Re: GPL ADSL modems was Re: [SLUG] BusyBox ADSL routers

2005-06-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=343331 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} And in the end, reality always tends to hit theory hard

Re: [SLUG] Next ALJ cover disk

2005-06-14 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
distro. [1] http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/ [2] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=pclinuxos [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pclinuxos [4] http://www.pclinuxonline.com -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc

Re: [SLUG] Next ALJ cover disk

2005-06-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
distro. [1] http://www.pclinuxonline.com/pclos/ [2] http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=pclinuxos [3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pclinuxos [4] http://www.pclinuxonline.com P.S. My apologies if this is a duplicate post. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com

Re: GPL ADSL modems was Re: [SLUG] BusyBox ADSL routers

2005-06-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
in combination with a separate ADSL2/2+ modem. Do you know if there are similar distros for the WAG54G v2? [1] http://www.linksysinfo.org/ -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4

Re: [SLUG] snapshot file systems

2005-07-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
stuff from. Any help is appreciated. Cheers. I'm not an expert in this area, but might UnionFS fit your needs? http://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/project-unionfs.html http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6654 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http

Re: [SLUG] snapshot file systems

2005-07-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 19:23, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 4 Jul 2005 11:35, Julio Cesar Ody [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, has anyone got any experience with GNU/Linux snapshot file systems? I googled around and found these: http://www-mddsp.enel.ucalgary.ca

[SLUG] GNU/Linux certifications [WAS: [activities] Software Freedom Day planning!]

2005-07-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
. There's also the Novell certs, but I've never used SuSE so I haven't considered it. If there's anything I've missed, please let me know. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4

Re: [SLUG] A beginner's server???

2005-07-09 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
the easiest to use Web server I've seen. Depending on your distribution, you may need to install it as a separate package. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4

Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL bridge mode on Linux

2005-07-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
but Windows). -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} The only people who like Microsoft are those who don't understand. When people understand what Microsoft

Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL bridge mode on Linux

2005-07-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 12 Jul 2005 08:40, Peter Rundle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Would a half-bridge setup work for you? That's how I have my modem set up. I gave it a NAT rule to forward all packets to my GNU/Linux firewall/router, which decides what to block, what to accept

Re: [SLUG] Dlink Adsl Modem dropping Packets

2005-08-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
since. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} How could this be a problem in a country where we have Intel and Microsoft

Re: [SLUG] Lindows experience.

2005-08-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
tasks in Users and Groups. While I believe that Lindow^H^H^Hspire is a wart on the face of free software, I was shocked to see Ubuntu seemingly taking the same path. Am I missing something? Disclaimer: I am an admin with the PCLinuxOS project, but I really like Ubuntu as well. -- Sridhar

Re: [SLUG] Lindows experience.

2005-08-16 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
of this? Doesn't it mean that in a default setup, any local user can gain root access? Please correct me if I'm wrong. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} FYI

Re: [SLUG] kdeinit using 99% of processor

2005-08-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
a solution... maybe I'm too tired (it is a bit late :)) I have this problem from time to time, and it is usually fixed by restarting the fam daemon. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB

[SLUG] Re: kdeinit using 99% of processor

2005-08-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
system it's called famd. In that case, I'd run service famd restart from a root terminal. Alternatively, you can use whatever GUI tool Fedora has to manage services. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc

[SLUG] sudo vs su [WAS: Re: Lindows experience]

2005-08-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:56, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Sridhar Dhanapalan Also, are there any security implications of this? Doesn't it mean that in a default setup, any local user can gain root access? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Absolutely not. Have a look at /etc

Re: [SLUG] Lindows experience.

2005-08-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 11:56, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Sridhar Dhanapalan Also, are there any security implications of this? Doesn't it mean that in a default setup, any local user can gain root access? Please correct me if I'm wrong. Absolutely not. Have a look at /etc

Re: [SLUG] Open Source EndNote equivalent

2005-08-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
can't vouch for it. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} Nimda bundles several known exploits against Internet Information Server and other Microsoft

Re: [SLUG] linux box as router

2005-08-28 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
are splitting up the tasks amongst the devices. The modem can use PPPoA (which in many cases is better than PPPoE) but it doesn't hinder firewalling/forwarding. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4

Re: [SLUG] Aptitude command to TOTALLY remove KDE

2005-09-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
. It was intended for study and research, not production use. Andrew Tannenbaum refused to turn it into the general-purpose kernel that a lot of people wanted. Those people went to develop/use Linux and the BSDs. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http

Re: [SLUG] Gentoo

2005-09-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
, or if you want to stay on the bleeding-edge, I wholeheartedly recommend Gentoo. Otherwise, you might be better off with a binary-based distro. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB

Re: [SLUG] Your top-ten linux desktop apps

2005-09-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
(Music organiser, like Rhythmbox or iTunes) Xine MPlayer K3B GNOME Disc Catalogue -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} Windows: Designed

Re: [SLUG] Re: Your top-ten linux desktop apps

2005-09-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
it's a wonderful tool for simple image viewing. For more serious viewing, I use GQview. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} Resource utilization

Re: [SLUG] Linux friendly flash mp3 players

2005-10-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
'generic' players these days support the USB Mass Storage spec. I think Aldi allow refunds, so I am seriously tempted to purchase one of these and test it out. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4

Re: [SLUG] Linux friendly flash mp3 players

2005-10-30 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
shutting off. Its own software can no longer pick it up, and both Windows and GNU/Linux give me I/O errors when trying to access it. I've tried a range of different things, including fdisk, mkfs.vfat, dd and fdformat, but nothing works. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http

Re: [SLUG] HP Printers

2005-11-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
be using the HPLIP driver, not the obsoleted HPOJ driver. You can find it at http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/. There is a compatibility list there as well. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02

Re: [SLUG] Linux hosting in Australia?

2005-11-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
by Australian standards. They run on Red Hat. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} It turns out Luddites don't know how to use software properly, so you

Re: [SLUG] Linux hosting in Australia?

2005-11-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
of only about 5%. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} ... the linux philosophy is laugh in the face of danger. Oops. Wrong one. 'Do it yourself

Re: [SLUG] Convert program

2005-11-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
it can perform lossless optimisation, it can shrink a JPEG image's file size without affecting the quality at all. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D

Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird

2005-11-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} We will get the source code up on the Web - anybody who specifically wants a copy can just ask. -- Bill Gates, 2002

Re: [SLUG] ADSL Query

2006-02-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
I'm very happy with Internode. Their CEO is a Mac user and is very sympathetic towards users of alternative OSs. I haven't tested out their Support yet, but the company claims that they will try to help you no matter what OS you run. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SCLUG] Re: Interesting view

2006-03-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
. You only need one full stop to signify the end of a sentence. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} To occupy Iraq would instantly shatter our

Re: Throttling??? Re: [SLUG] bittorrent clients

2006-03-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Here are some traffic control tools that I managed to dig out of my bookmarks: http://lartc.org/wondershaper/ http://luxik.cdi.cz/~devik/qos/htb/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/htbinit http://www.digriz.org.uk/jdg-qos-script/ http://tcng.sourceforge.net/ -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http

Re: [SLUG] Linux user's group?

2006-03-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
into accepting whatever they would like to foist upon us, such as DRM and spurious patents. Unfortunately, from what I can see it appears to be working quite well. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4

Re: [SLUG] Open Networks iConnectAccess621 under Linux

2006-03-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
with respect deserve no respect from me. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} There are a number of significant vulnerabilities in technologies relating

Re: [SLUG] Re: Heads Up - troubles with time zones

2006-03-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
weekend. I have the same problem on my Gentoo and PCLinuxOS systems. My Ubuntu Breezy installation is fine, though. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D

Re: [SLUG] Re: [LINK] Re: Heads Up - troubles with time zones

2006-03-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
?id=110038 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} Microsoft has innovated little, however, and owes its success to luck-IBM handing over the PC OS

Re: [SLUG] SLUG special dinner on Wednesday (29th)

2006-03-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} Because it's cool. It's like, Yeah, been there done that - oh, yeah, I know that bug. - I can understand

Re: [SLUG] SLUG special dinner on Wednesday (29th)

2006-03-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Monday 27 March 2006 16:47, Scott Sinclair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sunday 26 March 2006 13:03, Pia Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, everyone invited to a special FOSS community dinner/drinks next Wednesday evening from about 6pm at the James Squire

[SLUG] Dapper or Breezy?

2006-03-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
-- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} ... what was once a grudging bargain with the world's stabilising hegemon country is now widely seen as a lingering

[SLUG] Automatix/EasyUbuntu and kernel upgrades

2006-04-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
update to complain that they can't get graphics. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} The US government actually has a 'terror scale'... a formal

Re: [SLUG] Curve fitting in spreadsheets

2006-04-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
analysis, so he uses Codeweavers Crossover Office. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} The Dark Ages were caused by the Y1K problem

Re: [SLUG] Re: Fatal: could not open default font 'fixed'

2006-04-17 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
where that v41 module lives (tried to find it using aptitude) but commenting it out didn't seem to hurt. Try this: http://wiki.x.org/wiki/FAQErrorMessages#head-a570197d15005a2c71cbb5e565114e2c04a573a3 -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http

Re: [SLUG] File deletion problem.

2006-04-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Samba or accessing ext2 filesystems from Windows using a tool like explore2fs. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} You never sent me a response

Re: [SLUG] Mounting Flash Drive

2006-04-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
the filesystem automatically recognised, which is useful if you also use other filesystems on USB media. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} Windows XP

Re: [SLUG] Try THIS with M$ operating systems

2006-05-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
functional, stable server again :) Now try THAT with Windows ;) The retail version of Windows would probably force you to reregister with Microsoft, which can be a lengthy and painful process. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http

Re: [SLUG] Where's Sydney's Akihabara?

2006-05-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
equivalents to Akihabara in Sydney, but the easiest way to find a cheap price is to use a price comparison engine: http://www.staticice.com.au/ http://www.ausprices.com/ http://www.pricewatch.com.au/ http://www.shopbot.com.au/ http://www.razortrader.com.au/ http://prices.techwatch.com.au/ -- Sridhar

Re: [SLUG] Want to stop PDF from opening in other Desktop

2006-05-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
of these is that they start much more quickly than acroread. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} Complexity. A Windows server out of the box

[SLUG] Encouraging new membership

2006-05-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
One point brought up in the AGM a few months ago was that there has been little growth in the membership of SLUG. I have no clue how many non-financial members there are, but IIRC there are only about fifty paying members. My question is, what can be done to increase this number? I see two

Re: [SLUG] Encouraging new membership

2006-05-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but if you called it an onion you'd get cooks very confused

Re: [SLUG] PCI Wireless cards

2006-05-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
out of the box (Ubuntu Dapper) with WEP, but if you want some security you should be using WPA2. I could not get the instructions on wiki.ubuntu.com to work for me. I resorted to using ndiswrapper, which works flawlessly. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG

Re: [SLUG] Coding/Snakes/Rubies/Newbies

2006-05-24 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 22:38, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meantime, I'm collecting names for anyone who wants to be part of a Learn to code SIG. I would most definitely be interested in such a group. Sign me up! :) -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG

Re: [SLUG] Podcasting software sugestions

2006-05-29 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
to the network share - with, say, scp or via a filesystem mount. http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder/ If you would like a graphical frontend to Bashpodder, try Kpodder. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net

Re: [SLUG] sydney ubuntu launch party thurs night

2006-05-31 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
actually never been there, but I spoke to the manager and they have free wireless internet access for the laptop junkies. I would love to see dapper in action. Is the party still going ahead? Will it be at the Cauliflower Hotel, Cohi Bar or elsewhere? At what time should it start? -- Sridhar

Re: [SLUG] Re: ubuntu

2006-06-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Licence had a similar problem. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} Solution: Use another product. - Secunia, Microsoft Internet Explorer

Re: [SLUG] VPN server for Mac clients

2006-06-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
, loan, sublicense, distribute or create derivative works based upon the Client in whole or part or transmit the Client over a network. Definitely not free :( -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9

Re: [SLUG] Dapper Drake

2006-07-05 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thursday 06 July 2006 07:54, Gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you tell me if libdvdcss is available for Ubuntu 6.02? It isn't, but you can get this and more quite easily through EasyUbuntu: http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com

Re: [SLUG] Dapper Drake

2006-07-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
boxes. There's no need for fancy commands or searching through thousands of packages in Synaptic/Adept. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4

Re: [SLUG] Dapper Drake

2006-07-06 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
to install things like drivers, codecs, Java and so on. I strongly suggest that you give it a go. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/] {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} You never sent me

Re: [SLUG] Is Linux now Illegal

2006-07-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
that Linux is illegal. The argument is that it is probably illegal to distribute closed source drivers with Linux. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://www.dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} I prefer the u in honour

Re: [SLUG] Is Linux now Illegal

2006-07-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Linux itself. The shim is what glues the driver to the kernel, and there is no legal issue since it is GPL compatible. At least that's what I heard... -- Sridhar Dhanapalan {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://www.dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4

Re: [SLUG] Firewall Device Opinions

2006-07-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
is FreeBSD-based. At home, I have HyperWRT running on a Linksys WRT-54GS v1.1. It runs like a champ. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://www.dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} Although about 3 million computers get sold every year

Re: [SLUG] Firewall Device Opinions

2006-07-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wednesday 12 July 2006 19:59, Christopher Vance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:27:46PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:27:46 +1000 From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Firewall Device Opinions To: SLUG list slug

Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] SLUGlets this month - Web Browsers

2006-07-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Friday 21 July 2006 22:19, nornagon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If we're doing mail clients as well... I'd like to see a demo of mutt and slrn. :) I personally think that mail clients deserve their own session. Maybe next month? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http

Re: [SLUG] Running squid on a laptop. Silly?

2006-07-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
), but it has the benefit of removing ads and other annoyances. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://www.dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} As history shows a lot of [Microsoft] ActiveX components are buggy and new version is released

Re: [SLUG] ASK-OSS Open Source Legal and Research Seminar (free)

2006-08-10 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
to ask, but why schedule this for a time when most people are working and therefore cannot attend? *slightly frustrated that he can't go* :( -- Sridhar Dhanapalan {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://www.dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} Let's put

Re: [SLUG] Query regarding 'Bounce' message from Slug Chat

2006-08-19 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
curious as to what I can do to prevent his occurring. Could someone be kind enough to explain this to me please? Many thanks for any assistance provided. I don't know what was so suspicious about your message headers, but I have approved it for posting to the list. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

[SLUG] Re: [chat] Software Freedom Day posters - need help

2006-08-21 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Monday 21 August 2006 05:12, Pia Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, attached are two pdfs (one bw and one colour) for the SFD2006. Did you perhaps forget to include the attachments? I don't see any. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://www.dhanapalan.com/yama.asc

Re: [SLUG] ComputerBank NSW list server up

2006-09-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
this twice. ComputerBank NSW and ComputerBank Sydney are both separate legal entities. Why are there so many separate Computerbank organisations? Would it not make more sense to have one centralised body (with associated Web site, mailing list and wiki) for the entire country? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan

[SLUG] Maintaining a constant IRC presence

2006-09-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
that my attention is required. [1] http://www.garion.org/irssi/irssi-proxy.php -- Sridhar Dhanapalan {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://www.dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} This summer we're going to totally divorce Sun. ... JDK [Java Development

Re: [SLUG] Google Desktop Type Service For Linux Server?

2006-10-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Deskbar and Kerry. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://www.dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9 8A02 78CB AB1B FCE4 EEC6 2DD9 249B 049D 38B4} Tired of slowness, bugs, crashes, viruses, trojans, spyware, adware, malware... ? Take back your computer. http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net

Re: [SLUG] mplayer plugin

2006-10-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Applets running under Firefox, for instance. As Jeff mentioned earlier, you'd be best off using Easyubuntu instead of Automatix. Easyubuntu is recommended by Ubuntu developers; Automatix is discouraged. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://www.dhanapalan.com/yama.asc 0x049D38B4 : A7A9

Re: [SLUG] dualling with dell

2006-11-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
can't read them, probably because they are marked with a different partition type. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LaptopTestingTeam/DellInspiron9400 [2] http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=1137455postcount=3 [3] http://www.notebookforums.com/thread164182.html -- Sridhar Dhanapalan {GnuPG

Re: [SLUG] graphical file manager for linux?

2006-11-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 10:18, Luke Vanderfluit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I've been using konqueror for a while as a graphical file browser to browse and view mainly source code files on my system. Since it's fairly graphics resource hungry and has crashed a few times, which causes

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

2006-11-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thursday 23 November 2006 11:49, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On my laptop (Ubuntu Edgy), I want to change various settings when I'm on different networks. A couple of questions: * how would I change the proxy used by Firefox 2.0 thru scripts? That is something I've been after

Re: [SLUG] mounting /tmp non executable ?

2006-12-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tuesday 19 December 2006 08:26, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on several ocassions I had malware downloaded and executed from /tmp (through CMS vulnerability); there was a suggestion here to mount /tmp as non executable; - do I need to partition the HD and make a separate

Re: [SLUG] mounting /tmp non executable ?

2006-12-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 23:38, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, December 20, 2006 11:10 pm, Alexander Stanley wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2006 08:26, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've been doing this for a number of years. Generally

Re: [SLUG] mounting /tmp non executable ?

2006-12-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 23:59, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, December 20, 2006 11:38 pm, Voytek Eymont wrote: On Wed, December 20, 2006 11:10 pm, Alexander Stanley wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tuesday 19 December 2006 08:26, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] mounting /tmp non executable ?

2006-12-20 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thursday 21 December 2006 01:01, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To those options, I would add 'noatime,nodiratime,noexec'. The first two give you a tiny bit more speed by not maintaining access times on files (probably unnecessary on /tmp) To clarify, I meant that maintaining

Re: [SLUG] howto backgrade Firefox to v1.5 in Edgy?

2006-12-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 11:29, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joseph Goncalves wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 10:39, Sonia Hamilton wrote: * On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 08:26:07PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: What is the best way to backgrade Firefox to version 1.5 in Ubuntu

Re: [SLUG] RPM vs source installs, can it cause probs ?

2006-12-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Penedo wrote: On 28/12/06, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Voytek Eymont wrote: if I decide to do a source install for some of the applications, am I likely to cause myself grief later on? It's possible that the source installs will need later version libraries than those that

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

2007-01-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 20:47, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/01/2007, at 7:38 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's Switching to VoIP) talks about a Grandstream

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

2007-01-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 20:47, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/01/2007, at 7:38 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: What are people's recommendations for an ip phone

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

2007-01-03 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 14:40, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Grandstream phones are widely known for being cheap and nasty. I strongly

Re: [SLUG] trackpad vertical scroll

2007-01-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Monday 08 January 2007 11:45, Oliver Hookins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kim Pepper wrote: I've got a Compal CL-50 laptop with Edgy installed. The edgy xorg installation detected a generic mouse device, but there is no vertical/horizontal scrolling when dragging a finger down the rhs/bottom

Re: [SLUG] apt Translation-en_AU

2007-01-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Saturday 13 January 2007 22:29, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Ubuntu Edgy I notice that when I do an 'apt-get update' I get messages like this: Get:1 http://au.archive.ubuntu.com edgy Release.gpg [191B] Ign http://au.archive.ubuntu.com edgy/main Translation-en_AU ^^^

[SLUG] Panel Discussion NSW ICT for 2007 State Election

2007-02-07 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
The Australian Computer Society is hosting a panel discussion on NSW ICT for 2007 State Election. This can be a way to hear the positions of the main parties involved, as well as to make the FLOSS position heard. The event will be held on Wednesday 21 February 2007, between 17:30 and 19:30.

Re: [SLUG] Brand new user

2007-02-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/30/07, Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in something like Freespire eating into the Mickeysoft desktop space, since that distro provides non-purists with legal and free as in beer access to all the multi-media

Re: [SLUG] Brand new user

2007-02-08 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 8 Feb 2007, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/30/07, Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm interested in something like Freespire eating into the Mickeysoft desktop space, since that distro provides non-purists

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu NetworkManager

2007-02-11 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ubuntu NetworkManager: Wow! I don't recall the last time I saw a more useless manual page, and the web site linked to the About box it just as useless. Not a single mention of how it works, what it does, what files it consults. The

[SLUG] Re: Panel Discussion NSW ICT for 2007 State Election

2007-02-18 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Australian Computer Society is hosting a panel discussion on NSW ICT for 2007 State Election. This can be a way to hear the positions of the main parties involved, as well as to make the FLOSS position heard. The event

Re: [SLUG] howto extract Chapters from movies?

2007-02-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Sat, 24 Feb 2007, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 08:50:00AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to know what you find :-) Much much spelunking either is PHD to use or does not work. The best I've * On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:50:35PM +1100,

[SLUG] Call for helpers: Linux Australia stand at Open CeBIT, May 1-3

2007-02-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Hi everybody! CeBIT[1] is on again this year in Sydney in May, from Tuesday the first to Thursday the third. Thanks to Pia and Jeff, last year's Open Source Zone has evolved into an accompanying mini-conference, Open CeBIT[2]. This conference shall focus entirely on free and open source

Re: [SLUG] Academic research software

2007-02-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Gavin Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just had a friend ask me whether there's anything in the free software world for academic research / writing i.e. tracking bibliographic info, citations, quotes etc., and then collating them into a written product. He's

Re: [SLUG] Academic research software

2007-02-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Russell Davie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:09:00 +1100 Gavin Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I've just had a friend ask me whether there's anything in the free software world for academic research / writing i.e. tracking bibliographic

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=Russell Davie A customer has asked me advice on a new entry level laptop that would run Linux. Which is a good choice? I can't point to a particular brand or model, but I can give you a big hint that will help your

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Alexander Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: nVidia drivers are actually alright under Ubuntu (I can suspend to RAM out of the box) and if you use nv (which is really a non-issue in many cases) you can do both. There are ways to force it to unload the module and then suspend

Re: [SLUG] Linux laptop and training for new user

2007-03-01 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Rich Buggy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Avoid nVidia graphics cards like the plague. Everything else in mine is Intel and the graphics card is the one thing that causes me problems. :( ATI, at least with binary drivers, is far worse. I can't speak for the Free drivers. --

Re: [SLUG] Call for helpers: Linux Australia stand at Open CeBIT, May 1-3

2007-03-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Just a reminder that I am still looking for helpers for the LA stand at Open CeBIT. Details are below. On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody! CeBIT[1] is on again this year in Sydney in May, from Tuesday the first to Thursday the third. Thanks to Pia

Re: [SLUG] Call for helpers: Linux Australia stand at Open CeBIT, May 1-3

2007-03-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a reminder that I am still looking for helpers for the LA stand at Open CeBIT. Also, I am looking for means to acquire merchandise to distribute to exhibition attendees. Thus far, I have been able to source 1000 Ubuntu CDs

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