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

be suprised. big corporation is watching you. -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] help please

needed to reinstall - of course now i know i didn't have to :-) cheers! -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Redhat 7.2 sendmail

message that is trashed. fetchmail -k # keep messages on the server while you're testing. -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Conectivity

machines behind them. Tunnel the port through SSH, no bridging mess, and it's an ounce more secure. Cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Cable providers

is really Telstra's problem. Does anyone know about any rumoured DDoS on Telstra recently? No, but they let their techos into the machine room last Friday morning for a 1 hour scheduled outage. It took them till midday to get it runinng again. http://whirlpool.net.au -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] RH 7.2 and AMD Duron 1ghz

can, or chalk it up to bad luck. :) cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] In Car MP3 Players

take a peak at http://repose.cx/muse - it's a hacked together MP3 player which I've done in python, and it runs on an old P100 laptop with a broken screen (swapped it for some debian CDs :-), with keypay/lcd support. Cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

Re: [SLUG] Adore SSHD Trojan

indicates the port isn't available for connecting to - so it's no indication if a service is running or not. Assuming your netkit has the same md5 as the one on the debian servers, try netstat --inet -l -p to show which processing are providing ports on your box. Cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] EXT3 journal corrupted

it thought it was an ext2 partition) cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] National Bank Internet Banking

/. Under this setup, when I select Login new service, all I get is a new completely blank screen. do you have mozilla-psm installed (might be bundled in some distributions). without that, HTTPS urls will not work. i get a login page successfully under mozilla 0.9.6 here. cheers, -- Damien Elmes

Re: [SLUG] Am I using ext3 or not?

post if i have any luck. cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Stopping system beeps

ago to try and make it quieter by varying the pitch :-) cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: Fw: [SLUG] web browser - hostname

and it worked after that. But unfortunately as the older I get (lol) the more i seem to forget. Any other ideas or should i post this at slug? show us your resolv.conf cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: Fw: [SLUG] web browser - hostname

Gnuthad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 4 Dec 2001, at 0:59, Damien Elmes wrote: show us your resolv.conf Show us yererrr, never mind. There's always one. :-) -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] Disk Usage Problem

for root. this isn't necessary on a partition for /home, but is useful on /. cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Re: Several questions after an apt-get dist-upgrade

they own one file (ie, realplay, last i looked, though it owned /usr/bin/X, which was causing an upgrade of xserver to fail. this is obviously a bug in the realplayer package. you can fix it by editing /var/lib/dpkg/info/realplayer.list in this case) cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] ttf in The Gimp

mkfontdir Then I restarted X but, no cigar.. you need to tell X about the extra font path. i think this is all explained in the x prettification howto - or something like that :) on linuxdoc.org. cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] OT: Vector data on Sydney CBD

system. it's very pretty :) i was suprised how usable it felt in comparison to something like windows. i agree with what you're saying though. open standards are more important than what operating system each computer is running. cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] KDE reports home

already followed up, so i won't reiterate on that. i'm always suspicious of stuff that's calling home, though - i wonder why they do that. (i'm sure it's not malicious, but still). -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info

Re: [SLUG] KDE reports home

world. and if various apps start depending on it, that might mean getting rid of it is not an option. kde gurus jump in now :) -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] X irritations

to set up a clone of your X config with a lower res listed, and then do something like start -- :1 to start a new screen while leaving the existing one working (can't remember the option to specify an alternate config file off the top of my head). cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] Sendmail and redirecting mass addresses

. cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Several questions after an apt-get dist-upgrade

the packages are released with oversights isn't a huge problem though. the benefits outway the costs :) it can just be confusing to start with. cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo

Re: [SLUG] Penguins Out Of Natural Habitat

. *joins you in excitedness* -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 ?

not. have a great day :-) -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Multiple Partitions

PROTECTED] (Work), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Play) Never trust a computer you can't lift or you don't control. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

Re: [SLUG] Multiple Partitions

aren't hard to keep over a reformat of the disk) Although I guess if you don't have access to backup media or another computer, it may just come in handy! YMMV :-) Cheers! -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] Help with error message

=4948007 Does this mean I have a bad sector on disk /dev/sdb1 at sector 39584056? Bernhard Lüder looks like it. cheers, -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Mutt Basics

ISP's mail server should be fine). when you use a more user friendly tool like netscape or evolution, they have a built in simple SMTP server for delivering mail to your ISP, and built in POP support for checking mail. cheers! -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

Re: [SLUG] BIOS upgrade (OT... a bit)

Grant Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On 22 Nov 2001, Damien Elmes wrote: Jeffrey Borg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: couldn't you just make it smaller in the bios and go and install linux on it anyway like my laptop 12gb disk windoze only see's 8gb and it's only in the 1st

Re: [SLUG] Crazy ASCII art [ Was: Be Thankful ]

hello\! | cowsay hello! \ ^__^ \ (oo)\___ (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || cheers :-) -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info

Re: [SLUG] dead video?

for an uptime ;-) chances are the problem is in the output stages, and not diagnosable is software. cheers! -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] BIOS upgrade (OT... a bit)

it dosen't even use it! my bios would freeze on POST with a 40gb drive until i upgraded it. fortunately i didn't need to increase the size of the chip in order to fit the updated version. -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] Re: Config'ng /etc/printcap

! Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What non-X tool is there to configure /etc/printcap? I can't think of any. magicfilter in debian prompts for some stuff and sets it up for you in a console. there's probably others, MF i've just used before. cheers! -- Damien Elmes [EMAIL