[SLUG] SB Live (EMU10K1) configuration.

2006-12-14 Thread Chris Johns
Hello, I have one of the cards in the subject line plus a DVB card running on FC5. All work. I have 2 sets of speakers (left and right) connected and alsamixer allows a default audio stream to play out either or both sets of speakers. I would like to be able to play an audio stream from

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Alexander W Stanley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Lawrance wrote: On 14/12/2006, at 1:57 PM, Holmes, Robert wrote: Dear Carmel, I was quite saddened extremely disappointed to see the student portal relying on proprietary software, when open-source equivalents would have been far more

[SLUG] A8N-SLi Asus Motherboard

2006-12-14 Thread Gerald
Do any Sluggers know how to get 4 x sata drives working on this mother board with Linux or Indeed any O/S? When i add a drive beyond 2 the system gets screwed up. I am not sure if it is a power supply problem (500W) or just a mother board problem. If I do know if anyone will respond this side of

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 14/12/2006, at 6:54 PM, Alexander W Stanley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Lawrance wrote: On 14/12/2006, at 1:57 PM, Holmes, Robert wrote: Dear Carmel, I was quite saddened extremely disappointed to see the student portal relying on proprietary software,

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Chris Deigan
Must be referring to the use of Exchange perhaps? -Chris. On 12/14/06, Sam Lawrance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 14/12/2006, at 6:54 PM, Alexander W Stanley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Lawrance wrote: On 14/12/2006, at 1:57 PM, Holmes, Robert wrote: Dear

Re: [SLUG] A8N-SLi Asus Motherboard

2006-12-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:43:40PM +1000, Gerald wrote: Do any Sluggers know how to get 4 x sata drives working on this mother board with Linux or Indeed any O/S? When i add a drive beyond 2 the system gets screwed up. Screwed up how? Error messages / details please! I am not sure if it is

Re: [SLUG] Gnome WeatherApplet

2006-12-14 Thread charles
If I could ask, what weather applet allows you to see the radar map like this? I would love to know.. I use desklets, which only offer very limited information (if you can get it working at all)... thanks.. Charles. John wrote: Thanks John. It helps if you use the right url :-)

Re: [SLUG] Gnome WeatherApplet

2006-12-14 Thread Ken Wilson
I just followed the instructions and it worked for me. ubuntu/gnome/click on upper task bar and sellect add to pannel weather report and point it at the given url I often use that radar so it is a quick way there Ken charles wrote: If I could ask, what weather applet allows you to see the

Re: [SLUG] Shell script

2006-12-14 Thread peterc
sharkid == sharkid 5h4rk writes: sharkid Hi, I'm trying to create a script that compare 2 or more sharkid characters, to find out the largest or the lowest one, for sharkid example, I enter each letter one by one, like a, b, c, d, e, sharkid so the lowest one is a and the largest one is e.

Re: [SLUG] A8N-SLi Asus Motherboard

2006-12-14 Thread Gerald
On Thursday December 14 2006 21:47, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:43:40PM +1000, Gerald wrote: Do any Sluggers know how to get 4 x sata drives working on this mother board with Linux or Indeed any O/S? When i add a drive beyond 2 the system gets screwed up. Screwed up

Re: [SLUG] A8N-SLi Asus Motherboard

2006-12-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 06:53:26AM +1000, Gerald wrote: On Thursday December 14 2006 21:47, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:43:40PM +1000, Gerald wrote: Do any Sluggers know how to get 4 x sata drives working on this mother board with Linux or Indeed any O/S? When i

[SLUG] LinuxChix women's miniconference at linux.conf.au

2006-12-14 Thread Mary Gardiner
LinuxChix is holding a day long mini-conference as part of linux.conf.au at the University of New South Wales, from 15–20 January, 2007. Registration places are filling fast, and may sell out by the end of December or earlier, particularly if you want a ticket to the conference dinner. Remember

[: Re: [SLUG] how to type £]

2006-12-14 Thread Alexander Samad
- Forwarded message from - To: Alexander W Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] how to type £ On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 09:14:52AM +1059, Alexander W Stanley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm not completely sure how you'd do it, but, I'm guessing a

[: Re: [SLUG] how to type £]

2006-12-14 Thread Alexander Samad
- Forwarded message from - To: nornagon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] how to type £ On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 09:06:01AM +1100, nornagon wrote: Find a keyboard manager somewhere (been a while since I used xfce) and set this xkb option: compose:menu Then press the menu key

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
Chris Deigan wrote: Must be referring to the use of Exchange perhaps? On that point, I am having difficulty getting other solutions in to schools other than Exchange. What I am finding: - they (as in the decision makers at the school) don't necessarily like Exchange but say something like

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Penedo
On 15/12/06, Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I.T. much as they have other things to do and so it tends to be Exchange will do - that's what everybody else in education uses isn't it. Much as I'd hate to admit this, I can understand them - Sticking to something that supposed to be a

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
Penedo wrote: Just looked around for Linux-based Exchange Replacements the other day and got a hunch that Scalix looks like a good candidate. Have you evaluated it yet? Not yet. I am currently evaluating Zimbra. Just took a quick look and will add Scalix to the list to evaluate. Fil --

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Phil Scarratt wrote: Places always say they want all this stuff and generally never use anything beyond email. - requirements are generally: + email + private and shared calendars A lovely idea, nearly always implemented wrong so it doesn't work. I

Re: [SLUG] A8N-SLi Asus Motherboard

2006-12-14 Thread Marty Richards
Gerald said the following on 15/12/2006 7:53 AM: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:43:40PM +1000, Gerald wrote: Do any Sluggers know how to get 4 x sata drives working on this mother board with Linux or Indeed any O/S? When i add a drive beyond 2 the system gets screwed up. Kernel panic.

Re: [SLUG] A8N-SLi Asus Motherboard

2006-12-14 Thread Michael Kedzierski
On 12/15/06, Gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday December 14 2006 21:47, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:43:40PM +1000, Gerald wrote: Do any Sluggers know how to get 4 x sata drives working on this mother board with Linux or Indeed any O/S? When i add a drive

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
David Lloyd wrote: Howard, I don't think there is too much likelihood of getting M$ products out of schools when you consider the predatory prices that M$ charge education for licences. I think it's time to change the way we think of this concept. The pricing of MS products to educational

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Phil Scarratt
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, Phil Scarratt wrote: Places always say they want all this stuff and generally never use anything beyond email. - requirements are generally: + email + private and shared calendars A lovely idea, nearly always implemented

Re: [SLUG] A8N-SLi Asus Motherboard

2006-12-14 Thread Alexander W Stanley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Kedzierski wrote: On 12/15/06, Gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday December 14 2006 21:47, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 08:43:40PM +1000, Gerald wrote: Do any Sluggers know how to get 4 x sata drives working

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Carlo Sogono
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, Phil Scarratt wrote: Places always say they want all this stuff and generally never use anything beyond email. In my first job (2 jobs ago) as an IT consultant we used synchronized Exchange calendars as religiously as email. All

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread Carlo Sogono
Phil Scarratt wrote: David Lloyd wrote: Howard, I don't think there is too much likelihood of getting M$ products out of schools when you consider the predatory prices that M$ charge education for licences. I think it's time to change the way we think of this concept. The pricing of MS

[SLUG] st george bank

2006-12-14 Thread John Sweeney
I have just now developed problems with my st george bank access. I use firefox 2.0 and get the message about internet access is not available at this time. I then tried mozilla and got in. I use fedora 5 Anyone enlighten me? I saw a posting in October that said the opposite, ie firefox works,

Re: [SLUG] SB Live (EMU10K1) configuration.

2006-12-14 Thread Denis Crowdy
I haven't used mpd, but if it has jack support, I suspect that would be the easiest way of doing things. Qjackctl offers a GUI connection scheme that might help. Note that I haven't tried such an output patch myself - but I was just looking at this:

Re: [SLUG] Wasted opportunity: students' portal

2006-12-14 Thread David Lloyd
Howard, I don't think there is too much likelihood of getting M$ products out of schools when you consider the predatory prices that M$ charge education for licences. I think it's time to change the way we think of this concept. Microsoft know that education matters and that those who know

Re: [SLUG] st george bank

2006-12-14 Thread Michael Kedzierski
On 12/15/06, John Sweeney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just now developed problems with my st george bank access. I use firefox 2.0 and get the message about internet access is not available at this time. I then tried mozilla and got in. I use fedora 5 Anyone enlighten me? I saw a posting in

[SLUG] Debian RAID1 rebuild mirror after single drive failure

2006-12-14 Thread Michael Brown
Hi all, I've got a debian woody system running in RAID1 degraded mode at the moment because there is no hot spare currently. mdadm isn't installed, just the bog stadard raidtools I think. I've taken out the dead drive, and I have a spare to replace it with, but I'm wondering what I have to do

[SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

2006-12-14 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Is there a way of configuring ssh, so that if someone ssh's into my machine, I can connect back and get into their machine? (Linux to Linux). Reason: I'm going to convert my dad's pc to Ubuntu (he's shipping it to me), I'm having trouble connecting thru the Hel$tra network and his ADSL modem. But

Re: [SLUG] SB Live (EMU10K1) configuration.

2006-12-14 Thread Alexander W Stanley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To save hours of googling, I can't see any jack support in Gentoo, or in the compile flags from vanilla sources. I've got the same chip (emu10k1) but have never tried to do it like this because I have an inbuilt card that I can use for music output

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

2006-12-14 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Sonia Hamilton wrote: Reason: I'm going to convert my dad's pc to Ubuntu (he's shipping it to me), I'm having trouble connecting thru the Hel$tra network and his ADSL modem. But if I could get him to ssh to me and I could get back in... autossh is your friend.

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

2006-12-14 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Sonia Hamilton wrote: Is there a way of configuring ssh, so that if someone ssh's into my machine, I can connect back and get into their machine? (Linux to Linux). Haven't tried it myself, but looks like what you're after:

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

2006-12-14 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 15:39 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: Is there a way of configuring ssh, so that if someone ssh's into my machine, I can connect back and get into their machine? (Linux to Linux). Have you considered using OpenVPN? -- Cheers, Craige. signature.asc Description: This

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

2006-12-14 Thread David Gillies
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sonia Hamilton wrote: Is there a way of configuring ssh, so that if someone ssh's into my machine, I can connect back and get into their machine? (Linux to Linux). When he ssh's to you: ssh -R :localhost:22 your server Then once he's logged

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

2006-12-14 Thread Michael Kedzierski
On 12/15/06, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way of configuring ssh, so that if someone ssh's into my machine, I can connect back and get into their machine? (Linux to Linux). Reason: I'm going to convert my dad's pc to Ubuntu (he's shipping it to me), I'm having trouble

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

2006-12-14 Thread Byron Hillis
Sonia Hamilton wrote: Is there a way of configuring ssh, so that if someone ssh's into my machine, I can connect back and get into their machine? (Linux to Linux). Reason: I'm going to convert my dad's pc to Ubuntu (he's shipping it to me), I'm having trouble connecting thru the Hel$tra network

[SLUG] rain back-up plan for BBQ tomorrow?

2006-12-14 Thread Taryn East
Subject line says most of it. The xmas BBQ is on tomorrow, but it's looking pretty rainy atm. Is there a back-up plan in case it's bucketing? Taryn -- Let there be lights! http://fiatlux.webcentre.co.nz/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

2006-12-14 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:54:35PM +1100, David Gillies wrote: Sonia Hamilton wrote: Is there a way of configuring ssh, so that if someone ssh's into my machine, I can connect back and get into their machine? (Linux to Linux). When he ssh's to you: ssh -R :localhost:22 your

Re: [SLUG] rain back-up plan for BBQ tomorrow?

2006-12-14 Thread 5h4rk
Can anybody tell me where is Coogee Beach and TBA? Thanks. On 12/15/06, Taryn East [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject line says most of it. The xmas BBQ is on tomorrow, but it's looking pretty rainy atm. Is there a back-up plan in case it's bucketing? Taryn -- Let there be lights!