August Meeting.

2006-07-18 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Greets CLUG Listers, Volker is unable to present the second half of his mini-series on images and graphics until September. Therefore the August meeting slot is open for other subjects. I had thought that a Dapper Drake fixups evening might be in order, but the list has been silent

Re: August Meeting.

2006-07-18 Thread Steve Holdoway
-series on images and graphics until September. Therefore the August meeting slot is open for other subjects. I had thought that a Dapper Drake fixups evening might be in order, but the list has been silent completely silent on the subject so I take it that the Ubuntu folks have done

Re: August Meeting.

2006-07-18 Thread Adrian.Mageanu
on images and graphics until September. Therefore the August meeting slot is open for other subjects. I had thought that a Dapper Drake fixups evening might be in order, but the list has been silent completely silent on the subject so I take it that the Ubuntu folks have done

Re: August Meeting.

2006-07-18 Thread Carl Cerecke
On 18/07/06, Adrian.Mageanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you include some admin tools (with graphic interfaces if possible) The problem with a GUI is that it only lets you do tasks that are in the GUI. As soon as you need to do something that the GUI can't do (and you will!) you're out of

Re: August Meeting.

2006-07-18 Thread Nick Rout
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 08:20:12 +1200 Carl Cerecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/07/06, Adrian.Mageanu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you include some admin tools (with graphic interfaces if possible) The problem with a GUI is that it only lets you do tasks that are in the GUI. As soon as

Re: August Meeting.

2006-07-18 Thread Wesley Parish
: Greets CLUG Listers, Volker is unable to present the second half of his mini-series on images and graphics until September. Therefore the August meeting slot is open for other subjects. I had thought that a Dapper Drake fixups evening might be in order, but the list has been

Re: August Meeting.

2006-07-18 Thread Isaac Devine
Administration is a pretty big topic. :-) Thanks, Isaac On Tue, 18 Jul 2006 21:28:35 +1200 Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greets CLUG Listers, Volker is unable to present the second half of his mini-series on images and graphics until September. Therefore the August

Re: August Meeting.

2005-08-16 Thread Wesley Parish
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:08, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:33:29 +1200 Roger Searle wrote: Hi Nick, while I'm not looking for bleeding edge, i'm not satisfied with staying several versions behind or doing a basic install and sticking with that. snip If the aim is to learn how to

Re: August Meeting.

2005-08-16 Thread Keith McGavin
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 01:41:47AM +1200, Ross Drummond wrote: Try; http://www.wagemakers.be/uploads/37/7/lookat_bekijk-1.4.0.tar.gz A pager with a Midnight Commander like look and interface. Ross, you can use a shell script to have midnight commander do this since mc can format man

Re: SUSE 9.1 KDE 3.4.2 [was Re: August Meeting.]

2005-08-15 Thread Andy Leach
Roger Searle wrote: Thanks for the missing link about why I couldn't do the KDE upgrade from within YAST. However this misses the whole point of wanting to learn about downloading the relevant files from the KDE site and doing it that way. Roger Sure, I didn't know that was the entire

Re: dcraw WAS SUSE 9.1 KDE 3.4.2 [was Re: August Meeting.]

2005-08-15 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 19:25 +1200, Andy Leach wrote: Roger Searle wrote: Thanks for the missing link about why I couldn't do the KDE upgrade from within YAST. However this misses the whole point of wanting to learn about downloading the relevant files from the KDE site and doing it

Re: August Meeting.

2005-08-15 Thread Ross Drummond
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 17:08, Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:33:29 +1200 I'd be happy to try and find a representative package, and compile and install it for a meeting. Can anyone think of a suitable package? I have compiled postfix a couple of times, it doesn't take too long. Try;

Re: August Meeting.

2005-08-15 Thread Roger Searle
Nick Rout wrote: You may be ready for gentoo :-) I was a starter for the 'fest a couple of times ago in the garage but had to cancel due to family commitments :-( I didn't mention the command line actually! I said stick with packages from your distro :-) That is because i thought your

Re: SUSE 9.1 KDE 3.4.2 [was Re: August Meeting.]

2005-08-15 Thread Roger Searle
Thanks for the tip Andy, I'll be following the method to get KDE via YAST tonight if I get time. I've got 2 points or goals really, one is an upgrade for KDE and the second one is getting more from the command line. Going for killing both birds with the same stone is not realistic for me.

Re: SUSE 9.1 KDE 3.4.2 [was Re: August Meeting.]

2005-08-15 Thread Roger Searle
Steve Holdoway wrote: Roger Searle wrote: Thanks for the missing link about why I couldn't do the KDE upgrade from within YAST. However this misses the whole point of wanting to learn about downloading the relevant files from the KDE site and doing it that way. Roger There are a

Re: SUSE 9.1 KDE 3.4.2 [was Re: August Meeting.]

2005-08-15 Thread Steve Holdoway
Roger Searle wrote: Steve Holdoway wrote: Roger Searle wrote: Thanks for the missing link about why I couldn't do the KDE upgrade from within YAST. However this misses the whole point of wanting to learn about downloading the relevant files from the KDE site and doing it that way.

August Meeting.

2005-08-14 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Greetings List. The speaker I had in my sights for the August meeting has told be that he is now not available. Therefore there are a number of choices. 1) Attempt to find another speaker who can talk authoritively about the Xen virtual machine monitor. Volunteers please. 2) Have another

Re: August Meeting.

2005-08-14 Thread david merriman
sights for the August meeting has told be that he is now not available. Therefore there are a number of choices. 1) Attempt to find another speaker who can talk authoritively about the Xen virtual machine monitor. Volunteers please. 2) Have another Clinic / Fixups evening. Is there a demand

Re: August Meeting.

2005-08-14 Thread Roger Searle
if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp Christopher Sawtell wrote: Greetings List. The speaker I had in my sights for the August meeting has told be that he is now not available. Therefore there are a number of choices. 1) Attempt to find another speaker who can talk

Re: August Meeting.

2005-08-14 Thread Nick Rout
in the last week or so. David The pen is mightier than the sword, but only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp Christopher Sawtell wrote: Greetings List. The speaker I had in my sights for the August meeting has told be that he is now not available. Therefore

Re: August Meeting.

2005-08-14 Thread Nick Rout
about compiling a kernel myself in the last week or so. David The pen is mightier than the sword, but only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp Christopher Sawtell wrote: Greetings List. The speaker I had in my sights for the August meeting has told

SUSE 9.1 KDE 3.4.2 [was Re: August Meeting.]

2005-08-14 Thread Andy Leach
Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:04:09 +1200 Roger Searle wrote: I too would be very interested in a talk on kernel compiling. And perhaps as an extension (or prelude?) if there was time, a look at the upgrade of KDE (I'm looking to upgrade my current 3.2.something to 3.4 if I can

Re: SUSE 9.1 KDE 3.4.2 [was Re: August Meeting.]

2005-08-14 Thread Nick Rout
or update the whole bizzo to 9.3. On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:25:36 +1200 Andy Leach wrote: IMHO stick to your distro's packages. SUSE 9.1? ( if not then please excuse my erratic memory ) 3.4.2 is available from

Re: August Meeting.

2005-08-14 Thread Roger Searle
been thinking about compiling a kernel myself in the last week or so. David The pen is mightier than the sword, but only if the sword is very small and the pen is very sharp Christopher Sawtell wrote: Greetings List. The speaker I had in my sights for the August meeting has told

Re: SUSE 9.1 KDE 3.4.2 [was Re: August Meeting.]

2005-08-14 Thread Roger Searle
Thanks for the missing link about why I couldn't do the KDE upgrade from within YAST. However this misses the whole point of wanting to learn about downloading the relevant files from the KDE site and doing it that way. Roger Nick Rout wrote: or update the whole bizzo to 9.3. On Mon,

Re: August Meeting.

2005-08-14 Thread Nick Rout
On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:33:29 +1200 Roger Searle wrote: Hi Nick, while I'm not looking for bleeding edge, i'm not satisfied with staying several versions behind or doing a basic install and sticking with that. While I could easily download and install the newest version of suse or try

Re: SUSE 9.1 KDE 3.4.2 [was Re: August Meeting.]

2005-08-14 Thread Steve Holdoway
Roger Searle wrote: Thanks for the missing link about why I couldn't do the KDE upgrade from within YAST. However this misses the whole point of wanting to learn about downloading the relevant files from the KDE site and doing it that way. Roger There are a *lot* of them, you know. I'd

Re: August Meeting.

2005-08-14 Thread Steve Holdoway
Nick Rout wrote: On Mon, 15 Aug 2005 16:33:29 +1200 Roger Searle wrote: Hi Nick, while I'm not looking for bleeding edge, i'm not satisfied with staying several versions behind or doing a basic install and sticking with that. While I could easily download and install the newest version