Re: [SLUG] Document conversion

2003-06-20 Thread Geoffrey Robertson
I've kicked of apt... 150 Mb download to convert a crummy 1 page document to a pdf. sheesh. I'm still wondering about this foo.php document that's supposed to be a Publisher2000 document. Anybody ever seen a foo.php that isn't PHP? Geoffrey On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 12:24:26PM +1000, Ken Foskey

Re: [SLUG] booting 2.5 kernel (can't find fsck.ext2)

2003-06-20 Thread Oscar Plameras
From: "Ramon Buckland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > I've finally got the 2.5 kernel compiled well (I think) > however when I attempt to boot it goes through the motions > up to the point of checking /. > > If stops stating that fsck.ext2 can;t be found (and as a result > the boot block appear

Re: [SLUG] GCC debian question

2003-06-20 Thread Simon Wong
On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 00:42, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > try make-kpkg MAKEOPTS="CC=gcc-2.95", apparently MAKEOPTS exists to get > around the explicit setting of CC=gcc in the kernel makefile. For anyone trying this at home, what you need to do is... export MAKEOPTS="CC=gcc-2.95" fakeroot ma

Re: [SLUG] Document conversion

2003-06-20 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 11:47, Geoffrey Robertson wrote: > Hi all, > > I maintain a LAMP website for a club and I'm facing the perennial battle > with propriety formatted documents. For the word document, simply open it in OpenOffice.org Beta2 and export as PDF or HTML at your leisure. Ther is a

[SLUG] booting 2.5 kernel (can't find fsck.ext2)

2003-06-20 Thread Ramon Buckland
Hi, I've finally got the 2.5 kernel compiled well (I think) however when I attempt to boot it goes through the motions up to the point of checking /. If stops stating that fsck.ext2 can;t be found (and as a result the boot block appears invalid - something to that effect). The root fs is on ext3

Re: [SLUG] Strange email attempt

2003-06-20 Thread Oscar Plameras
From: "Simon Bryan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all, > logwatch reports the information below for email I understand most of them because > they are misspelling of usernames however the second one is ocurring daily (always > on my username) and it has me intrigued. Does anyone know if this is someth

[SLUG] Document conversion

2003-06-20 Thread Geoffrey Robertson
Hi all, I maintain a LAMP website for a club and I'm facing the perennial battle with propriety formatted documents. First Document: $ file Winter03_Rally_Flyer.doc Winter03_Rally_Flyer.doc: Microsoft Office document data My wife runs a comercial word processor on Codeweavers Wine to which t

Re: [SLUG] Strange email attempt

2003-06-20 Thread Anthony Wood
On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 10:24:40AM +1000, Simon Bryan wrote: > Hi all, > logwatch reports the information below for email I understand most of them because > they are misspelling of usernames however the second one is ocurring daily (always > on my username) and it has me intrigued. Does anyone kno

[SLUG] Strange email attempt

2003-06-20 Thread Simon Bryan
Hi all, logwatch reports the information below for email I understand most of them because they are misspelling of usernames however the second one is ocurring daily (always on my username) and it has me intrigued. Does anyone know if this is something I should be concerned about. Unknown users:

Re: [SLUG] TV cards and software

2003-06-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
If you're building from scratch, you should seriously consider getting a digital TV tuner card and use vdr. That way it's already compressed so the computer does very little work. And being digital, the quality is (potentially) better and there are more channels. vdr is very highly rated. http:/

[SLUG] TuxPaint

2003-06-20 Thread Stuart Guthrie
I just downloaded TuxPaint for our son. It is a really great piece of software for kids. If you've got them, download it , especially the tux-stamps. (the Lunar Lander stamp does the 'one small step' speech). Great piece of software. Stu -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] TV cards and software

2003-06-20 Thread Myles Byrne
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 13:47, Andrewd wrote: > Any recommendations on TV cards and software for recording TV shows for my PC. > I am running Mandrake 9 on a P4 with 256 ram. > > The two cards I have looked at so far are > Live View 3000 TV tuner card @ $99 > Leadtek TV tuner card @$135 I've got a

Re: [SLUG] Secondary MX record - To have or not

2003-06-20 Thread mlh
On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:12:26PM +1000, Anth Courtney wrote: > Out of interest, I'd be interested in hearing some of the arguments for > why they're not needed - personally, I wouldn't live without one. I would as a matter of course use a 2nd MX but since you asked: 1. People mailing you will