Re: [SLUG] calendar app --gt; terminal

2004-11-29 Thread Amos Shapira
Thanks. I took a look there and it looks promising. Cheers, --Amos From Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 29 Nov 2004: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stuart Guthrie wrote: lynx www.egroupware.org ? Speaking of which - is anyone aware of a good public web-based calendar service?

Re: [SLUG] safe(ish) single-login from website

2005-02-15 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I've just forwarded your question to one of the managers of WebCollage and he said that they don't give a complete solution for single-sign-on but for a nominal fee, and if you have an NT or a Solaris box they will send you a copy of their software so you can get rid of the frames stuff.

Re: [SLUG] Missing devices?

2005-02-23 Thread Amos Shapira
It's not bash but the device driver. See in dmesg (or the boot log in kern.log) for the list of devices the kernel found during boot, and what names/numbers it may have assigned to them. I suspect that the kernel did find the device during boot and that's why the module is loaded (unless you force

Re: [SLUG] Re: Cron that can execute in different time zone

2005-02-24 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, Thanks - I'd consider this but how should I make it look at a different set of configuration files? I don't see a way to acheieve this. I'm on Debian Testing, x86 (not that I'm limited to debian packages, but that's the cron I have installed. If I'm going to compile and install a different

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/26/05, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 26 October 2005 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm told that one of the big pros of the X server/client is that the server and the client can be on separate machines ( I guess like a remote desktop). How can I use my windows

Re: [SLUG] Xserver/Xclient

2005-10-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/26/05, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:56:50PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: In case you are not up to date with it (which I suspect from your definition of Gygwin as a simple unix-api) then it also includes a full port of the core XFree86 to Windows

Re: [SLUG] Linux drive on iMac

2005-10-26 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/27/05, Mark Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think hardware is going to be the issue. If you've got a Mac system that has a SCSI controller compatible with the drive, then you could always try using one of the recent Ubuntu 5.10 Live CD's for PowerPC. That way, you don't have to

Re: [SLUG] Purging YUM repositories

2005-10-26 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/27/05, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Therein lies the rub. You tell me what is the basename in these: zlib-1.2.2.2-4.fc4.i386.rpm zlib-1.2.2.2-5.fc4.i386.rpm xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-37.FC4.45.i386.rpm xorg-x11-Xvfb-6.8.2-37.FC4.48.1.i386.rpm

Re: [SLUG] Purging YUM repositories

2005-10-26 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/27/05, Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Surely there are tools out there to do this, but if not, wouldn't a script that did the following work: 1. Obtained a list of contents of the upstream repository 2. Compare that list to the local contents 3. Wget anything not in the local

Re: [SLUG] pop, imap opinions

2005-11-09 Thread Amos Shapira
On 11/10/05, Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pop/imap DISCLAIMER: I have no idea if secure pop/imap is any secure or does not pass passwords as plain text - just suggesting it as an option. secure pop/secure imap are just forms of trnasporting pop and imap over SSL, so it's probably as

Re: [SLUG] Perl/SSH Problem

2006-11-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 04/11/06, Adam Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I always thought the problem with keys and passwordless login was that you end up with cascading exploits. If I login from box A -- box B with keys, and someone hacks box A, then they automatically have access to box B, and C, and D and

Re: [SLUG] PDA/phone/linux

2006-11-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 06/11/06, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is another option. I have a Nokia 6630, though any Symbian phone should do. It syncs using SyncML to an online calendar service called Mobical[1]. The synchronisation goes over GPRS, so can be done anywhere. That way, no need to

Re: [SLUG] Using rsync server on windows to backup a linux box to a windows one

2006-11-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/11/06, Michael Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I get the linux box to send files to the windows one? I need to back What do the ssh server logs have to say about this attempt? Also I don't see in your rsync command line that you tell it to use ssh to connect - it probably tries

Re: [SLUG] scripting proxy change in Firefox/changing laptop network settings?

2006-11-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23/11/06, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my laptop (Ubuntu Edgy), I want to change various settings when I'm on different networks. A couple of questions: * how would I change the proxy used by Firefox 2.0 thru scripts? A few possibilities to explore: 1. use -remote

[SLUG] Link to sample file (Re: Extracting images from PDF file?)

2006-11-24 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, I've got a sample file with permission to share, here is the link to it on sendit.com: http://download.yousendit.com/F415DBA71C703EA7 The PostScript error I get from the printer is typecheck on command filter. Thanks for any help. --P -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/01/07, Penedo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: readlink -fe link | xargs -0r rm -rf Correction to the above - apparently xargs waits for \0 in order to terminate its input, so maybe the following is more appropriate: $ (readlink -fen link ; echo -e \\0) | xargs -0r rm -rf --Amos -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/01/07, Zhasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only because you're using the -0 flag. ... (This is also going to destroy the ability to handle whitespace in filenames though, so you probably don't want to do this.) Correct on both accounts, but this is why I insist on using -0 whenever

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/01/07, Norman Gaywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But why are we we trying to pipe output to xargs. We are only dealing with one name. Or zero. I used the xargs -r trick to avoid running anything if there is no output from readlink. Whats wrong with just: rm -rf $(readlink link)

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-03 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/01/07, Adam Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: During my days at Cisco in 2000 they did the huge we're all going VOIP internally rollout, to eat their own dogfood. Even with the entire company relying on it, even with executives badgering them, even with all the experience and talent

[SLUG] Slugs iCal generator script?

2007-01-03 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Can anyone point me to the script used to generate the iCal file of SLUG events at http://slug.org.au/event/ical webcal://slug.org.au/event/ical ? I've suggested providing the same service by another event-organizing group (outside Australia) and they asked for code. Thanks, --Amos --

Re: [SLUG] DIY networking kit at Aldi.

2007-01-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 05/01/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ACMA fine for doing a network installation by an unlicenced person. Sounds very strange. What would differentiate the ALDI network (for the sake of this thread) from the D-Link+Desktop+Laptop+ATA wire 100mbit ethernet network I have

Re: [SLUG] resolv.conf

2007-01-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 04/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wen't to linux.org/lessons and skipped straight to the ADSL section and did exactly what it said including the modification of resolv.conf And everything worked as expected Then when my intenet connection didn't work I checked all the

Re: [SLUG] Never to Return?

2007-01-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 05/01/07, T Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So my question is: How to you remove packages and mark them never to return? You'll have to give more details to complete the picture: 1. What tools/methods do you use to install/remove/update the packages? 2. What are the exact package

Re: [SLUG] Worst Installer ever!!!

2007-01-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 09/01/07, tuxta2 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Im not whinging (dont use fedora anymore, just Debian and Ubuntu so it does not effect me), just agreeing that it is anaconda that has problems. My oh my - how the world changed - Debian and its supporters used to be beaten on the head as the

Re: [SLUG] Spam - use of SPF

2007-01-09 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/01/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity, and because I am procrastinating about doing something else, I ran a quick analysis across my mail log file to see what the extent of the use of SPF is: pass29517 neutral 30354 softfail31082 none4783

Re: [SLUG] Spam - use of SPF

2007-01-09 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/01/07, Adam Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That was entirely not the point of SPF though. (rest deleted for brevity). All true, but the bottom line was that at some stage you could highly correlate between finding an SPF/senderId record and figuring that you are dealing with a

Re: [SLUG] NAS SCSI/SATA

2007-01-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/01/07, David Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW, I have setup an HA version of this recently and recent with some hardware was giving me excellent throughput on Gigabit networks (haven't By HA you mean that multiple hosts are connected to the same disk-chain? Care you give more

Re: [SLUG] howto safely remove Evolution (Ubuntu Edgy)?

2007-01-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 11/01/07, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to remove Evolution from a Ubuntu Edgy machine I admin (my dad's) - how do I safely do this? I get these dependencies in aptitude: How about marking evolution with M in aptitude then work your way through the r (reverse-depends)

Re: [SLUG] Why is Sleepycat BDB database so big

2007-01-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 17/01/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tks for that. That caused a reduction in disk occupancy of a factor of about 10x. The ls -l still shows the same file sizes so they must be sparse files. Then run ls -ls to see the number of blocks the file actually occupies on the disk

Re: [SLUG] debootstrap leaves me with UTC not LMT

2007-01-19 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/01/07, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought the file stamps where always recorded as UTC. And the system would change the time for the TZ And you were right - Timezone has a meaning only in the context of the user who wants to read the time. If a file was changed when the

Re: [SLUG] GUI batch renaming and renumbering tool

2007-01-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 21/01/07, Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thats often the hard bit, finding programes that do what you want. I browsed the applications--add/remove programes to find some which wasnt too bad, but browsing Synaptic, while finding some useful looking candidates for trying out does take too

Re: [SLUG] debootstrap leaves me with UTC not LMT

2007-01-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 20/01/07, Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: And BTW - the command to set the default time zone on Debian is tzconfig. And finally, date Sat Jan 20 12:48:39 EST 2007 Now why the system is not aware of daylight savings is beyond me. tzconfig is part

Re: [SLUG] GUI batch renaming and renumbering tool

2007-01-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23/01/07, Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: by browsing I meant looking for things that I did not know what I wanted , having a list of things in my head, but if something sounded like it might solve a problem that I had that wasn't on the list then I would check it out too. Finding the

Re: [SLUG] firefox 2.0, flash 9 and fc 5

2007-01-23 Thread Amos Shapira
On 24/01/07, Luke Vanderfluit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I'm having plenty of probs with flash under firefox. When Adobe released the stable version of 9 in January, I thought my woes would be over but no. Having the flash plugin in my plugins directory for firefox 2.0 causes the browser to

Re: [SLUG] firefox 2.0, flash 9 and fc 5

2007-01-23 Thread Amos Shapira
On 24/01/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rumours I have heard is that FF2 is a no go and to wait for FF3. What do you mean? Flash Player 9 beta 2 and FF 2.0 work great for me. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Lost + found.

2007-01-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 25/01/07, john gibbons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No luck, Tony. Just tells me there is no such file. I wonder if I may You mean that fsck tells you this? If so then you gave it the wrong device name. What does cd the lost+found directory you mentioned; df . show? --Amos have accidentally

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-28 Thread Amos Shapira
On 28/01/07, Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm. I can't do a simple X forwarding to the Xubuntu machine. See sshd_config(5) about X11Forwarding. At least on Debian it says the following: X11Forwarding Specifies whether X11 forwarding is permitted. The argument must be yes or no.

Re: [SLUG] Vista preview on Seven Sunrise

2007-01-28 Thread Amos Shapira
On 29/01/07, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just saw that too, take anything that fool says with a grain of salt ;) Just look what the say guy said about the Parallels on OSX sometime ago, absolutely an idiot. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMaCvfNbKJo Whenever I see this couple I

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-29 Thread Amos Shapira
On 30/01/07, Zhasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the machine that you're trying to connect to, try running (as root) netstat -ntlp for me. I think you'll find that X isn't listening on any TCP socket. It certainly isn't on my ubuntu desktop. The X server on the remote machine shouldn't have

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-29 Thread Amos Shapira
On 30/01/07, Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The frustrating thing is that I can't find any significant difference between the Xubuntu configuration files and the Ubuntu ones that behave perfectly. Let's try to look at the situation from a different angle - login to the remote system

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 31/01/07, Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the remote Xubuntu (Misty), logged in with ssh -X: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo netstat -tlp Active Internet connections (only servers) Proto Recv-Q Send-Q Local Address Foreign Address State PID/Program name tcp0 0

Re: Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 31/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can also get around it with: AllowTcpForwarding yes-- I assume the default of this is no as well. I forgot about that one but the manual says that the default is yes. You still need to enable the X11Forwarding which is a

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 31/01/07, Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fooling around with that now. The man page says that output is sent to the system log (which I presume is /var/log/syslog). It doesn't seem to be doing that. However, it runs through lots of ports (Not sure where it starts since I can't scroll

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 31/01/07, Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I don't know what to make of it. What about the rest of my message below? (copied again) Googling about, http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openssh-unix-devm=104336969724537w=2 looks closest to your situation - do you have the loopback

Re: [SLUG] Distro for new users

2007-01-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 31/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And you can save me a 15min drive to test: I've just setup a Dlink 604T for my sister. Everything OUT is allowed in the filter setup. is ESTABLISHED,RELATED permitted back or do I have to explicitly allow WWW, MAIL and SSH back? (There are

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-30 Thread Amos Shapira
On 31/01/07, Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That may be it: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:24:92:E1:91 UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:294

Re: [SLUG] Re: dist-upgrade failed for xorg, many dpkg errors

2007-02-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On 05/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 05 February 2007 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Heracles suggested a clean reinstall of all. How does one do that from an already installed Debian? I'd do it from the current Debian as that has internet access via bigpond. I

[SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-05 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, Ubuntu 6.06 live CD boots up fine on our Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT but is very heavy on the machine. Is Xubuntu really lighter than Ubuntu's GNOME? The box is a Pentium II with 192 Mb RAM (Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT). I can't install it on the machine's disk (wife still wants the assurance

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 06/02/07, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you could try ebuntu (enlightenment w/ ubuntu), enlightenment is much less bloated than gnome and friends How does it compare to Xfce (xubuntu)? As for Jeff's comments - I only need this while configuring that laptop, once it's setup it

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 06/02/07, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Amos Shapira On 06/02/07, Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you could try ebuntu (enlightenment w/ ubuntu), enlightenment is much less bloated than gnome and friends How does it compare to Xfce (xubuntu)? As for Jeff's

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 06/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you could try ebuntu (enlightenment w/ ubuntu), enlightenment is much less bloated than gnome and friends How does it compare to Xfce (xubuntu)? As for Jeff's comments - I

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 06/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2007 10:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Well, maybe I wasn't clear about my intentions because I tried to avoid tiring you with details, so here is the deal: We have this Toshiba Satellite 4030CDT (

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-05 Thread Amos Shapira
On 06/02/07, Peter Chubb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also check out damn small linux -- it has a mode that'll boot from a zip archive on a windows partition. Now THAT's cool, and I wasn't aware of. Will check. Thanks. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] dpkg-buildpackage

2007-02-07 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/02/07, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dpkg-buildpackage What is required? The man page seems to assume you know where/how to use it and what files or directories are required. For a start, maybe you should install apt-src and follow its documentation - it's a convenient front-end to

Re: [SLUG] Brand new user

2007-02-07 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/02/07, Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried Freespire as part of the plan to get my friend set up. It seemed like a good idea since he is into the music/video stuff. Are you aware that there are quite a few distributions geared exactly towards that niche? (can't remember any

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-07 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LTSP is easy, but you need to do it right. I can get LTSP up-n-running in 30 min. The apt-get solution is experimental and mostly does not work. What apt-get solution? The LTSP package? Do not go for ltsp-5 (experimental, read about

Re: [SLUG] Re: [LINK] Is SLUG down?

2007-02-07 Thread Amos Shapira
On 08/02/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that attack was over. The report from my error log indicated Maybe what happens is that some large attack on the root servers, or other resources on the way to your link, actually causes your site to be less accessible to other

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 08/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The last version of winders where loadlin works is 95 or 98. So you can expect it to not get much attention anymore. Wots wrong with PXE? see http://www.rom-o-matic.net/ My lappie F12 = boot menu, option PXE. Loadlin may not even work

Re: [SLUG] Is Xubuntu really light-weight?

2007-02-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 09/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, the reason I pointed you at rom-o-matic was their wealth of options eg grub: boot windows boot pxe or CDROM pxe boot or CDROM network boot (tagged image) or HD versions of above etc Point of LTSP is that your stately

Re: [SLUG] Edgy /etc file permissions

2007-02-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/02/07, Linley Caetan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: accidentally stuffed the permissions on all of /etc. Did not realise I was in this directory and did a sudo chmod -R 777 ./ Is there a way of getting these back to a useful state? Maybe an aptitude reinstall, or otherwise wirte a script

Re: [SLUG] Checking my understanding of using DynDNS.org services.

2007-02-11 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12/02/07, Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yeah I saw that when I read into it in more detail. It also looks like you have to have SSL setup too. I'll try it sometime this week but I don't think its a 5 minute thing to setup. I certainly want my from: to be [EMAIL PROTECTED] In

Re: [SLUG] Memory profiler for web applications and other processes.

2007-02-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 13/02/07, Mike Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Googling for 'memory profiler web applications' and things brings up things that you use to find memory leaks in apps which I dont want. Naturally top just gives me instantaneous values which don't mean much when a web app is only getting a few

[SLUG] Re: GnuPG key signatures - tools to automate accepting them?

2007-02-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 14/02/07, Andrew Ruthven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I save the signatures into a directory (easy with Evolution's Save All button) and then in a shell run: gpg --import 0x* Easy. Thanks to you and others who replied. I ended up using mutt's ^K to extract most of the keys, though quite a

[SLUG] Re: GnuPG key signatures - tools to automate accepting them?

2007-02-13 Thread Amos Shapira
On 14/02/07, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: caff deliberately does not upload other people's signatures directly, though I don't know if there is some etiquette-related reason for doing that. Yes actually there is - people might not want their key to be available on public servers

[SLUG] revoking and unrevoking uid looses signatures?

2007-02-13 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I've mistakenly revoked an old uid then realized that what I should have done is to add my new e-mail address to that key. I've unrevoked the key by removing the revocation signature but now it doesn's list all the signatures I had on this key before. I haven't updated key servers with

Re: [SLUG] Bulk Mail Etiquette

2007-02-15 Thread Amos Shapira
On 16/02/07, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some ISPs place restrictions on the total # of emails you can send, not just the total number of recipients. I got the following link in a Google Ad in GMail while reading Ben's reply. It's more about accepting mail on port 25 when the ISP blocks it

Re: Hosting stuff on ADSL [Was: [SLUG] Should I host my own domain?]

2007-02-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 17/02/07, James Purser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That said if what you're hosting is a) Not mission critical and b) low bandwidth, there is nothing to stop you doing it so long as you have a static IP (dynamic just gets to be a major pain). Its a nice way to play with different technologies

Re: [SLUG] Close encounters of a Vista type

2007-02-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/02/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then get the standard nag box - hey, M$, this lappy only has one account on it, and therefore its the administrator account. Please - for the common health of the network community at large, as well as for your own Windows machine, please

Re: [SLUG] Close encounters of a Vista type

2007-02-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/02/07, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think if you execute a command tool window (surely they still have that in vista still), and execute ipconfig /all it will show all Actually I remember a few years ago, back when Vista was Longhorn and they still though they can make it

Re: [SLUG] Silencing ldapadd, ldapmodify and ldapdelete

2007-02-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/02/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone have a clue how to silence the outputs from the subject commands? I have tried the usual redirections of STDOUT and ERROUT to /dev/null but to no avail. That's very strange - strace'ing ldapsearch on RHEL4 shows that it

Re: [SLUG] Silencing ldapadd, ldapmodify and ldapdelete

2007-02-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/02/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is out of the script that I an calling from cron: ldapdelete -x -D uid=admin,dc=$DB -w secret cn=nospam$MONTH_NOW,ou=valias,dc=$DB 1/dev/null 21 and this is the outout I get: ldap_delete: No such object (32) matched DN:

Re: [SLUG] Silencing ldapadd, ldapmodify and ldapdelete

2007-02-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/02/07, Christopher Vance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/19/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is out of the script that I an calling from cron: ldapdelete -x -D uid=admin,dc=$DB -w secret cn=nospam$MONTH_NOW,ou=valias,dc=$DB 1/dev/null 21 and this is the outout I get:

Re: [SLUG] Postfix, LDAP, NFS, virtual domains, Mailman, et al

2007-02-20 Thread Amos Shapira
On 21/02/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An even further alternative thinking might be to not NFS mount anything anywhere, but to have Postfix on the mail server relay all inbounds to the mailing lists on the mail server directly to the MTA on the web server. Does that all make

Re: [SLUG] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [activities] Call For Participation: Distro Discussion Panel @ Friday's meeting]

2007-02-21 Thread Amos Shapira
Do you need Debian reps or was this spot filled out the quickest? :-) I'm NOT a Debian Developer but I use it for many years so might be able to fill in. --Amos On 22/02/07, Lindsay Holmwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: G'day all! We're running low on volunteers - anyone else want to represent

Re: [SLUG] Oddball memory usage?

2007-02-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23/02/07, Martin Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think you'll find the formula dated to the time when most people said I really need my total memory address space to be n megabytes, but I can only possibly afford n/3 megabytes of RAM, so I have to just make do with 2n/3 being on a

Re: [SLUG] Oddball memory usage?

2007-02-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 23/02/07, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IBM do a good book on Linux Performance Tuning, which explains this well. Oh, cool. I'll have to add it to my reading list. Thanks. I was looking for a link to include in a to read list when I found the following review:

Re: [SLUG] AMD based computers.

2007-03-12 Thread Amos Shapira
On 12/03/07, Del [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How does that relate to home PCs? If you're looking at 64 bit then you can expect your average Intel machine to be hotter and noisier than your average AMD machine in the same price/performance range. Is this correct with the new Core Duo II stuff?

Re: [SLUG] Skype freezes computer

2007-03-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 25/03/07, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I contacted skype about this.. but of course they didn't properly read what I said. Ah well.. at least they replied. See their reply and my original message below. Skype freezes ubuntu 6.10 completely, but for about one or two minutes, after which

Re: [SLUG] Skype freezes computer

2007-03-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 26/03/07, Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use Ekiga connected to a Gizmo account to talk to lots of people. The Gizmo client for Windows is good - I haven't tried the Linux one for ages since Ekiga is so good. Ekiga allows you to register to multiple accounts. I tried Ekiga a while

Re: [SLUG] Skype freezes computer

2007-03-25 Thread Amos Shapira
On 26/03/07, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, it doesn't seem right that an application can totally freeze the entire system. No keyboard, no mouse, nothing. I can't even log in remotely until it unfreezes. That would suggest that it's more than just a skype bug, wouldn't it?? Yes, it

[SLUG] late entry to slug meeting

2007-03-29 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I've just realized I might be able to make it to the meeting this week but I'll be a bit late. Is anyone here willing to give me their mobile number so I can call them to open the doors downstairs for me? Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] PC h/w and s/w Inventory apps - OCS Inventory

2007-04-01 Thread Amos Shapira
On 02/04/07, Dave Kempe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simon Wong wrote: I just came across OCS Inventory in SF's top 30 list (http://ocsinventory.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=features) and was wondering if anyone had used it and hwat their thoughts were. It looks quite good on the surface.

Re: [SLUG] Tagging PNG files

2007-04-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 08/04/07, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know of a tool that can tag a PNG file with meta data? I've found pngmeta which will dump it, but nothing that will add it. A quick search of CPAN came up with Image::ExifTool::PNG at

[SLUG] Web app to upload files?

2007-04-08 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'd like to let a friend of mine to upload a file to my home server. It's a one-off need. Does anyone know of a simple web application I can install to let him do that through HTTP without too much hassle? I'm using Debian Etch. Thanks, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Doing a demo of Ubuntu at my place of work

2007-04-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 17/04/07, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, David Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any tips or points for catching the attention of mostly IT 'dumb' ales staff ? I am thinking Beryl/Compiz, the mention of no spyware and viruses and the backing of big name

Re: [SLUG] Doing a demo of Ubuntu at my place of work

2007-04-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18/04/07, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 17 Apr 2007, Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3. Mention the important of open documentation standards (.odp or .pdf), and use of Openoffice for their day-to-day activites. You should stress the importance of open

Re: [SLUG] An interesting thought on virus liability

2007-04-17 Thread Amos Shapira
On 18/04/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am thinking that I should recommend to my client that he maintains a dedicated PC under engineering control for the purpose of these transfers. What are your thoughts. Sounds reasonable. Maybe it's worth checking on pilot forums on how

Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations

2007-04-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/04/07, Adam Kennedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The biggest example is probably SQL placeholders, which pretty much remove any chance of SQL injections attack in one fell swoop. I know for DBI it's very difficult to do any non-trivial work without using them. I was just bitten (again) by

Re: [SLUG] Doing a demo of Ubuntu at my place of work

2007-04-18 Thread Amos Shapira
On 19/04/07, David Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks to all for your valuable feedback. I should of made myself a little more clearer. The boss is looking to offer it as a OS with the Desktops we sell. So its more a pitch to show its a viable option for our customers. None the less, the

[SLUG] downloading multiple files using MIME multipart/related

2007-04-21 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Does anyone have a pointer for a sample of code which sends multiple files as a single HTTP response using MIME multipart/related? All the code or explanations I found so far are talking about either creating MIME e-mail messages or parsing multipart responses (or even upload of multiple

Re: [SLUG] downloading multiple files using MIME multipart/related

2007-04-22 Thread Amos Shapira
On 21/04/07, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Last I checked RC2616 does not defnied multipart/related semantics for HTTP. So here is a though I had after reading your response - how about sending back one MIME content contain multi-parts inside it? As far as I follow the following

[SLUG] Fwd: Time Drifting Back Forth on SMP [Was: Re: System Clock is crazy? [was: Re: vixie-cron acting weird (actually not acting at all)]]

2007-04-22 Thread Amos Shapira
Just as this question was raised on SLUG someone on linux-il had the same problem. Disabling SMP solved it. --Amos -- Forwarded message -- From: shimi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 23-Apr-2007 08:03 Subject: Time Drifting Back Forth on SMP [Was: Re: System Clock is crazy? [was: Re:

Re: [SLUG] Re: AcetoneISO

2007-04-26 Thread Amos Shapira
On 25/04/07, elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the other cool things this program does is it allows you to quickly mount an ISO made of a movie and run that in a program like Xine. That's nice, but on the other hand I was very disappointed to learn that its split ISO function

[SLUG] Re: AcetoneISO (apols for not changing the header in the previous post)

2007-04-26 Thread Amos Shapira
On 26/04/07, elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Amos, I haven't tried that function. I'm not quite sure what you mean by what it does do though (??). What does 'split (1) mean? It means that it calls the split standard unix command line utility. You can read about this command by

Re: [SLUG] downloading multiple files using MIME multipart/related

2007-04-27 Thread Amos Shapira
On 28/04/07, Sam Lawrance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, single file at a time would suck over a network. HTTP/1.1 is a good suggestion, but you need to use pipelining. Demonstrated use (at least in my mind :-) is FreeBSD's portsnap, which is becoming the preferred method to transfer hundreds

Re: [SLUG] downloading multiple files using MIME multipart/related

2007-04-29 Thread Amos Shapira
On 29/04/07, Sam Lawrance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Depending on the server's side, this particular program could get into a deadlock since it relays on the server having large enough buffers to send files and receive requests before the client finishes sending all the file names (even

Re: [SLUG] Symbolic links

2007-05-06 Thread Amos Shapira
On 07/05/07, John Ferlito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:15:51AM +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: Is there some easy way to find all the symbolic links that point to a given target? No real easy way since for symbolic links there is no reverse lookup table in the filesystem.

Re: [SLUG] Symbolic links

2007-05-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 08/05/07, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:31:16PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: What about find -L -samefile give-target? e.g. $ touch target $ ln -s target link-to-target $ ls -l total 0 lrwxrwxrwx ... link-to-target - target -rw-r--r

[SLUG] recommendations for SATA RAID controllers?

2007-05-09 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, Does anyone have recommendations on which SATA RAID PCI controller cards should I look for a 4-disk mirror array? I got a recommendation for LSI Logic MegaRAID SATA 150-4 64-bit PCI ( http://tinyurl.com/2zkljw) but need to find an explanation why that controller and not something other

Re: [SLUG] recommendations for SATA RAID controllers?

2007-05-09 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/05/07, Ben Donohue [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Amos, I have an Adaptec SATA II raid model 2820SA which is an 8 port working in centos (RH) 5. I don't know offhand if it will do the raid you want but it's PCI-X and works. Hi Ben, Thanks very much for the pointer. We are planning to

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