Re: [SLUG] portable MP3 player recomendations? (iIpod, iriver, ...)

2007-04-20 Thread Richard Neal
I own an a few portable media players and to be honest Ive settled on the 5G iPOD (30Gb) as my main media device because its easy to use and works perfectly with Linux. When I plug the iPOD in it just shows up as a USB storage device for me in Kubuntu so I can just drag and drop files onto

Re: [SLUG] Re: portable MP3 player recomendations?

2007-04-20 Thread David P
On 4/20/07, elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sonia, I have a Creative Muvo TX (with FM radio). This works as a flash drive. Very easy to set up. You can put things in folders in any fashion you like. Works well and is just 'plug and play' - I run Kubuntu 6.06 and FCore. I also

Re: [SLUG] Re: portable MP3 player recomendations?

2007-04-20 Thread elliott-brennan
Ah...you're probably right David. I'd not thought about doing anything that 'exotic' =) My needs are simple (LOL) Sonia, battery life, like David said, is very good and the screen, though small, is enough so you know what you're doing. It also has the ability to record sound

Re: [SLUG] Re: portable MP3 player recomendations?

2007-04-20 Thread david
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 00:33 +1000, David P wrote: On 4/20/07, elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Sonia, I bought an iriver T10 because: It's got a microphone for recording meetings It's just a USB drive to Linux It runs on a standard AA battery It

Re: [SLUG] Bigpond NextG on Linux (Ubuntu)?

2007-04-20 Thread Adam Kennedy
We have something of a special relationship with Telstra in that regard, since we're going to be buying (or causing others to buy) somewhere between 100 and 1000 of those accounts. In fact, we've gotten amazingly good service from Telstra from day 1. :) Adam K Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This

[SLUG] Re: portable MP3 player recomendations?

2007-04-20 Thread elliott-brennan
Hi Sonia, I have a Creative Muvo TX (with FM radio). This works as a flash drive. Very easy to set up. You can put things in folders in any fashion you like. Works well and is just 'plug and play' - I run Kubuntu 6.06 and FCore. Regards, Patrick Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fri,

[SLUG] AcetoneISO is a disk image emulator that mounts images of DVD and CD media.

2007-04-20 Thread elliott-brennan
Hi all, I've just tried this out. It seems quite handy and very easy to use. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/extract-convert-mount-iso-bin-daa-nrg.html Regards, Patrick -- Registered Linux User 368634 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

[SLUG] Stuffed apt local config

2007-04-20 Thread David Fisher
It looks as though apt on this machine is somewhat corrupted. I am trying to get rid of the blender package; I don't use it and it is preventing upgrades in its present state. It's defying all attempts to get rid of it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/var/cache/apt/archives$ sudo apt-get remove blender