Re: [SLUG] Kickarse GIMP Plugins (and stuff)

plugins? I'm gathering ammunition to convince other Photoshop addicted persons (okay, me too) of how cool GIMP is (beyond the not-so-brill interface). I prefer the gimps interface, keeps things lite so i can work without losing my desktop... i guess you just cant handle right clicking =P

Re: [SLUG] CGI

I find it inconceivable a company would have a policy against PHP, maybe against ASP... perl / mysql is damn good, i recommend it i would also have to recommend java (eg. servlets and JSP) which makes an incredibly good environment. Dean Peter Faulks wrote: G'day Sluggers, I've been

Re: [SLUG] IDE errors

Wack the slave as the master on the second bus will be faster and should solve the problem. *in theory* What chipset are you using? It might be worth upping the kernel to take advantage of inevitably better drivers etc... Dean Peter wrote: Put additional disk in box now geeting:- hdb:

Re: [SLUG] IP Addressing/Subnetting The Easy Way...

And its that simple, in a subnet with a mask of 255.255.255.240, you have 15 available addresses. BUT. Remever, with IP addressing the lowest address (all 0's in the host space) is the network address (identifies the subnet) and the highest address (all 1's in the host space) is the

Re: [SLUG] IP Addressing/Subnetting The Easy Way...

-- Howard. __ LANNet Computing Associates http://www.lannet.com.au On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Dean Hamstead wrote: And its that simple, in a subnet with a mask of 255.255.255.240, you have 15 available addresses. BUT. Remever, with IP addressing the lowest address (all 0's i

Re: [SLUG] Specify which processes run on which processor

2000, Dean Hamstead wrote: Can we just filter attachments please? that will drop alot of ms crap also... we dont need attachments, just put an url in your mails please Dean Howard Lowndes wrote: I fail to see where you get this idea of this stupidity costing SLUG so much

Re: [SLUG] USB intelliEye mouse ?

the usb mouse device acts the same as a ps2 mouse linux-usb.org Dean Chris Joyce wrote: Hi, dose anyone know of any links or HOWTO's on setting up usb mice for use with gpm ? chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] NFS

just wack the following line in your fstab slave:/home/jon /home/jon/slave nfs rsize=8096,wsize=8096,hard,intr 0 0 then "mount /home/jon/slave" youll wana tweak the options, i use those values on my desktop which is kernel 2.2.17pre16 (+usb +v3 +v3tv) using a realtek 8029as my server is a

Re: [SLUG] TV tuner card for Linux

I figure i might just mention the voodoo 3 tv is supported in linux so if you want a good 3d, 2d and video capture card i recommend it. Video capture works in linux (experimental) and has recently been backported to 2.2.x (16+), requires cvs i2o and cvs v3tv driver module sound needs work, but i

[SLUG] reiser+usb backport

Anyone got ideas on using both reiser and the usb backport? the patches conflict. One will patch in but the other will fail. Im not heaps worried, but it would be nice. Dean -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Java Image Library

Im after some java classes that will resize images quickly and should ideally be (l)gpl or bsd licensed. Jpg is the main format im after resizing, but the more the merrier. This will save us quite a bit of development time. We are building a database of images, upon entering the image, we

[SLUG] Textmode quake (ot?)

http://webpages.mr.net/bobz/ttyquake/ Text mode quake 1 =) Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] hrmm.. go Telstra

We personify MS as evil and they are a ruthless monopoly with a really average product why discriminate based on what the product or service is =) Dean Michael Fox wrote: On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Michael Fox wrote: Just appeared that pad13 died in Sydney, nice going Telstra... I guess we

Re: [SLUG] Mouse drivers

Sounds like a faulty mouse, or the port you have it pluged into is faulty. Try another mouse first if you have one it may be time to buy a new one. Dean Linz wrote: Hi all, How do I restart the mouse driver? I am using a microsft PS2 mouse and it regularly stops scrolling sideways. I

Re: [SLUG] hrmm.. go Telstra

From a unix only perspective, perhaps people need to think outside the square more. To a certain degree people see a product (exchange in this case) see its features and want them replicated and/or bettered. But perhaps one needs to rethink the solution with the tools in hand. I offer no

Re: [SLUG] hrmm.. go Telstra

There in lays the philosophy behind open source. People program what they want, unless they are paid to program (thats not the point though) Open Source doesnt just "happen".. alas, work needs to be done unless you have alot of time and monkeys *grin*. If a company wants (free) unix, then

Re: [SLUG] hrmm.. go Telstra

My dreams of Engineering Computers at UWs... dashed! like a row boat on rocks (not to mention the poor ocupants) Dean Rachel Polanskis wrote: On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, Rodos wrote: ROFL! Rachel you do work at a univerity don't you. Are you sure you are not the BOFH! Did you have to

Re: [SLUG] backup methods

I would use a combination of cron, tar, and that silly little cron equivalent in windows that sits in your system tray and reminds you to scan or defrag your harddisk in the middle of the day when your doing vital live video editing =) erm... you get what i mean. make a script to archive and

Re: [SLUG] StarOffice - MySQL ?? Anyone?

Tried java (JDBC)? Dean Anthony Rumble wrote: (SO 5.2) I tried getting the unixODBC stuff to work.. and it ALMOST looked like it would work.. Except whenever I selected the ODBC datasource... It would crash.. Real bummer using Loadadble shared libs for this kind of thing.. Anyone

[SLUG] Basic CVS Usgae

Ive been reading through tutorals and stuff and got somehwere but could someone quickly sumarise how to... a) add files and modules b) remove them c) update them Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ:

Re: [SLUG] LILO

This occurs for lots of reasons. If your disk configuration has changed enough it will occur eg. the settings in your bios have changed you just need to run lilo again to set things straight again, you may need a emergency recovery disk or a single disk dist. Dean marty wrote: a friend

[SLUG] Aureal Drivers

http://sourceforge.net/projects/aureal/ Just incase people dont know these are based on the official drivers from aureal i dont think the originals were as bad as say... the original sblive drivers were, but open development is what makes unix great! (the chicks help also... *grin*) Dean

Re: [SLUG] Re: Moving OT a bit [was] Re: Re: Proceedure for preventing 'linux single' at lilo promp t

An interesting way ive seen tampering being prevented (although somewhat extreme) was in mp3 (licensed mp3s) jukebox's. Although running windows, if the cases werent opened right the hdd would fry out. Preventing 20 gigs of licensed material from theft Now if you really cared, i guess you could

Re: [SLUG] Re: Moving OT a bit [was] Re: Re: Proceedure for preventing 'linux single' at lilo promp t

-Original Message- From: Dean Hamstead [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 15 September 2000 3:53 PM To: Jill Rowling Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: Moving OT a bit [was] Re: Re: Proceedure for preventing 'linux single' at lilo promp t An interesting way ive seen

Re: [SLUG] Video Capture Card

Youll need to say what your actual problem is =) what is and isnt working in linux? or is it windows help your after? Dean Kevin wrote: Hi all I have just installed a video capture card it's a BT878 chipset the box says "APAC ViewComp 878". I am running RH6.2 with an 2.2.16 kernel,

Re: [SLUG] Win Networking

Windows can have more than one NIC. I cant say ive ever had any problems with windows and multiple nics although im sure you could make it choke on something if you tried Dean marty wrote: just out of morbid curiosity, is it actually possible for a Windows machine to use more then one

Re: [SLUG] Video Capture Card

Now all we need are symptoms and log / error outputs Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem is that I can't get the card to view any channels in Linux nor am I able to view the video either. Youll need to say what your actual problem is =) what is and isnt working in linux? or is

Re: [SLUG] Goobye to SLUG

My 2c... please feel free to delete I started out as a newbie on this list, i was about 13 - 14 at the time, so ive basically grown up on it... (sounds like a weetbix ad) anyway, i can remember boggling at the technical expertise of slugers i would always (and still try to) read posts from the

Re: [SLUG] Mounting web servers as filesystems

mod_dav i think might do it? Dean Jill Rowling wrote: Not sure if this is what you want: If you have the public web page directory also mounted on NFS then you should be able to view it with a web browser (in the same trusted NFS network) as either http: or file: If you are trying to do

Re: [SLUG] Goobye to SLUG

I wouldn't want ot move all the highly experienced people off the main list. You can learn a lot from reading their posts, even if you don't understand exactly what they are talking about. At most I'd like to see SLUG and SLUG-OT. I my intention was to allow "gurus" to have their choice of

Re: [SLUG] Debian still sucks

No - any MS Os is a bad install - reboot, reboot, reboot, reboot, reboot I agree, i dont know how people can say a linux install is hard. Especially redhat or dists similar to redhat ( i think turbolinux is the best install ive ever seen ) The major problem seems to be people trying

Re: [SLUG] Debian

Frankly i dont see what all the fuss is about. I started off on slackware, the only version i can remember was the the kernel was well bellow 1. The whole thing i downloaded of a local bbs and yes it was very out of date at the time. 6 months later i got my hands on a redhat three and went from

Re: [SLUG] Enlightenment

this would be the result of bad packaging. the help entry works when you get E from us. Rememebr distributions - nearly all, have a bad habit of taking e and "destryoing it" - reducing functionality, removing bits and resulting in it not working as intended by the authors. in the case of

[SLUG] Seeking small rack for switches

Hey All, Sorry this is somewhat OT but im not bitching about something so dont unsubscribe just yet. Im seeking a small rack/cabinet (i dont know what the difference is) to contain the small pile of switches and hubs now accumulating in our server room here at PCL. Something

Re: [SLUG] Seeking small rack for switches

19"... MFB looks like a start, thanks to everyone who replied Dean larpy wrote: 19" OR 21" ? "= Original Message From Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED] = Hey All, Sorry this is somewhat OT but im not bitching about something

Re: [SLUG] 2.2.15/2.2.17 not recognising 3c503 ethernet

3c503's being incredibly old, its possible the driver is broken =) (i doubt it though) Dean Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 12:54:54PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I'm trying to get a 2.2.15 kernel to run on a Bull Netstation, so I can run a net

Re: [SLUG] Synchronous network ?

I beleive your after token ring networks =) Or plug your machines into a switch and crank the mtu Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Present ethernets, from what I understand, transmit on demand and perform a random timeout in the event of collision. This means throughput drops at around

Re: [SLUG] Synchronous network ?

I recall early in beowulf development "striped" ethernet was developed to allow better usage of 10mbps ethernet (100mbps was, and still is expensive) I doubt this is what your after though, i dont even know if its available as a kernel patch or even usefull as an application protocol Deam

[SLUG] sql quicky

Is there a command to add to the end of a field when updating rather than overwriting it. Rather than extracting the current data, joining then updating the field? thanks guys Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Is CDDB.COM useful

theres freedb.org or something to that effect like the "open" equivalent. I tend to get about 50 50 on hits and misses. Depends on the CD. Top 40 and popular stuff tends to be more likely than obscure or compilations. I guess its a matter of distribution. Dean Terry Collins wrote: Has anyone

Re: [SLUG] Modems, Ozemail or Something else causing timeouts.

Things seem to be very very slow I think the olympics are somewhat to blame, and also i think maybe broadband onto a certain backbone which was bad even before cable/dsl which will remain nameless Dean Terry Collins wrote: Has the internet fallen for the fallicty that most people have

Re: [SLUG] viewing troops.mov ?

James Wilkinson wrote: On Tue, 03 Oct 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] generated: I've grabbed hold of troops.mov from aarnet. This is Sorenson/QDMC. How to watch it ? xanim 2.80 does not (at least from the default load). Running debian 2.2, what are my options ? Zero. The sorenson codec

[SLUG] OT - SgiQuake2

For people with too much opengl power for their own good http://reality.sgi.com/sgiquake/ (and possibly too much spare time) Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney

You want it? you got it... was Re: [SLUG] Troops videos

ftp://ftp.au.openbsd.org/pub/animations/ not too hard to find, has other amusing stuff also eveyrthing is xanim ok (tick) i think i got my copy of troops of theforce.net though i think Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not been able to find an Australian mirror of the troops videos.

Re: [SLUG] [SLIGHTLY OT] Machine Names

I like earth water fire air although you could go with other common movie themes, our proxies are named after resevoir dogs... eg mrwhite, mrbrown, mrblonde cartoons, maybe donaldduck, mickeymouse, goofey, pluto or foghornleghorn bugsbunny daffyduck elmer Dean Dan Treacy wrote: Hey

Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5

AAaha Got it.. I ran Bleeding Edge 6.2 which has a working raid support but found that I needed to patch the firmware on this server to 4.30 and download the 4.30 drivers for linux. Im a big fan of roll your own (if you have the time) =) I booted the CD and typed `linux dd` and when

Re: [SLUG] Netfinity 5600 and Linux with RAID 5

mber 128MB was the limit but this time it didn't complain?? thanks, George Vieira Network Administrator http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au PGP Fingerprint : 43DC 92AC 1A82 27B2 E97B 52F1 B60F 301A 38A9 A10C PGP KeyID: 0x38A9A10C -Original Message----- From: Dea

[SLUG] perl quicky

how do i get the name of current directory (basically pwd) in perl? Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Slug Pearls?

Say you have a handful of people who grab out say 10 -20 goodens each month, (no doubt you'll have alot of doubling up) then someone (some-two maybe) collaborate and its done! Dean (full of good ideas to be scrutinized) Jeff Waugh wrote: Rodos said something along the lines of: Jeff what

aic7xxx.o (Re: [SLUG] One for the Kernel Guru's)

With initrd.img based scsi booting, how does one tell the kernel which module to load inorder to access / Im running a nice dual p3 800 (gig ram, hardware raid..) and it persists in trying to load the aic7xxx.0 module, even now i have the raid driver inbuilt it still attempts to load...

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla M18

Its very stable and really blows IE out of the water. For 8 megs its damn good even without java (which i havent tried) java script looks good. I also like its excellent (and easy) control of cookies, form data and logins. I also like how you can block images from sites inside the browser

Re: [SLUG] Slug Pearls?

Making suggestions is always a bad thing... Im willing to participate, gimme a few weeks i need to finish school though =) Dean Rodos wrote: On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Jeff Waugh wrote: I await the emails. Jeff you did get my private mail didn't you? Dean can we count you in? Think I

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla M18

I havent tried anything much more than mouse overs i got the bin, too lazy to compile Dean Peter Rundle wrote: Dean, java script looks good. So you managed to get this working? I have a java script on my home page (the spring that follows the cursor). It works fine in 4.75 but

Re: [SLUG] Script writing and understanding cron

Whats wrong with the persist option on pppd? Dean Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Dave, I use the following and it works a treat! put this extra line in crontab to run a file every 5 minutes. */5 * * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.5minutes then create a directory called /etc/cron.5miutes put a

Re: [SLUG] Set UID programs

Setuid is the tidiest way i think su is good for one off stuff and it would also be a good way to ru nthings if you needed to run a program as several different users Dean Jill Rowling wrote: What method do people prefer when wanting a program to run as a particular user? Examples:

Re: [SLUG] Removing Dirs in CVS

Thats what i meant thanks! Dean Adrian van den Dries wrote: Dean, Don't delete the directory! You: (make sure dir is empty, apart from the CVS dir) cvs rm dir cvs commit cvs update -P and the directory should be gone. Wrote Dean: How does one remove a directory in a cvs

Re: [SLUG] Set UID programs

An option (not so much for init, but for users running aps as root etc) is sudo A nice app brought to us from openbsd i believe, and much needed. Dean Scott Howard wrote: On Thu, Oct 19, 2000 at 10:53:05AM +1100, Jill Rowling wrote: What method do people prefer when wanting a program to

[SLUG] sound on sparc classic in linux

I got this whole sparc thing going, redhat 6.2 runs ok i put on k2.2.16 from rpms (laziness) sndconfig detects and configures a module for sound "amd7930", this module loads ok mixers seem to work fine, aumix, gmix, xmixer etc. esound always fails to find a good sound mode xmms gives some

Re: [SLUG] sound on sparc classic in linux

get rpms bootstrap install Dean Michael Still wrote: On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, Dean Hamstead wrote: I got this whole sparc thing going, redhat 6.2 runs ok Can I ask where you got the install from? The downloaded one for mirror.aarnet.edu.au doesn't work for me... Thanks, Mikal

Re: [SLUG] Adaptec 2100S

Dos, or Linux. Will just sit there and beep its head off... Regards, Alan Lee Ecom Computers Australia - Original Message - From: "Dean Hamstead" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "George Vieira" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "'Alan Lee'" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; "SLUG&

Re: [SLUG] MS goes Open Source - sort of

I haven't yet seen what the rest of the Linux community's reaction is, but can we please put something together to send to the newspapers, television stations, etc.? In regards to publicity in general, how much free publicity is slug making use of? are media releases going to newspapers and

Re: [SLUG] MS goes Open Source - sort of

[ We have a small problem with our 'normal' fests, in that most of them are designed, or at least planned to be small. If you want to organise the next fest and make it BIG, go for it! We had a small problem with the Installfest last time, because no one wanted to come forward to coordinate

Re: [SLUG] Extra buttons on the MS mice supported in X?

The MS Intellimouse is a damned good mouse. Who cares abou their software writing skills. They should throw out all that and make peripherals. Logitech makes nice mice also, but im in love with the IM explorer. Works well in linux, esp. on usb (something that windows 95 would never do for me).

Re: [SLUG] Extra buttons on the MS mice supported in X?

gets ported sometime soon hopefully Dean Arunava Sen wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: The MS Intellimouse is a damned good mouse. Who cares abou their software writing skills. They should throw out all that and make peripherals. Logitech makes nice mice also, but im in love with the IM

Re: [SLUG] Extra buttons on the MS mice supported in X - Update

As you could tell, I wanted the MS optical mouse just for its side buttons. And I wanted those just for quake3. From all the responses regarding this matter, the side-button functionality under X doesnt seem too promising. So I called up a (windows user) friend of mine who has one of

Re: [SLUG] sun stuff..

I have a sparcclassic here running rh 6.2 quite well for a machine made in 1992 (486 era) it runs like a beast it even does opengl well (considering the 8 year old factor) and unlike on my amd, i can resize the opengl window with not change in performance =) has a sound card with a driver but

Re: [SLUG] Squid performance

Basically it depends on what people are looking at. Generally anything with cgi-bin or a ? are taken directly anlso your cache size, and how quickly things expire. You can also increase the % to continue downloading at if users hit stop. You can also set a maximum object size and a maximum

[SLUG] dlink woes

I have three dfe530tx's (link 10/100s) ive got them to work with via-rhine before however these are "b1" revision cards with WOL capability. They are reported as via unknown devices with lspci or cat /proc/pci freebsd also doesnt recognise them either and ive used previous revisions of the card

Re: [SLUG] dlink woes

Ken Yap wrote: I have three dfe530tx's (link 10/100s) ive got them to work with via-rhine before however these are "b1" revision cards with WOL capability. Try the latest driver from Donald Becker maybe? Unknown IDs means they've modified the chip again. Maybe it's not Via-Rhine

[SLUG] Asus TV out

Has anyone had any experience with using the tv out function on ASUS nvidia based video cards (in linux of course). Im pretty sure if i boot to windows, go into tv, then warm reboot i will get something, but thats just not cool =) Im having a great week with with hardware... and its only just

Re: [SLUG] Asus TV out

http://drama.obuda.kando.hu/~fero/cgi-bin/rivatv.shtml Cool, thanks Im pretty sure if i boot to windows, go into tv, then warm reboot i will get something, but thats just not cool =) Im not sure what you mean here. But if you restart, it will reset it to the vga output. (at least on

[SLUG] Perl Quicky

I would like to strip special characters eg. anything not A..Z a..z 0..9 Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] Dial on demand

I nice bit of work i saw, it utilising active desktop Run a web server on the proxy, write a quick script to initialise of close the ppp connection. Use the page as your background, when you need to use the net... *click* then when your done *click* Its so foolproof, that your average

[SLUG] tnt2 + 2.4.x?

Anyone got 3d acceleration running in 2.4.x with a tnt2? The kernel modules compile, but alas, broken symbols. Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Dual motherboards

Ive used gigabit and supermicro dual boards. (both pentium3 pased) Both work as well as could be expected i guess. USB works (the supermicro i used has 4 ports on the root hub...). On both, adaptec scsi/raid was used, the ide is only used for a single cdrom. I couldnt find out what chipset the

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

What dist. or mail server software? Dean john wrote: Hi there Just wondering if you can help me out here. I have installed virtual email accounts on linux, its receiving the mail ok, but i cannot log into the pop accounts to recieve mail. I think it has something to do with pop-3

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

aliases or virtual accounts? Dean john wrote: Hi Running sendmail , linux mandrake cheers john -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Full Duplex Sound

Whats in the kernel is OSS/Free which is like a clone of OSS i think in GPL as OSS is on like a gazillion OS's... well maybe a handful. Its a standard (kinda). ALSA was spawned from drivers written for a card (name eludes me) to exploit its potential more fully. ALSA isnt a kernel patch. I dont

Re: [SLUG] [rant] Linux Unreal_Tournament is unbelieveable.

Glide in x3.3.6... get a voodoo 3 =P If only glide 2 would be ported to x4 *grrr* Dean Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who="James Wilkinson" I've tried 2.4.0-test9 (and the reiserfs patch for the same) with the Matrox DRM and agpgart features *sniffle* Same card here, etc. (We've been

[SLUG] Net Slowness... Telstra Dirty Tricks?

rant Is it just me or does it only seem to be the little isps affected by this net downage. I can barely maintain an icq connection and yet my cable friends seem to be hammering down the files. The conspiracy theorist in me is yelling fake! What a great way to suck customers off the aussie

Re: [SLUG] Net Slowness... Telstra Dirty Tricks?

I know bigpond isnt telstra. But when bigpond needs something done i have no doubts it gets done and it gets done promptly. ( i didnt have my second phone line installed by primus for nothing ). Its good that finally telstra is facing some competition, but its unfortunate that telstra still

Re: [SLUG] Net Slowness... Telstra Dirty Tricks?

From memory, telstra has some enormous caches for its cable and adsl customers. The real question is how fast does a telnet or ssh get though to where you want to go. The *real* real question is how fast does napster go =P Dean -- http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au | Penrith City

[SLUG] Perl on CLI

Is there an $ENV for command line variables? Are their modules to make this easier? eg ./myperlscript.pl options here Dean -- http://www.penrithcity.nsw.gov.au | Penrith City Council http://www.bong.com.au | BONG LAN Parties [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Poland taxes GNU/opensource/freebeer

Software doesnt exist, so why should i pay for it? lets say i put a scsi disk with mac on it onto a sparc machine? nothing, its as good as a blank disk (basically) Why should i pay for a magnetic configuration? I mean, lets say i wave a magnet near a disk, in theory i could come up with

Re: [SLUG] Poland taxes GNU/opensource/freebeer

it, it needs to be taxed. But if you download it... Dean Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who="Dean Hamstead" Software doesnt exist, so why should i pay for it? Why should i pay for a magnetic configuration? should i pay for that? You're confusing money with value. - Jeff

[SLUG] Secondary DNS

Anyonw got an url for free secondary DNS server hosting? (if thats the term) Ive seen one posted here before. Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 16867613 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

Re: [SLUG] IE, (Wu|Pro)Ftpd and symlinks

I believe viewing of symlinks (probably called aliases by crap-dows) is a configurable option. If your using IE youll know where the config is. Dean Ho Ming Shun wrote: Hi, I have just went to a windows box and tried using IE 4 to access my linux box via ftp when I found that IE does

Re: [SLUG] Linux Hardware sites.

www.linuxhardware.net Ethernet-HOWTO (out of date?) make xconfig =) Dean Peter Hardy wrote: I was speaking to somebody at the meeting last night (I'm sorry, I've forgotten your name...), who asked me about lists of Linux-compatible hardware. I referred them to

Re: [SLUG] Linux Hardware sites.

Peter, who longs for the day when buying a Linux peripheral doesn't have to involve a week of disappointing research. I think thats a severe exageration. Especially if youve used linux for a while. There are alot of good and bad brands. Its also generally not a good thing to invest in

Re: [SLUG] PHP License

Licensing is a full topic. But just because its no gpl compatable doesnt mean it requires a license. Speculatively i would say you might not be allowed to create derived works from it. It may also offer some warranties *doubt*. Its not hard to break "compatability" with GPL considering how open

Re: [SLUG] Compiling mod_perl into Apache.

Having made an effort to see just how many modules i could compile into apache, by personal record stands at php+ssl+servlets+dav which isnt a bad effort. anyway, mod_perl isnt stable as a DSO. So its best to compile in. in the mod_perl dist file there is a whole bunch of INSTALL.* files

Re: [SLUG] Re: PHP License

I didnt say it was easy =P Dean Angus Lees wrote: \begin{Dean Hamstead} FreeBSD's tcpip stack is a popular thing to take. ack! my (undergrad) thesis is to port the freebsd stack to some new whizzbang research os (Mungi). i'm frantically writing it up now, as its due this week

Re: [SLUG] speaking of HW ...

2000 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [SLUG] speaking of HW ... This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead said: I dont recommend VIA based boards. My gigabyte-ali works well i havd found gigabyte to generally be good in linux. Have to disagree, my mobo is VIA based and it's smooth as. I've also

Re: [SLUG] email list

http://www.listbot.com/ http://www.egroups.com/ Dean Russell Davie wrote: Hi any thought who would host a email discussion group for a non-profit org? My year at uni want to have an email list to stay in touch. This is our final year and we are looking for a host for this any

Re: [SLUG] an ISP to avoid

Not to give anyone specifically a plug but little isps are better in the linux arena. Im on RPI for home and rob is pretty ace (not that i need tech support for linux). I also deal with PNC alot and they are pretty cluey, but im not sure if they will help over the phone, but i dont think they

Re: [SLUG] Mail Setup

Is fetchmail what your after? Dean Jon Biddell wrote: Can someone point me to the appropriate FAQ for mail setup ? I need the server here (not the gateway machine) to collect my mail from both my and SWMBO's POP accounts, and send any replies to the appropriate SMTP server. I'd like

Re: [SLUG] Quick Debian Question

Redhat 3.0 will take 2.4.x if you upgrade enough stuff. Its just a matter of how much you can be bothered to update. you will need to update what was ipchains and glibc 2.2 would be worth going to. Dean Jason Rennie wrote: Hi again all, Well debian is finally finished installing. I

[SLUG] Strftime

Is there a %X (where X is a letter) that returns the current number of the day of the month including suffix (st, nd, th etc) the man page doesnt seem to have one. Dean -- BONG: http://www.bong.com.au EMAIL... [EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Linux news on slashdot

Use open standards, document clearly any additions to these standards. Then let open source develop its own solutions. =) Dean Rachel Polanskis wrote: Sluggers, I read on /. about Applix and Adobe both making annoucements about discontinuing popular products on the Linux platfrom.

Re: [SLUG] Linux news on slashdot

installing software on linux is a pain - compared to windows. - you have to find the right file - read a readme - figure out how to decompress/run/do somethngt with that file - get a Cd of 3rd party software (linux has distros - but they will never answer everything - in the end 3rd party is

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