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?
The O'Reilly book MySQL mSQL is excellent. There is also a MySQL
tutorial installed by the rpm package manager for rpm packages. Jill and
I followed that.
Hi,
I've been offered a 2nd hand card ($100) which is supposed to be 32MB
nVidia FeForce 256. Well, nVidia make chips but apparently not cards.
The card looks generally like the LeadTek card shown at
http://www.tomshardware.com/graphic/00q1/000107/
except that (a) it hasn't got the 2nd video
On Sun, 5 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been offered a 2nd hand card ($100) which is supposed to be 32MB
nVidia FeForce 256. Well, nVidia make chips but apparently not cards.
That's bloody expensive. 64MB GeForce2/MX200's with TVout are $99.
Does anyone know, please, what my card
Myles Byrne wrote:
Does anyone what know what the current status of aplha blending is in
gnome 2? I've googled around and found screen shots of a nice looking
login screen, and another of really ugly tree-leave like widgets so I
know its possible I was just wondering how far it extends. Can we
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Matthew Palmer wrote:
is potato -- woody upgrade a big download for those of us on a dialup
connection?
Yes. Basically, whatever you've got on your system, gets sucked down again.
Then I'd add about 10-20% for the usual bloat.
Given that potato was 3 ISO's, and the
Hey folk.
I have an IBM thinkpad X21 (nice machine). APM sorta worked on 2.4.2. I
have just upgraded to 2.4.18, and definitely compiled APM into the code.
However, when I type apm on a command line, I get a no support in
kernel error.
Any hints?
Thanks,
Mikal
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On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 21:19, James Gregory wrote:
The nvidia geforce cards also do drop shadows on the mouse pointer if
you set the right options in XF86Config-4
Yes, the cursor shadow option of the NVIDIA driver is cool. Set the
following option under Section Device
Option Cursor_Shadow
Hi Adam.
I'm probably not the right person to ask, but I'm sure somebody on the
SLUG mailing list could help you out. Forwarding your question there.
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 21:26, Adam Fenech wrote:
I am not sure if you could answer my query, but I am installing Red Hat
7 from a pc world
Ken Foskey wrote:
I am about to embark on HD recovery (the disk is in the mail literally).
How big would you set the relative sizes? (40 gig, double original)
Ken, I recently acquired a 40g to add to my current 20g, and had a play
with it, as there was nothing wrong with the 20g.
I
missed a bit. sorry
he next is a linux extended for the rest of the hd,
then two swap files [1]
[1] one of the partitioning tools wouldn't make a swap file bigger than
2 g , but it didn't matter as both
swap files are available to whichever OS is running at the time. Why
would I want more
any one noticed any problems, especialy if the shared directory is on a
reiserfs partition?
Im geting lots of read failures (connection reset by peer) and oplock
errors
Im begining to think its network related , the samba server has no errors
when i look in ifconfig
could this be dropped
Personally, I find that it's best not to have too many partitions.
I do like to keep system partitions separate from everything else, so
that an upgrade or replacement of the OS doesn't affect any local data.
And having a /boot partition is wise. If you're going to be playing
with lots of
The translated letter from the Peruvian congressman is about 10 pages
long, but it is a work of art. *Well* worth reading. In it, he tears
apart Microsoft's opposition to the proposed law for the Peruvian
government to use only free (as in speech) software.
Beautiful.
luke
Free
Ben de Luca wrote:
any one noticed any problems, especialy if the shared directory is on a
reiserfs partition?
Im geting lots of read failures (connection reset by peer) and oplock
errors
Im begining to think its network related , the samba server has no errors
when i look in ifconfig
could
For anyone who is interested or has the same
problem in the future I found an option that works, no matter how obscure and
unintuitive that it is.
By using the -I option on dhcpcd and specifying a
different MAC address it seemed to trick the server into giving me the ip back.
I still have
quote who=DaZZa
Given that potato was 3 ISO's, and the woody beta I downloaded on the
weekend was 8, I'd say signifigantly more than 10-20% for bloat. :-)
Note that there's absolutely no reason to download all of the CD's. Trying
to distribute the entire Debian archive - even for a single
There is already an embargo on M$ bashing on this list (quite rightly) ..
but this letter goes well beyond that, and gets to the heart of why ANY
government should be using free software.
Is there anyone amongst our beloved leaders who would have the nouse to
actually understand this extremely
When using wwoffle it definitely down loads things, but through the cache index pages
I can't look at things offline, except by looking in /var/cache/wwoffle which means I
can't see the pictures because the downloaded files are renamed something like
akljghlaksfhl. From the cache pages it
could answer my query, but I am installing Red Hat
7 from a pc world package. It works excellent on my older computer but
refuses to work properly for my newer one. I have an Asus V8200 Ti500
video card and a Sound Blaster Audigy sound card and I am thinking that
these components are part of the
What the faq is happening with all this spam?! :)
Time to play around a bit more with SPAM assasin people!
Pia
PS - I just acquired a PA system, so if anyone has any functions that need
one, let me know :)
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On Sun, 5 May 2002, DaZZa wrote:
is potato -- woody upgrade a big download for those of us on a dialup
connection?
Yes. Basically, whatever you've got on your system, gets sucked down again.
Then I'd add about 10-20% for the usual bloat.
Given that potato was 3 ISO's, and the
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Given that potato was 3 ISO's, and the woody beta I downloaded on the
weekend was 8, I'd say signifigantly more than 10-20% for bloat. :-)
Note that there's absolutely no reason to download all of the CD's. Trying
to distribute the entire Debian
quote who=Pia smith
What the faq is happening with all this spam?! :)
Time to play around a bit more with SPAM assasin people!
SpamAssassin can't kill everything; it matches common spam phrasing and
patterns, but it won't match viruses or attachments, and we can only take
the threshholds
quote who=DaZZa
It'd be nice if Dabian _said_ that somewhere. Nowhere on the site does it
indicate you don't need all the disks.
Pretty sure it says it in the install guide.
Yes, it indicates you can do a minimal install from a small ISO, and get
the rest from the net - but it's a _big_
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:
It'd be nice if Dabian _said_ that somewhere. Nowhere on the site does it
indicate you don't need all the disks.
Pretty sure it says it in the install guide.
Which is where? On the first disk, right? :-)
Yes, it indicates you can do a minimal
I am having problems installing OO 1.0.
System: Redhat 7.2.
Previous OO: 641 ran beautifully. Unfortunately, I deleted it (!)
before installing 1.0
Installation appears to go well (standard installation in home
directory. On first startup:
- OpenOffice.org 1.0 screen appears
quote who=DaZZa
Which is where? On the first disk, right? :-)
On the website. Great docs.
Funny thing is, last time I downloaded Red Hat, I didn't realise I *had* to
have both CD's. It makes far more sense to me to have the distribution work
it out for itself.
So, if you buy a piece
What about a self authenticating mail systems where you have to have a valid
email address.
so some thing like
1) I would like to join the email list
2) mail system send message with random key to email address
3) user returns email with the random key
4) valid account (well) or after 2-5 days
On Sat, 4 May 2002, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
On Fri, 3 May 2002 10:39:14 +1000 (EST)
David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I used to use a Jazz 1Gb for back up and it was hopelessly unreliable..
the removable drives would turn out to be corrupted for no obvious reason.
Yeah, I had the
Hi,
I'm about to move home and I'm considering switching from Bigpond Cable to
ADSL (probably Apple Communications). I'd also like to host e-mail/web at
home and will be using EasyDNS to provide DDNS.
1. Does anyone have any horror stories about using Apple Communications
for ADSL? I think
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 10:21:14AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
What about a self authenticating mail systems where you have to have a valid
email address.
so some thing like
1) I would like to join the email list
2) mail system send message with random key to email address
3) user returns
Alex Samad wrote:
What about a self authenticating mail systems where you have to have a valid
email address.
so some thing like
1) I would like to join the email list
2) mail system send message with random key to email address
3) user returns email with the random key
4) valid
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 19:50, Veronica Brandt wrote:
When using wwoffle it definitely down loads things, but through the cache index
pages I can't look at things offline, except by looking in /var/cache/wwoffle which
means I can't see the pictures because the downloaded files are renamed
quote who=Alex Samad
1) I would like to join the email list
2) mail system send message with random key to email address
3) user returns email with the random key
4) valid account (well) or after 2-5 days time out the email
Do you forget doing this when you subscribed? :-)
- Jeff
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1. Does anyone have any horror stories about using Apple Communications
for ADSL? I think they are reselling Telstra Bigpond ADSL so horror
stories
about them are welcome too.
www.whirlpool.net.au is probably a better place to ask. I think it is a
fairly general consensus that Telstra ADSL
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote:
The available packages for Debian don't indicate bloat. They indicate a very
large, distributed developer base and a lot of hard work.
One for the bored:
1) Take 8 Debian CDs, count them. Call this number D.
2) Take all the Microsoft CDs required
This one time, at band camp, DaZZa wrote:
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:
It'd be nice if Dabian _said_ that somewhere. Nowhere on the site does it
indicate you don't need all the disks.
Pretty sure it says it in the install guide.
Which is where? On the first disk, right? :-)
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 22:29, David wrote:
Is there anyone amongst our beloved leaders who would have the nouse to
actually understand this extremely well reasoned letter?
David, FWIW, I have forwarded this onto my mate :)
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G'day Sluggers,
Could you please tell me if there is any software for video conferencing for
Linux.
If there is, which is a good one to get.
It could be shareware or one that we have to pay for.
Thank you in advance.
_
Chat
quote who=Faiyaaz Hussain
Could you please tell me if there is any software for video conferencing
for Linux.
If there is, which is a good one to get.
It could be shareware or one that we have to pay for.
No way man, Free Software all the way!
http://www.gnomemeeting.org/
- Jeff
--
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Faiyaaz Hussain
Could you please tell me if there is any software for video conferencing
for Linux.
If there is, which is a good one to get.
It could be shareware or one that we have to pay for.
No way man, Free Software all the
Wienand Ian wrote:
www.whirlpool.net.au is probably a better place to ask. I think it is a
fairly general consensus that Telstra ADSL pretty much sucks, and so this
affects all of their resellers. But getting a good reseller is probably the
key -- even if it is a Telstra fault you still
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 13:16, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
I've heard that Telstra fall down in the quality
and speed of their authentication and dns servers,
so if you get the right reseller it could be a lot
better. On this score I've heard Pacific Internet
are good. I've used Zip for a long
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 13:16, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
I've heard that Telstra fall down in the quality
and speed of their authentication and dns servers,
so if you get the right reseller it could be a lot
better. On this score I've heard Pacific Internet
are good. I've used Zip for a
Hi all,
Has anyone successfully installed amavis with CAI's InoculateIT 6.0?
I have got it scan emails that are plain text, but when it comes to a
compressed file, I get this in the mail logs:
amavis[18877]: Virus scanner failure: /usr/local/bin/inocucmd (error code:
3)
I had to change a couple
http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/25157.html
Highly recommended reading. The full text of the Peruvian response to
Microsoft.
Adam
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quote who=David
We had a look at using Gnomemeeting ... the downside was getting it to
interact with netmeeting. Unfortunately not everyone uses linux (yet). The
problem was the sound codecs. Has anyone had any luck with this?
I have; it uses standard H323, as does netmeeting. The only
On Mon, May 06, 2002 at 01:43:17PM +1000, Jessica Mayo wrote:
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
I've heard that Telstra fall down in the quality
and speed of their authentication and dns servers,
so if you get the right reseller it could be a lot
better. On this score I've
On Mon, 2002-05-06 at 14:31, John Ferlito wrote:
Which means they are better than Telstra Retail ADSL because you aren't
sitting on Telstra's crappy home network. But no better when it comes to
ADSL ouatge problems that affect all Tesltra Flexstream customers.
IIRC correctly most of
Following this thread I was moved to download and do a netinstall of
Debian - it's been a while since I tried it.
I downloaded the netinstall iso, which came to 30mb, did a checksum and
burned the cdrom ok. I then boot installed from it and once I installed
the ethernet bridge driver it
So far very smooth. On reboot I get prompted for root pw and useraccount
creation but then I got stuck in a loop:
Known problem with Woody, fix has been implemented and should flow down
soon...
I think I read somewhere you can work around by switching virtual terminals
upgrade base-config to
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
I've heard that Telstra fall down in the quality
and speed of their authentication and dns servers,
who uses the telstra dns servers? not me. just the pipe thanks - linux
handles the rest!
I've been on Telstra ADSL since Feb last year. As has been
I've been on Telstra ADSL since Feb last year. As has been
commented at
numerous times, the service was pretty dodgy for most of last
year. This
year has been much better. I note from my logs I still have the
occassional outage but usually overnight. I haven't been
inconvenienced
by
On Mon, 6 May 2002, Wienand Ian wrote:
So far very smooth. On reboot I get prompted for root pw and useraccount
creation but then I got stuck in a loop:
Known problem with Woody, fix has been implemented and should flow down
soon...
I think I read somewhere you can work around by
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