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weird dns problems (possibly resolved)
by theodore 10 Nov '04

10 Nov '04

I think I fixed the dns problem which I described at the meeting. It seems that web browsers are much more picky about dns timeouts (Especailly on mac). I added a line to my bind config to use my ISP's dns servers as forwarders (which I am told is the "right" way to do it anyways) and it seems to have fixed the problem, and surfing is visibly quicker to start now. Theodore

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Firefox release party!
by John Lange 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

======== Firefox release party! Firefox v1.0 was officially released today and we are having a party! On Saturday November 20th starting at 8pm there will be an "official" Firefox release party at Bar Italia on Corydon ave. Bar Italia was selected for it's central location and the fact that it has free public WiFi access. Event details and a signup form are here: http://www.openforce.at/mozparty2/?party=207 (Signup is optional but it gives us some idea of the numbers to expect) This is an informal event so there will be no long speeches, just chatting and conversing with other FireFox users. Of course, FireFox runs on all major operating systems so all users are welcome! We are in the process of rounding up some door prizes (donations welcome). ======= -- John Lange OpenIT ltd. (204) 885 0872

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FC3 heidelberg
by Mel Seder 09 Nov '04

09 Nov '04

This message being send from Firefox in Red Hat Fedora Core 3 OS. Install was simple and was done using a DVD I burnt. Smiles, Mel

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Bittorrent and Shaw
by Shawn Wallbridge 08 Nov '04

08 Nov '04

It appears that Shaw may be starting to throttle Bittorrent traffic on their network.... http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/56419 shawn

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screen
by Mel Seder 06 Nov '04

06 Nov '04

I was mucking around to see how wget and screen works. I think I made a mess :-( How do I get rid of the following three sockets? [mel@p4 mel]$ screen -ls There are screens on: 24910.pts-1.p4 (Detached) 26546.pts-3.p4 (Detached) 26630.pts-1.p4 (Attached) 3 Sockets in /tmp/uscreens/S-mel. [mel@p4 mel]$

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Computer freeze
by Michael Doob 05 Nov '04

05 Nov '04

On Friday 05 November 2004 12:01, roundtable-request(a)muug.mb.ca wrote: problem > > The computer is a Dell D600, with an ATI Radeon Mobility 9000. The OS is SuSE > 9.1, updated religiously. Today's installed RPMs include > kernel-default-2.6.5-7, XFree86-4.3.99, fglrx-3.12.0 (ATI's driver), and KDE > 3.3.1. > > Every now and then (sometimes once a day, sometimes once a month), the desktop > stops responding. The cursor follows the mouse, but clicks and keypresses > are ignored -- even Ctl-Alt-Delete, Ctl-Alt-Backspace, and Ctl-Alt-F1. This > usually happens when I'm scrolling BoingBoing.net (a long page) in Konqueror, > but I'm pretty sure that's not the only program that triggers the bug. > > The machine can be pinged, and I can slogin from elsewhere. When I do, I find > X consuming at least 99.8% of CPU. Killing X causes a complete lock-up; it > won't answer pings, and I have to power-cycle the > computer. /var/log/messages contains nothing between the slogin and the > restart. > > I've had the problem with KDE 3.2 and 3.1, with fglrx 3.11 and 3.9, and with > XFree's default "radeon" driver. > > Have you seen behavior like this? Do you have any suggestions? > I had the identical problem. It turned out that using OepnGL caused the video card to lock up. Ping would work since it only involved low level kernel calls. When I disabled the screen saver (or at least the parts that used the OpenGL) everything was fine. Cheers, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Doob Telephone: (204) 474-9796 Department of Mathematics Fax: (204) 474-7606 University of Manitoba email: Michael_Doob(a)umanitoba.ca Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2 ------------------------------------------------------------------

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Epic Business Solution Day
by Spencer Kuziw 04 Nov '04

04 Nov '04

Greetings all, I realize it is a little last minute, but the company I work for is holding a technology exhibit at the Sharaton Hotel tomorrow, Nov 4 from 9am to 4pm. There will be Linux presentations from HP and Forecast technology as well as many other interesting sessions targeted to SMB. Best of all it is free and includes a decent lunch, too. Please visit www.epic.ca for more details.

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MUUG Meeting, Nov 9, 7:30PM -- OpenBSD Transparent Bridging Firewall
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 01 Nov '04

01 Nov '04

[Posted to man.unix.general and other news groups] ------ Forwarded Article <cm63cl$rh7$1(a)canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> ------ From gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca (Gilbert E. Detillieux) The Manitoba UNIX User Group (MUUG) will be holding its next monthly meeting on Tuesday, November 9. The meeting topic for this month is as follows: Building a Transparent Bridging Firewall with OpenBSD Shawn Wallbridge will be presenting on how to create a transparent bridging firewall with OpenBSD 3.6. Shawn will demonstrate setting up the firewall, and will (time permitting) show how to use OpenBSD's pf firewall to monitor bandwidth usage, and getting the usage numbers into MySQL with some Perl. The group holds its general meetings at 7:30 PM on the second Tuesday of every month from September to June. (There are no meetings in July and August.) Meetings are open to the general public; you don't have to be a MUUG member to attend. ********************************************************************** Please note our new meeting location: The IBM offices, at 400 Ellice Ave. (between Edmonton and Kennedy). When you arrive, you will have to sign in at the reception desk, and then wait for someone to take you (in groups) to the meeting room. Please try to arrive by about 7:15 PM, so the meeting can start promptly at 7:30 PM. Don't be late, or you may not get in. Limited parking is available for free on the street, or in a lot across Ellice from IBM, for $1.00 for the evening. Indoor parking is also available nearby, at Portage Place, for $2.00 for the evening. ********************************************************************** For more information about MUUG, and its monthly meetings, check out their Web server: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ Also note that MUUG maintains two mailing lists, called "muug-announce" and "roundtable". If you're not already on these lists, we encourage you to subscribe now: http://www.muug.mb.ca/mailman/listinfo/ The "muug-announce" list is used for monthly meeting announcements (such as this one) as well as other important announcements of interest to MUUG members. The "rountable" list is meant to be a forum for follow-ups to topics discussed at the meetings, or for round-table-style discussion on other topics that come up between meetings. Of course, for this to be effective, we need to reach a certain critical mass. So, please subscribe, and stay involved! -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ P.O. Box 130, St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609 ------ End of Forwarded Article

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Booting from a DVD
by Mel Seder 16 Oct '04

16 Oct '04

Hi, would someone help me? The boot section of my BIOS is as follows. * are the current settings It currently boots to the Hard Drive even though a DVD is in the DVD drive. 1 Removable Device Disabled * Legacy Floppy LS-120 ZIP-100 ATAPI MO 2 ATAPI CD-ROM ASUS CD-S500-A * SONY DVD RW DRU-5 3 Other Boot Device * Disabled SCSI Boot Device INIT 18 Device (Network) 4 IDE Hard Drive Disabled * WDC WD300BB-00AUA1 WDC WD300BB-00AUA1 Plug and Play O/S = No I was expecting to see a device like DVD-RW and the SONY DVD as the option. What do I have to do to boot off a DVD I just burnt? Is something else wrong? ===== If I am not for myself, who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? by: Hillel 100 BCE

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Using non-prvileged ports with NFS
by Ryan Podjan 14 Oct '04

14 Oct '04

Hi all, This is a follow-up to the question I asked at the Round Table. I have an NFS server running OpenBSD 3.3 and I'm trying to force it to accept client connections on non-privileged ports (i.e. ports>1024). mountd(8) says using the `-n` option should do just that. I've tried this, however, I can still only connect over reserved ports. Any ideas? Thanks, Ryan

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