Re: [SLUG] Xcdroast data CD's

2002-09-11 Thread Terry Collins
, it says it is empty. Not recognising the file system? Tried hand mounting it? Just a few cents {:-). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without

Re: [SLUG] Sound vs. Mouse - Troubleshooting Approach?

2002-09-10 Thread Terry Collins
Tom wrote: Tips for approaching troubleshooting this? From what I can remember, this is becuase the wrong card has been selected in config (/etc/modules.conf options). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au

Re: [SLUG] OT: where can I get 650 MB CDR media

2002-09-05 Thread Terry Collins
Holroyd Engineering Services wrote: anyone know of stores which still sell these media around parammatta. 50 - 100 units I'm not sure about size or quality, but you could also try Kmart and Strathfield Car Radios. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email

[SLUG] Latex - putting picture in the middle of the page

2002-08-21 Thread Terry Collins
Does anyone know, in Latex, put a picture in the middle (vertical sense) of the page. I am trying to do a titel page for a report and coloured pictures are go {:-). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au

Found Re: [SLUG] Latex - putting picture in the middle of the page

2002-08-21 Thread Terry Collins
Terry Collins wrote: Does anyone know, in Latex, put a picture in the middle (vertical sense) of the page. I am trying to do a titel page for a report and coloured pictures are go {:-). Woops, found the solution - KISS. I'd disappeared into a \begin{figure} ...\end{figure} float

Re: [SLUG] Loss Of Email Account details In Netscape.

2002-08-18 Thread Terry Collins
Russell Andrew Willis wrote: Hi All, I'm using RH7.2 versions of Netscape 6.2..7.0 Mozilla (latest Netscape stores its mail in a visible sub-dir of the user directory (nsmail) and its config stuff in the invisible .netscape. Are you exiting the app properly? -- Terry Collins

Re: [SLUG] Loss Of Email Account details In Netscape.

2002-08-18 Thread Terry Collins
Russell Andrew Willis wrote: Hi All, I'm using RH7.2 versions of Netscape 6.2..7.0 Mozilla (latest Check the setup, there is a setting on whether to save on exit. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au

NOW two PCI network cards Re: [SLUG] two ISA network cards

2002-08-16 Thread Terry Collins
. Or is the wisdom- don't - use dual isa? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Detect Busy SCSI tape from Bash

2002-08-13 Thread Terry Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if not (tape busy) --- how to do in Bash? There might be something in the archives from Charlie Brady on scsi tape that meets your needs. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http

Re: [SLUG] Linux Boot error Code

2002-08-13 Thread Terry Collins
capped to 32gigs due to the bios not being able to detect it otherwise, slackware 8.1 is the os running on the bastard child. How about an old ide drive to hold mbr /boot, then everything is in the hands of linux. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL

[SLUG] Next Maclug Meeting

2002-08-11 Thread Terry Collins
help with Linux, come along with your questions and/or boxen. Please advise if you want some desk space. If you do not already know the address, please reply and identify yourself to the sender. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www

[SLUG] Latex: How to create a list of photographs

2002-08-09 Thread Terry Collins
}} ? Clue sticks gratefully accepted {:-). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Latex: How to create a list of photographs

2002-08-09 Thread Terry Collins
/listinfo/slug -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

[SLUG] Latex: \addtocontentsline not grabbing correct caption, was Re: [SLUG]Latex: How to create a list of photographs

2002-08-09 Thread Terry Collins
Terry Collins wrote: Christopher Vance wrote: .snip... : \newcommand{\listofexamples}{\@starttoc{loe}} : \newcommand{\pcaption}[1]{\addcontentsline{loe}{example}{#1}} : \newcommand{\l@example}[2]{\par\noindent#1 {\itshape #2}} ..snip Of where to look when it actually doesn't

[SLUG] What is that command?

2002-07-12 Thread Terry Collins
What is that command that you use when you want to run a program and see what libaries, etc that is calls. I have a ./lines: error while loading shared libraries: libncurses.so.4: cannot load shared object file: No such file or directory that I need to investigate. -- Terry Collins

Re: [SLUG] What is that command?

2002-07-12 Thread Terry Collins
Tom Massey wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 09:46:03PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: What is that command that you use when you want to run a program and see what libaries, etc that is calls. Is ldd what you're looking for? Don't know {:), but it gave me the information I needed to solve

Re: [SLUG] OT if you stretch the point somewhat.

2002-07-09 Thread Terry Collins
{:-(. Silicon Chip mentioned it for a project a few years ago {:-). You could also ask on aus.electronics. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS

Re: [SLUG] Jumper settings for aha1540b/42b

2002-07-07 Thread Terry Collins
. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info

Re: [SLUG] Booting problem with SCSI machine

2002-06-25 Thread Terry Collins
Matt Hyne wrote: The machine is a PII-400 with an Intel MB, NCR SCSI adaptor (sym53c8xx) and a 4.3Gb HDD. Does the kernel specifically recognise the sym53c8xx ? either it doesn't and/or this particular SCSI card is not bootable. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861

Re: [SLUG] Next problem ...

2002-06-23 Thread Terry Collins
for something that is in a directory on the cdrom). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Resetting SCSI devices

2002-06-22 Thread Terry Collins
Harry Ohlsen wrote: I have a SCSI CD burner. Whenever a write of a CD fails for some reason (normally an I/O error), all subsequent attempts fail with the following output. You could try unloading and reloading the scsi module(s). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628

[SLUG] MacLUG is on again this Saturday - Cantenna's for community Wirelessnetworks

2002-06-21 Thread Terry Collins
{:-). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More

[SLUG] MacLUG is on again this Saturday - Cantenna's for community

2002-06-20 Thread Terry Collins
{:-). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More

[SLUG] Latex - how to leave a blank page on a duplex printer?

2002-06-11 Thread Terry Collins
As the subject says; how do you tell latex to leave a blank page on a duplex printer. /newpage /newpage is ignored. I suppose if nothing else, I could always use that line from manuals -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www

Re: [SLUG] Latex - how to leave a blank page on a duplex printer?

2002-06-11 Thread Terry Collins
{:-). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

Re: [SLUG] Scanner On Linux

2002-06-06 Thread Terry Collins
the print taken off the slide looses quality in the final print, but blowing up the transparency can be just as fraught. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers

Re: [SLUG] innd can not find history file

2002-05-31 Thread Terry Collins
into it atm. BTW, it doesn't like innd start either. I guess there has been some version changes. Thanks for assistance. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers

Re: [SLUG] I need help with my sound card

2002-05-31 Thread Terry Collins
to disable it in bios first. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Network Printers and Linux

2002-05-30 Thread Terry Collins
and it should work. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] innd can not find history file

2002-05-30 Thread Terry Collins
John Clarke wrote: On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 02:40:06PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: May 30 14:22:49 owl innd: SERVER cant dbzinit /usr/local/news/db/history No such file or directory This error appears if any one of the three of the history* files are missing. Unfortunately, they were

Re: [SLUG] Magic TV Card

2002-05-29 Thread Terry Collins
in /etc/modules.conf that are the problem. bttv is in the basic distro now and not in xawtv. 2) search the SLUG archives for similar previous discussions. 3) If you don't want it, I'll take a donation {:-) -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[SLUG] innd can not find history file

2002-05-29 Thread Terry Collins
I've just installed inn and no matter what I try, it complains about not finding its history file. The problem is that the file (and db version) is there. Any ideas on this? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http

Re: [SLUG] innd can not find history file

2002-05-29 Thread Terry Collins
at the moment, I will try leafnode. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] innd can not find history file

2002-05-29 Thread Terry Collins
and other stuff produces the above error message. This error occurs with both history and history.* file present i.e flat files and database version. At this stage, I'm thinking hidden character error is the only explanation and to blow it away and recompile. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627

Re: [SLUG] Video stuff

2002-05-20 Thread Terry Collins
Howard Lowndes wrote: Does anyone have the URL for that mob in Perth who sell cameras, cards, http://www.allthings.com.au -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books

Re: [SLUG] PING warning message

2002-05-19 Thread Terry Collins
. Look at the machine that you are pinging. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Multiple machines behind a single IP address

2002-05-15 Thread Terry Collins
for woa.com.au that deals up 192.168.x.y address to all the internal boxes and goes outside to find legitimate IP numbers, when they want them Internal routing just points at the gateway when they want to go outside and the firewall takes care of the rest. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02

Re: [SLUG] Distributed email idea - opinions?

2002-05-15 Thread Terry Collins
- yet another hole in the home/corporate firewall. clients - ? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without

Re: [SLUG] Re: How To Adopt Gnus (An Emacs Mailer)

2002-05-14 Thread Terry Collins
..snip When Gus gets around to his Emacs talk... :-) http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~gc/html/howtos/howto-adopt-gnus.html Does it do nested mailboxes? yep, I'm using Netscape Communicator and I really need mail delivered to nested mailboxes. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02

Re: [SLUG] Re: How To Adopt Gnus (An Emacs Mailer)

2002-05-14 Thread Terry Collins
Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Terry Collins Does it do nested mailboxes? yep, I'm using Netscape Communicator and I really need mail delivered to nested mailboxes. Are there any clients that *don't* do nested mailboxes? Yes, just about everyone I've looked at. For example inbox

Re: [SLUG] Modem activity

2002-05-11 Thread Terry Collins
Alan L Tyree wrote: How can I find out what is causing it? tcpdump -ippp0 dns, time, weather, moon, etc. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS

Re: [SLUG] TV Excel PV-BT878P+ w/FM - audio too soft

2002-05-10 Thread Terry Collins
. options tuner type=1 debug= remove or set the debug. Is type=1 correct? It just doesn't ring a bell. Have you tried other mixers? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles

Warning Commercial Spam.Re: [SLUG] Debian 3.0

2002-05-10 Thread Terry Collins
Karun wrote: Hello, I have Debian 3.0 april 2002 snapshot(8 cds) If anybody wants a copy, pleae email me at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Warning, this is commercial spam -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au

Re: [SLUG] SPAM stuff

2002-05-05 Thread Terry Collins
. Curiously they are all women. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] In need of some advice...

2002-05-02 Thread Terry Collins
... Install a hot swap device with mirroring. Just pop the second hard drive and send it off site. Make sure the admin software is set up to switch the devive off for removal and resyncing of new hard disk. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] Of web-cams with video recorder etc.

2002-04-28 Thread Terry Collins
(might have changed its name). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] Linux on IBM HW Re: [cbnsw-members] Fwd: Re: Computerbank

2002-04-27 Thread Terry Collins
Craig Warner wrote: The package does not come with software! Which model IBM was it that ran Linux? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS

Re: [SLUG] Avoiding the Microsoft Tax [was Latest Microsoft Stupidity]

2002-04-22 Thread Terry Collins
proprietary brand name stuff. Just buy clone stuff. There are a number of people on the Slug list. self included, who can help you in that reguard. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures

Re: [SLUG] ext2fs corrupt inodes?

2002-04-18 Thread Terry Collins
, then install a new hard disk. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

Re: [SLUG] Any recommendations for an on line secondhand computer shop located in Australia?

2002-04-17 Thread Terry Collins
with their laptop prices {:-(. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

Re: [SLUG] Sync of filesystem on multiple SCSI hosts

2002-04-17 Thread Terry Collins
by SCSI buses. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs

2002-04-17 Thread Terry Collins
. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs

2002-04-17 Thread Terry Collins
Michael Lake wrote: Terry Collins wrote: Can I ask how? both pdftex pdflatex just reject all the latex stuff with !undefined control sequence and the doco is no help. Details [terryc@owl 2002]$ pdftex 20020417-perm.tex This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-13d (Web2C 7.3.1

Re: [SLUG] Printing: Software or Hardware problem?

2002-04-17 Thread Terry Collins
Geoffrey Cowling wrote: Have you tried another printer cable? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without

Re: [SLUG] Re: Creating PDFs

2002-04-17 Thread Terry Collins
be causing the error? % This is /home/terryc/latex/terryc/resumes/2002/20020417.tex % Updated by Terry Collins on 20020417. That is the $64K question. I can not see anything, but latex occcassionally seems to find phantoms. Retyping those lines made no difference. Removing those lines made

[SLUG] Latex - double indent of paragraph

2002-04-16 Thread Terry Collins
indenting. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List

[SLUG] Re: TV EXCEL PV-BT878P+

2002-04-10 Thread Terry Collins
://www.woa.com.au/linux/how-tos/webcaminstall.html which talks about all this. 4. did you have to enter anything into the XF86Config file. I believe you are supposed to enter the modeline for full screen mode, but I never have as I don't use full screen. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627

Re: [SLUG] SLUG: TV Freeze

2002-04-08 Thread Terry Collins
(video and TV) and XF86Config stuff, I suspect certain combos might not play together. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees

Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 crashes my computer

2002-04-07 Thread Terry Collins
have run gnome progs under KDE before doing this. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Deleting folders

2002-03-27 Thread Terry Collins
Marko wrote: is there another option? use rmdir for directories, or rm -rf directory -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without

Re: [SLUG] Help with fdisk please

2002-03-27 Thread Terry Collins
Matthew Dalton wrote: John Clarke wrote: You can have more than four: I suspect that your are thinking about Primary partitions. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles

Re: [SLUG] RedHat Update Service

2002-03-23 Thread Terry Collins
(then switched it all off). This gets you a notification email service. What you do after that is up to you. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People

Re: [SLUG] Maps of Sydney ...

2002-03-21 Thread Terry Collins
developed far more GIS products than Australian companies. They probably have ten to one GIS companies and our biggest (?) keeps going broke. If you want to develop a Linux based GIS application, you are crippled by having to buy or recapture real world data. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186

Re: [SLUG] Maps of Sydney ...

2002-03-20 Thread Terry Collins
] the rational is that data collect by the US government has already been paid for by its citizens. [2] this means a product that would cause people to nee to buy data of them. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat

[SLUG] Creating icons in gnome - RH7.1

2002-03-20 Thread Terry Collins
to launcher, then enter label and command line setting, but still get this desktop thingy). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees

Re: [SLUG] Port list

2002-03-20 Thread Terry Collins
if you want everyone to use a proxy, etc. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Creating icons in gnome - RH7.1

2002-03-20 Thread Terry Collins
to that OS mannerisms. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

Re: [SLUG] ARC files

2002-03-17 Thread Terry Collins
the details. RH Powertools Cd or google might help. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] ARC files

2002-03-17 Thread Terry Collins
very happy that Linux has these utilities as it reduces the pressure to keep old (286) hardware working, just in case. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers

Re: [SLUG] samba

2002-03-16 Thread Terry Collins
I am farily sure that I have setup all the correct config files, but could someone please tell me which files I should check and breifly what should be in them?? Okay, boxen is browseable. Did you actually edit smb.conf? (/etc/samba/smb.conf?) Did you do the smbpasswd thing? -- Terry

Re: [SLUG] size mismatch when apt-getting

2002-03-16 Thread Terry Collins
mirror.aarnet.edu.au and planetmirror.com are maintained by the same group of people. So if one is broken, both are. In my experience planetmirror is permanently broken and aarnet works 95-99% of the time. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Cluesticks on testing USB scanner under Linux

2002-03-15 Thread Terry Collins
and it works or you haven't set it up okay. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] IDE CD burner timeouts

2002-03-13 Thread Terry Collins
no other problems with the motherboard, etc. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Desktop Resolution Problems

2002-03-12 Thread Terry Collins
E. J. wrote: Hello, Im having a problem with my Red Hat 7.0 Distribution concerning the switching and cofiguration of screen resolutions. I am using a Cyrix MII 233 mhz with a SiS6326 4mb Video Card and a LG monitor with the heighest resolution of 1240*1080. Erm, basic maths

Re: [SLUG] Desktop Resolution Problems

2002-03-12 Thread Terry Collins
, braze welding and fusion welding, post an explanation to slug chat. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without

[SLUG] MacLUG is on again this Saturday

2002-03-12 Thread Terry Collins
Multisync I monitors that are leaving real soon now and as they are going to a monitor repair class, it will not matter. Snags coleslaw, cuppa, and all the usual stuff. RSVP if you want a snag. Email if you want the realspace address -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02

Re: [SLUG] cyclic depends on RH

2002-03-12 Thread Terry Collins
David wrote: Someone tell me this isn't true :( Either force one, then install the rest, or install all in the one command (it seems to cross check). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor

[SLUG] Cluesticks on testing USB scanner under Linux

2002-03-11 Thread Terry Collins
I'm after some clues on testing a USB scanner under Linux, i.e a)modules to load b) should xsane then see it, or other tests I can run. It is a HP something or other and the system is RH7.1 if this matters. I'm glad I stick to almost classic scsi gear (this is a clients that is suspected

Re: [SLUG] network cards with changable mac addresses

2002-03-11 Thread Terry Collins
. I think it is something like look to the source Luke {:-), or whatever they say. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees

[SLUG] rpmfind to use an australian mirror

2002-03-11 Thread Terry Collins
Has anyone modified rpmfind to use Australian mirrors/sources? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without

Re: [SLUG] ownership of samba shares

2002-03-11 Thread Terry Collins
, this means that each gets an identical UID GID. At worst, you need to renumber /etc/group and /etc/password on some machines and chown/chgrp affected files. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat

Re: [SLUG] [OT]: Cables, KVM switchs, etc

2002-03-11 Thread Terry Collins
+mouse). Anyone using usb kbd+ mouse under linux? I know someone who does use the mouse. Two problems. 1) he automatically puts his cup of coffee in the empty space between mouse and receiver {:-). 2) the batteries run out fast (in his opinion). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186

Re: [SLUG] perl programming course??

2002-03-04 Thread Terry Collins
Alister Waller wrote: Hi, Does anyone know of a perl programming course available via tafe or similar? Has to be in the Sydney area (I am in west ryde). Ask Geoffrey Robertson (If you are in The Gong, there is a Gong Tafe contact in the archives). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627

Re: [SLUG] might be a stupid question

2002-03-02 Thread Terry Collins
time, you are obviously (?) running vmware. If you really want to compare distros, either have seperate machine, or load each onto a removeable hard disk. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor

[SLUG] PBM width must be a multiple of 8 - error

2002-02-28 Thread Terry Collins
on this problem. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] music players frontends problem

2002-02-24 Thread Terry Collins
Ramana Juvvadi wrote: Is there any solution for this?? And can please anybody tell me what is the problem.. check your mixer settings? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures

Re: [SLUG] NFS mount problem

2002-02-19 Thread Terry Collins
daemons). 2. File permissions? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

Re: [SLUG] Linux, Novell and ncpfs

2002-02-18 Thread Terry Collins
downloaded a graphical login for ncpfs. Vague reply because I no longer have a machine that links to the Netware boxen. You may need the mars rpms, etc, which give you stuff like nwpass for logging in, nwmount for mounting a netware volume on the linux boxen, etc. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627

Re: [SLUG] C library implemting FTP?

2002-02-17 Thread Terry Collins
at webcam in the xawtv package. C I believe and it does ftp uploads. Could be adaptable. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees

[SLUG] Next MacLUG Day, Saturday 16th February.

2002-02-12 Thread Terry Collins
Campbelltown. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Internet cafe setup

2002-02-10 Thread Terry Collins
Nicholas Reese wrote: I am setting up a small internet café using Smoothwall as the firewall ..snip... Has anyone set something like this up? What have they found to be the best tools? What would be the easiest and simplest approach? Should be covered in Slug archives. -- Terry

Re: [SLUG] Internet cafe setup

2002-02-10 Thread Terry Collins
Nicholas Reese wrote: Should be, but it's not (I did read through the archives before posting). Damm, everything is going downhill these days {:-). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor

Re: [SLUG] Printing extra (blank) page using samba printing.

2002-02-06 Thread Terry Collins
now use the oldest laser as our text/test/junk printer and reuse the other side of A4 paper and the occassional blank page. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books

Re: [SLUG] USB Modems

2002-02-05 Thread Terry Collins
knowledge, it is so much easier. 3) USB is trailing bleeding edge, but you can still cut your finger if you like. 4) Using a USB port for a modem is like driving a racing card in 1/100 gea, whereas serial ports as appropriately suited to serial speed. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627

Re: [SLUG] Web Cams

2002-02-02 Thread Terry Collins
making offers like that {:-) as they might get you lined up to give a talk at a fest. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees

Re: [SLUG] Web CAMS

2002-02-01 Thread Terry Collins
webcam main images. You could use P100 with campture card and have the image dumped to a fileserver (it uses ftp by default). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books

[SLUG] LPR - Fatal error - maximum of 1 copies allowed

2002-01-31 Thread Terry Collins
Can someone explain to me where this error from lpr might be coming? Fatal error - maximum of 1 copies allowed The command is lpr -Php5psa3 -K10 test.ps I'm stumped. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au

Re: [SLUG] LPR - Fatal error - maximum of 1 copies allowed

2002-01-31 Thread Terry Collins
. {:-). If you are using cups, I have no idea. Just LPRng. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without trees are like fish without clean water

[SLUG] Gnumeric not reading xls

2002-01-31 Thread Terry Collins
from other suppliers and I really do not want to rebuild the NT just to deal with one supplier. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures Bicycles, Books, Computers, GIS People without

Re: [SLUG] routing

2002-01-31 Thread Terry Collins
default dev ppp0 after it connects. This stuff is/was in ip-up and ip-down or something similar. On disconnection you would issue something like route add default dev eth0 check with netstat -a before, during and after dial-up to see how the system is already changing it. -- Terry Collins

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