Er hi,
yes I know there was a thread on this a little while ago - but I admit I
wasn't paying attention to it at that point, and I'm also not sure if it
was precisely what I need for myself, so I thought I'd repost - and hope
nobody minds too much...
Basically my issue is this:
- I am a part of
* Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004, Patrick Lesslie wrote:
Presumably you will need UTF-8 support in both the kernel (should be
fine for a stock kernel) and in /etc/locale.gen (that's on Debian).
Use dpkg-reconfigure locales to generate a set of locates and
* Taryn East [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
My terminal (on my work machine0 is gone-terminal and is show n to be
using UTF-8.
apologies for typo-dyslexia... that was meant to be gnome-terminal...
Cheers,
Taryn
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* Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004, Taryn East wrote:
I have also been told that maybe loking at my fonts might be a good idea
- but not sure whether i should do that on my home machine or on my ork
one - and not sure how to do it on either (ie what font
* Patrick Lesslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
My .muttrc currently has:
set charset=iso-8859-1
but this is what I played with last time I tried to fix this problem and
changing it only resulted in me being able to turn the /123 into ?
It still might be a good idea to lose that
ooh, i can get to this one! brilliant!
My questions are:
- what room will it be held in?
- what (exactly) do I need to bring? (eg presumably I bring the
computer.. .but which bits can I leave at home?)
Cheers and thanks,
Taryn
* Cheng Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Hi,
I would like
Ok, so at work we're running red hat (shrike), and I have a fairly
standard, cheapo mouse - which is probably half my trouble...
but the thing keeps dieing!
stops dead, will not accept any more input.
I have a script which stops and starts the mouse up again which I run
each time this happens
:
On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 14:11, Taryn East wrote:
Ok, so at work we're running red hat (shrike), and I have a fairly
standard, cheapo mouse - which is probably half my trouble...
but the thing keeps dieing!
*snip*
Mouse driver being used:
generic PS/2 wheel mouse
Green Mile
* Dave Airlie [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
- what is gpm? (I got the script from someone else)
console mouse service.. for using the mouse in text mode ...
- how do I go about disabling it?
Redhat-System Settings-Server Settings-Services
untick the gpm box and save changes... also hit
Ok, this thread sstarted when i was trying to get special characters to
work in mutt.
It seemed to work and it's been going along ifne - however I have
noticed another effect that seems to have occurred either as a result of
the changeover - or maybe it was something I bumped while doing the
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Taryn East wrote:
I think it's called index page (at least in at the bottom of its help
page).
cool, thanks
Sounds like mutt thinks your lines are longer than they actually are.
yesh, it seems like that. When I expand the width
* James Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 10:33 +1000, Taryn East wrote:
Not sure what you mean by stty size though - is that .muttrc thing?
stty size is a command. You type it into a terminal. I get this when I
run it:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] james]$ stty size
24
* James Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
However, I do remember that IBM had a product called 'ViaVoice'. I don't
know if it's any good, but there was a linux version of it available at
some point. The references I can see at suggest that there are RPMs
available, but they could take a
Hi all,
noticed a book that looked like it could have potential - but couldn't
look into it enough to tell (while browsing at the shop).
Book:
Software Exorcism
Author:
Bill ?Blunden?
Anyone have any experience with it? Know if it's good, crap or
indifferent? I just liked the premise of the
* Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Taryn East wrote:
Book:
Software Exorcism
Author:
Bill Blunden
Anyone have any experience with it? Know if it's good, crap or
indifferent? I just liked the premise of the thing...
Havent seen the book but if it helps there is a /. review here
* Stuart Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
There was a fantastic looking Addison Wesley
book that was addressing how to debug someone
else's source code and be able to find
stuff within hours even on looking at totally
new code. It wasn't this book. Can't remember
the name of it
ok, I'm just curious...
If I have a file called foobar and a directory called foobaz and I type
cd foo and hit tab...
why does tab-completion offer both choices?
AFAIK it makes no sense to cd to a file - so I was wondering why
tab-completion isn't intelligent enough to just not bother with
Hi all,
well I'm currently in the process of migrating to a new computer and am
at the picking funky packages stage...
now, at home I
Hi all,
well I'm currently in the process of migrating to a new computer and am
at the picking funky packages stage...
now, at home I
Is he likely to speak somewhere at a time where people that actually
work are able to get to?
ie outside of 9-5?
otherwise I'm sad that I'll have to miss out... :(
Cheers,
Taryn
* Pia Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Hi all, three posts today! :)
RMS is speaking at UTS next Friday at
admittedly i haven't been following this conversation but...
Openskills you have to pay for...
I find this a big turnoff and it's highly unlikely that I'd join.
Cheers,
Taryn
* Craige McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 06:03 +1000, Pia Smith wrote:
put
* Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
quote who=Taryn East
Openskills you have to pay for...
I find this a big turnoff and it's highly unlikely that I'd join.
SLUG is more expensive to join than OpenSkills. ;-)
yeah, but you don't have to pay for SLUG to take advantage of most
W3C have one here:
http://validator.w3.org/checklink
simple, easy and good reputation.
Cheers,
Taryn
* Peter Rundle [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Sluggers,
As per the subject, looking for recommendations for a simple tool to run
on a Linux desktop which will scan a web site and report
* Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Sorry, I didn't think to turn the camera on until half way through, so I
missed the talks. We've got a recording of Luke's awesome Accessibility
talk though.
erm, silly question - where can they all be found? the only ones listed
on:
ok, stupid user question warning...
I have some files I want ot copy to floppy... I mount the floppy and
copy in the files. I go to umount it doesn't work... says the device is
busy.
I make sure I'm out of the directory - I am. I do a ps aux | grep fd0
and nothing shows up...
nothing seems ot
ok, I just went through a long dist-upgrade and it asked me if I wantted
to overwrite some of my config files with the maintainer's versions...
now I don't remember ever editing any of these (apart from crontab) so I
don't know what changed so I hit no to all of them...
but I'm pretty sure some
I've been given the task of doing a single-login and am having trouble
finding out how to do it...
the issue is that our business allows some of our website to be viewable
through the website of some of our channel partners. These channel
partners have a login to our website to allow them to do
again I missed the list... I'll get used to shift-L someday...
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Sounds like a cookie
that requires them to login the first time, doesn't it? or can a site
set a cookie for another site?
I would think that browsers would not let us see the cookie
* Rob Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
I'm guessing that you use PHP, and if you are, then the CURL library
is your friend...
http://au2.php.net/curl
You should be able to authenticate to the remote site and 'proxy' the
pages to the users browser by echoing the server response to the
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Sounds like just what WebCollage (http://www.webcollage.com) do.
snip
it all sounds good - but I'd rather not recommend to our channel
partners that they essentially buy a new system for their websites...
they have their own systems already.
But
ok, reading this has made me suspect my knowledge of cookies is much less
complete than I had at first thought...
I'm just going to ask a whole bunch more questions and hopefully nut out
the answers...
* Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
There's lots of things that can be done with
* Gavin Carr [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Try mod_auth_tkt: http://www.openfusion.com.au/labs/mod_auth_tkt/
this sounds really like a good option but...
https://www.taryn.com/cgi-bin/ticket.cgi?user=foo;pass=bar
this looks like exactly the sort of thing that I can't do anymore - which
is
Take below with a pinch of salt - I'm not a highly experienced
C-programmer, but hey.
* Rod Butcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
I've found an online university course tutorial which covers basic data
types, operators, functions, prototyping, structures, pointers,
malloc :-
In case anyone's interested, I threw together a quick-fix demo in CURL
as below and it seems ot have passed our preliminary tests...
all the Channel partners need to is include this in their first page.
It seems to be
together?
What am I doing wrong? :(
Cheers,
Taryn
* Taryn East [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
?php
// create a new curl resource
$ch = curl_init();
// set URL and other appropriate options
curl_setopt($ch
out of curiosity - is there anyting specific to support younger people?
Mainly becuase my BF's son (16) is getting interested in this stuff and
was wondering where a good place to point him would be. I was thinking
of dragging him along to SLUGlets to start with but was wondering if
there's
damn.. must remember... shift-L to reply!
* Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:18:48 +1100, Taryn East [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Give them a crash n burn machine, and then a few distros to play with.
Direct them to the howto LDP stuff.
Best way to learn
* Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
This stuff Do you mean computers and linux? Like windows, linux
has a hardware compatibility list. Do you know what he wants to do
with Linux? The way I started out was playing with DEC unix at uni way
back when win3.0 was out, I hated using
* Craige McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Regrettably I can't make tonight's AGM so I'd like to wish everyone a
great night, good luck to people who are standing and welcome to the new
committee.
another regrettably, myself - I've been looking over my free time
recently and decided that
sigh
of course - five minutes after having sent this (throwing my hands up in
disgust) I removed it, reinstalled it and now it works :P
oh well... murphy's law is still firmly in operation ;)
Still, I'm not complaining too loudly! :)
Cheers,
Taryn
* Taryn East [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus
ok, striek that... it prints the test page just fine, but when I try to
actually print a pdf it just prints, well, you coudl say it prints with
invisible ink... though there's a lot of printing going on for a
completely blank page :P
Anyone have any idea what might be going on?
Cheers,
Taryn
ok, I've had enough - I really want my printer working and I just can't
seem ot get it to. :(
I run ubuntu (hoary) and it seems to detect it's there just fine, but it
keeps telling me parallel port busy will try again - of course it's a
USB printer and I keep changing it to either use detected
) and a senior mud-hut builder(1) (of a
guesstimated 20-30 years building experience) and takes place in the setting
of the sprawling mud-cty in which the junior builder has been working
for the past year and a half.
enjoy,
Taryn East
PS - I'm actually writing up a formal review of the processes
* Rob Sharp [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Is that not how every mud-hut building company works? ;-)
I only hope the senior dev^H^H^Hmud-hut builder isn't on the SLUG list...!
unlikely... his home system is windows (and he works from home)...
Taryn
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* Rowling, Jill [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Systems Engineering used to be a compulsory subject at both UNSW EE/CS and
UTS EE; clearly it isn't compulsory everywhere!
lets just say that the guy I work with has been around longer than IT
degrees have...
Unfortunately most small businesses
Hi all, I'm having some issues getting SQL-ledger to work and I'd be
very grateful for any suggestions on where to look next.
Basically, I'm running Ubuntu Hoary. I apt-get installed sql-ledger
(btw, postgres didn't automatically get pulled in when I did that -
should it have?) and set up the
* Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
You did restart your Postgresql after you changed pg_hba.conf...?
good question - I have a feeling I may not have, but Michael's posts had
that as an instruction so I did it this time...
oh, adn I should probably have posted to the list sayin that
Hi all, fresh from a discussion with communitycode I have a request to
pick your combined brains about great code out there in the FOSS
community:
What FOSS projects (or parts therof) do you know that have really great
code in them? The kind of excellent code that a person with reasonable
but
what nobody else is going to bite? :(
I felt for sure there'd at least be one person self-promoting:
my code is briliant, you should come see it in my project foo ;)
I'm asking for anybody's opinion of code that they think is worthwhile to
look at. It doesn't have to be universally accepted as
* Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Just about any language can be made to look good by applying
to a small problem that suites the language. Large projects
tackling large difficult problem domains test the language
and the developer much more that toy problems.
good point.
* QuantumG [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
I heard someone bitching the other day that gtk+/python apps are slow.
Not been my experience, but if you're sufficiently bored, why don't you
download some and see for yourself?
I guess my point was that there are so many out there to choose from,
* Benno [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
I think this is because great code is code is due to the absence
of suckiness rather than the presence of brilliance. At least
IMHO.[1]
make sense - but surely there's some code around that has had the
greatest amount of suckiness removed... or at least
* Ian Wienand [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
So the best code is code you look at and say is that it - I could
have done that, even though you probably couldn't have.
good point!
If you're interested in systems, I'd suggest starting with an
intermediate step of some good books first, the
* Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:09:52PM +1000, Taryn East wrote:
what nobody else is going to bite? :(
Depends whether you wanted programming in the small or large.
anything and everything will help.
Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls books
apologies for using this forum, but I am looking to get in contact with
one of the computerbank people and I know some have shown up at SLUG
meetings...
we have attempted to google for contact information but come up blank -
the cbnsw website is not very intuitive in how to get in contact and the
* David [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 11:29:29AM +1000, Bruce Badger wrote:
On 9/28/05, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If they are doing low volumes, I can't imagine a punter using mutt. It's
really hard to convince someone raised on gui that consoles are actually
Hi all, I'm having an annoying minor issue with latex that I just can't
seem to get past and was hoping to tap the collective wisdom of slug
once more for a Clue.
I'm writing a template for an invoice that we will send to the customer.
It's in landscape format and has a lefthand section (with all
* Ian Wienand [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
I'm not sure about why the minipages overlap, but I had to do
something similar once and I used multicol to separate out the page.
I've tried it a bit more using multicol (now putting in stuff in the
right-hand column) and unfortunately they still
* Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
\setlength{\unitlength }{1mm}
\begin{picture}(10,10) % width=10x10
\put(0,0){\makeleftpage }
\put(140,0){\makerightpage } % puts 140mm to the right
\end{picture}
erg - nope, I'm afraid that doesn't work as well as you expect. It's not
only
* Ian Wienand [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Looking back at your original example, Latex is assuming you are using
a portrait page, which isn't wide enough to get all that stuff in.
Thus Latex then just shoves the boxes ontop of each other.
a good idea, but sadly not the case - my real .tex is
* Angus Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
At Tue, 25 Oct 2005 12:37:07 +1000, Taryn East wrote:
\begin{tabular}{l|r}
\makeleftpage \makerightpage \\
\end{tabular}
You could also use something explicit (and simpler?) like this:
\makeleftpage \hspace{3mm} \vrule \hspace{3mm
* Mark Jonathan Greenaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone know of any LISP user groups in our fair city ?
Nope, but I'm willing to get involved with one.
I'd probably pop along to such a thing largely out of curiousity. I
think there are many people on
* Lyle Chapman [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
I was wondering if anyone here could help out with some advice.
The company I work for is looking at implementing some new open
source accounting software called SQL Ledger, has anyone heard of
this program and if so is it good, bad
Hi all,
* Chris Deigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
8:20pm (approx): Split into two groups for:
* Special Interest Talk: Erik de Castro Lopo - Careers for Geeks
is it possible for a recording to be made of this talk? It sounds really
interesting, and I'd love to get to it, but I
* Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
We record all the main talks, only sluglets dont get recorded.
understood, but not all of them are available on the website... I guess
I'm putting in a special request that this one go up - it would be
really appreciated :)
Many thanks,
Taryn
Hi All,
My work is looking for some junior Ruby/Rails developers.
Job description is available on seek here:
http://www.seek.com.au/showjob.asp?jobid=7958778
Cheers,
Taryn
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* Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
I'm thinking of learning Ruby - is there an easy way of running Perl and
Python code/libraries from Ruby? I've googled and browsed manuals in
Dymocks Library ^H^H^H Bookshop, can't seem to find an answe
I haven't read in depth but Ruby/Python:
* Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
I'm thinking of learning Ruby - is there an easy way of running Perl and
Python code/libraries from Ruby? I've googled and browsed manuals in
Dymocks Library ^H^H^H Bookshop, can't seem to find an answer.
on a quick google, this is the closest
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
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Would there be any interest in me running an Introduction to Ruby on
Rails talk at SLUG?
If so - do you have any questions you'd like me to research ahead of
time?
Cheers,
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* Nick Croft [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Specifically, adding rails to apache2 sites-enabled without messing up
already fragile and complex set-up.
eep, not exactly an introductory topic ;)
How to have different projects there.
Not sure exactly what you're asking here. What setup do/did
* Scott Finneran [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Would the talk be focusing on or covering Ruby itself or mostly Rails as
a system? Either would be good.
Mostly rails.
Good question, though. The two are almost, but not entirely, the same
thing :)
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