RE: [SLUG] Cable providers

2001-12-17 Thread Stephan Borg
I with Telstra ADSL and I can back this info 110%!! Stephan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Erik de Castro Lopo Sent: Monday, 17 December 2001 6:56 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Cable providers On Mon, 17 Dec 2001

[SLUG] Evolution

2001-12-17 Thread Antony Clarke
Anyone know if you can get Evolution on CD, looked at everythinglinux but no mention of it. 56k here so downloading is no go. I've read that Evolution is a bit unstable without Ximian gnome, has anyone found this? Cheers, Antony -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Evolution

2001-12-17 Thread Malcolm V
On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 19:27, Antony Clarke wrote: Anyone know if you can get Evolution on CD, looked at everythinglinux but no mention of it. 56k here so downloading is no go. I believe it is part of the Ximian distribution. I've read that Evolution is a bit unstable without Ximian gnome,

Re: [SLUG] Cable providers

2001-12-17 Thread Kevin Waterson
Stephan Borg wrote: I with Telstra ADSL and I can back this info 110%!! Same here in Byron Bay Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Cable providers

2001-12-17 Thread Howard Lowndes
Which doesn't leave much choice if it's the only service available. BTW, I don't go much on Flow Comms either, but I don't know how much their problem is really Telstra's problem. Does anyone know about any rumoured DDoS on Telstra recently? On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Kevin Waterson wrote: Stephan

Re: [SLUG] Cable providers

2001-12-17 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Mon 17 Dec, David Kempe made the following spurious claims: Recent SLUG flamewars aside, plain text email is appreciated :) What part of this was NOT plain text? - I 2 tqno description [text/plain, 7bit, us-ascii, 0.7K] If you're using a mail client that can't automatically

Re: [SLUG] Cable providers

2001-12-17 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:55:47 +1100 Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot the biggest irony of them all. 10) I cannot pay for the bigpong service over the net, nor via BPay. I have to go to a bloody post office and pay it with eftpos. Erik --

Re: [SLUG] Evolution

2001-12-17 Thread David Fitch
On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 07:27:01PM +1100, Antony Clarke wrote: Anyone know if you can get Evolution on CD, looked at everythinglinux but no mention of it. 56k here so downloading is no go. just the evolution (the email bit) .deb is 10Mb. I guess all the other gnome libs add up as well but it's

Re: [SLUG] Cable providers

2001-12-17 Thread Howard Lowndes
Have you tried 018018008? It certainly works for me with my Telstra account and my BPD account. On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 18:55:47 +1100 Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I forgot the biggest irony of them all. 10) I cannot pay for the

Re: [SLUG] Cable providers

2001-12-17 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:34:30 +1100 (EST) Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which doesn't leave much choice if it's the only service available. BTW, I don't go much on Flow Comms either, but I don't know how much their problem is really Telstra's problem. Does anyone know about any

Re: [SLUG] Cable providers

2001-12-17 Thread Damien Elmes
Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:34:30 +1100 (EST) Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which doesn't leave much choice if it's the only service available. BTW, I don't go much on Flow Comms either, but I don't know how much their problem is

[SLUG] libraries

2001-12-17 Thread anthony
I'm hopeless with libraries. Whilst trying to set up evolution I got libgnomeprint.so.2 is required by bonobo-conf and libgnomeprint.so.15 is required by blah blah blah. If I try install these rpm for so.# found with google gnome-print won't let me due to a newer package allready

Re: [SLUG] In Car MP3 Players

2001-12-17 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 13:03, Crossfire wrote: mpg123 is your friend. ogg123? ;) If I recall correctly, it can play back full rate on a 486DX2/66, and *nearly* full rate on a 486SX/33 (IIRC). I used to use a few inventive patches to downmix the audio for my SBPro anyway and that just

Re: [SLUG] In Car MP3 Players

2001-12-17 Thread Daniel Stone
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 12:17:56AM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: On Sat, 2001-12-15 at 13:03, Crossfire wrote: mpg123 is your friend. ogg123? ;) If I recall correctly, it can play back full rate on a 486DX2/66, and *nearly* full rate on a 486SX/33 (IIRC). I used to use a few

[SLUG] Linux Pocketbooks

2001-12-17 Thread Matt -
Hi group, I am wondering if anyone has seen any Linux Pocketbooks around recently. I have tried several newsagents and many say they are sold out till some time next year (March?!). I have seen similar titles which offer Redhat 7.1 (not 7.2) and one by Redhat themselves, for $30. I have the

Re: [SLUG] Linux Pocketbooks

2001-12-17 Thread anthony
From a terminal somewhere Matt - wrote: Hi group, I am wondering if anyone has seen any Linux Pocketbooks around recently. I have tried several newsagents and many say they are sold out till some time next year (March?!). www.everythinglinux.com.au for distro's I have seen similar titles

[SLUG] Samba printer tuncating files

2001-12-17 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
I've set up a PDF printer server using Samba and ps2pdf on one of our servers here at work. My problem is that it seems to be truncating the spooled postscript files. When I print them to a file from my (Windows) machine and then run the script manually, they work fine. When I print through

Re: [SLUG] Cable providers

2001-12-17 Thread Howard Lowndes
Interesting site - when it works. Mostly it seems to give CFM customised error messages. On 17 Dec 2001, Damien Elmes wrote: http://whirlpool.net.au -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people Contact detail at http://www.lannetlinux.com We are either doing something, or we

RE: [SLUG] Cable providers

2001-12-17 Thread George Vieira
Yeah this the funny part about Tel$tra. I can pay _ALL_ my bills over the internet except the actual internet bill itself. Every time I have connection problems they want me to uninstall and reinstall my NIC drivers and PPPoE software. I usually tell them I've done that already, then they ask

Re: [SLUG] Linux Pocketbooks

2001-12-17 Thread Howard Lowndes
I have been looking for the Linux 7.2 official book in Albury and cannot find it, but a mate of mine has found it in Canberra and is sending me a copy. Does anyone know who is distributing Linux 7.2 to the newsagents, is it Gordon Gotch? On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Matt - wrote: Hi group, I am

Re: [SLUG] Cable providers

2001-12-17 Thread Christopher Booth
Sylpheed can read them both, though you get a lynx style implementation of html. Good thing is that it is compatible with your mutt mailboxes as well and do news. Quite a decent email client - not perfect, but I still prefer it over evolution. Chris On Mon, 17 Dec 2001 10:42:34 + Rev Simon

Re: [SLUG] libraries

2001-12-17 Thread Christopher Booth
Force it and then reinstall the newer one using --force (not upgrade). Chris On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 00:11:43 +1100 (EST) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm hopeless with libraries. Whilst trying to set up evolution I got libgnomeprint.so.2 is required by bonobo-conf and libgnomeprint.so.15 is

Re: [SLUG] Evolution

2001-12-17 Thread Serge Krepak
snipped ... Updating to all the needed Mandrake 8.2 rpms (When I had 7.2), there ^ | Is it v 8.1? http://greetings.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Greetings - Send your festive greetings online! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Evolution

2001-12-17 Thread Simon Wong
On Mon, 2001-12-17 at 19:27, Antony Clarke wrote: Anyone know if you can get Evolution on CD, looked at everythinglinux but no mention of it. 56k here so downloading is no go. I've read that Evolution is a bit unstable without Ximian gnome, has anyone found this? (Debian-centric

Re: [SLUG] Evolution

2001-12-17 Thread Malcolm V
On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 09:37, Serge Krepak wrote: Is it v 8.1? Whoops, yes I meant 8.1 not 8.2 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] How to trace a package configuration error?

2001-12-17 Thread Simon Wong
Just upgraded some packages from unstable and had a problem with irda-common not configuring. I tried dpkg --configure --pending but same error. Could someone give me a tip on how to trace what is going wrong during the configuration (before I think about a bug report)? Thanks. Setting

[SLUG] subracting dates from dates

2001-12-17 Thread George Vieira
Hi all, Is there a way to subtract the number of days remaining from a date so I can report back 125 days remaining etc.. under linux/perl? I want to subtract it from a date which will be a special event etc.. Is there a date to interger conversion or something? thanks, George Vieira Systems

[SLUG] X WM discrepancy weirdness ...

2001-12-17 Thread Jonathan Kelly
... it probably won't be weirdness when someone explains it, but right now, it is! I'm looking at switching to blackbox WM and was trying out Acrobat4 reader but I get the following error messages ... X Error of failed request: BadAccess (attempt to access private resource denied) Major opcode

Re: [SLUG] subracting dates from dates

2001-12-17 Thread Broun, Bevan
on Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 11:47:57AM +1100, George Vieira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Is there a way to subtract the number of days remaining from a date so I can report back 125 days remaining etc.. under linux/perl? I want to subtract it from a date which will be a special event

Re: [SLUG] subracting dates from dates

2001-12-17 Thread Tony Green
* This one time, at band camp, George Vieira said: Hi all, Is there a way to subtract the number of days remaining from a date so I can report back 125 days remaining etc.. under linux/perl? I want to subtract it from a date which will be a special event etc.. Is there a date to interger

Re: [SLUG] How to trace a package configuration error?

2001-12-17 Thread Steve Kowalik
At 11:22 am, Tuesday, December 18 2001, Simon Wong mumbled: Just upgraded some packages from unstable and had a problem with irda-common not configuring. I tried dpkg --configure --pending but same error. Could someone give me a tip on how to trace what is going wrong during the

Re: [SLUG] subracting dates from dates

2001-12-17 Thread cpaul
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:47:57 +1100 George Vieira wrote: Is there a way to subtract the number of days remaining from a date so I can report back 125 days remaining etc.. under linux/perl? you may also find Class::Date useful.

RE: [SLUG] subracting dates from dates

2001-12-17 Thread George Vieira
Thanks to all that replied.. I found a way to do it in bash but now want to use perl to check the passed in date for it's format ie... mm/dd/ format. I'd be happy with just 00-99 numbers.. At the moment I've done this (below) in shell commands in perl but wanted to pass in $date is

RE: [SLUG] subracting dates from dates

2001-12-17 Thread George Vieira
OK.. I figure some things out and this is really messy I know but at least it works for me... print Content-type: text/plain\n\n; if ( $in{eventdate} !~ /^[0-9]+[\/]+[0-9]+[\/]+[0-9]+[0-9]+[0-9]+[0-9]$/ ){ print TBA; exit(0); } else { $date=$in{eventdate}; $event=`date -d \$date\

Re: [SLUG] How to trace a package configuration error?

2001-12-17 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 12:02, Steve Kowalik wrote: Okay, what you can do is edit the postinst script in /var/lib/dpkg/info/irda-common.postinst and put a 'set -x' in it, after the shebang line. You can use that to file a nice bug report. Thanks a lot Steve :-) I did that and discovered that

[SLUG] root in /etc/group

2001-12-17 Thread S
when root can access any user's files, whats the point in putting root in the individual groups. /etc/group: bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon daemon:x:2:root,bin,daemon sys:x:3:root,bin,adm adm:x:4:root,adm,daemon tty:x:5: disk:x:6:root -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] Video problem

2001-12-17 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi, We have just bee trying to install RH7.1 on an old and venerable HP Netserver 5/133 LC. This is simply going to be a Linux terminal in the library to run Netscape and very little else. It is an EISA machine with SCSI HDD and CDROM. When we got to selecting a video, we kept getting errors,

[SLUG] Suspect Claims Al Qaeda Hacked Microsoft

2001-12-17 Thread Jason Rennie
During interrogation, Afroze, 25, also claimed that a member or members of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, posing as computer programmers, were able to gain employment at Microsoft and attempted to plant trojans, trapdoors, and bugs in Windows XP, according to Ravi Visvesvaraya Prasad, a

RE: [SLUG] libraries

2001-12-17 Thread Chris Barnes
I'd make sure that the path to the libraries are in /etc/ld.so.conf If not I'd add the path and run ldconfig If the path exists then ignore the above and maybe do what Booth suggests. -- -Original Message- From: Christopher Booth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 18 December

Re: [SLUG] Suspect Claims Al Qaeda Hacked Microsoft

2001-12-17 Thread Jon Biddell
On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 05:26:17PM +1100, Jason Rennie wrote: During interrogation, Afroze, 25, also claimed that a member or members of Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, posing as computer programmers, were able to gain employment at Microsoft and attempted to plant trojans, trapdoors,

RE: [SLUG] Suspect Claims Al Qaeda Hacked Microsoft

2001-12-17 Thread George Vieira
yeah it is.. it take 10% of your bandwidth and spams microsoft with info. I might start a GUI OS company called bighard. thanks, George Vieira Systems Manager Citadel Computer Systems P/L -Original Message- From: Jon Biddell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, 18 December 2001

RE: [SLUG] Suspect Claims Al Qaeda Hacked Microsoft

2001-12-17 Thread David
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, George Vieira wrote: yeah it is.. it take 10% of your bandwidth and spams microsoft with info. I might start a GUI OS company called bighard. from nslookup: Non-authoritative answer: Name:bighard.com Address: 209.67.60.72 Non-authoritative answer: Name: