[SLUG] Network card problems Intel Etherexpress

Gday, I just purchased a new (secondhand) computer and I need to get the network stuff going on it, new computer is a P350 with 100 MHz bus RedHat 6.2. Fresh install. I have two cards: 1. IBM etherjet ISA.This is not directly supported but I looked up the notes in Don's network site

[SLUG] Was network card - now sounds in X windows

Erich Schulz wrote: You probably have an IRQ conflict, or an IO conflict. Before you go much farther, check the value in /proc/ioports and /proc/interrupts, to make sure that they do not conflict with anything else. If that is ok, try and install the module by hand first, as root type:

[SLUG] Anyone have open office source

Can anyone give me a copy of the Open office source on a CD at the next meeting. Ten hours on a modem and a timed account is just too much for me. I would even be willing to pay a small fee :-} Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] IP accounting software

Subject: [SLUG] IP accounting software Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 12:33:32 +1100 From: David Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi All, Does anyone know of any good linux software to extract traffic stats out of a cisco 2500? Dave Anand put me onto

[SLUG] IPChains and DNS

Subject: Re: [SLUG] IPChains and DNS Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 16:13:44 +1100 From: Ken Yap [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Sydney Linux Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] I would think it would store ip's, as performing a dns lookup everytime a packet arrives is going to be a _minor_ performance hit! I

[SLUG] Probs dialling to mac ppp server

From: Alex [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, November 22, 2000 12:51 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [SLUG] Probs dialling to mac ppp server Hi, I am attempting to dial into a mac PPP server from Linux. Using minicom, Linux seems to dial in, but a login prompt never appears,

[SLUG] Compiling open office (star office)

Has anyone play with open office yet regards compiling. Any words of wisdom because the two things I downloaded do not appear to work together and the instructions are not helpful. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] CD burn, GCC - redhat 6.2, Java

a) Does anyone have any good pointers on CD burning? Especially binary copies of CD's. b) I have just installed gcc 295 from compiled source on redhat 6.2. RPM 4.0 stopped me installing :-(. Now I have installed it there are funny things happpening, what files to I have to tweak to find

[SLUG] Open Office + floppy linux + easy linux

Date: Sat, 2 Dec 2000 23:15:28 +1100 From: Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] quote who="Ken Foskey" The current version of Open Office does not have a spell check and it is an 'interesting beast' to set up. It definitely is not built on the normal pattern of source and con

[SLUG] C Programmer problem

Here is one for people to scratch their head on: unsigned char ucObject[255]; memset(ucPrtLine,0,sizeof(ucPrtLine)); sfb = fiInp-afpRec.sfbPtr; memset(ucObject,0,sizeof(ucObject)); strcpy((PCHAR) ucObject,(PCHAR) fiInp-ucOName); if (ucObject[0] == '\xff') {

[SLUG] Windows on LInux

Subject: [SLUG] Newbie Question from a Mac user - Dual Booting Win98 and Linux Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 21:27:23 +1100 From: Shane Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anyway, I have just bought myself a nice new 900MHz Athlon and 2 HDs and I wish to run a dual boot system,

[SLUG] Vi Help

The tech support was alright there actually. The guy I got gave me some vi help as well! :) Dave You should get the Vi mug from Everything Linux. It is a great talking point, I have had a few people trying to photocopy it :-} It has great depth (of coffee and info). Ken Who uses vi on

[SLUG] Telnet timeout

Subject: Re: [SLUG] Telnet timeout Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2001 13:55:53 +1100 (EST) From: Alexander Else [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Marty wrote: Quick question: How do you increase the timeout value for telnet? Not too sure what you mean. If you

[SLUG] Unix on windows

To clear up matter a little: I use gvim on windows, it has incredible depth of syntax highlighting. I use cygnus tools on windows, I use command line a lot. You should see those Windows boffins trying to figure out how I do du to get the largest directory so quickly. I work around the SOE

[SLUG] Dial-in network browsing

Subject: [SLUG] Dial-in network browsing Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 10:12:52 +1100 From: "Alister Waller" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Slug" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi, Is it possible to have a user dialed in to Linux Server over a PPP conection browse using network neighborhood as if they were one of

[SLUG] I vote one for a newbies list

My hat goes in with Terry. I think that there is great scope for a newbies list. This list should have predefined answers to 'which is the best distro' with input from each camp. We KNOW that archives will not really work with newbies. I am fairly tired of the constant just go debian push

[SLUG] java help

I am having a java problem and I know SFA about java. It is an open office build. I have a jar file: [ken@server common]$ jar -tf db31.jar META-INF/MANIFEST.MF ./db31.jar ./com/sleepycat/examples/TpcbExample.java ./com/sleepycat/examples/LockExample.java

[SLUG] understanding .so files

I have a problem with the STLport gcc library. the program that uses is asks for it's .so file. I tried to change ld.so.conf in /etc but it did not appear to do anything, (no man page just a guess). I ended up putting a symbolic link into /usr/lib. Can someone describe how these work. Is it

[SLUG] Correcting documents

There is a group called [EMAIL PROTECTED] that can provide help with all GNU manuals. If you own a manual and would like it to be checked, then please submit a request to them (includes me). This is one of the quietest lists I am on, about 8 messages in 12 months. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Correcting documents

 There are no real rules like any good open source project :-} Submissions are typically made by dropping the document on a web site, emailing the list with a review request and a URL. The problem is to cut down the response, not the reverse.Typically they use a card deck analogy to

[SLUG] Basic Unix commands

Jason, A couple of extra's How do I create a floppy disk from Unix. How do I print from Unix, how do I change print settings. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] CD record

Just reading the cdrecord setup for ATAPI it recommends that I add a line like the last one in my lilo.conf image = /boot/win4lin label = cdr read-only root = /dev/hda3 hdc = ide-scsi The last line, but this gives me: Added cdr Syntax error

[SLUG] Open Government- No linux interface

An interesting angle on this argument is the suppression of free trade. Effectively the ATO is suppressing free trade, they are restricting you to an interface that you must purchase. Interesting angle two: They are not allowing minorities access to their systems. This is basically the same

[SLUG] Pure x windows

I have a redhat 6.2 system on a 486 and I want to run this as a pure xterm on my system for my kids (stay out of the ^*(( office kids!) How do I do this on boot up? It would be nice for it to boot directly to the gdm sign on screen. Thanks KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing

[SLUG] Slug membership

At $2 per month I consider SLUG excellent value. For those non-members cough up! KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] LInk to discussion page from monthly meeting

I would like an overview of the mail tools presentation given at the meeting. I have tried to search the archives but I give up, searching on MUTT confused the search engine with the user agent rather than the text content (bug!) I had the flu and missed the actual presentation. Were

Re: [SLUG] WFWG clients - How

Terry Collins wrote: I am looking to retire my Novell 4.11 server but still need to provide file and print services to two WFWG clients, which will be naturally off a linux server. Is anyone still doing this and how? My understanding is that Samba gave up WFWG clients sometime ago. The

Re: [SLUG] SMS Internet interfaces

Wilson Fletcher wrote: Anyone got any ideas of servers in Australia that will provide access to SMS (via snpp ?? tap ??? ... ?). Also I got these numbers for Optus SMSC. Can anyone verify whether they will work ? I haven't tried them yet. Optus Australia +61-412025989 Optus Australia

[SLUG] Kernel sources

My video has died on my main box so I cannot move to Debian. It works fine as an X server so my trusty 486 is running everything. The weirdest thing happened, installed second network card (PCI) and my video totally stopped working, replaced with new card. Not even the boot up

[SLUG] [Fwd: [dev] Stanford Validity Checker]

Take a look at the program analysis tool mentioned From Open office lists Sounds like it will be quite a nice tool. An extension to gcc to check for common programmer errors, which can be customized via its extension language for your project. Some details on its findings over the

Re: [SLUG] optus-cable debian install

David Kempe wrote: Hey sluggers, I have dug on google and search the archives and i can't find any answer to this specific problem. I am trying to set up a another debian box here to use as a gateway. I wanted to install directly off the web as I have a optus@home connection and no cds

Re: [SLUG] software audit by the dumb side

I do not know what you are worried about, back up the box before they arrive, let them put in their autocheckup diskette and verify all your licenses. I can guarantee that they will be very confused very quickly. Offer to help them out by giving them a complete printed GNU license for

[SLUG] freeswan

I want to run a debian firewall with freeswan for internet and a VPN tunnel. IPSEC with IKE and a shared secret. This box will be built from scratch on a minimal harddisk, P100 processor. It must redirect my internal network to the internet. It will redirect specific IP addresses through

Re: [SLUG] freeswan

This is for me to work from home so no time limit and no quotes. They handed me a windows client on a disk, useful as tits on a bull. The other side is Raptor client, I had a look with Google and there were some old mailnotes but nothing very specific. It appears that Freeswan works with

[SLUG] debian setup

OK I have a debian system going, I have created a file /etc/modutils/network with: alias eth0 ne options ne io=0x300 irq=3 update-modules, reboot. (is this right??) This is the same /etc/network/interfaces as laptop and laptop works on same ethernet cable. The desktop does not work,

Re: [SLUG] eth0 card problem

Joshua Burvill wrote: Then back in linux as root, modprobe ne irq=10 io=0x340 (or whatever it is) just run modprobe ne This might locate the card for you, it did for me. irq=3 io=0x300 Thanks KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] Stallion epipe

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Has anyone had any experience with Stallion's epipe? I've used two to connect via ADSL and set up a VPN between the two sites but I'm hitting a brick wall with the NAT to the net. Hey, I have been reading up on FreeSwan and this I might be able to

Re: [SLUG] SCP on debian

Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Ken Foskey I have 'apt-cache search scp' and found nothing. what is the package name? apt-get install ssh :) - Jeff First attempt was exactly that. I get 'no available version' with lots of other words. Broken set up? I only have ftp.au.debian.org

[SLUG] Debian kernel source

$ dpkg -S /usr/include/linux/version.h libc6-dev: /usr/include/linux/version.h So on my Debian system that suggests that you need the development library sources for libc6. One thing that irked me a little was that I installed the kernel source for DEB and it did not require GCC and

Re: [SLUG] SCP on debian

Matt Hope wrote: matth@rtfm:~% apt-cache show ssh | grep Filename Filename: dists/potato/non-US/main/binary-sparc/ssh_1.2.3-9.3.deb 'ssh' is in the non-US tree, make sure you add some non-US sources to your /etc/apt/sources.list. Personally, I use deb

Re: [SLUG] Re: jdub's apt-get/sources.list

Jeff Waugh wrote: Galeon is now in sid, so it's commented out. What is sid??? KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Is there a SSH for Win-nt/2000?

Greg Wright wrote: There is a SSHD as well, not sure what use it would be at all except for the possibility of tunneling VNC which would be a good idea. I looked at the site a few weeks back, sorry do not have the URL at hand. www.freeswan.org has a page of various ipsec product for

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla Rampant

root wrote: Hi, I was wondering if anyone has ever had the same problem. I was tinkering with the Edit-Preferences in a rather frustrated effort to work out why Mozilla was not connecting to the server when it suddenly reformatted itself into thick blue vertical and red horizontal bands.Four

Re: [SLUG] script request

Alister Waller wrote: Hi again, I have another script that I need, to remove some unwanted entries from a file. Is there anyone willing to assist, as it might be better to take it off the list? grep -v deletethis inputfile outputfile mv inputfile inputfile.bak mv outputfile inputfile

[SLUG] freeswan and kernal config

I am getting an error from freeswan saying that rp_filter is set incorrectly. I cannot for the life of me figure out how this is set in the config. I can find it in the network source but I cannot see it in make menuconfig. Any tips of transparent proxy, I assume this is proxy_arp as it

Re: [SLUG] Install Fest Reminder

Craige McWhirter wrote: Wanted: * Installees * Installers * Helpers * Observers * The curious * You * Power leads * Power boards * Anything I've left out See you there! Hubs swtiches and network cables. Count me in -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Samba hooks in Perl?

Rev Simon Rumble wrote: So the way I'm thinking of doing it is to store everything in a database with appropriate metadata attached to each file. The files can be explored through a web interface or through a heirarchical file system structure. To do this I need to be able to export it

Re: [SLUG] XFree86 badness

Crossfire wrote: XF86Config is still supported by XFree4 but if XF86Config-4 is found first, then that is used in prefernce to XF86Config. Of course, if you want to have both v3 and v4 installed and workable at once, you need to use the -4 suffix so you can build a valid configuration for

[SLUG] Open Office build On Debian Woody.

Successful build and install on Debian woody from scratch from source from CVS OO638B. Installed with warning about some missing files. It also gave me replacement warnings for a number of libraries. Nothing exceptional. Did crash on the load of Mozilla address book however. KenF --

Re: [SLUG] identifying open relays

Question in situte. Rick Moen wrote: ~ $ telnet linuxmafia.com smtp Trying 198.144.195.186... Connected to uncle-enzo. Escape character is '^]'. 220 uncle-enzo ESMTP Exim 3.31 #1 Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:44:17 -0700 HELO linuxmafia.com 250 uncle-enzo Hello rick at uncle-enzo

Re: [SLUG] identifying open relays

Gnuthad wrote: On 15 Sep 2001, at 15:04, Ken Foskey wrote: Rick Moen wrote: 220 uncle-enzo ESMTP Exim 3.31 #1 Fri, 14 Sep 2001 17:44:17 -0700 HELO linuxmafia.com 250 uncle-enzo Hello rick at uncle-enzo [198.144.195.186] MAIL FROM: [EMAIL PROTECTED] What happens if you use [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Kernel

Adam Vaughan wrote: Hi, We have our own software that uses TCP/IP communications. Certain parameters in Redhat 7 have had to be set/changed for this software to work. Now Redhat 7.1 does not work. What are the differences in the TCP/IP implelentation between Redhat 7 and Redhat 7.1?

Re: [SLUG] Linux format converters

Edwin Humphries wrote: StarOffice output is OK, but I don't want to do this manually or from a GUI - it needs to be able to called up from a command-line script. You can script OpenOffice (staroffice). I have not got that involved yet, done it for word so it should not be hard for

Re: [SLUG] CCNA

Minh Van Le wrote: Is CCNA worth doing these days ? I hear it's hard and expensive (?). I did a google on +ccna +sydney site:.au and turned up some broken links and seemingly dodgy sites. Is there an authoritative CCNA site ? Even a FAQ for Australian residents or something. I weigh

Re: [SLUG] Could someone check this website for me

Jim Hague wrote: Could someone check this website for me www.jub.com.au/books Works fine for me in Konqueror 2.1.1. Moz 0.9.4 looks OK, dont know what it. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Router/firewall

Jon Biddell wrote: Don't know about the SMC unit, `but I'm sure there are a number of SLUGgers who would be only too glad to dispose of a 486 for this purpose... Some might even PAY you to take them away...:-) I have one with a stuffed battery, if you never switch it off this is not a

Re: [SLUG] a pop keep on server mail client

Peter Rundle wrote: I'll have a look at Open Office. Last time I tried it it printing didn't work which is a bit of a show stopper, but as said before does anyone have any inside info on Abiword, the site hasn't been updated for weeks, and prior to that it was going like a house on fire.

Re: [SLUG] Smoothwall

Bob Hubbard wrote: A few days ago someone mentioned smoothwall so I followed it up. A link goes to forceforge.net but I can't seem to download after selecting the compressed tarball. Is there another site I can use. I am presently running Bastille...is there a big difference.

Re: [SLUG] Samba on a subnet Unable to find network

Minh Van Le wrote: Has anybody had Unable to find network on a windows box when trying to connect to a Samba share on a subnet ? It's a funny problem because the netbios name of the Samba server registers on the network neighbourhood browse list. When I click on the machine name, it

Re: [SLUG] Hang on FTP connections

Minh Van Le wrote: Are there other ways to debug these sorts of problems ? Should I use tcpdump ? Given the previous message I would try ping first KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Re: Login problem help!

Tom Massey wrote: And it may have changed in Mandrake 8.1 which has apparently just hit the ftp servers. Downloaded ready for the install fest. We will cut a Mandrake 8.1 CD on the day. Cue: Craige... KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] Multithreading vs. Forks

Mikolaj J. Habryn wrote: 1) If you think your program requires multithreading, 99% of the time, you're wrong. 2) If you /still/ think your program requires multithreading, see point 1. Rubbish, threading is needed in a lot of applications. For example web servers or even web query

Re: [SLUG] Multithreading vs. Forks

Andrew Bennetts wrote: I was under the impression that a different thread *is* a different context... it has its own stack, its own registers, and probably can have its own memory address space too. They're basically like processes, except they tend to share an awful lot of their memory with

Re: [SLUG] Print Screen to clipboard in Linux

Jeff Waugh wrote: You can't do it from the clipboard directly as yet, though I'm sure it would just be a matter of OpenOffice support for sucking in the image data were it put on the clipboard in the first place. Sounds like an issue with Open Office. PLease raise one, KenF -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] CodeFest Not On This Weekend

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Steve C McConnell, Code Complete : A Practical Handbook of Software Construction Steve Maguire, Writing Solid Code : Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs Steve C McConnell, Rapid Development : Taming Wild Software Schedules Steve

[SLUG] Corrupt deb system.

My system died and perl libraries have been corrupted. /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Defoma/IdCache.pm has too many errors. Debian, how do I force a reinstall on these libraries? Ta KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Corrupt deb system.

Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Ken Foskey My system died and perl libraries have been corrupted. /usr/share/perl5/Debian/Defoma/IdCache.pm has too many errors. Debian, how do I force a reinstall on these libraries? Well, I'm not Debian, but I think I can answer your question for him/her

[SLUG] Thanks for the meeting

I would like to thank the speakers at this months meeting. To summarise: We had a report of a Linux install in a school. Now for those not in the know there are some 'issues' with getting a school over, they get delivered free M$ software because of a contract by the Dept of Education and

Re: [SLUG] strip email addresses

Kevin Waterson wrote: Rick Welykochy wrote: Kevin Waterson wrote: I have a bunch of xls files I need to get the email addresses from anyone have a quick one liner? Use open office, save it as a csv, then do what you will. You can script OO.If think the key phrase is UDK... KenF

Re: [SLUG] How to type ^M

Michael Covi wrote: Does anyone know how to type ^M so it appears as the actual control character? I was stuck trying to convert some scripts from dos to unix format on a very small root filesystem. It did have sed but how the hell do you type in the character to match it and eliminate it?

Re: [SLUG] Opening DOCs with WP8 on RH7.1

Terry Collins wrote: Since going to WP8 on RH7.1, I've not been able to open MS Word docs. Does anyone know what is the cause. I get something like filtrix can not open it. ADV Get open office, it has an excellent score on importing and exporting to word.

[SLUG] tags for gcc

Can someone tell me the magic tags for gcc compiler. In open office I want to remove the #pragmas for all gcc compilers. In borlkadc it is __BORANDC__ of rIBM mainframe it is __HOS_MVS__.I have seen it in the docs somewhere but I cannot find it again. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] debian hacked

My gateway is sending stuff to the cable modem even when the eth0 is shut down. When I shut the whole thing down it stops. tcpdump tells me I am currently walking the dns for optus, somehow. Is there a fast way to check the whole box from the mirror server without starting from scratch.

Re: [SLUG] debian hacked

Matthew Clark wrote: How much stuff? Could it be ntp/dhcp/other stuff? My only suggestion is to look at exactly what the traffic is. I am not a debian user so I can't help you with that side of it. Maybe post some of the tcpdump stuff? arp who-has 211.28.46.140.optus.net.au tell

Re: [SLUG] debian hacked

Matthew Clark wrote: I would be blocking arp requests from outside my network. Try this and if you are still getting crap then maybe you have problems, but I think it is just a chatty windows box (on the optus network) looking to resolve an ip address. I also get tonnes of them when I run

[SLUG] MOzzila wont let me type into google

I just downloaded Mozilla 0.9.6 and when I type an F in google it open up a bookmark management screen. Anyone tried it, or any hints. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Advice on coding in VI ?

Matt - wrote: I have recently spent some time in learning the VI editor for unix and would be interested in hearing from some developers on some intermediate to advanced key combinations for increasing speed ? Perhaps you have seen a common feature missed by VI newbies. I bought the

Re: [SLUG] MOzzila wont let me type into google

David Kempe wrote: Perhaps your Atl or Ctrl key is stuck Works fine on some pages like banking (https ???), not on others. No cigar. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] MOzzila wont let me type into google

I just downloaded Mozilla 0.9.6 and when I type an F in google it open up a bookmark management screen. Anyone tried it, or any hints. This sounds like: http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103197 I have added my vote. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Dummy phone line for installfests?

Ken Caldwell wrote: Perhaps the SLUG committee could consider the purchase of a RingMaster PRO for use at installfests. That way a dummy ISP could be simulated and Newbies could set up ppp. Later they would probably have only to change their username, password and the ISP's phone number to get

Re: [SLUG] Executing M$ / Macs Apps remotely

Richard Hayes wrote: 2. Has anyone used VNC to control a remote desktop / apps under Xwindows. I use vnc across a VPN to work onto my Windoze box. I have to use it because it runs ccmail which is an ancient mail client windows only. Sometimes looses refresh but there is a refresh

Re: [SLUG] OT: Budget AMD System / Cheap Motherboards !

James Newburrie wrote: Well - I think that I prefer Gigabyte with AMD - in my experience (admitidly mostly with Microsoft based networks) they are more stable. I freely admit that I have only been using linux solidly for the past couple of months - and I am using a simple distribution,

[SLUG] Debian open office port available plus interesting comment

Original Message Subject: Re: [discuss] Are we freeing MS Windows? Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2001 12:46:53 +0100 From: Bernhard R. Link [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Ken Foskey [011203 12:33]: apt-get install mutt Redcarpet is pretty good

[SLUG] help my kernel does not have sound, I have tried and I get this....

Do I sound like a newbie yet... KenF gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/usr/src/kernel-source-2.4.9/include -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686 -DUTS_MACHINE='i386' -c -o init/version.o

Re: [SLUG] Keeping up with Kernel releases?

Malcolm Tredinnick wrote: My opinion here is that it's important to really know what level of risk you are comfortable with what level of risk you are comfortable with. Watch the relase announcements carefully. When the maintainer or the person supplying the patches says be careful, this is a

[SLUG] [Fwd: Installing Debian]

Volunteers. Original Message Subject: Installing Debian Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2001 06:29:55 -0500 (EST) From: Guylhem Aznar [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Lisa M. Opus Goldstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] An upcoming book called Installing Debian needs proofreaders. You

Re: [SLUG] SLUG: Accounting software

Internet User wrote: Your suggestions and help if you would please. First try is run myob under wine. You could try running MYOB under win4lin. You need a windows 95 license / cd in order to install then you would be running the windows stuff. There are a couple of accounting packages

Re: [SLUG] Re: [OT] Hard disk wipe / file shredders etc

Ross Mitchell wrote: I hope this helps Before those of you go into great hysterics. What Ross is talking about is theoretically possible, practically impossible. A harddisk that has been in use for a while has so many jumps about it is difficult to simply string a file

[SLUG] Evolution - HOw do I import Mozilla mails

OK Mozilla is crashing when I reply twice.I installed evolution and it now works but it will not import Mozilla mail. ANy work arounds? I read the FAQ there did not appear to be anything. KenF -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] Evolution - outgoing to pop server

Ok I imported my mozilla files individually to evolution. I had to create a file as a link to the messages .mozilla folder and then spent about two hours importing my complex mail set up. How do I do outgoing mail I cannot set up outgoing directly to mail.optushome.com.au, it will not

[SLUG] evolution and optushome

I still cannot deliver mail from evolution. Evolution has two options SMTP or sendmail Mozilla is set up as pop3 delivery not SMTP. (I am using Mozilla to put out stuff and receiving on evolution). SMTP has two ways of setting up, with and without password. Without password does not

[SLUG] evolution and optushome

Message is: SMTP server does not support requested authentication type PLAIN. Settings are: Server type SMTP Host: mail Server requires authentification: tried No + Yes. Authentification type:Tried a couple but when I click on 'Check for supported types', they all grey out. User

Re: [SLUG] evolution and optushome

On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 12:28, Andre Pang wrote: On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 11:25:14AM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: SMTP server does not support requested authentication type PLAIN. Ken, I have a feeling you're using the wrong SMTP server. Try using mail-optushome.optusnet.com.au. Do not use

Re: [SLUG] Slackware anybody?

On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 19:55, Penguin wrote: Yeah I will be having ISDN 128K installed next week, and this is the reason I'm getting more paranoid. Several people I trust who know a lot about Linux and stuff have suggested exactly what you do, to use an old 486 as a firewall. What's NAT?

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Internet --- 486 firewall NAT --- Workstation

On Sat, 2002-01-05 at 20:27, James wrote: If it was too long for the subject line: Internet --- 486 firewall NAT --- Workstation On your side of the firewall you have a private network. There is an RFC defining this but it is either 10.?.?.? or 192.168.0.? (172 as well from memory).

Re: RE: [SLUG] Linux Small Business

On Mon, 2002-01-07 at 00:02, Howard Lowndes wrote: I have a friend who is a Sydney QC and would like to get his practice off M$, but his main arguement is that all his business associates who deal with him want to transfer material in M$ Office. Yes, I know that SO with do M$ Office, but

Re: [SLUG] Linux Small Business

On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 22:38, Michael Lake wrote: I get lots of M$ Word files for the Royal Society of NSW Journal that I edit and typeset. I use SO5.2 but find that some tables don't get converted properly and often smart quotes will become ^W. I have to be particularly careful in

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Someone subscribe me to linux-kernel

On Sun, 2002-01-13 at 08:56, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: subscribe linux-kernel [EMAIL PROTECTED] That won't work. It will still test the address and reject it. Buy an email address from someone like spamcop.net and subscribe from there. Has the added bonus of filtering the crap out as

Re: [SLUG] Mozilla Spell Check

On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 14:46, Paul Copeland wrote: Hi All, The other night I downloaded Mozilla 0.9.7. I went for the typical install with just Navigator, Mail and News. I have found, however, that there does not seem to be a spell checker for out going e-mails. Is this the case for the

Re: [SLUG] An impossible X11 dream?

On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 22:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One of the many things I have on my list of `Things To Have A Go At One Day', is to read carefully through the X manuals and see if there's a way to provide keyboard shortcuts (like Alt-X, Alt-C, Alt-V) as keyboard shortcuts for Cut, Copy,

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