Its a conspiracy I tell you...
On 2/27/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Since they reckon that they have already got 90% online lodgement and
are targeting 95%. perhaps they are tacitly admitting that they are not
interested in the remaining 5% that represent Linux desktops.
Sales
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why are you blaming the tool?
Because, me as a dumb user, is confronted by such archaic and meaningless
twaddle as:
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
or even more enlightening
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 12:34:26PM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Gavin Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I've just had a friend ask me whether there's anything in the free software
world for academic research / writing i.e. tracking bibliographic info,
This will be the third social gathering of Sydney Python Users Group for
2007
and any individuals interested in discussing Python, Web, Ruby, Perl etc.
Laptops, code review, show and tell etc allowed and encouraged.
We meet in the ground floor area next to P.J. O'Briens Pub internal entrance
in
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 11:00:26AM -0800, Mark A. Bell wrote:
Hello,
I'm running Ubuntu Edgy and I want to give myself permission to halt my
system without using sudo and a password. I've added the following to
/etc/sudoers using visudo:
marklocalhost = NOPASSWD: /sbin/halt
But
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:12:26PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote:
Hi,
One of the questions during the latest distro comparision discussion was
about commercial support. My answer as the Debian supporter was that I know
there is but I can't give a name off the top of my head.
Today I learned a
Could you provide a link to the source/s that informed you of this?
On 28/02/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think I have just found a reason why the default installation often
makes swap = 2xRAM.
It's to do with laptops mainly. When they hibernate they apparently
roll the
Right. So you're saying that desktop installers set swap to be 2x RAM
by default, just in case the user decides to download suspend2, which
didn't exist at the time the installer was written and isn't included
in the distro, and *then* chooses to suspend to swap?
I don't follow your argument.
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 10:06 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/24/1716222
If you select Swap Writer, suspend2 will write all data to the swap
space, so make sure your swap is at least twice the amount of your RAM
in size. You can also select File Writer
On 28/02/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Zhasper wrote:
Right. So you're saying that desktop installers set swap to be 2x RAM
by default, just in case the user decides to download suspend2, which
didn't exist at the time the installer was written and isn't included
in the
And since after JUly 1 self funded retirees etc over 60 will get their
pensions tax-free, that probably eliminates a few more % due to many
above that age not having net access and/or being computer illiterate.
Anyway, seems to me that most of the 90% would be online lodgements by
Tax Agents.
quote who=Howard Lowndes
I think I have just found a reason why the default installation often
makes swap = 2xRAM.
It's to do with laptops mainly. When they hibernate they apparently roll
the memory image out to the swap space, hence the recommendation about the
swap space size.
No, the
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:55:14 +1100
bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And since after JUly 1 self funded retirees etc over 60 will get
their pensions tax-free, that probably eliminates a few more % due to
many above that age not having net access and/or being computer
illiterate.
Watch it mate
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Russell Davie wrote:
snip
Kile is a more user-friendly KDE-based TeX/LaTeX editor:
http://kile.sourceforge.net/
KBibTeX specifically targets the bibliography features of LaTeX:
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=27421
More user friendly?
How so if
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:11:57 +1100
Joseph Goncalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Russell Davie wrote:
snip
Kile is a more user-friendly KDE-based TeX/LaTeX editor:
http://kile.sourceforge.net/
KBibTeX specifically targets the bibliography features of LaTeX:
Hi,
I'm looking at replacing our venerable HP 3330 MFP (printer/scanner/fax/copier)
a mid-range model, more up to date, with a duplexing kit and colour. Although
I've always bought HP printers in the past, HP have a Colour LaserJet 2800 which
at $1600 or so looks a bit flimsy, doesn't have
Jeff Waugh wrote:
No, the 2*RAM thing comes from the distant past, back when the 2.2 and 2.4
VMs were lame. You don't need 2*RAM for laptop hibernate -- all the laptop
needs is system (and sometimes video) memory written to disk, and with the
current hibernate code, it's gzipped on the way
OK... so why CAN'T the ATO get their act together and be platform
independent? is there a real reason or just the usual stuff-you attitude
that some parts of the tax office adopt? What is the technical reason?
does anyone know?
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 11:21 +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote:
On Wed, 28
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Alan L Tyree wrote:
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:11:57 +1100
Joseph Goncalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Russell Davie wrote:
snip
Kile is a more user-friendly KDE-based TeX/LaTeX editor:
http://kile.sourceforge.net/
KBibTeX specifically
On 2/28/2007, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My own guess is that it's probably more of a distro thing.
Should they support Debian, or Fedora, or Ubuntu, or Slackware, or
Gentoo, or Mandriva, or some minority distro, and why not my own
preference?
Should they package to rpm, or apt,
On 28/02/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Going slightly OT, but is the /boot partition necessary any longer.
IIRC, this is bios-dependent. Newer bioses don't have this limitation.
cf http://www.enterprisedt.com/publications/dual_boot.html#1024,
Howard Lowndes wrote:
Going slightly OT, but is the /boot partition necessary any longer.
Wasn't that a method of getting around the boot must be in the first
1023 cyl limit?
It's not necessary, since the limit doesn't exist on modern
machines. There's no reason for it to be the default in an
On 28/02/07, Glen Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The One True Partitioning scheme is
/
:-)
Seriously, for a single-spindle machine I wouldn't stuff about
with partitioning unless you want to encrypt your home
directory with dm_crypt.
I think there's a bit more utility than that in at
Hi Del,
I have used other OKI's for customers and no probs, try
linuxprinting.org for more info. and additional ppd files.
Cheers Bud.
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 12:02 +1100, Del wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking at replacing our venerable HP 3330 MFP
(printer/scanner/fax/copier)
a mid-range
quote who=Glen Turner
(consider also that RHEL, not exactly primarily used with laptops, still
leads the charge for 2*RAM).
That's a bit unfair, FC6's installer suggested swap = RAM when I installed
it on a Intel Mac Mini with 2GB of RAM.
Fedora != RHEL (Fedora is way cooler because it
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 13:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
OK... so why CAN'T the ATO get their act together and be platform
independent? is there a real reason or just the usual stuff-you attitude
that some parts of the tax office adopt? What is the technical reason?
does anyone know?
On
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One needs only to look at what a nice job the census folk did (every browser
I
tried worked perfectly) to be able to declare that:
To be fair, collecting a census is quite a bit simpler than collecting a
tax return. The sheer size of
Thank you very much for your replies, Sonia.
I'm using Fedora, rather than Ubuntu.
Following ApplicationsPreferencesMore Preferences, I get to Preferred
Applications. When I click on it, I get a window with a number of tabs,
one of which is called Web Browser.
On that tab, I'm able to
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 16:54 +1100, Leslie Katz wrote:
On that tab, I'm able to select my default web browser. I've got the
Custom Web Browser button highlighted and a box into which I'm to put a
command. The command which appears is the full path to the Firefox
executable. I've tested that
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:54:37PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote:
I'm using Fedora, rather than Ubuntu.
Following ApplicationsPreferencesMore Preferences, I get to Preferred
Applications. When I click on it, I get a window with a number of tabs,
one of which is called Web Browser.
On that
Matthew Hannigan wrote:
Didn't you say you're using firefox 2.0.0.2? That's not standard
on any released fedora that I know of. If you installed it
yourself from source, or from an alternative rpm repo, then
I suspect that could be the origin of your problem.
I am using that version,
Hi all,
Second post requesting help
(See my post Firefox problem for an explanation of my total infancy in Linux)
I have several PCs running Win98 plus one running Win98 / Ubuntu as a dual-boot
on a LAN.
I can see the Ubuntu PC on the Win 98 PCs but when I try to access I get a
pop-up box
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