Maybe a co-ordinated "attack" on insert Windows sycophant-retailer of
choice here, where their screensavers are replaced with a Linux one
(volunteers to design this ??), or all their ss passwords changed to TUX ?
Just a thought - an evil one, admittedly, but a thought...:-)
Is this where
Well, if EVERYONE wrote just ONE HOW-I-DID-IT PAGE, SLUG would have a
very good resource that we could point the newbies to.
I am not suggesting that they write a formal HOW-TO, just a rambling
page of text describing how they did something under Linux. It would
give some clues and encourage
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 07:46:42PM +1000, John Telek wrote:
This is what happens when you use a cpu that is NOT Intel compliant.
Huh?
Maybe I didn't make myself clear enough. The Athlon _works_. It works
great. Right now, it's running a kernel optimised for a 386, but I have no
doubts
I have a D-Link DFE-530TX NIC, which is supported by the newer versions of
the via-rhine driver. The driver included with the 2.2.17 kernel does not
recognise the card. Right now I'm running 2.4.0-pre9, but would prefer 2.2,
at least until 2.4 becomes stable. Looking at the webpage, I need
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 08:44:38AM +1000, Aaron Binns wrote:
1) Firewalls
How to set them up
Why you need them
What methods you can use
What ports should be open for what services and what games?
Masq and other fun things to do with a firewall
Having just setup a
On Tue, Oct 10, 2000 at 12:58:05PM +1100, Adrian van den Dries wrote:
Wrote John:
The 100M versions of the card need the newer driver which only
ships with 2.4. It may ship with some distributions if the distro has
specifically compiled the right version in.
Perhaps that
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 01:42:53PM +1000, RunTimeError wrote:
Unfortunatly i cant seem to get it to work on my linux system. I installed Dosemu
for linux. I run /usr/bin/dos but I cant seem to find monkey island installed on the
linux system, i then tried /usr/bin/dosexec monkey.exe but it
Also a good Book on Linux in generaladmin etc .I use Redhat.
how much prompting do you need ??
if you just want a reference - linux in a nutshell
if you want something more narrative - running redhat linux
if you want something general unix - essential system administration
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 09:18:41PM +1000, Dave Kempe wrote:
The school where SHMBO teaches has decided to replace WordPerfect with
Office 2000 so I am trying to install it under Win4Lin.
CDROM problems aside, i'm pretty sure office2k requires IE5 or at least most
of it. Can win4lin handle
On Mon, Oct 23, 2000 at 09:32:16PM +1100, Angus Lees wrote:
\begin{Peter Rundle}
I've been asked by my um...friend whether they could run Linux with
a graphical web browser on an old Toshiba laptop (Pentium 90 with
20meg of ram).
X will run fine. no need to skimp, just keep it simple.
I've compiled a custom kernel for my gateway machine, using the make-kpkg
utility with --revision=hostname.1, as described in the make-kpkg docs.
My /etc/apt/sources.list looks like this:
# Stable distribution
deb ftp://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb
On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 03:57:36PM +1100, Daron Barndon wrote:
Does anyone remember a thread some time ago about a internet capable
video camera (web cam) that ran linux? A dedicated PC in a camera box
but really small. I'm after something along those lines for a security
application. I've
On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 11:33:34PM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Ken Yap wrote:
Try the latest driver from Donald Becker maybe? Unknown IDs means
they've modified the chip again. Maybe it's not Via-Rhine anymore.
Thats what i suspect, most annoying considering the machine
is for a dlink
Going back to this thread for a minute. Searching for "lilypond" on
freshmeat turns up Denemo, a gtk+ frontend to lilypond.
http://denemo.sourceforge.net/
Cheers,
Peter
PGP signature
On Mon, Nov 06, 2000 at 11:15:43AM +1100, Michael wrote:
I'd really like to get pine to work, is it possible? Has someone done it?
If not, can someone recommend a good reader for shell prompt.
You'll probably find most sluggers recommending mutt, for lots of good
reasons. Me, I'm in love with
On Wed, Nov 15, 2000 at 01:28:48PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
all primes end in either 1 3 7 or 9 except 2 and 5
so it is pointless to test it if it dosent ie ends in a 5, so how can i
test to see if the last number is 1 3 7 9 before i start the curnum % x
!=0
9 = 3*3. It isn't
On Sun, Nov 19, 2000 at 07:46:33PM +1100, John Ferlito wrote:
Anyone know of a sound app that will let me record something and
play it back at the same time so that I can monitor it?
You should keep in mind that most of the standard Linux drivers cannot do
full duplex. Esound and esd
On Tue, Nov 21, 2000 at 10:20:42PM +1100, Crossfire wrote:
try: rm -- -z
The double dash tells most GNU programs to stop processing options.
Hmmm. Am I the only one who tried a "touch -- -z" to see if this'd work?
Yes, I am actively searching for a life.
Cheers,
Peter
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SLUG - Sydney
Title: Anyone driving near Maroubra after dinner tonight?
And would be willing to give me a lift home? The last bus leaves Central at 11, and I missed it last month. Alternatively, if anybody else is going that way, I could split a cab fare.
Replies off-list please, I'm not subscribed at my
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 05:23:58PM +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was thinking to create a ftp script to transfer them but I don't know how
to supply the passord for basic ftp ? I can do it for ncftp using
the ftp://username:password@host syntax but I would prefer to use basic
ftp on
...and then Bruce Prince said:
I've recently severed my umbilical cord from Windows, and have loaded
Mandrake 7.2 from Pocketbook 3.
All is going well so far, however, I'm trying to get Win4Lin to present me
with the dialog box where I can select "System-Wide Win4Lin Administration".
I guess I'll reply again, seeing as the list is so quiet tonight.
...and then Bruce Prince said:
Secondly, I reside in the Blue Mountains, so I'm probably a fair way from
where you hold your regular meetings. However, it would be good to meet with
fellow-Linux users, so if you could give me
...and then Jeff Waugh said:
Who would other SLUGgers buy beers for? What has impressed or helped you
enough to force a VB into a friendly hackers hand? Doesn't have to be a
linux.conf.au attendee, although you'll have to send one by air freight
otherwise. ;)
cat /usr/src/linux/CREDITS
...and then Rev Simon Rumble said:
My first thought was to run the new 2.4.0 kernel, but then ppp doesn't
work on my Debian system. Is there somewhere I can set it to be
backwards compatible in the same way the you can with NAT (make it
ipchains or ipfwadm compatible).
Upgrade to the newest
...and then Angus Lees said:
\begin{[EMAIL PROTECTED]}
I am looking at the ipmasq package. So far it looks like taking a simple
system and abstracting it so far from reality that it becomes more rather
than less difficult than writing a script file and calling it from rc.local
I've
...and then Rodos said:
*snip*
Well, I'm not going to make any excues (like a certaing somebody tried on me
a couple for days ago..)
I'm very drunk, and having made a complete fool of myself to various VIPs,
my diary has not been updated as often as it should have been. It'll have
to wait until
...and then Jeff Waugh said:
ipmasq needs to have ipchains or ipfwadm installed on the system, as they
are the tools for setting up rules. The ipchains will be on the mirror -
what happens when you apt-get for it?
Which is kind of strange. I did an apt-get remove ipchains first, then
...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Would anyone please direct me to some good websites that will teach me,
help me find answers to my questions.
linux.com rocks! http://linux.com, and http://linux.com/firststep has some
pretty good articles on installation, and where to go for help..
And
Yes, I'm bored.
On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 10:14:48AM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
- Forwarded message from Holly Lindsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] -
*snip*
are sometimes the most hard core devoted programmers out there. We are
looking for the best and brightest to join our team to produce the next
Title: Re: [SLUG] dlink card doesn't work
Maybe this should be a FAQ? :-)
http://slug.org.au/lists/archives/slug/2000/October/msg00359.html and http://slug.org.au/lists/archives/slug/2000/October/msg00388.html
In a nutshell, grab new drivers from www.scyld.com. Last I checked, they were
On Mon, Feb 26, 2001 at 01:51:08PM +1100, Alexander Else wrote:
from doing a few searches i can see there's support for quite a few usb
webcams, does anyone have any experiences with getting these going under
linux?
I've been using a Philips Vesta cam for a while now with the 2.4-pre, and
now
On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 04:11:53PM +1100, Ralph Lett wrote:
*snip*
# Debian au
deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib non-free
deb ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian-non-US stable main contrib
non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.au.debian.org/pub/debian stable main contrib
On Mon, Mar 19, 2001 at 02:10:06PM +1100, Sonam Chauhan wrote:
Hello!
Yo!
Here's one message my 2.2.16 kernel outputs at boot time:
-
raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
pII_mmx : 1115.568 MB/sec
p5_mmx: 1171.575 MB/sec
8regs :
Did I get in first? :-)
On Wed, Mar 21, 2001 at 12:16:35PM +1100, Bernhard L?der wrote:
I have to copy a file to all user directories.
cp file.file /home/*
will only copy file.file to the first user not all users. How would I do
this without listing the individual directories
for user
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 06:49:34PM +1000, D.V.Rogers wrote:
the solution fix used was follwowing
tar zxvf (filename) --for .tgz files
tar xvf (filename)-- for .tar files
thanks again and hope to get to some REAL problems late
Remember that some browsers (mozilla) automatically
On Thu, Apr 19, 2001 at 11:24:36AM +1000, Tony Green wrote:
* This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy said:
I want to replace every instance of 'gzip' occuring in a source tree with
bzip2. This is how I did it:
*bash hack snipped*
perl -i -pe 's/gzip/bzip2/g' *
Halfway there, but I need
Only because it's Friday :-)
On Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 02:58:59PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
0:00:34 fred kernel: martian source 59c56840 for 59c56840, dev eth0
0:00:34 fred kernel: ll header: ff ff ff ff ff ff 00 00 86 48 87 8f 08 06
What do I have running that I shouldn't?
Nobody believed me, but
On Sat, May 05, 2001 at 02:16:11PM +1000, Conrad Parker wrote:
I recall a thread about this a while ago (or was it chatter at dinner?);
this may have already been mentioned, but there is a project called
wayV for doing gesture based input. Check it out at:
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 05:32:54PM +1000, Mike Lake wrote:
snip!
In .muttrc I have:
folder-hook slug set signature=/home/mikel/bin/fortune.sig|
the script fortune.sig is:
#!/bin/bash
# Create a short fortune to go before my email sig
echo `fortune -s`
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 03:38:55PM +1000, Tony Green wrote:
* This one time, at band camp, Terry Collins said:
Is it just easier to have something to detect virus infected email and
pass it over to a perl script or something.?
It would be if Trend supported this... However its only
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 02:59:52PM +1000, Harry Ohlsen wrote:
I have a file that's in windoze HTML Help format, but which I'd like to
have access to on my Linux laptop.
I tried searching using google to search for an HTML help browser for
Linux, but to no avail.
Does anyone know
response type=opinion flamage=NULL
...and then Luke McKee said:
1) I accept there was source available of pam_stack.so but it was in a
redhat.src.rpm. I like getting my updates from the source so to speak.
This is where I tentatively suggest not using RedHat.
Packaging systems (RPM, Deb,
Heya SLUG.
Thought I'd throw this one out there, because I know it's come up at various
InstallFests.
Basically, we've come across a 486 laptop that we'd like to get linux onto,
and use as a terminal. The machine has no CD-ROM, and won't have any
ethernet until I can afford a PCMCIA network
On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 05:45:41PM +1000, DaZZa wrote:
Only way I could see to do this with any degree of ease would be to use
toms or something similar to make a PPP connection over a null modem cable
to another Linux boxen with a CD drive, then copy the relavent packages to
the hard disk,
On Fri, May 25, 2001 at 11:05:35AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
When I mount the floppy then df show them as having 1716224 bytes instead
of the normal 1457664 bytes and they won't copy correctly.
This was an MS trick to prevent exactly what you're trying to do. They
formatted the disks as
...and then Jobst Schmalenbach said:
To backspacew or not to backspace, that is the question ...
^
The answer here is yes.
:-)
Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
Things just happen. What the hell.
-- Didactylos the philosopher
(Terry Pratchett,
...and then Steve Kowalik said:
On Sun, Jun 03, 2001 at 01:17:07PM +1000, Jordan uttered:
What USB modem can I buy that will work with Linux?
I gather it must be ACM compliant?
But, how to find one?
The easier it is to setup, the better!
Assume latest kernel, etc.
Best place to
...and then [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
I am quite new to this group but I am committed to operating in a Microsoft free
environment. I just have a few problems.
An admirable goal, indeed.
beefy system spec snipped
Can I some how use my USB devices through Linux (Red Hat 7.1?) I really need my
...and then Matthew Dalton said:
Peter Rundle wrote:
ldd xsnow should give you the answer to that
On Rh7.1
$ ldd `which xsnow`
/usr/bin/ldd: /usr/X11R6/bin/xsnow: No such file or directory
This output is strange. Usually ldd will report all of the libraries
required,
...and then Andy Eager said:
Has anyone downloaded the new version of Gnome 1.4 (the new 1.4 not the
old 1.4 released a while back).
I'm assuming you mean Ximian Gnome. I updated this morning.
I thought the first release was pretty good, Mozilla not too slow
(though slower than ye old
...and then Raoul Golan said:
Andre Pang [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
report: win4lin 3.0 + kernel 2.4.4 + reiserfs works perfectly. i even
munged it to work properly on a Debian system :).
i'll put up a webpage about it sometime soon if i get enough replies to
this message asking about
...and then Laurie Savage said:
I want Netscape 4.7x to load for my users with my default settings for
the proxy, homepage, fonts, colurs etc. I tried a copy and paste from my
~/.netscape/preferences.js to /usr/lib/netscape/preferences.js but the
settings didn't transfer themselves to a test
...and then Michael Lake said:
So what I want is a unix command to tell me the current
user of that script ie who invoked it.
An apropos uid showed there were functions like getuid but
they arent suitable for calling up in a sh script.
To which I declare that the most obfuscated solution
...and then Adam Vaughan said:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-7.0
optional
label=RH7
-ran /sbin/lilo
-did a reboot and got the error message;
request_module[block-major-8]: Root fs not mounted
VFS: Cannot open root device 08:41
Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 08:41
In
On Sun, 2001-09-30 at 19:57, Jeff Waugh wrote:
(in regards to evolution)
* Exportable/Printable address book (Kmail fails badly here,
Mahogany
is good)
Excellent printing support - I'll have to check about the address book.
It can export to vcard, as well as the ldap support, which
CVS version of ALSA,
and I'm impressed. I don't think there's much difference in sound
quality, but I do get to access things like the 3D enhancement
featurette, and everything I've tried on the LiveDrive works perfectly,
but I'm yet to plug in any MIDI or digital devices.
Cheers,
--
Peter Hardy
On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 14:56, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
Hi all.
xine likes to default to /dev/dvd for the location of my DVD-ROM, however,
I'm using devfs, who puts that device into /dev/cdroms/cdrom0. I manually
symlink this to /dev/dvd, but it gets lost on every reboot, obviously. What
can
On Tue, 2001-10-02 at 15:02, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
Strange headers you've got there.
To: Crazy Beared Old Linux Geeks [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bearded. hth.
This is the bit where I run away.
--
Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
Heya
On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 12:39, Adam Kennedy wrote:
I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for linux compatible
webcams, or rather, webcams that you can actually write applications for.
Almost everything you'll find conforms to the Video4Linux API, so in
theory your app should
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 09:18, Rick Moen wrote:
I haven't used SNMP lately, so can't check to see what you mean.
I was discussing this with Jeff recently, as I've been trying to wrap my
head around snmp. Debian systems install the sample snmpd.conf file
that comes with the distribution, and then
On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 21:56, Tony Green wrote:
Shame you didn't know earlier - my parents are coming over lightly
loaded. They could have packed it in a case for you!
P.S. Anyone know anything about laying tongue--groove floors (Uniclic
system I think it's called - damn, I *knew*
On Fri, 2001-10-05 at 18:12, Terry Collins wrote:
Check the Slug archives for previous discussions on Lilypond.
You can even get midi out, but NO tied notes.
I've played briefly with a package called denemo, which is a GTK
frontend to lilypond. It's quite nice, if a little cumbersome (not
On Mon, 2001-10-22 at 11:36, Simon Wong wrote:
I have installed every dev lib I can find with something called wrap in
it (which I assume is some sort of wrapper) but to no avail.
Indeed. I believe it's libwrap, a tcp wrappers library implementing
some security stuff.
Any clues?
Make sure
My money was on it taking at least a couple of days, but there you go:
http://sourcewire.com/General/Frames.php?page=Releases/ShowRelease.php?id=13489
--
Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
More Info:
So Linux has recently shot up from having one filesystem to having...
lots. And I'm sick of my hardware fscking on reboots, so it's time to
switch from ext2.
There's only so much you can glean from benchmarks, especially when
google only seems to know about results that are a couple of months
On Tue, 2001-11-13 at 12:48, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
Another popular way to do it is rm -i * and say y when it asks.
At the risk of sounding like too much of a GUI weenie, another nice way
to do it is with one of the many GUI file managers out there. Your
favourite X or console based
Tonight, special guest* Steven Kowalik will be discussing Debian's
package maintenance tools. Debhelper, dh-make, dpkg-dev-el and much
more will be covererd. Examples courtesy of his laptop-with-sid-chroot.
Also tonight will be a keysigning (bring you GPG key!), as well as the
usual food,
On Tue, 2001-11-20 at 08:16, Dean Hamstead wrote:
Also afaik there're problems with the NetGear FA311s with 2.4.x ? and
people have suggested use of FA310s instead. Is this true ?
Get Intel EtherExpress cards or Tulips (chipset, not brand).
Tulips are nice cards, but apparently they
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 12:31, Dean Hamstead wrote:
This is slug-chat material i think. Unless anyone knows
any really neat usb/firewire hardware that works in linux.
Well, now that you mention it... :-)
I went out and bought a Logitech Internet Navigator Keyboard last week
for my laptop.
On Thu, 2001-11-22 at 14:47, Tony Green wrote:
OK, gotta chime up now.
*snip!*
Well, if we're going to brag.. :-)
Add to my list a 250Mb zip drive, which I've been using since
2.3.40-something. Support in the current kernels is rock-solid, and in
my opinion, it runs slightly faster than in
On Mon, 2001-11-26 at 08:38, Fox, Michael wrote:
model of camera? phillips what?
Oh, it's a Vesta (PCVC675). The driver supports most models, check out
http://www.smcc.demon.nl/webcam for details, and the binary-only
decompressor module.
Sample output at
It's been bugging me for ages. I downloaded the Java plugin package,
followed the instructions to the letter, and nothing. The plugin
doesn't show up in about:plugins, mozilla doesn't complain at all, it
just starts up and refuses to acknowledge the new plugin.
This was even more infuriating
?
Cheers,
--
Peter Hardy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
Anybody successfully running Linux on one of these?
In particular, I'm having trouble getting the sound card working.
Google doesn't turn up much on these models, but I have found out that
it uses the opl3sa2 module. Even got as far as being able to play MIDI
sound out, but I'm stuck on the
On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 13:03, Christopher Booth wrote:
Of course we will see more and more attacks on Windows, but Linux will
be a target because its use is becoming more widespread, said Raimond
I agree with this. There are a couple of main reasons for the current
dearth of Linux virii.
On Sat, 2001-12-01 at 08:12, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Your prayers have been answered!
http://www.opensky.ca/gnome-vim/
To get even more mileage out of gnome-vim, configure it with
configure --with-vim=/usr/local/bin/gnome-vim.sh
Now, the command-line options that our mutt brethren take for
On Wed, 2001-12-12 at 02:05, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Realised that at least 10 SLUG people will be going?
If this is really the case, then maybe we should be looking into group
bookings for flights, possibly a SLUG bus, as well as trying to get
cheap and stodgy accomodation.
--
Peter (who probably
Well, I don't really have any experience with getmail, but:
On Wed, 2001-12-19 at 10:39, Richard Luckhurst wrote:
Fetchmail is OK but the config file can be a bit tricky to set up. The
I just had to have my say here.
fetchmails config parser uses a syntax that closely resembles natural
On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 18:16, Jeff Waugh wrote:
If pain persists, please read the man page, it's a much better reference
than my blabber. ;)
Am I the only one who read this as bladder?
--
Peter Hardy
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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More
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 12:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Brilliant! Actually, I remember a talk at SLUG, where afterward the
presenter mentioned that he and another engineer were secretly using
Linux on their machines instead of the mandated NT. They did a screen
grab of the NT desktop and
On Mon, 2002-01-14 at 14:25, George Vieira wrote:
I'm thinking of making my own windows version for Linux.. called Windows
Xtinct... Using Gnome and patch up the icons to look like windows enough to
fool the Boss.
You could do that, but the screenshots at http://qvwm.org are scarily
MS-like.
On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 13:52, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
--[start snip]--
#!/bin/sh
# Local delivery agent for Courier shared mailboxes from Postfix.
# Delivers to $SHAREDIR/.$1/cur/, and ensures that the mail is g+rw
# and owned by mail.$1
# (c) 2002 Jamie Wilkinson, in the public domain.
Thought this might be of interest to a few people. Anything that makes
it easier to stop using Outlook can only be good. :-)
-Forwarded Message-
From: Paul Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Evolution Mailing List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [Evolution] Migrating from Outlook
Date: 14 Jan
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 14:49, Howard Lowndes wrote:
How do I now get the correct entries into /etc/modules.conf?
I looked on another box and found
alias usb-controller usb-uhci
but when I try to modprobe usb-uhci on this box it conplains that it can't
find the module, even though it exists
On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 09:35, Howard Lowndes wrote:
Errr, no I'm not. So wtf is uhci? Is it a brand?
It's the chipset of the USB controller. You've got Universal Host
Controller Interface controllers, most common on Intel products, and
Open Host Controller Interfaces, which was designed by
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 12:58, Michael Kraus wrote:
I'm working from the release that came with the advanced linux pocketbook.
The install is really fresh. 'pppconfig' has been used to configure the
connections, and pon/poff to connect/disconnect.
I guess you told pppconfig to assign DNS
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 18:18, Dennis M. Gray wrote:
Can anyone comment on the difference (pros and cons) between these two
products?
Wine is a Free Software project, with the aim of re-implementing the
Windows APIs. The hope is to make it easier for Win32 software vendors
to port to *nix, by
On Thu, 2002-01-24 at 21:37, Michael Kraus wrote:
a) run Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator, Quark Express, etc?
There's a Linux-native version of Corel Draw kicking around I think.
Info about compatibility of other apps can be found at
http://wine.codeweavers.com
Remember, though, that wine is a
On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 01:28, Richard Sullivan wrote:
Can someone pls explain which is better/easier to configure for Linux: USB
vs Serial modem ?
About the only problem you might have is compatability. Almost any
serial modem will work, but you'll need to do some research and be
careful you
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 17:10, Bill Bennett wrote:
Could anyone point me, please, at a site that will
give me information on the buying of a CD burner
that will operate the usb of my laptop and will
operate on a Linux driver?
1) I *really* don't like the idea of running a CD burner off a USB
I would like to nominate Jeff Waugh, for the position of SLUG President.
--
Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And it came to pass that in that time the Great God Om
spake unto Brutha, the Chosen One:
'Psst!'
-- (Terry Pratchett, Small Gods)
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 14:54, Simon Wong wrote:
Section InputDevice
Identifier Mouse0
Driver mouse
Option Protocol PS/2
Option Device /dev/psaux
Option Emulate3Buttons
Option Buttons 5
On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 17:40, Andre Pang wrote:
On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 05:20:45PM +1100, Peter Hardy wrote:
/usr/sbin/gpm -m /dev/psaux -t autops2 -Rms3 -M -m /dev/input/mice -t
autops2 -Rms3
The -R option repeats events to /dev/gpmdata, which X can use at its
mouse device
On Wed, 2002-02-20 at 13:41, Richard Hayes wrote:
What is the format for /etc/networks/interface?
It's explained fairly thoroughly in man interfaces, but a basic setup
would look like:
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.32
netmask 255.255.255.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
On Sat, 2002-02-23 at 03:06, Adam Bogacki wrote:
Hi, I thought that installing OpenOffice would follow Star Office 5.2 :
'/mnt/cdrom/linux/office52/setup '
but after mounting the CDRom I find
'Cyberia:/mnt/cdrom# ls
binaries odk ppc solver source '
I wasn't aware of any
at LinuxExpo a couple
of years ago. Unfortunately they don't seem to be running it this year.
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On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 12:01, Steve Downing wrote:
At 25 February 2002, Peter Hardy wrote:
On Mon, 2002-02-25 at 10:48, Steve Downing wrote:
If you don't mind recompressing them in a different format, then
cramfs
should do the job fine. I don't know of anything to mount tarballs,
*snip
On Sun, 2002-02-17 at 13:40, Matt Hope wrote:
On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote...
: I would like to nominate Peter Hardy for the position of SLUG Secretary.
Seconded.
And, of course, I accept the nomination.
--
Peter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
And it came to pass
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 10:44, Mark A. Bell wrote:
checking for gdk-pixbuf-config... (cached) no
*snip*
checking for imlib-config... (cached) /usr/bin/imlib-config
*snip*
I next tried:
export GDK_PIXBUF_CONFIG=/usr/local/bin/gdk-pixbuf-config
export
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:44, Simon Wong wrote:
On Tue, 2002-02-26 at 11:28, Matthew Palmer wrote:
I don't think it will help, actually. Because the machine that needs to
know lonewolf's IP is the machine you're connecting to, which has no idea
that you've gotten that IP via DHCP, and
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