deece | 1 Aug 2003 02:26
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Re: [clug] Free CDRs & SB16s

> Hi Guys,
> 
> My work is throwing out a number of Soundblaster 16 cards (working) and a 
> handful of old CDR drives (may or may not work, but I don't really have the
> time 
> or inclination to test them).
> 
> Any takers?

There was a much bigger response than expected for this, so instead of having a 
whole heap of people rock up to pick them up, I'll just bring them to the next 
CLUG meeting and you can fight over them yourselves *g*

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john Kyari | 1 Aug 2003 03:16

[clug] Dear Friend

Dear Friend,                                    

Compliment of the day, I am JOHN KYARI, The son of late General Kubwa Kyari of the Democratic Republic of
Congo. 

My father was a General in the Congolese Army. In his position (My father) with the office of the presidentcy
during the regime of Laurent Kabila, he was assigned on a secret mission to source and acquire arms
internationally in order to strengthen the Government forces against the rebels, which already had the
support of Rwandan and Uganda Army.

Meanwhile, he was still negotiating for the purchase of the arms, he received on the 16th January 2001 news
of the assassination of Laurent Kabila which force him to call off the assignment and deposited the sum of
US$12.5M, Packed in a diplomatic case in a private security company in the Hague, the Netherlands, though
he registered the content as precious stones while the real content is (US12.5M) meant for the purchase of
arms for the Congolese Army.

My father went home for the funeral of the late president, but on his arrival he was arrested, detained and
tortured, unfortunately my father suffer cardiac arrest and died on the 17th of March 2001. However,one
of our numerous visits, my mother and I paid him while in prison, my father was able to reveal this secret to
me and advice that i should proceed to the Netherlands to claim the money, he handed me all the relevant
documents that will enable me claim the box from the security company.Already, I have made my first visit
to the security company and the document entitled to clear this money is with a finance security company in Holland.

On our arrival in the Netherlands few months ago, we sought for political asylum; which was granted. My
mother and I are making frantic effort on the best way to handle this money. We sought advice from an
attorney who advised that we must seek for a trustworthy foreign business partner whom can invest this
fund in a profitable venture. This we view as the best option because our refugee status dose not permit us
to operate a bank account, hence we seek your assistance and hope you could be trusted.

I got your contact from the commercial section of the congolese embassy in Belgium. Meanwhile, I sincerely
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Grant Morphett | 1 Aug 2003 08:42

[clug] File Browsers, Nautilus etc

I am trying to find a good file browser.  Before the holy war starts I use the
CLI mostly but for some jobs you just can't beat a good file browser.

I am running latest Debian Sid with Gnome.  I like nautilus's file browser itself
but i don't like everything else I have to run with it or the way it takes over
my world or its size.  I have tried waffle (one huge perl scirpt - yurch) and
endeavour2 but both have been unsatisfactory.  gnome-commander - not after the
midnight commander look so that also rules out FileRunner and gentoo.

Any suggestions most welcome.

Oh, if you hate the way nautilus messes with your root background (i.e. like me
your trying to run xplanet) etc try

nautilus --no-desktop

cheers

Grant

Damien Elmes | 1 Aug 2003 09:01

Re: [clug] File Browsers, Nautilus etc

Grant Morphett <grant@...> writes:

> Any suggestions most welcome.

While nautilus is pretty, if you're after drag & drop, I found
konqueror to be much more functional.

I use dired. Tom Lord (the guy who wrote Arch-come-GNU Arch) wrote an
extension for it called "monkey" which support hierarchical displays
[1] but I haven't had a chance to play with it yet. Being able to
tag, move, rename files by regexp or the cursor keys is a lot more
efficient that doing similar things with the mouse.

[1] http://regexps.srparish.net/www-ancient/monkey.html

Cheers,
--

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Damien Elmes

Stephen Peilschmidt | 1 Aug 2003 13:47
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[clug] Re: Open Source promo stall

Found this today - it kind of puts into words the way may people feel about
Microsoft and Open Source software

http://www.cybersource.com.au/cyber/about/we_have_the_way_off.pdf

You might want to note this paragraph at the bottom

".....reproduction and modification of this document is allowed, under the
condition that the content is kept intact, but you may replace all
references to Cybersource and Cybersource contact details, with your own."

Also available in OpenOffice format at
http://www.cybersource.com.au/cyber/about/we_have_the_way_off.sxd

Cheers

--
Stephen Peilschmidt
phone: +61 2 6259 9777
mobile: 0414 780648
  www.sfp.com.au

The Web site you seek
Cannot be located, but
Countless more exist.

drewbian | 1 Aug 2003 15:47
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Subject: Re: [clug] File Browsers, Nautilus etc

>I am trying to find a good file browser.  Before the holy war starts I >use the
>CLI mostly but for some jobs you just can't beat a good file browser.

I find the GTK2 Rox-filer is pretty nice, kinda like nautilus but lighter/faster. Rox also has the capacity
to manage the desktop + icons (pinboard) and a panel if so desired. 

http://www.hrw.one.pl/apt/  (list of apt-sources)
http://rox.sourceforge.net (homepage)

Andrew

Pearl Louis | 1 Aug 2003 16:59
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[clug] Problems with /var/run

Hi!

I'm having some very worrying problems.  I'm running Mandrake 9.1.  
Recently everytime I boot my computer I get messages like this:

cannot remove /var/run/netreport: permission denied
cannot remove /var/run/runlevel.dir: permission denied

Then a little later:

/etc/rc.d/rc line 94: /var/run/runlevel.dir:  permission denied

Sometimes the computer refuses to boot after this or have a lot of 
trouble starting X.  And sometimes it will boot and start X (how I am 
writing this now) though it remains unstable with X locking up every now 
and then (though my computer seems to have been getting increasingly 
unstable over the last few weeks anyway...)

I checked /etc/rc.d/rc line 94 and it is fine.  Exactly what you'd 
expect.  However, the most worrying thing is I can't use ls to list 
/var/run/netreport or /var/run/runlevel.dir.  Even as root what I get 
when I try ls (or ls -la) in /var/run is:

ls: netreport: Permission denied
ls: runlevel.dir: Permission denied

(the other files in the directory are listed though.  Also I get the 
same result whether I use su or actually log in as root).

I guess this is the source of the problem.  I have no idea what's going 
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Gavin Owen | 2 Aug 2003 02:36

[clug] Re: linux Digest, Vol 8, Issue 1


Get the Rox Filer file manager. Get it, use it, love it. It's not
perfect, but it's the best file manager I've found for Gnome thus far.

There are very few things I like about nautilus. When I think of it I
can't help draw parallels to emacs. With emacs it's been said about it -
"great OS, bad editor!" OK so maybe that's being a bit harsh but you
know what I mean (I don't want moon-phase reading, email client,
psychiatrist(!) etc in emacs - just an editor!). With nautilus I always
think that the add-ons are fancy (audio playing, CD burning, emblems)
but its core functionality, which is to manage files let's face it -
bloody-well stinks!

Why does it stink?
1) You have to go Edit->Preferences->(Toggle radio button for showing
hidden files)->close then repeat for re-hiding dot files. This *should*
be a one-click toolbar button.

2) Permission management is shocking. Try editing the permissions of
multiple files - you get a seperate properties dialog for every file!
Even then you have to click on a different tab (Permissons) and there is
no quick way to enter say 0644 - you have to go 'tick, tick, tick etc'.
If you're currently thinking "Meh! just use the CLI" - well I do in
order to get around the limitations of nautilus, but really a
well-designed graphical filer would mean you shouldn't have to!

3) File viewing. 'View as Details' is poor - it doesn't even show
filesystem permissions! Nor can you highlight multiple files with the
mouse in the view - gotta use keyboard. 'View as Icons' takes up far too
much screen space for the amount of files it displays. At 50% which is
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Matthew Hawkins | 2 Aug 2003 03:33
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Re: [clug] File Browsers, Nautilus etc

Grant Morphett (grant@...) wrote:

> I am trying to find a good file browser.  Before the holy war starts I use the 
> CLI mostly but for some jobs you just can't beat a good file browser.

apt-get install vifm

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Matt
Pearl Louis | 3 Aug 2003 09:01
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[clug] Problems with Western Digital and Linux?

Hi!

I finally figured out the problem I was having (see my previous message).  It 
seems that there were 3 fatal corruptions on my reiserfs partitions which I 
fixed with reiserfschk --rebuildtree.  That seemed to solve the problem.  
However looking at my FAT32 partitions I can see more than a dozen bad 
blocks.  Hmmm...think it's time to get a new hard drive...

I was thinking of getting a Western Digital.  I seem to recall that there were 
problems with Western Digital ATA100 drives and Linux a couple of years back.  
Do those problems still exist with current WD ATA100 HDs?

Thanks!
Pearl


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