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

2002-03-11 Thread Terry Collins
e machine as > a standard usb kbd+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). --

Re: [SLUG] ownership of samba shares

2002-03-11 Thread Terry Collins
have the same uid/gid. So long as you are using similar distros, 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

[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 "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLU

Re: [SLUG] network cards with changable mac addresses

2002-03-11 Thread Terry Collins
I only know how to change it - use arp . 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 &qu

Re: [SLUG] network cards with changable mac addresses

2002-03-11 Thread Terry Collins
Peter Hardy wrote: > Out of interest - why would you want to change the MAC anyway? The only practical reason I can think of is another security factor - you limit network connects to only certain MAC addresses. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 em

Re: [SLUG] network cards with changable mac addresses

2002-03-11 Thread Terry Collins
ly for the life of the boot or until changed. Some of the realteks also let you fiddle the MAC "permanently = config bios". -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "Peo

[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] (no subject)

2002-03-10 Thread Terry Collins
us stuff for two motherboards recently. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Gro

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 Collin

Re: [SLUG] might be a stupid question

2002-03-02 Thread Terry Collins
if you run them at the same 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

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

2002-02-28 Thread Terry Collins
ng, if anyone has any ideas 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 "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

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 A

Re: [SLUG] NFS mount problem

2002-02-19 Thread Terry Collins
NFS related 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 "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Gro

Re: [SLUG] Linux, Novell and ncpfs

2002-02-18 Thread Terry Collins
> And I have also 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

Re: [SLUG] C library implemting FTP?

2002-02-17 Thread Terry Collins
ctory listings. Have a look 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 "People without t

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

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

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.

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.

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

2002-02-06 Thread Terry Collins
). We 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 "Peo

Re: [SLUG] USB Modems

2002-02-05 Thread Terry Collins
ective 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

Re: [SLUG] Web Cams

2002-02-02 Thread Terry Collins
. You want to be careful about 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 "People without tre

Re: [SLUG] Web CAMS

2002-02-01 Thread Terry Collins
10 - 30 seconds to a predefined image file) webcam in the xawtv package. That is what captures the WOA 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 e

Re: [SLUG] routing

2002-01-31 Thread Terry Collins
mmand like route add 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 cha

[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 "People without trees are like fish wi

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

2002-01-31 Thread Terry Collins
e you found this info. {:-). > 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 "People without trees are like fish without clean water&

[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:/

Re: [SLUG] Which version of Redhat Linux

2002-01-30 Thread Terry Collins
6.2 as the last RH for Alpha. Maybe Suse has a later distro. I beleive Debian has a the most current distro for alphamas. This has previously been discussed on Slug list. Search the Slug archives. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: htt

Re: [SLUG] PDF, ghostscript and printing.

2002-01-29 Thread Terry Collins
Simon Wong wrote: > > On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 14:37, Terry Collins wrote: > > First problem is that pdf2ps errors out. > > My personal experience is that Acrobat Reader is the "guaranteed" way to > convert pdfs to postscript. Thank you. That fixed the margins prob

Re: [SLUG] PDF, ghostscript and printing.

2002-01-29 Thread Terry Collins
airly old, but then ghostscript development is glacial as well. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG -

[SLUG] PDF, ghostscript and printing.

2002-01-29 Thread Terry Collins
cript. Second problem; When I print that postscript, the scaling is wrong and I get incorrect margins on the right and bottom. Using ghostscript doesn't seem to be able to fix it either. If anyone can shed any light on this problem, it would be much appreciated. -- Terry Collins {:-

Re: [SLUG] Sydney Wireless Mailing List up

2002-01-16 Thread Terry Collins
microwave links go, so there is room for many such projects. Of course, if a few people took out $2 lottery tickets and won, it might all get a kick on. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor

Re: [SLUG] Bios call

2002-01-10 Thread Terry Collins
> henry wrote: > > Dears: > How to use Bios call in GCC(Linux)? Just a guess, but perhaps you could look at the source code for motherboard temeperature stuff. Google should give you the url. Please don't post in html. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186

Re: [SLUG] OT: Linux Certification

2002-01-10 Thread Terry Collins
ecause you have it. Do not do it if you have been recommended to do so by an employment agency. If an employer says they will give you a job for having it, then it is probably worth doing. You might like to search the Slug archives on certification as this gets done to death frequently. --

Re: [SLUG] Linux and the Next Generation

2002-01-10 Thread Terry Collins
Paul Copeland wrote: ...snip... > The test will > be to see if Linux will work with Novell, the network we run at school. You need mars (?) Works well with Novell 4.11 and gives you client access. Just map the drives you want. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 462

Re: [SLUG] RE: http://www.geocities.com/fiftydollarprogram/success.html

2002-01-09 Thread Terry Collins
Paul Burger wrote: > Do you promote anything online? Yes, SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group http://www.slug.org.au {:-) (yep, I've just in procrastinating mood from having to do some paining). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [SLUG] The Linux Generation (gap?)

2002-01-09 Thread Terry Collins
he sign of a poor WWW site. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] The Linux Generation (gap?)

2002-01-09 Thread Terry Collins
l Win3.1/WFWG3.11 are both fine browsing the internet. I used Netscape. Also went fine as a Samba client as well. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without tr

Re: [SLUG] Re {SLUG]Not so Magic TVView and Misc Mouse query and Linux for Lawyers/Lawyers for Linux

2002-01-07 Thread Terry Collins
Raena Lea-Shannon wrote: > > Terry Collins wrote: > > > > Raena Lea-Shannon wrote: > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > > I tried NTSC no luck. I should also say I get a pop up error message as > > > follows > > > Errors >

Re: [SLUG] Linux & Small Business

2002-01-07 Thread Terry Collins
is that all his business associates who deal > > with him want to transfer material in M$ Office. Yes, I know that SO with > > do M$ Office, but it is not native. WP on Linux, on RH6.0 (?) will easily handle MS Word doco (well it might not do the XP version). -- Terry Coll

Re: [SLUG] Re {SLUG]Not so Magic TVView and Misc Mouse query and Linux for Lawyers/Lawyers for Linux

2002-01-06 Thread Terry Collins
make sure you write them down and store them safely. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux U

Re: [SLUG] Before MHonArc for SLUG Archives

2002-01-06 Thread Terry Collins
ves. I started keeping some messages in 1998, but No, I'm not making them available for download as I can see no good reason for it when there are two on-line searchable sources available. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: ht

Re: [SLUG] GPL, an argument .

2002-01-03 Thread Terry Collins
f a healthy society runs on the voluntary and mutual co-operation. Hence Slug, free WWW pages and other stuff. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are l

Re: [SLUG] Dud Network Car?

2001-12-18 Thread Terry Collins
Terry Collins wrote: Fixed! > At this stage I am thinking that perhaps the network card has died for > some reason ( power drops out have been recently occurring) What had died was the latch part of the end of the network card - was just sitting in the socket, but not hard enough t

Re: [SLUG] network card/RH7.1

2001-12-18 Thread Terry Collins
nfig eth0 up" make it work? modprobe the driver and tail /var/log/messages Have you used dos to check the card config? In my experience (the realtek cards) device busy/failed usually indicates irq/dma/etc is different to expected, or it is a dud -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627

[SLUG] Dud Network Car?

2001-12-18 Thread Terry Collins
power outages. netstat -nr is fine with lo line, local network line and gw line. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without clean water&

Re: [SLUG] NCURSES experts anyone?

2001-12-16 Thread Terry Collins
problem, but in a similar vein in times past, I found that a .config (or something) or link to it was missing. This was in the source code directory. Just an idea for consideration. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://

[SLUG] Setting up efax as a print queue

2001-12-12 Thread Terry Collins
cript through ghostscript, then efax. This is all do-able by command line, but following the man doco for fax/efax doesn't produce anything. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures

Re: [SLUG] RH 7.2 and AMD Duron 1ghz

2001-12-12 Thread Terry Collins
I had a similar non-replicatable problem on 7.1 and I think it turned out to be the video card. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish wi

Re: [SLUG] National Bank Internet Banking

2001-12-10 Thread Terry Collins
s no longer supported. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - htt

[SLUG] [Fwd: Unix courses etc]

2001-12-09 Thread Terry Collins
ht be interested in as well. > Please visit our website: > > www.speedlink.com.au/~electro > > Cheers. > > Robert Franklin -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures

Re: [SLUG] MCP Certifications & Employability

2001-12-06 Thread Terry Collins
generalist and you will be exceedingly unlucky to get a trainee position. My old guidance was to watch the skills requested on Jobnet and find out which agencies request which skills. However, currently, there is an enormous amount of false jobs being advertised. Good Luck. -- Terry Collins {

Re: [SLUG] vnunet.com Linux lined up as virus target

2001-12-05 Thread Terry Collins
Peter Hardy wrote: ...snip > A related fact is that Linux users are generally more clueful and cautious > than your average Windows user. And there is only one Linux mailer that I know of that has autorun javascript that is sent to you = Netscape Communicator. Any others. --

Re: [SLUG] OT: Vector data on Sydney CBD

2001-12-02 Thread Terry Collins
Jon Biddell wrote: > Yes, I agree that getting Linux on the desktop is the ultimate goal This GIS functionality isn't linux on the desktop. The grunt is usually done on a "server". -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PRO

Re: [SLUG] OT: Vector data on Sydney CBD

2001-12-01 Thread Terry Collins
oughly 20% each year in licence and training fees, there is a very good reason for development of facilities in Linux. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without tre

Re: [SLUG] OT: Vector data on Sydney CBD

2001-11-27 Thread Terry Collins
ralia, is currently surveying US bicyclist to see if they want GPS data, and the $64K questions is - how much would you pay for it? {:-) -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures &qu

Re: [SLUG] OT: Vector data on Sydney CBD

2001-11-27 Thread Terry Collins
is planet >that uses this makes it available either free or for a VERY minimal fee. The US makes it available for the cost of delivery. Most other countries, in the world, do not have any data. It is mainly a thing with the industrialised world, so far. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 46

Re: [SLUG] OT: Vector data on Sydney CBD

2001-11-27 Thread Terry Collins
ople to existing commercial maps and later put some maps, as A5 landscape images, onto WWW pages for people to download and print off themselves. Currently each would need to be digitized and created as a graphic. It would be better however, it there was an online GIS system that people could j

Re: [SLUG] OT: Vector data on Sydney CBD

2001-11-27 Thread Terry Collins
sell. Australia has a USER PAYS approach. The expensive part in GIS is data acquisition. The real problem with data from various sources is getting it all to match up - this is very big problem. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http:/

Re: [SLUG] OT: Vector data on Sydney CBD

2001-11-27 Thread Terry Collins
on systems as being one of the big future markets. > Would success here be unlikely ? Yes. At best, you will probably get a georeferenced raster image that you can lay your own date over. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:

Re: Funky USB hardware (Was: [SLUG] dead video?

2001-11-25 Thread Terry Collins
etter when this is set up. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Sending images (eg JPEG) to a web browser [OT]

2001-11-24 Thread Terry Collins
.woa.com.au/campbelltown/reserves/smiths-creek/scwamoa3.jpg If you look at the source for this page http://www.woa.com.au/campbelltown/reserves/smiths-creek/smiths-creek.html it will show you how it is done. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] OT: University

2001-11-20 Thread Terry Collins
worse. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] OT: University

2001-11-20 Thread Terry Collins
e with a degree can do it - so they specify a degree as a requirement. That is the sole general reason. However, other positions do require some indepth knowledge and having a degree can save you 10 years of experience. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [

Re: [SLUG] Interesting Request for ComputerBank

2001-11-20 Thread Terry Collins
Craig Warner wrote: ..snip... > Does anyone know of any Linux based software project which could be > voice activated? For info of all - refresher info) search the Slug archives - this has been done regularly - we have some non-visual sluggers (use emacs voice I believe). -- Terry C

Re: [SLUG] SCSi card disappeared after upgrade to 2.4

2001-11-15 Thread Terry Collins
drivers can be loaded? Yep, usually a driver for your scsi card. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] A file with no name (answered)

2001-11-12 Thread Terry Collins
Howard Lowndes wrote: > > OK, I should have RTFM man first. You have just experienced the well known "SLUG effect" where you send a question to the list and the collective prescence of "Sluggers" answers the question before it reaches the list. -- Terry Collins {:

Re: [SLUG] Network not coming up

2001-11-03 Thread Terry Collins
e same type of card, then it could be a hw problem has slipped into your distro for that type of card. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish

Re: [SLUG] Network not coming up

2001-11-03 Thread Terry Collins
Bernhard Lüder wrote: > HOWEVER for some reason Linux cannot start the network when booting on the > same system, that very happily runs under W2k. What does ifconfig tell you? Any errors/clues in dmesg? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email:

[SLUG] Xfig requires transfig, which requires imake

2001-11-01 Thread Terry Collins
Makefile] Error 127 [root@owl transfig.3.2.3d]# I am currently wondering which is the best option to locate; xmkmf or imake. I am on a bog standard install of RH7.1 -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Womba

[SLUG] Deleteing a node from a path in the Gimp and breaking a loop

2001-11-01 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 "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: Backups, was Re: [SLUG] Know a good computer shop?

2001-10-31 Thread Terry Collins
nth. Needless to say, with a growing SOHO network, I learnt to appreciate tapes real fast. I'm also hoping that CD drives are around for a few decades. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Ad

Re: Backups, was Re: [SLUG] Know a good computer shop?

2001-10-31 Thread Terry Collins
e. This means you can usually recover backups with out the proprietary software. All you loose is the stored indexes to what is on what tape. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures

Backups, was Re: [SLUG] Know a good computer shop?

2001-10-31 Thread Terry Collins
ed to mind the tape drive. BTW - I also sell HW, but Athlon Slot A is only MSI mobo atm (various combo for that OS) and I haven't installed Linux on one yet. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Womba

Re: [SLUG] URL's for installing Linux on Compaq hardware

2001-10-29 Thread Terry Collins
& P133) to set up for some projects. I was just wanting to sort out procedure first. Thanks. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish with

[SLUG] URL's for installing Linux on Compaq hardware

2001-10-29 Thread Terry Collins
Hello Folks Does anyone have any URL's/sources for installing Linux onto Compaq hardware (P75 & Deskpro 486dx4/100). I am unsuccessful in downloading the docco off the Compaq site (it never downloads). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Thanks for the meeting

2001-10-28 Thread Terry Collins
school. The cost of the MS licences comes out of each school's budget allocation and they have an uphill battle on their hands for it not to be charged(confiscated) as the Dept knows how many PC's they have. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email:

Re: [SLUG] Aussie IT deficit hits $15bn

2001-10-23 Thread Terry Collins
They would need a good grounding in the > theory of open source and its impact with real world companies. > It would fit in though with their other policies and their aims. AIUI;Their geek support agrees and has a long term approach towards getting them to adopt open source. -- Terry

[SLUG] Epson 6 colour inkjets under Linux

2001-10-21 Thread Terry Collins
HP doesn't as it is replaced with each cartridge. Very few comments on the Cannon. [2] The only way I can find technical specs as oppossed to sales specs in the HP site is through a Google search. No google page = no specs available. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628

[SLUG] Recovering a WordPerfect Print spool job

2001-10-21 Thread Terry Collins
x27;m asking if anyone has any tips for recovering the text from the WP spooler (if this is possible)? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish

[SLUG] Gimp; converting greyscale to colour tones

2001-10-18 Thread Terry Collins
o it? -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org

Re: [SLUG] NOW audio software for Linux

2001-10-05 Thread Terry Collins
Peter Hardy wrote: > I seem to recall tieing notes together just > fine, but don't quote me on that. To clarify, the midi output doesn't tie the notes. The sheet music is fine. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: [SLUG] NOW audio software for Linux

2001-10-05 Thread Terry Collins
"Broun, Bevan" wrote: > Im not sure what your after. Lilypond (Tex bases) creates great looking > sheet music. Check the Slug archives for previous discussions on Lilypond. You can even get midi out, but NO tied notes. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 F

Re: Laying Tongue & Groove, was Re: [SLUG] Tracing NetworkAddresses

2001-10-04 Thread Terry Collins
n on Cypress pine {:-). The baby is handy for polishing it - just fit old cotton napkin. The disposable ones don't work as well (remembers niece who used to slide around on arse on concrete and shred disposables ). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL

Laying Tongue & Groove, was Re: [SLUG] Tracing Network Addresses

2001-10-04 Thread Terry Collins
7;t call me moon face for nothing {:-). Don't know about this "uniclic" stuff. Is that the pyneboard/chipboard/compressed toxic glue and woodscraps stuff? > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinf

Re: [SLUG] LAN Party!

2001-10-03 Thread Terry Collins
r and read the source {:-). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Webcams

2001-10-02 Thread Terry Collins
e to write the motion sensor stuff. Good luck. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Fixed: Re: [SLUG] RH7.1, Gnome, Sawfish & 4x4 desktops

2001-09-25 Thread Terry Collins
) fixed it. Perhaps I parted my hair a different way today {:-0. As I understand it, gnome was running four desktops/workspaces and sawfish was running four in each of those. Terry Collins wrote: > > I have 4 x 4 desktops under rh7.1, gnome with sawfish. > How do I turn one of the 4&#

[SLUG] RH7.1, Gnome, Sawfish & 4x4 desktops

2001-09-25 Thread Terry Collins
4 desktops of 4 desktops each. I'm having trouble finding out where to turn one off. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without cl

Re: [SLUG] Cable/ADSL

2001-09-24 Thread Terry Collins
00 baud +. Only a few cafe-latte (sp?) locations in Australia have cable. The early roll out of ADSL was an almost exact match, but it is slowly moving outside these areas to border Metro areas. If you want to know if Morisset has adsl, then you will need to consult the Telstra pages (good lu

Re: [SLUG] RedHat kernel

2001-09-17 Thread Terry Collins
"Mikolaj J. Habryn" wrote: > RH7.1 comes with a 2.4 kernel, yes? RH7.1 2.4.2-2 to be precise. RH7.0 2.2.16-22 Try kernel.org for the differences. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au W

Re: [SLUG] Re: TV tuner card: "TV Excel"

2001-09-17 Thread Terry Collins
sound card. All the brands I've played with come with a cable for this purpose. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat Outdoor Adventures "People without trees are like fish without c

Re: [SLUG] TV tuner card: "TV Excel"

2001-09-15 Thread Terry Collins
Mike Holland wrote: As the saying goes, "look to the source Luke" In bttv.c, there will be a ??? tvstruct. Grep for excel and see if it is listed. You will need to work out which number card it is. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] TV tuner card: "TV Excel"

2001-09-15 Thread Terry Collins
re using, you need a bit more. something like alias bttv options pll=2 radio=0 card=?? alis tuner type=5 (probably) the card num varies. If you have latest deb or RH7.1, they have a pile more than anything else Ive seen (rh<7.1 & suze <= 6.4) You have to install videodev, i2c-??, tuner th

Re: [SLUG] identifying open relays

2001-09-14 Thread Terry Collins
seless to genuine people running tests and just ego wanks by the people running them, e.g. ordb.org boast 1,000,000 open relays listed, but not how many open relays they have helped close, which I would have thought was the real purpose of the game. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186

[SLUG] smp_num_cpus error

2001-09-13 Thread Terry Collins
Do anyone have a definite understanding as the what causes this error and the fix? It turns up from time to time when I'm rebuilding kernels. This time a RH7.0 on 2.2.26-?? kernel. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www:

Re: [SLUG] Gimp - reducing images

2001-07-04 Thread Terry Collins
the jargon used. (size, reduce, ... , just not scale) -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au WOA Computer Services "People without trees are like fish without clean water" -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Grou

[SLUG] Gimp - reducing images

2001-07-04 Thread Terry Collins
Can someone tell me how to reduce an image in the Gimp to 1/4 of its original size. Even with the book, the jargon alludes me. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au WOA Computer Services "People wi

Re: [SLUG] Detective skills - weird HDD problem

2001-07-02 Thread Terry Collins
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The old drives are now slaves to the 40Gb drives - Is this wise? It sounds like you are mixing ATA100 and older styles on the same IDE chain. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com

Re: [SLUG] Max in $2, $3

2001-07-02 Thread Terry Collins
to fix programs mentioned in the postscript to HPG converter I am seeking. Umm, with 134,069+ lines, sort was not an option. Thanks all. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au WOA Computer Services "Peop

Re: [SLUG] St George, internet banking and Linux.

2001-07-02 Thread Terry Collins
it. I'm trialling 4.76 and it is worse (reliability wise). SWMBO is so P'd off she has gone to phone banking (quicker). -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} Ph(02) 4627 2186 Fax(02) 4628 7861 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] www: http://www.woa.com.au WOA Computer Services "People w

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