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help! I seem to have lost my broadband connection
by allan miller 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

I seem to have lost my broadband connection which has been running trouble free for four months. It happened sometime on Tuesday. It was going OK in the morning but later in the day I couldn't connect and that has been the case since (I only turn it on when I use my computer rather than having it running continuously). The connection has been trouble free since the first day. Although a while back I did experience something similar but it was back up within 24 hours. (But at that time I didn't look into the 'guts' of my router to see what was actually going on). I have a D-Link DSL-504T. The carrier seems to be up but there is no connection. This shows in the router's log: Sep 8 12:00:06> Valid Configuration Tree Sep 8 12:00:10> Firewall NAT service started Jan 1 01:01:00> Bridge Created: br0 Jan 1 01:01:00> Bridge Interface Added: eth0 Jan 1 01:01:04> DSL Carrier is training Jan 1 01:01:14> DSL Carrier is up Jan 1 01:01:19> pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0 Jan 1 01:01:19> Connect: ppp0 {--} I have tried resetting the router's firmware and setting up the connection info again but it still won't connect, even when I explicitly tell it to. It is almost as if the 'other end' is not accepting my login/password any more. I seem to remember coming across a login/password on the net you could use to check that your connection was working but I haven't been able to find it again. There could be several places where the error could be - router, telephone exchange (Norwich), ISP (Tiscali/UKFSN). Can some one explain what is happening and how I can get it working again. TIA Allan Miller

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REMINDER: Christmas Meal tonight @ Blickling
by adam＠thebowery.co.uk 02 Feb '05

02 Feb '05

Hi all, Table has been confirmed for 10 people @ 8pm, we can have a few more if anyone still wants to come and didn't let me know yet. If you just want to come along for a drink and to socialise then feel free. Venue is http://www.buckinghamshirearms-norfolk.co.uk/ (directions are available on that site) Adam -- jabberid = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li AFFS || http://www.affs.org.uk/ || Not a filesystem

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3D Games with Suse 9.1
by Stan Fraser 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

Have tried to get 3D games running in Suse 9.1 without success. Set 3D to Enabled but still no good. Have an ATI Radeon 8500SE Card and LCD Digital Monitor. Any help, hints or tips to get it working appreciated. Regards Stan

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Why has 'ls -a' started mixing hidden files with the others?
by Chris Green 31 Jan '05

31 Jan '05

When I issue an 'ls -a' or an 'ls -al' I expect all the hidden files (those with a . prefix) to appear before the others but my latest upgrade seems to have stopped this happening. I much prefer to see the hidden files separately, can I get the old sort order back somehow? I've unset all the LS options in my environment and ls isn't aliased. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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FW: UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference and Perl 6 Workshop
by Alasdair G Kergon 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Preceded by an Exim conference, and FOSDEM starts the day after in Brussels: Sat 26 - Sun 27 Feb, www.fosdem.org (free). The 2nd Gentoo UK meeting takes place in Manchester on Sat 12th March. http://dev.gentoo.org/~stuart/2005/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Announcement: UKUUG LISA/Winter Conference and Perl 6 Workshop Paragon Hotel, Birmingham, 24th & 25th February 2005 UKUUG - the UK's Unix and Open Systems User Group - announces the final programme for their upcoming Winter Conference. This will take place at the Paragon Hotel, Birmingham, on Thursday 24th and Friday 25th February 2005. Earlybird registration closes on Monday 31st January. On Thursday morning, Allison Randal, president of the Perl Foundation and project manager for Perl 6, will deliver a Perl 6 Workshop. The theme of the main conference is "Security and Networks". This begins on Thursday afternoon with a keynote by Wietse Venema, author of TCP Wrappers and the Postfix MTA. The conference also includes speakers from the OpenBSD and FreeBSD projects; Oracle; Hewlett-Packard; University of Oxford; University of Cambridge; and many more. This conference is a must-attend event for system and network administrators. As well as the technical talks, the conference provides a friendly environment for delegates to meet, learn and enjoy lively debate on a host of subjects. See the conference web site for full details and up-to-date information: http://www.ukuug.org/events/winter2005/

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Email Rules
by Peter Hunter 30 Jan '05

30 Jan '05

Hi all, Being new to Linux I am am trying to find my way around and get everything sorted to my liking. One thing I can't seem to find though is how to set up message 'rules' in KMail. I would like to automatically have my messages from different places sent direct to their own mail boxxes. I do this ok in all other email clients I have used on the Mac and MS Windows, but can't seem to find it in Kmail/ Any help would be appreciated. TIA Peter

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Introduction
by Peter Hunter 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

Hi everyone, The name's Peter and I am a new'ish Linux user. I have 'tried' Linux a few times but never really seriously. My 'main' computer is an eMac running OS X 10.3.7 but I have some bits of software and hardware that won't run on a Mac, (amateur radio stuff (G0GSZ)) so I had to build a PC with Windows XP. When I was in Roys I picked up a copy of Linux Magazine which had a copy of Mandrake 10.1 on the cover DVD, so I installed this. I am very impressed. I have broadband via NTL through a cable modem and Belkin router. OS X and Linux detected this and set everything up almost automatically. Windows needed software installing!! At the moment I am only using Linux for email and internet browsing, but have tried other parts. I am experimenting as much as I can as time permits. I live in Bowthorpe and am a home user as I am carer to my disabled (MS) wife. I have been 'playing!' with computers since the late 70's, so have had a little practice / experiance. By the way, I am running the Gnome desktop that came with the installation. That's all, glad to meet you all. Regards Peter

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Any openGL / Matrox / SuSE / experts here ?
by Peter Onion 28 Jan '05

28 Jan '05

I've been playing with openGL for a few days and having lots of fun drawing 3d views. Currently I'm just using the mesa (software) openGL library but I would like to get hardware 3d acceleration working. I've got SuSE 9.2 running on a 2.6Ghz HP with a dual headed Matrox G550. Anyone got any experience with setting up the hardware acceleration ? Google searches have not turned up anything simple/useful. Peter

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Newsforge: Running Windows viruses with Wine
by Keith Watson 27 Jan '05

27 Jan '05

<QUOTE> It just isn't fair that Windows users get all the viruses. I mean really, shouldn't Linux users be in on the fun as well? Well... thanks to the folks running the Wine project, Linux users can "catch the virus bug" too -- sort of. Linux just isn't user-friendly when it comes to viruses. You have to work to find and run them. It doesn't happen automatically as it does with Windows. The GNU/Linux folks really should improve this glaring discrepancy. </QUOTE> He's right, it's so damm unfair!! see <http://os.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=05/01/25/1430222&from=rss> Regards, Keith

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Web viewer for encrypted data - any good ones?
by Chris Green 26 Jan '05

26 Jan '05

Does anyone know of any good web applications for viewing the contents of encrypted files? I.e. I want to have an encrypted file on my web site which I can view from anywhere using a web browser. Obviously I'd need to supply a password and it needs to be an https: connection. I probably want something a bit more flexible than a password manager as the sort of data I want to store is a bit more than just passwords, though some of it is passwords. Ideally one would provide a password and a key/name of some sort and data for just that key/name would be displayed. I don't need to be able to edit the data via the web page, just view it. Obviously I need to be able to edit the data somehow, ideally it would be a straight text file that I can edit with any old text editor and then encrypt and store in the right place for the web access. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence."

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