Take a look on everythinglinux.com.au :)
On Fri, 2003-02-28 at 12:48, Edwin Humphries wrote:
Is there anyone out there who knows of a Linux-compatible DVD burner. The precise
format (ie, DVD-R/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM/etc) is not an issue.
Another option is an autochanger for a CD burner.
Edwin
Gday Tony,
I think when I had redhat 8.0, it was configured with neat. Then
something like '/sbin/ifup ppp0' or 'neat-control'.
Anyway, take a poke around in the manuals at:
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.2-Manual/
There's also wvdial is a internet dialing script.
Good luck,
G'day All,
I was just wondering how I install some TrueType fonts into X.
Im running Debian 3.0 with XF86 4.something, Gnome 2.0, OpenOffice.org,
etc.
I mainly need to get these Microsoft fonts in for peoples websites and
word documents.
Unfortunatly the deb package had to be taken down b'cause
http://www.slug.org.au/sydney.html
There's currently a LinuxWorld.com.au MiniBook which also has Mandrake
9.0 on it @ http://www.linuxworld.com.au, which is at most newsagents at
the moment.
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 10:43, Louis Selvon wrote:
Hi:
As the subject says.
The stores in my area
distros Maybe the group should be
renamed to SDLUG ??
:-)
Jon
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would have thought
asking for debian networking setup would have produced something
useful, but it has everything but.
Taah
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Arg, forgot the mailing list :)
On Mon, 2003-03-03 at 14:55, Chris Deigan wrote:
Sorry to everyone -
I meant in the way which if every distro gave $5 off SLUG membership
regardless of who makes the profit or who makes the CDs.
If somebody buys a $35 redhat book set, or one of those
the recommended one.
I am thinking of leaning towards the Bible one though unless someone else
thinks the other book is much better.
Cheers
Louis.
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Thanks, David.
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although i think he's already been nominated, i second that :)
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 17:08, jared w wrote:
hi
i wish to nominate Jaime Hemmett for the position of secretary
thanks
jared
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typo, sorry ;)
On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 18:00, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Chris Deigan
although i think he's already been nominated, i second that :)
You had better know that Jaime is not a he if you want to second her
nomination as secretary. ;-)
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Everyone says
A report from the last meeting (Saturday, 14th) is available at:
http://www.slug.org.au/~ctd/slugamusig/pages/prevmeetings.php?pageid=0306month=Juneyr=2003
As can be seen above, slugamusig also now has a website -- currently at:
http://www.slug.org.au/~ctd/slugamusig/
There is also a list for
The web address is now: amusig.slug.org.au
The report can be found at:
amusig.slug.org.au/prevmeetings.php?pageid=0306month=Juneyr=2003
And the list address is now amusig[at]slug.org.au
Thanks to Jeff Waugh for setting up the subdomain and the slug-hosted
list.
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Robert Tillsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just installed debian (well the bits that seemed to work).
I've been able to log into the console, but I wouldn't mind seeing if the GUI
is up.
All I can remember about how to get into a gui is xstart, but that doesn't
work. Anyone know what command I
Robert Tillsley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been trying to download the 1.1.8 jdk from ibm, but their server is
timing out, does anyone know where else I could get it from?
I can't seem to find it on the sun site.
Blackdown Java Linux.
Find an apt source at http://apt-get.org/ -- add it to
Tony Green wrote:
On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 10:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
G'day all...
Is it possible to non-destructively upgrade a Debian potato install
to a Debian woody install non-destructively? (Ie. Not loose data?)
edit /etc/apt/sources.list, change potato entries to read woody
Low Christopher - clow wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ssh -l different server user server
I usualy use this to login via ssh:
ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
No idea about hostbased austhentication though
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On 29 Jun, Steve Kowalik wrote:
I believe apt-get and synaptic are largely (completely?) the work of
Alfredo Kojima, the creator of the Window Maker window manager.
apt-get is the brainchild of Scott Ellis, and was then taken on
Jason Gunthorpe, and
Voytek Eymont wrote:
I need an ftp server (untill I can convince users that they should use
ssh/scp).
sftp is another solution (secure ftp).
I do *not* need anonymous ftp access, only ftp access for pre-defined
users for web pages upload,
This can be organised with pretty much all servers
as
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We have a server with Adaptec's 39320D SCSI card, but there isn't any
modules for it in the bf24 install.
The module is aic79xx.o
If I wanted to compile it myself, where can I get the bf24 source, or do I
just compile from another linux-2.4.18 source?
Method I did here
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but I am getting errors when trying to make dep
A note to all running debian.
Use kernel-package to build your kernels.
Get your kernel source by apt-get install kernel-source-xxx
There is a article in the last issue of linmagau (linmagau.org)
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Douglas Stalker wrote:
I've got the following system:
Pentium 4 1.8 GHz
512 MB ram
Geforce 2 MX
You will want the nVidia closed-source drivers (not distributed with
xf86)
XFree86 4.3.0-2, using the nv driver
You will want to try running glxinfo.
Most likely, your using software rendering rather
Joel Heenan wrote:
Thanks to Luke's advice I have installed apt-get and synaptic and after a
few hitches everything is running very smoothly I love it. Just a quick
question, I'm running redhat 7.2 will upgrades only be available as long as
redhat keeps releasing them or are they built by users?
Amanda Wynne wrote:
My flatmate has got a security camera. Wants to plug the camera into the
computer, and have it accessible from the web; check up on what the ferrets
(don't ask) are up to. Like what the child care centres are doing so the parents
at work can see the kids. Has anybody seen a
Richard Heycock wrote:
Why is that this list doesn't have the 'Reply-To:' header field set? It
would make life much easier, it's a pain in the arse to reply to reply
to a list without cc'ing the original sender. Is there a reason for
this? am I missing something?
What email client are you using?
Simon Males wrote:
Anyone know of a place in the CBD that sell various distributions on CD?
Doesnt have to be pressed, looks nicer tho :)
Dymocks has a few old ones (last time I saw, last year).
Word is they also have the SLUG Debian CDs.
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As per subject, need a command line mailer that can send a file as an
attachment.
mutt works for me.
Word is, pine might also be able to do this for you :-)
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Gonzalo Servat wrote:
On 11/07/2003 12:44 AM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote:
EMAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ICQ: 76958435
YAHOO: blindman01_2000
MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
AIM: captain nemo 200
IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:
IRCNICK: blindman
CHANNELS: #awesomeradio #mircpopup-magic #linux #help #ourworld
Simon Males wrote:
Now i need (or i cant breath) the latest mozilla, basically, i want to
be able to apt:
ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/debian/pool/main/m/mozilla/mozilla-browser_1.4-1_i386.deb
I am aware to do so would be running unstable stuff, so be it... but how
do i do it :)
Running unstable
Robert Collins wrote:
I just got 10 of these little beauties in my mailbox.
Stan?k Daniel - I think you have a broken mailserver.
Same here, you are not alone.
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Peter Fenelon wrote:
Is there a free terminal emulator available so as to allow the students
access to the Linux server from Windows workstations?
PuTTY for ssh access (mirror.cse.unsw.edu.au/pub/putty/)
VNC for X (realvnc.com)
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Richard Neal wrote:
oops quick note before you login as your old user after the update do
the following after you have removed all the .filenames
cd /home
chown -R user_name user_name/# were user_name is your user name
accounts name.
this should fix any permissions problems if the UID
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Voytek Eymont
what the correct way to reload say httpd or bind or some other deamon after
editing it's conf ?
Depending on your distro and version, something like:
/etc/init.d/apache reload
reload, if available, is better than restart in most cases.
And in
Stuart Cooper wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good place to get RedHat 9
from in the CBD or North Sydney?
The larger and better newsagents should stock the
RedHat
9 personal edition for a RRP of $40 (they will
actually
charge you $39.95 but I insist on calling prices
like these $40). Red Hat 7.2
Adam Hewitt wrote:
If you have a RH 6.2 machine, can you use apt-rpm to upgrade it to RH
9.0? or can you only update it to the latest 6.2 packages?
If you can upgrade it to 9.0, is there anything you need to watch out
for that may kill the system?
This would not be the wisest thing to do, LOTS
Dan Banyard wrote:
Recently my linux box was hacked. I re-installed the OS but I am still
having problems with the machine. At this stage I am unsure whether these
problems are due a hardware or software issue.
I would like to totally wipe the hard disk and start again just in case the
hackers
Andar Broment wrote:
And sending an email in HTML, with a Green background,
and irrellevantly highlighted words, from HOTMAIL, ain't gonna help much either.
Maybe you should set your email client (Microsoft Outlook Express as I
see it, I see no reason why you are telling this person off for using
Ben de Luca wrote:
Im looking for some one to sell me just an imap mail box some where. Can
some one recommend any one?
host.sk, if you don't mind waiting a while...
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Mary wrote:
That particular hosting plan seems to require that you have a domain
name. This is probably a good idea in any case -- a domain name is not
subject to the whim of others. If you don't want to go with your own
domain (or possibly subdomain of one of your friend's registered
domains,
DE LUCA Ben wrote:
I just looks like pop mail to me, I need IMAP or laptop. And i think
IMAP is cheaper.
A shell (ssh) account may also be what you are after..
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(Technicly tomorrow for some people checking their email late at night,
but today for the rest) :-)
SLUGAMuSIG is today from 10am until around 4-5ish pm.
More details about meetings at amusig.slug.org.au/meetings.php
Generaly, you can come pretty much throughout the day, if you're unsure
you can
Laurie Savage wrote:
xmms works perfectly for root and user 1.
Users 2, 3, 4 on the same machine cannot use it. Error message mixer
being used by another applcation, check permissions ...
/dev/mixer is u+rw user1:root
/dev/dsp is probably what's being used -- try fuser -v /dev/dsp
I believe the
Laurie Savage wrote:
I tried both of your ideas with no success. /sbin/fuser -v /dev/dsp
returned no output and cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp issued white noise, but
if fuser -v /dev/dsp didn't return any error then no other application
is using /dev/dsp.
If cat /dev/urandom /dev/dsp returns any
Bill wrote:
I'm shortly to move house, and I'll be able to gain access to ADSL (once
I get Telstra to lay the 'phone cables - 7 + weeks to date), so I'm
interested in info re suitable recommended modems.
I won't be going with BigPond, but will select an ISP with more reasonable
download
Anand Kumria wrote:
Also try and go for an ISP which uses either bridging or routing rather
(Telstra ADSL B or C modes, iirc) than PPPoE. That way, you won't be
subject to strange PMTU/MTU problems/clamping.
I haven't heard of any issues with PPPoE, and it is the fairly standard
way in
Andar Broment wrote:
I'm amazed noone's mentioned VMWare. Basically, you can actually run windows
ITSELF in linux. as well as linux in windows. or OS2 in linux in win95 in
Win98 in NT4 in XP, if you so prefer. XD
www.vmware.com
Problem is, to run a simple app like Corel DRAW, and to have to boot
N RamMohan wrote:
i have one printer connected to a machine in our network
how we can access that printer without logging into the machine to which
the printer is attached?
What's distro are you running on the computer with the printer on it
running?
However, briefly -- you will want to use
Paul Cameron Davies wrote:
PS: I am a bloody minded individual and will not go and purchase an updated release
that may well solve all my problems. I want to make if work myself.
You could just download the new version. :-)
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Andar Broment wrote:
ye gods... every Major public email online has been getting hammered by this darn
virus recently.. not the virus itself mind you, but the message undeliverable replies
to all the random emails that didn't make it..and now I feel guilty cause someone's
sending frickin virii
Voytek Eymont wrote:
looking on RHN, there are 386 and 686 kernels available:
---
Available Archs: athlon, *i386*, i586, i686
...
Download:
kernel-2.4.20-20.7.i386.rpm (12,671,436 bytes) Download RPM
kernel-2.4.20-20.7.src.rpm (34,574,079 bytes) Download SRPM
mick wrote:
I've been sorting (throwing away, selling, etc, etc) through my
computers and found a neat little Compaq ENS 6300/3.2 slimline desktop
that I've decided to make a Debian box.
It has an integrated ESS ES1869F Audio Drive chipset. Has anyone had
any experiences with this chipset?
Tiwari, Rajnish wrote:
I have redhat 9.0 on a laptop and need to place
more installations on separate partitions.
The current install has one big partition and
boots from MBR (from memory).
Is it possible to resize a ext2 partition ?
What tools are
Paul Davies wrote:
Question 1) I can telnet to the machine - but I do not seem to be able
to telnet to it and log in as root. Is it not
possible to telnet to a machine as root?
This is a REALLY, *REALLY* bad idea.
I can't emphasize how bad this idea is.
(Look at telnet and security, umm, is
Voytek Eymont writes:
Otherwise look at X forwarding.
is that like running remote X ?
Basicaly, you can export the display of a program onto another computer.
This is done using the X11 client/server model. So generaly, a cool way
of doing this is to use the -X parameter with ssh (man ssh).
Paul Davies wrote:
ssh does allows me to log in as root. When I enable X forwarding I am
also able to run gedit over the network remotely. Now I am happy.
Login as a normal user and then type: su -
to become root. su = Switch User
See man su for more details.
Also take a look at sudo. If you
pesoy misak wrote:
tried to insmod the modules with insmod
/lib/modules/2.4.18/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o it
sned me error saying this
./8139too.o: unresolved symbol
mii_ethtool_gset_R37c1efdb
./8139too.o: unresolved symbol
mii_ethtool_sset_R686b69b4
./8139too.o: unresolved symbol
Voytek Eymont wrote:
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Why though, is it OK to log in as root using ssh and not telnet? Aren't
I just as likely to get my packet sniffed (so to speak)?
ssh passwd are encrypted, telent, clear text
Voytek Eymont wrote:
any suggestions/recommandation for a web/php doc managment system ?
If you could be a little more specific in this region, there are quite a
few different kind of systems.
Some you may want to look at are drupal(.org), phpnuke(.org) and
postnuke(.com). These are all content
mick wrote:
I'm trying ti install Xine under Redhat 9.0. I downloaded a Tar file
and unzipped it to my home directory.
You can install it from an rpm from redhat.
I typed the ./configure command as instructed in the readme and the
process ends with
gcc no
cc .no
valid complier not
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Under /usr/src after installing the kernel source package in SuSE 8.1,
you get a directory 2.4.19.SUSE, but I can't find the config file that
shows what options they compiled it with.
Take a look under /boot
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Voytek Eymont wrote:
I'm trying to kill a process by it's name, not by pid, but, can not figure
out how to specify the process name to kill;
I can kill the proces OK by pid , I just do not seem to get it by its' name,
what am i missing:
Use killall to terminate something by it's name.
killall
Peter Chubb wrote:
There's a file debian/rules in a Debian source package.
Edit it to add the coniguration options you need.
Then do:
debuild -b
to create the .debs, and then as root,
debi
to install them.
Just a note, there are some good notes from SLUGlets a few months back
at:
It is said that Ken Foskey wrote:
Can someone give me a web like that can give me a complete download of K
2.6 test6 source? Debian has patched theirs and I want to have a clean
source tree to start with.
http://kernel.linux.pacific.net.au/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.0-test6.tar.bz2
- Chris
Hi everyone,
Could we please keep this discussion on slug-chat, and preferbly keep it
down to constructive criticism rather than flames.
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It is said that Chris Barnes wrote:
stretch that partition to be 60gigs? The partition is formatted as vfat.
There are commercial apps like Partition Magic that can do that, and I
know there are also some free apps. (One I remember is DiskDrake, part
of Mandrake, but I beleive that's just a front
It is said that Jared Pritchard wrote:
One of our clients (on a DSL connection) is having some issues.
His connection is running at almost dialup speed and he is on a
256k ADSL connection.
He is the only client experiencing this problem, and he says it has
built up over about 1-2 weeks.
Which
It is said that Jared Pritchard wrote:
If he downloads a big file, and does NOTHING else at the same time, he can
get (eventually) about
a 20kbps download speed, but if he downloads, or even uploads oddly enough,
at the same time, it
all drops to about 4kbps weird.
Does it vary during
It is said that Terry Collins wrote:
I have a Debian Woody base installation.
How do I add the networking?
pppconfig for dialup (with pon/poff to disconnect/connect)
/etc/networking/interfaces to configure interfaces.
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It is said that Kevin Saenz wrote:
I am looking for a box that will be about the size of
an ADSL router, with about 512 RAM, multi NIC prefered min 3,
to build a firewall. Does anyone know where I could source
such a box? It would be helpful if it had a CPU and NVRam
I beleive
It is said that Kevin Saenz wrote:
Maybe Anthony could tell me where I should look. :)
I thought it would be under hardware.
http://www.everythinglinux.com.au/cat/systems/thinclients
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It is said that Voytek Eymont wrote:
Telstra just told me that to connect a bunch of Macs using Telstra supplied ADSL and
T-supplied Alcatel SpeedTouch I'll need a winblows computer to configure the router...
Rubbish.
http://www.ozcableguy.com/alcatel.html for the Alcatel Speed Touch Pro.
Else,
It is said that Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
I've got an idea, the coding equivalent of high wire trapeze that might
even bring non-coders, wanna-be coders and I-could-never-be-a-coders
along.
I'll stand by and make fun of your buggy code. :p
Just kidding. :-)
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It is said that Simon Bryan wrote:
I have been asked to research Video Servers for our school. The aim is to store the
Video / DVD on a hard disc and then deliver the video from there to the desktop /
TV.
There are a number of Windows based systems, I was wondering if anyone knew of an
Open
It is said that Robert Collins wrote:
And what time would this be? 6am? 6pm ?
Sorry, forgot to mention that.
Around 10am-4:30pm -- earlier than 10am we will probably be setting up
for those of us who are awake. :-)
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Hi all,
This upcoming Saturday we'll be holding an Installfest at UTS Broadway.
Location: UTS Broadway; Ashmore Smith Room, Level 3, Tower 1.
Directions: Go in through the main doors (of the tower building) and
down the first set of stairs, then right twice and down those stairs
then right
It is said that Kevin Saenz wrote:
I know this is a little off topic,
Not really
Does anyone know how to get to the bios on an IBM APtiva?
On my 2140, it's F1 -- may vary though.
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It is said that Matthew Palmer wrote:
I've got a couple of domains coming up for renewal in the next couple of
months, and don't particularly want to give another chunk of change to
Extortion IT.
Does anyone have any particular experiences, good or bad, with the rest of
the crop of registrars
It is said that Peter Rundle wrote:
I'm looking for a shared desktop calendar solution for a small office
(10users). Obviously has to run on Linux. Main critera is that calendars
can be shared and that PDA devices (as yet not specified) can be
synchronised.
There seems to be two main
On Wed, 2003-11-12 at 18:29, Grant Parnell wrote:
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, John Clarke wrote:
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 05:56:10 +, Voytek wrote:
I'm trying to enable ntpd on RH73, what port do I need to allow in the
ipchains for ntpd ?
123 or ntp - you can use either, the name
On Thu, 2003-11-13 at 11:42, Richard Hayes wrote:
There are a lot of instructions to configure Roaring Penguin but I can't
find or work out the setup pppoe instructions.
Under debian, as root, run:
pppoeconf
That will set everything up for you, and then to control the connection
use:
On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 16:53, Shaun Oliver wrote:
I'm wondering who would be the best person to speak to about learning
python.
http://pig.slug.org.au/ - Python SIG
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On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 07:22, Phillipus Gunawan wrote:
I'm using Debian, and wants to install some new windowz fonts in my box.
anyway, after a few steps, the install has been recognised by other
software (abiword, dekstop, etc) but not for Mozilla.
Is there any trick to stuck the new fonts
On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 09:46, Gareth Walters wrote:
I need to
keep a reliable record of bandwidth usage.
help me debug connection problems
mttr or cricket might be of interest, it will give you nice purty graphs
:-D
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On Mon, 2003-11-17 at 16:11, Steve Kowalik wrote:
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 03:47:46PM +1100, Chris Deigan wrote:
mttr or cricket might be of interest, it will give you nice purty graphs
I think you mean mrtg. MTTR is something very different. :-)
Yes, thanks for that. :-)
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On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 21:58, Ken Caldwell wrote:
I can't seem to find any working Debian mirrors. Is there a known
problem with them?
mirror.pacific.net.au and ftp.iinet.net.au seem to be working fine for
me with a woody box.
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Hi everyone,
Along with many of the other benefits of being a financial member of
SLUG, you can now get your own @slug.org.au email address, so you can be
A real SLUG dude[1]!
Not only that, but as long as you stay a financial member of SLUG
On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 15:51, Howard Lowndes wrote:
When I fire up SA in the default mode it fires up as root and when ir gets
passed an email by spamc it switches to user nobody.
Thus I decided to start it as user nobody anyway and gave that use a home
directory in /tmp and a subdir
On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 15:01, Hal Ashburner wrote:
Does that make any sense?
I've just got a sneaking suspicion I could download kernel sources, burn to cd,
unpack in my debian, compile install the same and I still won't be able to get
onto the net. Having said that, I really have no clue.
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 11:03, Trevor Tregoweth wrote:
Hi All
was wondering if someone could give me a little help, i want to be
able to run commands from a web interface on a Linux (redhat 9)
machine.
what i would like is a start / stop link on a web page to run sat the
following
On Mon, 2003-12-22 at 17:06, Hal Ashburner wrote:
su to root
copy e100.0 to /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf24/kernel/drivers/net/
make install would have worked here too :-)
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On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 13:14, Peter Hardy wrote:
Apt stores its packages in /var/cache/apt/archives/ . The immediate
solution would be to copy the contents of this directory from the
desktop machine to your laptop. Apt will check there before retrieving
a package from one of its listed
A good mirror I've found is PacNet's. Their Security Archives are
updated every hour and main debian mirror every 6 hours.
Here's a set of sources:
### Official Sources
## Main
deb http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian stable main
deb-src http://mirror.pacific.net.au/debian stable main
## Non-US
On Thu, 2004-01-08 at 20:04, Chris MacKenzie wrote:
Hi All,
Just a quick query, has anyone managed or knows of a way to use jigdo to
make a bootable dvd image of debian 3.0r2 instead of the 7 cds ?
http://us.cdimage.debian.org/jigdo-area/3.0_r0/jigdo/dvd-test/ has DVD
images for 3.0r0,
On Mon, 2004-01-19 at 08:27, David Kempe wrote:
Mike,
do you know of a service for vodafone subscribers?
smssend seems to work for (has a script for) optus subscribers only.
is there a vodafone or even telstra service similar to info2you?
Vodafone has a web interface to sending SMS text
Pacific Internet's Debian mirror is updated every six hours, with their
security archive mirror hourly updated.
The URL for the main mirror is at: http://mirror.pacific.net.au/
- Chris
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It is said that Gottfried Szing wrote:
today at the [EMAIL PROTECTED] i have seen a couple of powerbooks and at least
one ibook with linux on it. so i am sure that someone could help me. i
am also a proud powerbook user, but i dont want to change the
configuration of it. no, repartitioning of
It is said that Gottfried Szing wrote:
first the answer to chris' mail: i cannot access the mirror 'cause using
a prepaid telpaficic dialup.
I tried a google and found a mirror at http://debian.tu-bs.de/knoppix/powerPC/
too. I can probably help if low-speed bandwidth is an issue in downloading
It is said that Simon Bryan wrote:
HI all,
Two versions of this story:
SHORT VERSION:
1. How do I ensure that there are no firewalls enabled in a RH7.2 install?
ie if they are enabled what do I do to turn them off?
iptables -F
That will flush all your iptables rules.
- Chris
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It is said that Sean Cohen wrote:
Also, would anyone happen to have a copy of Mandrake 10 Beta 2 (or 1)?
It's the only distro that'll boot on my poor little notebook, and - I'm
ashamed to say - I've only got dialup
I may be able to help you out with that.
- Chris
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SLUG - Sydney Linux
It is said that Sean Cohen wrote:
from the inner east (Surry Hills) this Saturday? I could use a ride
(one car, two people. not my lucky day). Shine your shoes?
It probably should have been put in the announce, but
the warehouse is a block or two walk up from the train
station. (You go
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