Hi folks,
As Aurema has gone over to the Evil Empire almost entirely,
Lucy and I have new jobs. We're now working for the Gelato project
http://www.gelato.org which is basically HP throwing money at various
people in the effort to get Linux on IA-64 working at least as well as Linux
quote who=Peter Chubb
As Aurema has gone over to the Evil Empire almost entirely,
Crap!
Lucy and I have new jobs. We're now working for the Gelato project
http://www.gelato.org which is basically HP throwing money at various
people in the effort to get Linux on IA-64 working at
On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 20:46, Grant Parnell wrote:
If the $11 includes the bandwidth then I can't see a problem with it if
it's a good reliable service. I wouldn't consider that too steep for a
business.
no but it's for me, and I don't have unlimited funds to spend just
on internet access
Jeff == Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jeff quote who=Peter Chubb
As Aurema has gone over to the Evil Empire almost entirely,
Jeff Crap!
No, it has! They're concentrating on Windows development, and have
retrenched almost all of their Unix people. They've just kept enough
to support
Sluggers,
Just need some advice and opinions on a little job I've been offered.
Office has a Telstra Big pond cable connection to a Windoze 2K box
which acts as the gateway for a small network of Macs. Apparently the
cable connection falls over all the time along with the Doze box, also
there
quote who=Peter Chubb
No, it has! They're concentrating on Windows development, and have
retrenched almost all of their Unix people. They've just kept enough to
support their existing customers.
Heh, yeah, crap as in bad. I noticed that they had a whole raft of Microsoft
stuff on their
Henry,
1. How do I open a file with filename ***.ps.gz ?
Umm is your question about the *** or the gz or the ps?
If you meant that somehow you got ***'s in the file name and it's now
causing you problems then use single quotes
I.e
$ mv '***.ps.gz' better.ps.gz
If it's about the .gz then
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 20:22, Peter Rundle wrote:
Sluggers,
Just need some advice and opinions on a little job I've been offered.
Office has a Telstra Big pond cable connection to a Windoze 2K box
which acts as the gateway for a small network of Macs. Apparently the
cable connection falls
What do other people with perm connection who run their own mail
server do for secondary/backup? (ie. secondary mx)
My suggestion is that you *DON'T*!
Why not you ask? Think about how the mail system works. Someone sends
a mail to you, it goes from their desktop/mail client of choice onto
It uses DHCP to get an IP, then some protocol for authentication. I
think there's some difficulty if they use a USB ethernet card (you need
to get a supported ethernet card).
Hmm, ok who's they? I assume you mean the people I'm doing the job for.
I get to specify the box so it will have a PCI
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 20:22:41 +1100
Peter Rundle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sluggers,
Just need some advice and opinions on a little job I've been offered.
Office has a Telstra Big pond cable connection to a Windoze 2K box
which acts as the gateway for a small network of Macs. Apparently
in the middle of debian configuration it asks for lynx's URL .
does anyone know without a lot of trouble?
thanks
Bill
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All it is asking is what do you want to be the startup page if you run lynx.
Just put in whatever you want - e.g. www.google.com ?
Rob
Bill Taylor wrote:
in the middle of debian configuration it asks for lynx's URL .
does anyone know without a lot of trouble?
thanks
Bill
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Um...thats not lynx' URL thats the URL you want to come up as
'default'...as in your ISP's web page...or whatever
At 09:12 PM 20/03/2002 +1100, you wrote:
in the middle of debian configuration it asks for lynx's URL .
does anyone know without a lot of trouble?
thanks
Bill
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It wants the site of your choice. Like
http://www.google.com
frinstance.
N
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On Wed 20 Mar, Bill Taylor bloviated thus:
in the middle of debian configuration it asks for lynx's URL .
does anyone know without a lot of trouble?
It's after the home page that will open whenever anyone runs lynx, not
the home page for the developers of the software. I suspect the
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 05:39:43PM +1100, Nick Croft wrote:
I wrote too soon. Had to bindkey -m to establish a Meta key.
Am I the only zsh addict round here?
See
http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/pearls/2002/03/msg0.html
i.e.: in answer to your question ... I think not.
To make
Gee, I'm glad I asked!! Lynx is some sort of browser?
thanks all
Bill
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I just finished setting up a BigPond connection for a small business in
Sydney and found that the USB device is supported under Redhat 7.2, which
you will need for the IPTables anywhy. You just have to load the driver for
the usb network device (SMC something). But you do not have to use their
though I cant gunzip it,it maybe caused by error-downloading
Are you downloading with Windows? I know NOTHING about windows, but
there's a chance it's unzipping it for you, without it renaming the
file.
Mozilla will do that even on Linux. All the time.
Netscape on MacIntosh will also do it
Has anybody finished downloading the 3 cd's of
mandrake 8.2 yet?
I am almost finished cd1 on my 56k connection (i
get unlimited downloads). But if anybody else wanted to download cd2 or cd3, I
would be willing to swap the cd's by post. Let me know if you are
interested.
Also once I have
At 10:03 pm, Wednesday, March 20 2002, Bill Taylor mumbled:
Gee, I'm glad I asked!! Lynx is some sort of browser?
Right. Lynx is a *text-based* browser.
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DanielS aj: for i in have will; do echo never $i; done
* aj marvels at how much more
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 08:52:35AM +1100, Alan Vink wrote:
IP Alias has been deprecated in 2.4.x and replaced by a more powerful
firewalling mechanism
*Could someone shed some light on this?
It sounds a bit strange to me that aliases has been replaced with
a firewalling mechanism, but I
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 03:15:57PM +0800, henry wrote:
Dear List :
1. How do I open a file with filename ***.ps.gz ?
gv file.ps.gz
gv can open postscript and pdf files, the version on my
system gunzips automatically.
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On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 08:52:25PM +1100, Peter Rundle wrote:
What do other people with perm connection who run their own mail
server do for secondary/backup? (ie. secondary mx)
My suggestion is that you *DON'T*!
Why not you ask? Think about how the mail system works. Someone sends
a
back to this again, sorry. I just don't know enough to figure out what
it is telling me.
I've just run xf86config again, everything is set much as it is for RH
(and windoze) on the same box
# startx
/usr/bin/X11/xauth: creating new authority file /root/.Xauthority
xauth: creating new
I've just discovered how cool this line in my .muttrc is:
send-hook [EMAIL PROTECTED]set pgp_autoencrypt
That means it will encrypt all messages I send to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
without me having to remember to tell mutt.
I'd prefer to encrypt every email I possibly can, so... Is there some
I have an application where I need some street-level maps of Sydney (other
capital cities would be nice, too; Melbourne and Brisbane, in particular) in
a format that I can decipher via some code, or where there exist Linux
libraries or other tools to do the decoding for me.
I've already
Harry Ohlsen wrote:
I also bought a CD ROM of Geodata 2000 release 2, which has maps at a scale
of 1 : 250 000 of much of Australia. Again, though, I don't know the format
of the data it contains.
It could be that the CDs I already have are using a standard format that's
specified
On 1-2-02
* Andre Pang ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote in a messages with the
* Subject: more zsh crack (or why you should use zsh)
* and I quote:
You're firing me up to do a zsh talk again :).
If people are keen, I'll do a zsh top ten most useful features
list or something.
Please,
Thanks.
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Hi guys,
Just have a question about copying files from one directory to another with
some soft of exclusion string.
What my goal is, I want to backup all data from one directory in a
filesystem to another file system except ???G.DAT and ???Z.DAT (the
??? can be replaced with a * if
To answer my own question, unless someone has a better answer, I could use:
# ls |grep -v ???G.DAT |grep -v ???Z.DAT |xargs cp /backup
Would this be the correct way? Is it suggested that I would tar then move,
is this quicker safer?
Regards,
Scott
-Original Message-
From:
On Wed, 2002-03-20 at 17:20, Scott Ragen wrote:
Hi guys,
Just have a question about copying files from one directory to another with
some soft of exclusion string.
What my goal is, I want to backup all data from one directory in a
filesystem to another file system except ???G.DAT and
Running two machines; gnome on rh7.1.
On neither machine can I creat an icon that launches an application.
Instead properties shows it as a desktop (i.e. right click, then select
open to run).
How do I get ne of those click and run icons
(yes, I'm doing right click, new launcher, change url to
Seems
the whole world is downloading Mandrake 8.2 at the moment. There is a scramble
to get on the mirrors, even one's with some bandwidth. I wonder why Mandrake
didn't give the mirror sites 24 hours notice prior to the release so that they
could be "primed" up with the distribution before
Hi Slugs,
Is there a way to tell how hard a network card is being used in a PC.
e.g stats, errors, usage, etc. I wouldn't know where to start looking so
some help would be appreciated.
I'm running debian.
Ben
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On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 09:10, Ben Donohue wrote:
Hi Slugs,
Is there a way to tell how hard a network card is being used in a PC.
e.g stats, errors, usage, etc. I wouldn't know where to start looking so
some help would be appreciated.
I'm running debian.
tgreen@cavey:~$ ifconfig eth0
eth0
PlanetMirror makes for a good fast mirror.
ftp://planetmirror.com/pub/mandrake/linux/8.2/en/iso/i586/
It's based in oz too.
Seems the whole world is downloading Mandrake 8.2 at the moment. There is a
scramble to get on the mirrors, even one's with some bandwidth. I wonder why
Mandrake didn't
You should try running X-windows as non-root user.
-Original Message-
From: Bill Taylor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 21 March 2002 12:51 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [SLUG] debian.potato-X
back to this again, sorry. I just don't know enough to figure out what
Just a thought
How much space is on your drive
df -h
if it is 100% then that is another reason it won't start up.
Chris
On Thu, 21 Mar 2002 09:27:19 +1100
Hartono, Susanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You should try running X-windows as non-root user.
-Original Message-
From: Bill
in the middle of debian configuration it asks for lynx's URL .
It's after the home page that will open whenever anyone runs lynx, not
On the topic of lynx, strongly suggest checking out w3m.
Current version displays images in your xterm, (under your say-so,
of course) quite funky.
On Thu, 2002-03-21 at 10:11, Jamie Honan wrote:
Pictures, frames, ssl, and text mode browsing.
Does w3m do http auth? This is the one sticking point that's stopped me
from replacing lynx with links on all of my machines.
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On Thursday a small war broke out between
On Wed, Mar 20, 2002 at 08:52:35AM +1100, Alan Vink wrote:
IP Alias has been deprecated in 2.4.x and replaced by a more powerful
firewalling mechanism
*Could someone shed some light on this?
*Is there a better way to achieving this without aliasing?
ip addr add a.b.c.d/x dev ethy
*Are
Scott,
Would this be the correct way? Is it suggested that I would tar then move,
is this quicker safer?
Say three times after me CPIO CPIO CPIO!
Cpio was designed to do this stuff, for some reason it seems to be out
of favour with Linux users
who seem to prefer convulted scripts based on
Terry Collins wrote:
Unfortunately the AusLig CD's are in a proprietary format developed by
an Oz company. Both names escape me at the moment.
I'm assuming you're talking about the Auslig Raster 250K maps.
They're in a proprietary format (ECW), but the company that created the
ECW standard
At Wed, 20 Mar 2002 08:52:35 +1100,
Alan Vink wrote:
Setting up IP Aliasing on A Linux Machine Mini-HOWTO
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/IP-Alias/
IP Alias has been deprecated in 2.4.x and replaced by a more powerful
firewalling mechanism
with iproute there is no need for interface
Can I add just as a warning, don't use their maps for anything remotely
commercial unless you pay them, and even if it's free, be very carefull.
Map companies are very sensitive about their data, it's their main
asset, and they spend millions aquiring the data. They often have fake
streets and
At Wed, 20 Mar 2002 16:27:54 +1100,
Richard Hayes wrote:
As a Debian dummy who is trying to change from Red Hat to Debian but
is failling ;)
I read about the Storm Administration System which I believe was a
part of the Storm distribution.
It contains the Storm Administration System
Hi Guys,
Could someone please tell me where I can get a list/table of the generic
port numbers. The information that I'm seeking, for example is http port is
80 or 8080 etc
I hope this makes sense.
thanks
Marko
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On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 02:16:41AM +1100, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
I have an application where I need some street-level maps of Sydney (other
capital cities would be nice, too; Melbourne and Brisbane, in particular) in
a format that I can decipher via some code, or where there exist Linux
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:29:12AM +1100, Marko Denev wrote:
Could someone please tell me where I can get a list/table of the generic
port numbers. The information that I'm seeking, for example is http port is
80 or 8080 etc
Using google for about 10 seconds reveals:
Marko Denev wrote:
Hi Guys,
Could someone please tell me where I can get a list/table of the generic
port numbers. The information that I'm seeking, for example is http port is
80 or 8080 etc
/etc/services
80 is normal, but seems common practise inhouse to block 80 and use 8080
if
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:29:12AM +1100, Marko Denev wrote:
Hi Guys,
Could someone please tell me where I can get a list/table of the generic
port numbers. The information that I'm seeking, for example is http port is
80 or 8080 etc
I hope this makes sense.
On most Unix machines
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002 19:22, you wrote:
Sluggers,
Just need some advice and opinions on a little job I've been offered.
Question 1. Is it possible to connect to Telstra Cable from Linux? I'm
not familiar with Telstra cable, I assume that there is some sort of
cable modem
that handles that
thanks
Marko
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From: Anand Kumria [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Marko Denev [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: slug-ers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, March 21, 2002 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [SLUG] Port list
On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 11:29:12AM +1100, Marko Denev wrote:
Hi all,
I have set up /etc/exports (configured to my system IP info) as suggested by
Karl (see below).
/home 192.168.0.0/255.255.255.0(rw,ro_root_squash)
I still get permission denied by the server when I try to automount /home
on the client machine.
Further information about my system:
I
quote who=Terry Collins
Running two machines; gnome on rh7.1.
On neither machine can I creat an icon that launches an application.
Instead properties shows it as a desktop (i.e. right click, then select
open to run).
How do I get ne of those click and run icons
(yes, I'm doing right
Jeff Waugh wrote:
Sounds like you're using GMC, but I can't really decipher what the problem
is from your mail. A bit clearer now that it's later in the morning? :)
It doesn't create an icon on the desktop, so that when you click on it,
it launches the application. There is an icon there, but
Thanx everyone for the advice, seems that bpalogin is the go, read the
FAQ and install
docs and I actually understand it so feeling pretty confident that I can
get it to work.
So having just said that no doubt I'll be back here in a couple of days
stressing..
Cheers
Pete
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Of course, if X is something like 6 hours, then it only takes your
connection to be down for a few minutes when it tries the first few times,
and the message could easily take 24 hours to get to you.
Well actually your connection would have to be down a couple of times in
sync with when
Kennedy, Adam wrote:
Can I add just as a warning, don't use their maps for anything remotely
commercial unless you pay them, and even if it's free, be very carefull.
True
Map companies are very sensitive about their data, it's their main
asset, and they spend millions aquiring the data.
On Wed, 20 Mar 2002, Richard Hayes wrote:
Dear list,
As a Debian dummy who is trying to change from Red Hat to Debian but is
failling ;)
I read about the Storm Administration System which I believe was a part of
the Storm distribution.
It contains the Storm Administration System
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, Ken Caldwell wrote:
'evening all,
I am trying to get two Debian boxes talking to each other via the PSTN.
Both boxes have the same users and passwords. This box has mgetty
running on ttyS1. I can login to this box from the other one using
minicom but I want another
I would like to (re)accept my nomination for the SLUG committee (yet
another change of circumstance)
Thanks
Greeno
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I'd like to install elvis, which is a vi/ex clone, but it
occurred to me to ask if anyone has any experience with others.
Has anyone any strong feelings they'd like to air?
Regards,
Bill Bennett.
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quote who=Bill Bennett
I'd like to install elvis, which is a vi/ex clone, but it
occurred to me to ask if anyone has any experience with others.
Has anyone any strong feelings they'd like to air?
I use vim. It has lots of stuff that vi purists chastise me for, which is
fine by me. :-)
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Hi, my potato reinstall has struck problems
.
All went well until I had to install LILO either on /dev/hda (XP drive)
or /dev/hdb. Attempted installation on /dev/hda received the message
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On Thu, 21 Mar 2002, Marko Denev wrote:
Could someone please tell me where I can get a list/table of the generic
port numbers. The information that I'm seeking, for example is http port is
80 or 8080 etc
I hope this makes sense.
fred:~ #less /etc/services
#
# Network services,
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