On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 10:18, you wrote:
> ** High Priority **
>
> Dear Mr Foskey,
> Thank you for your email.
> We apologise for the inconvenience this has caused you. Unfortunately we do
> not support the Linux operating system. This is possibly why you found it
> hard to
I want a net install boot image for woody. I found lord such and it
fries itself part way through. There are other image on the debian page
but they all seem old.
Does anyone know a working small net install iso image that I can
download.
Ta
KenF
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On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 12:18, Adam Hewitt wrote:
> And I have been doing computer technician work for about 8 years now and
> I have always placed the CD ROM on the secondary IDE channel. The reason
> for this (and I admit I have never done any testing myself to find out
> if this is true) is that
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 23:00, Simon Bryan wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am seriously considering going to Optus cable. They sya they will install
> to a local Windows machine which we have, however how hard is it then to
> move the system over to a Linux server (RH7.1)? Is there a 'How to' anyhwere
> (could
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 09:26, Mark A. Bell wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> Can someone recomend a Linux-friendly repair shop?
> Preferably near Glebe or public transport.
Mark,
Hardware tips for newbies.
The cables from the mother board or ide controller (not that old is
it!). The cable have a red l
Hi, all
Does anyone know what I have to do to get St Geo to work? (My T & S wants to
access the Web banking) The pages are .asp's but I cant seem to find a
plug-in. (I seem to remember a site that dealt with these bank accesses, but
not remember where t'is.)
I am running Mandrak
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 12:00, Paul Copeland wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> At the last SLUG meeting a lecturer from Granville TAFE approached me
> telling me his Linux lecture notes were freely available on the net. If
> said lecturer is on the list could he please give me the location again, or
> could
Newbie Q: How do I mount an image file so I can access the files? (ie I want
to mount '/~.../crap.img' to '/mnt/img1' )
This is so I can access my Mdk CD images to load some more s/w, without
burning CDs etc.
Also if I wish to do this frequently can I add it to /etc/fstab
Gday, I just enabled autocompletion under bash. It upgraded on my
debian system but my .bashrc did not contain the lines to load it.
Check for a file /etc/bash_completion.
check your ~/.bashrc for lines similar to the following:
if [ -e etc/bash_completion ]; then
sou
On Mon, 2002-10-07 at 17:46, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Oct 2002, Howard Lowndes wrote:
>
> > Is a udp packet from source port 53 to dest port 53 kosher? I would have
> > expected the source port to be in the high range.
>
> No, there's no reason for a source port to be a high number. I
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 09:48, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> To stop gdm loading in Debian:
>
> Remove gdm, or run update-rc.d -f gdm remove
>
> (Debian runs gdm as a normal service, Red Hat runs it as an init task in
> runlevel 3 and above.)
To 'fix' debian to the 'correct' way of doing things.
rena
I have managed to get myself in a nice mess due to branches and tags.
What I want to achieve is:
Move the tag for SRX643_OO to the current version on my directory, I do
this like this:
cvs tag -F SRX643_OO filename
I then want to ensure that I have a branch tag (ie not working on HEAD)
I thi
On Wed, 2002-10-02 at 11:17, Andy Eager wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I recently installed open office (in network mode) and haven't been able
> to have it run without crashing X.
> I have Star Office 5.2 running on the same system(s), installed in the
> same way and they seem to work fine.
This sounds
This is a very nice open source marketing brochure...
http://www.openoffice.org/about_us/OOoFlyer.pdf
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Any hints on how to debug this one.
using gdm to sign on. The sign on is not working authentification
failed.
check auth.log and it says signing me on then failed pamunix. (the same
one that signs me onto text mode)
no messages on /var/log/messages
I can kill gdm and then run startx fine.
O
On Sat, 2002-09-28 at 09:06, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Fair enough ... chew on the following ...
>
> #man apt-get
> Reformatting apt-get(8), please wait ...
> sh: line1: /usr/bin/pager: no such file or directory
quick fix is:
cd /usr/bin
ln -s less pager
Thanks
KenF
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> From: Henrik Just <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [discuss] Announce: OOo Writer -> LaTeX converter
> Date: 27 Sep 2002 12:04:56 +0200
>
> Hi
>
> I've developed a simple utility to convert OOo Writer files to LaTeX.
>
> It
On Mon, 2002-09-23 at 14:14, Adam Bogacki wrote:
>
> I've changed 'unstable' to 'stable' in /etc/apt/sources.list
> and on 'upgrade' it said '0 pkgs to upgrade'
> - is it a problem mixing stable and unstable pkgs ?
I fixed this before but my solution is flawed somewhere because it does
not alway
On Tue, 2002-09-24 at 14:35, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Hi, the Gnome terminal annd the 'man' pages are not working
> after a number of dist-upgrades (which may or may not be the cause).
run xvt or another xterm and run gnome-terminal. I get the following:
ken@gandalf:~$ gnome-terminal
The program '
On Sat, 2002-09-21 at 13:23, Adam Bogacki wrote:
> Hi,
> I did a dist-upgrade overnight, and continued this morning
> after timing out, only to get "69 packages not fully installed
> or removed". I'm now trying '- f dist-upgrade --fix-missing'
> but is there not a way to correct this via dp
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 12:03, Simon Wong wrote:
>
> It'd be really nice if you could use the OO converters from the command
> line wouldn't it?
>
> $oowriter --convert myOtherfile.doc myOOfile.sxw
>
> and if there were an export option rather than having to use Save As...
It is possible to scri
On Thu, 2002-09-12 at 12:32, Amanda Wynne wrote:
> I just tried several documents. Saving from Amipro as *.doc & OO won't open
> them at all. Saved a document with lots of tables as *.rtf, OO will open it
> but the tables are a mess. A lot of cells span multiple columns in the
> original *.sam, bu
On Sun, 2002-09-08 at 22:37, Bill Taylor wrote:
> Hi all,
> Is there a way to clear network files, so I can start again? or do I
> re-install ?
> I started with fixed IP's, then went dhcp, but since I tried to go back,
> I can no longer contact
> the server, and the nic's aren't recognized. I thou
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 16:08, Daniel Harper wrote:
>
> This is slightly off topic but hopefully there is a partial Linux solution
> out there. I am looking for some calendar/scheduling software that:
>
> You can use a Windows client to access within the LAN, and that you can also
> access and cha
On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 14:40, Marty Richards wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> Does
>
> mount /dev/fd0
>
> work?
Interesting. I unmounted it and remounted it and it worked fine both
ways.
I then rmmod vfat and fat and it did not work.
Moral is that file type auto only works on filetypes active in your
Why would this be happening on debian:
gandalf: ~
$ mount /floppy/
mount: I could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified
When I specify everything:
gandalf: ~
$ sudo mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /floppy
Password:
from fstab:
/dev/fd0/floppy autodefaults,user,noauto
On Sun, 2002-09-01 at 18:40, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > YES. But I wiped 8.2 and went back to 8.0 with the same results.
> > Could it be related to the Mandrake partition being 20Gb out?
>
> I doubt it, if everything else is working, and it just barfs when you're
> trying to run X, it will be so
I was very disappointed with the responses to the two articles.
Take a look at how we sell our message...
> columns
> Microsoft v the Penguin
> your say | "GOOD on you Linux. Drive Microsoft into
> submission."
> http://email.ni.com.au/Click?q=a2-6-U7QXZeTvq1Ypq9qaa9DQEl
This is NOT M$ bashing.
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 23:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On 27 Aug, Ken Foskey wrote:
> > You might try a memory test. memtest86 and include it on your boot
> > menu. Netscape is hungry and therefore would show up a hardware
> > failure like this more quickly th
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 14:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> We use Notes for email which can easily be replaced. However, we also use
> it for document storage. Instead of word processing in something like word
> or Openoffice we use Notes. It is a little primitive but has all the
> features you
On Tue, 2002-08-27 at 00:09, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
> Just thought I'd share the experiences. If I work out the problem,
> I'll post again with the answer.
You might try a memory test. memtest86 and include it on your boot
menu. Netscape is hungry and therefore would show up a hardware
failure
On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 22:33, Richard Neal wrote:
>
> Ive actually tried openoffice.org in production and yes it will handle
> "SOME" word and excel files but it wont work with anything complicated
> ie word files with varied fonts menu's and embedded company logo's when
> I try to open these type
>
> top stories
> Microsoft backlash boosts Linux
> MICROSOFT'S hold on corporate Australia appears to be
> weakening, with a rise in the number of big companies opting
> to use Linux software for critical applications.
> http://email.ni.com.au/Click?q=71-GwZUIEZ8fBusdsmqgco85rjY
>
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On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 15:11, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> Is there any equivalent to tcpdump for looking at traffic on UNIX sockets?
I dont understand. Ethereal has filtering. Is that what you mean?
KenF
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On Mon, 2002-08-19 at 10:04, Adam Hewitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I seem to be getting two of every email that I receive from SLUG. Is
> anyone getting this or is it just me??
if if you you are are seeing seeing everything everything twice twice...
If you are using evolution and you are using filters t
On Mon, 2002-08-12 at 12:01, Derek "Anti-Gremlin" Spranger >
> I have a Linux machine running redhat7.2 without development and kernal
> development (big mistake i know)
>
> but now i want to install apache/php/mysql
>
Unless you really want to compile up the source simply install from
rpms.
On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 21:44, Simon Bryan wrote:
> Is there a time server in Oz that I can simply run rdate -s against? I keep
> getting connection refused on the ones I find on Google, yet it worked on
> one in the States :-(
I think you actually want ntpdate using the NTP protocol.
KenF
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On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 17:30, David Fisher wrote:
>
> I can print from OpenOffice, but only if it is plain text. The first
> documents I tried contained embedded images, which seems to have been the
> problem.
> I have since found that I can print most stuff, but Oo.o docs with embedded
> imag
On Sun, 2002-08-11 at 15:32, David Kempe wrote:
> I believe that is multicast traffic
> From: "Ken Foskey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "slug" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2002 3:24 PM
> Subject: [SLUG] what are networking messages
>
What would this be??? IT is appearing a lot on my gateway logs.
Aug 11 06:48:21 gateway kernel: IN=eth0 OUT=
MAC=01:00:5e:00:00:01:00:03:6c:00:bc:a8:08:00 SRC=10.30.192.1
DST=224.0.0.1 LEN=32 TOS=0x00 PREC=0xC0 TTL=1 ID=8152 PROTO=2
Ta
Kenf
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On Fri, 2002-08-09 at 22:29, David Fisher wrote:
> Well, I thought I'd finally ditch lprng and try CUPS which I hope might give
> rather better quality printing but I digress.
>
> I have an Epson Stylus Color 640. I can get it to successfully print the
> test pages from both the CUPS web admin
On Sun, 2002-08-04 at 12:29, James Gregory wrote:
> So I've finally been introduced to the fun of portable computing and
> also to the bliss that is file synchronisation.
I was thinking of using cvs to do this for me. After all it will merge
and track teh changes as well. Some things probably
On Sat, 2002-08-03 at 15:13, root wrote:
> Hi All,
> Several weeks ago I posted a question re unable to establish a connection between
>my Linux box and a windows box. I had the manual but it just wasn't happening. The
>problem was I wasn't using a twisted pair cable. As soon as I put in the
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 23:09, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> On 1 Aug 2002, Ken Foskey wrote:
>
> > I have a server very nearly ready to roll but it just stuffed up the tty
> > login. I type root at the login prompt it waits and rolls back to the
> > original prompt, no password
On Fri, 2002-08-02 at 12:12, Louis Selvon wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am looking for resources on how to get a script to automatically
> login into a member area web site using username and password
> sent to the web site .
>
> Does anyone know where I can get any info on this ?
Dont know about perl but
I have a server very nearly ready to roll but it just stuffed up the tty
login. I type root at the login prompt it waits and rolls back to the
original prompt, no password request.
I type student (other default signon) same thing.
It does fire up straight into student using GDM however. I am co
On Thu, 2002-08-01 at 11:43, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
>
> You can also specify it in your HTML, rather than getting the browser to
> guess that it might be at /favicon.ico:
> http://anywhere/you/like.com";>
>
> This way it'll always appear in any supported browser -- some browsers
> will only
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 23:29, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> Which version are you using? I'm running Galeon and XMMS on my desktop,
> displaying on my iBook right now... :-)
I never realised there are two packages, ssh and ssh2. OK install ssh2
it is more secure.
FATAL: Connecting to gateway failed:
On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 10:15, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > Watch this space. If it works well (and we believe it will), it will be
> > some of the best Linux/OSS advocacy imaginable.
>
> Which is funny, because I just sent an email to the cbnsw-ctte asking about
> testimonials and case studies - fo
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 22:37, Andrew Shipton wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 10:32:22PM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote:
> > >From memory...
> >
> > ssh -X user@machine xterm
> >
> > on the server side you must enable forwarding in the ssh config files.
> >
&g
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 09:02, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> How do I log into a remote host so that I get an X session to start on
> that host?
>From memory...
ssh -X user@machine xterm
on the server side you must enable forwarding in the ssh config files.
I have yet to get this to work on debian :-(
On Mon, 2002-07-29 at 22:01, Paul Copeland wrote:
>
> I am the Head Teacher of Industrial Arts at Cabramatta High School. I am
... snippage...
> Jeff if I can help SLUG in anyway I would be happy to.
Paul,
You have it wrong, is there anything slug can do to make it happen in
your school.
On Sat, 2002-07-27 at 22:10, Trevor Rhodes wrote:
> Does anyone know why my CD Roast program will not burn proper ISO 9660 images?
It does.
> Seems to be the config, but I don't know where I'm going wrong.
Would not have a clue. Perhaps giving your config might help.
You might look up jollie
On Fri, 2002-07-26 at 08:59, Alan L Tyree wrote:
>
> ssh -v -v bigdog: shows that the system "hangs" for most of the 45
> seconds on the line
>
> ssh_connect: getuid 500 getuid 0 anon 1
>
SSH is trying to resolve the computer name from the IP on the incoming
side. It is hitting DNS and
I have had a query regarding installing the proper english into Open
Office. Here is the link to go to to find out how to do this:
http://whiteboard.openoffice.org/lingucomponent/download_dictionary.html
Happy documenting,
KenF
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More I
Has anyone tried www.rdesktop.org, any comments.
This is an NT terminal server client.
KEnF
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Hot off the presses...
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>
> I am glad to announce the availability of Openoffice.org 1.0.1, the
> first bugfix release for OpenOffice.org 1.0
>
> New in this release are:
> * upgrade of the mozilla integration from 0.9.5 to 1.0
> * inclusion of a .pdf ins
On Mon, 2002-07-15 at 09:03, Brian Graham wrote:
> Do you have the course codes for these courses ?
> Do you know if they are offered at other colleges?
The course codes vary depending upon the college budgets :-)
There are some available at other colleges. Geoff teaches at North
Sydney sometim
On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 20:42, Simon Bryan wrote:
>
> ERROR
> The requested URL could not be retrieved
>
>
>
>
> While trying to retrieve the URL: /
>
This looks like you are using a proxy server and your proxy s
On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 23:40, Chris Barnes wrote:
> for best performance you should setup the hosts on your network to receive
> dhcp information from the sme server. this way your sme will send them the
> default route, dns, and other info which should in theory allow them to
> access the net with
For those that have mystery dead start up programs. I have noticed this
happen to Galeon on occasion if I am hammering my system. Nice to know
a reason.
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> From: Caolán McNamara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [discuss] OO terminates after
I just built a complete linux on a P 75 32 Meg of ram with X included.
It worked surprisingly well considering the age of the equipment. I
would hate to use it day to day but for someone that want to learn Unix
on a zero budget this was a great.
Once they are comfortable it will become a grea
On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 16:54, Conrad Parker wrote:
> how is this handled on suse? on redhat? on linuxfromscratch?
Conrad,
If you were doing the LPIC course on Monday or Wednesday night at
Granville TAFE you would have a better idea on the answer to that.
For more information please see the t
On Mon, 2002-07-01 at 21:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi Guys and Girls, just a quick one!
>
> I was wondering how you would change from a static IP address *i.e *
> eth0 192.16.1.30
>
> but you want to change to using DHCP from the command line.
>
> I dont want to use linuxconf or netconf
On Fri, 2002-06-28 at 13:34, henry wrote:
> Dear List:
>
> Neglect security ,
> I try to take out "login :","PassWord :" , But I cant get any matched data by
> "grep -nwr login /etc/rc.d".
>
Look at gdm & gdmconfig. I have set up the computers for school to
fire up and automaticall
I think that the sentiments expressed here are universal to Open Source.
Please read on...
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> From: Scott Carr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: OO - Discuss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, OO - Doc
><[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: [discuss] Re: [users] 1468 bugs
On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 21:31, Stephan Borg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Does anyone know of any RHCE study groups in Sydney or even possibly
> online?
Geoff does run a LPIC study group at Granville TAFE on Monday and
Wednesday. This is definitely worth going to I have never learned so
much. The two qual
On Mon, 2002-06-24 at 22:50, DaZZa wrote:
>
> cd /usr/src/linux
> make menuconfig
The kernel option by default for kernel source for debian are very
strange. It appears that the kernel source package builder grabs hist
own kernel setup and packages it. Very confusing for newbies to a
build, sh
I am missing something from my XF86config-4 to allow switching
resolutions with plus key. Does anyone have a sample of the screen part
that I can rip off. I need to switch modes to test monitor capability
for Computer Bank.
Ta
Ken
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On Sat, 2002-06-22 at 21:56, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> From: justinewbie
Star Office comes in three flavours:
StarOffice 5.2 ('current' release)
StarOffice 6.0 (Beta release)
OpenOffice.org (An copy of Commercial Star Office)
OpenOffice is missing some chinese fonts
On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 15:54, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > Could you tell me what they(*.la , *.lo) are ?
>
> .la: libtool archive files, they store metadata about libraries (library
> dependency info and stuff like that) so libtool can work a bit faster and
> smarter. [1]
Libtool is about portabi
I am rolling my own and when I make install it installs it into the /
directory. How do I get it to install in the boot directory?
KenF
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On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 09:11, Angus Lees wrote:
>
> do an "ssh -v ..." and check that redirection is actually attempted
> (one of the last messages before starting your shell).
>
> "in what way doesn't it work?"
ssh -v -X root@gateway firestarter
...snippage...
debug1: ssh_session2_setup: id 0
debian woody...
I have tried to set up my gateway for forwarding x so that I can use one
of the firewall builder products.
I have editted the ssh_config and sshd_config to include X11forwarding
options to yes. How do I get this to work properly?
Thanks
KenF
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On Sun, 2002-06-02 at 16:51, godwin wrote:
> hello ,
> I am working as a system admin in linux.I am planning to take a
>certification in linux , can any one please help me getting linux question paper
>DUMPS.If you have one ,do post me .
There is a raft of questions in the back of t
I have no DNS, the hostname command does not respond to --fqdn but it
does reply to hostname with its name. I need a mail agent to install
something the requires lograte, and the list goes on...
I have used foskey.org (must buy this one day, it is available...) and
tried to dummy this up with '
On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 18:37, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
> (For others, SME is Mitel's perky little distro that handles most tasks that
> a small business would require. If you've heard of e-smith, you'll recognise
> SME... Mitel bought e-smith and continued development.)
I have been talking to the scho
I would like to thank slug on behalf of my class mates for the generous
support that Slug has given us during the Linux professional course
(LPIC) at Granville TAFE.
First we had Gus give up his spare time to talk about cron and Latex,
emacs, and general questions on everything.
Second we had G
On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 18:57, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> At 2:44 pm, Saturday, May 25 2002, Ken Foskey mumbled:
> > I dont really want to muddy my system with an alien rpm package does
> > anyone have any suggestions.
> >
> if you really want to use ALSA, you need to inst
I installed mandrake and sound worked fine.
I pulled my debian woody system across to the harddisk, I installed
sndconfig and it proclaims that things don't work no messages.
The following error occurred
playing the sample:
Nothing follows...
I c
I cannot run the Sun JDK for OpenOffice.
ken@gandalf:/opt/jdk/bin$ ./javac
/opt/jdk/bin/i386/native_threads/javac: error while loading shared
libraries: libstdc++-libc6.1-1.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No
such file or directory
Looking through my system I can see:
/usr/lib/libstdc++
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 09:17, Mark A. Bell wrote:
>
> This morning I tried re-installing my network card (Xircom Creditcard
> Ethernet Adapter IIps) from scratch and reinstalling the drivers from
> the disk. I also ran the diagnostic test program on the Xircom disk and
> it showed no errors. No tr
On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 21:59, Jon claiming to be Jill Biddell wrote:
> I would humbly suggest that the committee send a carefully worded, although
> not too obsequous (sp), appology, expressing the collective regret of the
> majority for the events that took place and any embarassment or offense
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:30, Michael wrote:
> Hello There,
>
> I am just wondering if anyone knows of any control panels that can be
> installed to allow users to administer thier own domain name. Mainly
> looking for somthing that will allow users to edit the email config for
> their own doma
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 22:56, Ben Buxton wrote:
> Jan Schmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing:
>
> Might have to twiddle with the LBA settings in the bios. And
> also look at what 'dmesg' says. Maybe it sees something wrong
> and printed a message there.
Thanks all, I tried to in
> below is a copy of my request to linuxcampus.net.
> I did visit your last meeting in April and found it very interesting but definately
>not directly helpfull to me: myself, being too old and having too little time
>remaining to "hang out" under the Linux "bonnet". Were I fifty years younger y
On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 11:46, Simon Wong wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 09:35, Ken Foskey wrote:
> > Hi...
> >
> > We now have Openoffice.org packages for debian on i386 and and powerpc.
>
> I was going to give these a go (Debian) but noticed they need gcc3 and
> li
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 20:21, Simon Bryan wrote:
> Can some Debian person answer this for me?
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Shaun Nykvist
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> Subject: QL: disk error
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On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 09:49, Terry Collins wrote:
> Alan L Tyree wrote:
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> > How can I find out what is causing it?
>
> tcpdump -ippp0
>
> dns, time, weather, moon, etc.
ethereal is a nice gui wrapper to tcpdump.
KenF
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OK I splshed on large harddisk and I want to configure it. I have the
old Debian system booted but it says:
fdisk /dev/hdc
hdc: driver not present
unable to open /dev/hdc
a) This has had mandrake 8.2 installed so I knwo the harddrive is
recognised. I can boot mandrake easily.
(What else t
The price difference with an AMD athalon 1.6GHz and a P4 1.6GHz the
athalon is dearer by $50. Is there a real reason for this? Should I
spend the extra on AMD?
I was hoping to rescue the RAM and just upgrade the CPU and
motherboard. My current video is PCI.
What is DDR and what will it do f
When I set up my dual boot laptop I said the clock was UTC and it is not
(or vice versa). Unfortunately someone booted it on the lan and the
hardware clock has been reset.
How do I swap the settings from UTC hardware clock to standard clock?
KenF
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I am about to embark on HD recovery (the disk is in the mail literally).
I want to restructure my HD to multiple partitions, so I wanted to throw
out how you would set up a harddisk.
Current:
/
/boot
/data (my scrap area)
I was thinking of going
/
/var
/usr
/home
/data
Would you include
On Sat, 2002-05-04 at 20:09, Nicholas O'Donnell wrote:
> I would Like to learn how to write A MySQL Database but can't find any example
>scripts can some one please help?
There is a nice web front end to my sql. You simply fill in the
blanks. I cannot remember the name of it but it is worthwhi
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We now have Openoffice.org packages for debian on i386 and and powerpc.
These are currently the only supported linux architectures. I saw, that
someone is working on ports on sparc, alpha and IRIX, but it will take some
time.
Openoffice.org 1.0 was announced yest
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 18:46, Jeff Waugh wrote:
>
>
> > Which version of StarOffice are you using?
>
> None, in fact, I've only used it once. I use Gnumeric and AbiWord now and
> then, and Open Office occasionally.
I have to say that the spreadsheet in Open Office is less than optimal.
I had t
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 09:30, Tony Green wrote:
> Quite the contry. I think showing how well (or badly) they do is vital
> for people to be able to swap over. I know its a major consideration in
> all of the corporate desktop migrations I have done.
>
> I have windows on my laptop so I can knock
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 15:34, Pia smith wrote:
>
> Could also get a StarOffice/OpenOffice comparison.
Current release of Star office 5.2 is fairly long in the tooth.
Star Office 6.0 and Open Office 1.0 is pretty much exactly the same.
There are some minor differences to do with asian fonts that
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 17:08, henry wrote:
>
> All I want is that "make depend" can auto-generate the dependency like :
> yy.c : yy.h , aa.h (In fact, my
> project files are too many )
> & write it into my Makefile,then I can do some modification.
gcc
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 15:10, Lester Cheung wrote:
> Just want to know how secure/insecure is a minimal debian install. coz
> the more I read, the more paranoid I am. I have read the debian security
> howto serveral times. Are the suggestions in there enough for a normal
> home machine/regular offi
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