unstable. I might look at keeping some things (like X) at testing. Thanks again. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo

Re: [SLUG] stopping apps from starting up

2003-01-29 Thread Simon Wong
applications desktop prefrences advanced sessions and remove gpilotd from the list of applications attached to the session. After that, log out and save the session - next time should be fine :-) -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

[SLUG] Debian: upgrading from testing to unstable

2003-01-28 Thread Simon Wong
libc6! 175 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 609 not upgraded. Any clues why this is so? Surely, I don't have to apt-get install the unstable version of libc6 etc?? Any tips would be great as I don't want to screw up my system :-( -- ** * Simon Wong

Re: [SLUG] Netmask calculations.

2003-01-21 Thread Simon Wong
On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 13:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What should I be specifying as a netmask, and how do I calculate appropriate netmasks. This URL is useful for working out netmasks etc: http://logi.cc/nw/NetCalc.php3 -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] GNOME 2.2 RC1: 1.21 Jigawatts is out!

2003-01-13 Thread Simon Wong
. If you've got plenty of HDD space and some spare CPU capacity, build this from Garnome and help us make it the best ever Gnome release! Enjoy! -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] New member

2003-01-13 Thread Simon Wong
. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] How to back ground processes in bash?

2003-01-09 Thread Simon Wong
: No such file or directory Could anyone help with this? Is there another way to do it? BTW the first version works fine in ZSH. TIA -- * Simon J.P. Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] How to back ground processes in bash?

2003-01-09 Thread Simon Wong
, hold up the process. Thanks anyway... What about removing the from the above line and running the script as: ./script.sh ? -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] How to back ground processes in bash?

2003-01-09 Thread Simon Wong
to Peter... -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] How to back ground processes in bash?

2003-01-09 Thread Simon Wong
. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Re: Backing up and restoring panel launchers (in Gnome)

2003-01-07 Thread Simon Wong
wants to do this... 1. Open a directory with *.desktop files in nautilus 2. Drag the ones you want onto the panel/drawers etc 3. Enjoy! -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] RH7.3 + Gnome = X crashing

2002-12-16 Thread Simon Wong
to recover the machine. Was X working before on this installation? Have you looked through the X log in /var/log/XFree86.0.log? That should contain some clues for you. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] Learning about security.

2002-12-16 Thread Simon Wong
option. Opinions? I have the Hacking Linux Exposed book and found it good. The only problem is that it makes you *paranoid* :-( -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] cdroast track problem

2002-12-16 Thread Simon Wong
using cdda2wav to retrieve the contents of the CD - then you can look at whether it's reading that okay (man cdda2wav). -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Telling cups where ghostscript is located

2002-12-15 Thread Simon Wong
Quick one for the experts... Can anyone tell me how to tell the cups daemon where my ghostscript is installed (it's in /usr/local/espgs)? TIA. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au

[OT] Re: [SLUG] Setting Up a Website

2002-12-11 Thread Simon Wong
. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Page up/down keys not working

2002-12-10 Thread Simon Wong
not changed and are using pc104, us keyboard. Does anyone have any clues as to what this may be? TIA for any tips. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] usb mouse more responsive kernel 2.4.20

2002-12-08 Thread Simon Wong
responsive under heavy cpu load. Might be worth an upgrade for USB users. 2.4.20 may include the pre-emptive kernel code to improve user responsiveness? I had it as a patch for 2.4.19. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] html-php editor

2002-12-08 Thread Simon Wong
. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] HTML indenter/validator recommendations

2002-12-02 Thread Simon Wong
On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 17:25, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:58:09PM +1100, Simon Wong wrote: I have been using HTML tidy from W3C but the Debian package is way out of date. You could compile from source .. it's a doddle. Yeah but I'm interested in what people

[SLUG] HTML indenter/validator recommendations

2002-12-01 Thread Simon Wong
Afternoon! I have been using HTML tidy from W3C but the Debian package is way out of date. I was wondering if people could recommend other HTML tidiers and validators that they use. One tool would be good but two is okay. TIA. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] What deb package do I require for true type fontsinmagicpoint ?

2002-11-28 Thread Simon Wong
:-) -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] newbie needs some help please..:-)

2002-11-25 Thread Simon Wong
Start here: http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/resources.html and if that is still too confusing ask the list and we'll help out. I have a Lucent based modem and it works fine with these drivers. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Can't get 800x600 in X on my laptop LCD

2002-11-21 Thread Simon Wong
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 10:53, Simon Wong wrote: I'm trying to get 800x600 to work on my laptop (so I can use the TV out - also good for checking web pages). I am getting errors that the horizontal sync rates are out of range. Final solution as to increase them to some crazy limits. Seems

[SLUG] Can't get 800x600 in X on my laptop LCD

2002-11-20 Thread Simon Wong
be really great. Thanks. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] December meeting

2002-11-18 Thread Simon Wong
On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 11:16, Mary wrote: A. A December meeting on Friday 13th December (for that extra special Friday the 13th feel...) Is my choice... -- ** * Simon Wong * ** signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [SLUG] Red Hat 8.0 Personal Installation Problems

2002-11-18 Thread Simon Wong
/chatscripts/Bigpond /dev/ttyLT0 115200 defaultroute noipdefault idle 1800 usepeerdns Not sure where it goes exactly in RedHat though. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au

[SLUG] [OT] Broken PGP key synchronization?

2002-11-16 Thread Simon Wong
the signed keys. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] winmodem

2002-11-09 Thread Simon Wong
what the diagnosis is... http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/ HTH -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] winmodem

2002-11-09 Thread Simon Wong
On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 21:00, Simon Wong wrote: I suggest you start looking at this page and see what the diagnosis is... http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/ HTH Sorry, should have looked at my other link first... support for the Motorola SM56 doesn't look too good :-( Lucent based

Re: [SLUG] winmodem

2002-11-09 Thread Simon Wong
) and ethernet (EtherExpress 10/100) that came with my Dell laptop. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Cisco IPTV client?

2002-11-04 Thread Simon Wong
Can anyone recommend a client that is compatible with Cisco's IPTV server? Maybe I can get it going before the big race :-) -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2002-11-01 Thread Simon Wong
that does that for you. You could make it a cron job so that it runs automatically at set time intervals. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] galeon/mozilla broke

2002-10-31 Thread Simon Wong
. If so it's going to be a Mozilla problem, not Galeon (it's just the UI). -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Howto Rip an ISO - copy a cd?

2002-10-17 Thread Simon Wong
was wondering there was a quick way to make a backup of a music CD ie copy in one pass (like dd for data) and then burn in one go rather than reassembling tracks. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Howto Rip an ISO - copy a cd?

2002-10-16 Thread Simon Wong
records in 0+0 records out 0 bytes transferred in 0.167758 seconds (0 bytes/sec) Doesn't like the fs I guess. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Howto Rip an ISO - copy a cd?

2002-10-16 Thread Simon Wong
On Thu, 2002-10-17 at 11:40, CaT wrote: What if it's an audio CD? Then cdparanoia is your friend. Tah. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] [Fwd: [Slashdot] Stories for 2002-10-14]

2002-10-14 Thread Simon Wong
://slashdot.org/search.pl?query=blender -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Debian - stopping debian revisions

2002-10-12 Thread Simon Wong
NOT revision numbers are upgraded. e.g. lsof 4.64-1 will only be upgraded if 4.65 or higher becomes available not 4.64-2. Is that possible?? -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo

[SLUG] Debian - stopping debian revisions

2002-10-11 Thread Simon Wong
with one? TIA. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Mount CD image as drive

2002-10-08 Thread Simon Wong
/mnt/img1 -t iso9660 -o loop The key is the loopback device. Also if I wish to do this frequently can I add it to /etc/fstab? Should be no problem. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] 2SER and Linux?

2002-10-04 Thread Simon Wong
On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 19:35, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Try: mplayer mms://138.25.162.211:8080 In other words, it's not actually HTTP. Doh! Thanks, it works fine... P.S. Your key has expired! -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

Re: [SLUG] Debian Policy Manual, Printable Version?

2002-10-04 Thread Simon Wong
files from html files. You can take tonnes of them and make your own pdf/ps book. Works very well. -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] 2SER and Linux?

2002-10-03 Thread Simon Wong
Connecting to server 138.25.162.211:8080 ... http_read_response read 0 -ie- EOF Unable to open URL: http://138.25.162.211:8080 Exiting... (End of file) I can telnet to that port but get nothing - it times out after a little while. TIA. -- ** * Simon Wong

Re: [SLUG] Preventing X from starting automatically...

2002-10-02 Thread Simon Wong
+ or CtrlAlt- to change resolutions up/down. Something similar with the delete key to kill X. Good luck... Check out the X How-To at www.ldp.org(?) -- * * Simon Wong* * * * [EMAIL PROTECTED

[SLUG] vi: commenting out all lines that aren't already

2002-09-30 Thread Simon Wong
vi gurus, I've done some googling but couldn't find something to tell me how... I want to comment out every line in a file (inetd.conf) but not the ones that already are. I tried :1,$s/^/# which does every line. Looks very uncool. Help?! -- ** * Simon Wong

Re: [SLUG] vi: commenting out all lines that aren't already

2002-09-30 Thread Simon Wong
and Andrew, although they replied quicker, replaced the first character of every non-hash started line with a hash. Thanks guys! -- ** * Simon Wong * ** -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

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