[SLUG] Scroll wheel speed

2005-07-10 Thread James Gregory
I noticed today that I'm spending a truly incredible amount of time operating the scroll wheel on my mouse. Can anyone tell me how to speed it up? 3 or 4 times as fast as it is now would be awesome (by which I mean each 'click' of it will scroll 3 or 4 times the distance it currently does). I

Re: [SLUG] A beginner's server???

2005-07-10 Thread John Gibbons
Thanks Mike. It shows up a lot of addresses in Google each with that address somewhere. I do not understand the significance of that. John. Mike Lake wrote: Hi John On Sat Jul 09, John Gibbons wrote: Is there such a thing as a simple server setup to handle a simple static website that

Re: [SLUG] A beginner's server???

2005-07-10 Thread John Gibbons
Thanks Sridhar. Will looksee. John. Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sat, 9 Jul 2005 18:05, John Gibbons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there such a thing as a simple server setup to handle a simple static website that a beginner can install and run from home?? KDE has a Public File

Re: [SLUG] A beginner's server???

2005-07-10 Thread John Gibbons
Very helpful. Thanks Pia. John. Pia Waugh wrote: Hi John, quote who=John Gibbons Is there such a thing as a simple server setup to handle a simple static website that a beginner can install and run from home?? The most simple setup I've seen is the Red Hat stuff, from their

Re: [SLUG] A beginner's server???

2005-07-10 Thread John Gibbons
Thanks Mark. I'll have a look at that one too. John. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi John, I am a beginner too but had very little problem getting Apache up and running under Debian. Using bigpond cable I do not have a fixed IP but easily got around this by going to www.noip.com , you can

Re: [SLUG] Installing X on Debian stable.

2005-07-10 Thread Chris Deigan
quote(Terry Collins); 1) what d I need to install to get X + gnome going? $ apt-get install x-window-system-core gnome-core debconf will help configure all. 2) Or how do you fix /dev/input/mice not working? (which is just one of the possible causes). hotplug should load the appropriate modules

Re: [SLUG] usb keyboard

2005-07-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
kernel support is all Dean Ken Foskey wrote: It appears that my motherboards keyboard plug has been blown by a voltage spike. I have tried a working keyboard and it does not work on this computer however the USB mouse works perfectly. I was wondering whether there were any tricks to USB

Re: [SLUG] dvd burner

2005-07-10 Thread james
A late suggestion (I've been away from keyboard all weekend): DVD+RW-tools, from http://fy.chalmers.se/~appro/linux/DVD+RW/ I've been using it quite successfully for a while, and does an excellent job. The main burning tool is growisofs, which is basically an extension to makeisofs that

[SLUG] Procmail question

2005-07-10 Thread James Polley
I have a bunch of procmail recipes that pick up mail for various mailing lists I'm on and dump it to specific folders: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists/security/linux-secnews :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists/SLUG I'd like for any mail that matches one of these rules to also be forwarded to my gmail.

Re: [SLUG] Procmail question

2005-07-10 Thread Simon Bowden
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, James Polley wrote: I have a bunch of procmail recipes that pick up mail for various mailing lists I'm on and dump it to specific folders: :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists/security/linux-secnews :0: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] lists/SLUG I'd like for any mail that matches one of

[SLUG] problem with wireless

2005-07-10 Thread David
I can't get my wireless to connect at boot. This is causing me embarrassment because I keep telling everyone they should use Linux :( From a fresh install of Ubuntu Hoary, specifying wireless for my net connection, wireless fails to connect. Signal is NOT a problem. HOWEVER: If I deactivate

RE: [SLUG] problem with wireless

2005-07-10 Thread Visser, Martin
David, The interfaces that Ubuntu tries to bring up at boot time is determined basically by the contents of /etc/network/interfaces. (This is configured by the network GUI tool) You might want to man interfaces and ifup to get a feeling of what is going on. A simple problem that you might have

[SLUG] OpenOffice.org Failing to start on FC3

2005-07-10 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day all. I've been having a bit of trouble starting OpenOffice.org on a number of Fedora Core 3 systems that i'm running. When using any of the oo* scripts (oowriter, oocalc, etc) found in /usr/bin/, the script terminates. For example, with the oowriter script: 'Can't exec

[SLUG] Telstra ADSL bridge mode on Linux

2005-07-10 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, seeking advice on getting ADSL from Telstra to work with Linux. I have two sites that I look after where the ADSL is provided by Connexus and Internode respectively and the DSL setup is such that the modem is in bridge mode. The Linux firewall is ignorant of the dsl, it simply

Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL bridge mode on Linux

2005-07-10 Thread David Kempe
Peter Rundle wrote: Is there any point in persuing this or should I try and work on ditching Telstra for one of the other vendors? You probably have a siemens modem/router and hence are on a 10.0.0.0 style subnet. odds on the router is at 10.0.1.138 or something like that. anyway, you can

Re: [SLUG] Procmail question

2005-07-10 Thread James Polley
A little more digging sound a clever variant on this, in one of the places I'd looked earlier but hadn't found what I was looking for, but with Simon's information I was able to piece things together.. http://pm-doc.sourceforge.net/pm-tips-body.html#how_to_raise_a_flag illustrates Simon's

Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL bridge mode on Linux

2005-07-10 Thread David Kempe
Peter Rundle wrote: I actually want the IP available to the Linux box so that I can do cool and groovy network thinks like Masquerade, proxy, reverse proxy etc. I could let the Modem hold the IP but then it's not available to the reverse proxy. Sounds like Roaring Penguin will have to be it.

Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL bridge mode on Linux

2005-07-10 Thread Howard Lowndes
It certainly sounds as if the modem is in routing mode. That's the common default setting these days. David Kempe wrote: Peter Rundle wrote: I actually want the IP available to the Linux box so that I can do cool and groovy network thinks like Masquerade, proxy, reverse proxy etc. I could

[SLUG] Re: Telstra ADSL bridge mode on Linux

2005-07-10 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 02:01:23PM +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: I am trying to get the same setup out of Telstra (don't ask why) at a third site. Their Account rep assured me that the modem could work in bridge mode (as per the other vendors) but it turns out that doesn't appear to be true.