[SLUG] Opinion on Mint Linux 4.0

2007-11-28 Thread leei
Hi all, Not to start a flame war on distros but what is your opinion on Mint Linux 4.0 is this distro better or the same as Ubuntu 7.10? Thanks, Lee --- South Africas premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za

[SLUG] Internet connection problems

2007-11-28 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, A good mate of mine is having a strange problem with his (Ubuntu 7.10) internet connection. I have included the relevant text from his email to me. If anyone could suggest a direction in which to look I would be grateful. Quote: I am very

Re: [SLUG] Internet connection problems

2007-11-28 Thread Linux Wongy
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 23:01 +1100, Heracles wrote: But ubuntu will connect once or twice IF I MOVE THE NETWORK CARD FROM ONE SLOT TO ANOTHER between boots! I don't quite follow exactly what he means. If it is an upgrade, check for a file called /etc/iftab. If it is a new NIC then the old

[SLUG] virtualisation and wine on ubuntu gutsey for adobe photoshop flash premier etc

2007-11-28 Thread Ken Wilson
Lisa uses ubuntu for some of her work and dual boots into windows xp mainly for adobe/macromedia photoshop, flash, premiere, after effects, director and sound forge. There is a bit she does on a mac as well. Often there is something that needs a visual tweak but she is back in linux. GIMP she

Re: [SLUG] find -exec

2007-11-28 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:16:45AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: On 28/11/2007, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have this commend which i use find -mindepth 2 -type d -exec bash -c 'ls -l {} | tail -n 2' \; I have tried to format the -exec option with out the bash -c, but I

Re: [SLUG] Opinion on Mint Linux 4.0

2007-11-28 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:13:08 +0200 (SAST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Not to start a flame war on distros but what is your opinion on Mint Linux 4.0 is this distro better or the same as Ubuntu 7.10? Better for *what*? Different distro's are targeted at different uses eg desktop, server,

Re: [SLUG] Internet connection problems

2007-11-28 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Simon, I will check with him today to be sure, but I think the network card was already in the machine when he loaded Ubuntu 7.10 - which I think was a clean install. He has found that when the system refuses to connect to the internet (he has

[SLUG] SyPy Meetup Thursday, 6 December 2007

2007-11-28 Thread Mark Rees
This Thursday, 6 December 2007 from 6:30PM, there will be a social gathering of Sydney Python Users Group 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.

RE: Sharing files between guests and hosts (Was: Re: [SLUG]virtualisation and wine on ubuntu gutsey for adobe photoshop flashpremier etc)

2007-11-28 Thread Roger Barnes
I also run vmware Win XP on linux and do the scp trick. I am wondering whether there is an easier way to move files between my host FS and the vmware instance, as it's a bit of a hassle using scp all the time. Has anyone else got an answer? Maybe sharing within the XP instance

Re: [SLUG] Internet connection problems

2007-11-28 Thread Scott Ragen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 29/11/2007 10:32:13 AM: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Simon, I will check with him today to be sure, but I think the network card was already in the machine when he loaded Ubuntu 7.10 - which I think was a clean install. He has found that

Re: [SLUG] find -exec

2007-11-28 Thread Amos Shapira
On 29/11/2007, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 10:16:45AM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: On 28/11/2007, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have this commend which i use find -mindepth 2 -type d -exec bash -c 'ls -l {} | tail -n 2' \; I have

Re: [SLUG] Opinion on Mint Linux 4.0

2007-11-28 Thread jam
On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 10:24 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not to start a flame war on distros but what is your opinion on Mint Linux 4.0 is this distro better or the same as Ubuntu 7.10? It's cute, you don't need it, Gutsy does everything easily, I ran into a few

Re: [SLUG] Internet connection problems

2007-11-28 Thread Martin Visser
Definitely check out Scott's lspci suggestion - this will show if it is a hardware problem As far as /etc/iftab goes, this is not used in Ubuntu 7.10 anymorethis functionality is moved to hotplug,. and maybe causing your prob. As you said, the NIC was in when Ubuntu was installed. However,