Hi David
3 laptops
Newtown
email if interested
cheers
Ken
On 14/08/12 07:30, David Lyon wrote:
If anybody has PC's to throw out, let me know. I can come pick
them up.
It turns out my friend is looking for such things and will send them
to Sierra-Leone in Africa to teach kids about computers.
Some people do care, not all.
Some people who cannot write code still care.
I have a G1 with Optus.
So this is at iphone 1 level of technology. How many of these are still
around.
memory limited, cannot install many apps so have not explored them much.
Apps to SD works till card has problems,
I have seen them at Reverse Garbage in Addison Rd Marrickville, where
whole computing setups have been discarded including routers, their
price is always not much.
Ken
On 12/10/11 22:17, Heracles wrote:
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On 12/10/11 21:29, Rod Butcher wrote:
The IBM Thinkpad R30 has died.
Faults;- battery does not charge, but mains operates computer OK.
Battery has been replaced without improvement.
CMOS battery holder has come off mainboard.
Otherwise all works, nothing else broken.
Free to anyone who wants parts or thinks they can fix it.
I live
On 30/05/11 13:51, david wrote:
I've been putting it off, but now the 9.04 repo has vanished, along with
the upgrade-to-new-distribution button in synaptic.
Are there any gotchas if I just change my sources list and do a
dist-upgrade? This is a complicated desktop which would be a horror to
Video stream is very choppy.
On Optus cable with 5-8 viewers indicated it streams for 5 seconds then
cuts out.
So a start but could be better.
?where the bottleneck is
cheers
Ken
On 29/04/11 13:18, Tim Ansell wrote:
Hello everyone,
Tonight we are going to experiment with live streaming SLUG.
Replacing drives with smart errors and reinstalling seems to have fixed
things, and the machine boots much faster now.
Thanks all
Ken
On 14/02/11 08:15, Jon and Hannah wrote:
Hi,
Have you:
Run a disk check (fsck?) and checked the SMART status of your drives?
Run a RAM check - using the ful
I have a problem with an Ubuntu 10.4 desktop.
It regularly ends up unresposive, with a blank screen, often after being
left alone for a while, a few hours or overnight. But can happen while
using machine, where it just stops being able to respond to mouse or
keyboard with no recovery.
No
there in my 3.0.4 (on OS X) nor my wife's (Win 7).
We are talking about the reading pane aren't we? In the main UI.
Whether you're using tabbed reading or not.
Kind Regards
Kyle
On 03/06/10 9:35 PM, Ken Wilson wrote
the (-) sign is there on my 3.0.4
Ken
On 03/06/10 17:05, Kyle wrote:
The minus sign won't be there if you're using T'Bird 3.x.
It's gone. The '-' sign is a relic of T-Bird 2.x.
Kind Regards
Kyle
On 03/06/10 2:05 PM,
I have a HP 1320N laserjet that has a direct USB and a Network
printserver that duplexes, ppostscript, Black and white, has worked
perfectly except when lightning hit the network, needed a new
network/printserver board.
It has a niece cubical form factor, no plastic trays hanging out to get
in
treasu...@slug.org.au will get the current treasurer
Options, cheque or money order via post, or direct deposit works, you
would just need to deposit in SLUG A/C and give it an identifier and
send me the details via email or post; date, amount, location, your name
and address. I would then wait
Daniel Pittman wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com writes:
2009/11/8 Kevin Shackleton kev...@reachnet.com.au:
Save the environment - buy a NAS.
(my mirrored 2-disc NAS averages about 20 W)
That's a good suggestion. My reluctance to use a NAS myself stems from the
perception of
Daniel Pittman wrote:
Ken Wilson kenwi...@ozemail.com.au writes:
Daniel Pittman wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com writes:
2009/11/8 Kevin Shackleton kev...@reachnet.com.au:
[...]
Otherwise, the DLINK DNS-[24]32 devices can also run Linux, or...
D Link do run linux
aquick google
http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Net+Nanny+on+Ubuntu+PDQie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficialclient=firefox-a
found this forum thread
http://fixunix.com/ubuntu/126505-net-nanny.html
which may give you a solution
cheers
Ken
Kyle wrote:
Hi Sluggers,
well, tonight was
Del
you are pushing the limits, construct your mailing list.
Ken
Del wrote:
Hi,
I realise this list isn't the correct place for sales talk, but our own
products mailing list is still under construction, so I'll keep it short.
CentOS 5.4 is released, and Everything Linux have it in stock,
Try Reverse garbage and The Bower in Addison Rd Marrickvillle.
They have had numerous routers there for a few dollars
Ken
Tony H.G Candito wrote:
Hello SLUG!
I'm after a Cisco (1600/2500?) etc model for my recent Cisco study
undertakings. Happy to fork out max 100$
You could also take my
jam wrote:
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
The point about shells has already been made, but some people have got a
bit sidetracked. Shells are command-interpreters; they mediate between the
user and the kernel. Applications in Unix, as has already been
in thunderbird? I am
unable to reproduce it, so maybe the exact sequence is different to memory.
More definitely its a bug in me.
cheers
Ken
This doesn't look SLUG related. Perhaps a mistake?
2009/8/1 Ken Wilson kenwi...@ozemail.com.au:
2008-12-07
SSEM 2008 sponsorship
$750
Yes we have paid
Good work Patrick
I like the SLUG logo as it is our brand
Ken
elliott-brennan wrote:
Hi All,
I've decided to make myself useful. In the words
of Agent 86, If only he had used his video skills
for good instead of evil. :))
I've offered Ken to assist in editing the videos
from the monthly
ffmpeg2theora script from SLUG website that is a derivative of the
script from LCA Sydney i think.
Ken
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Michael Chesterton
This time to the list :(
Looks like there's an ugly encoding issue going on... the audio seems fine,
but the video goes nuts in mplayer (and
Michael Chesterton wrote:
The videos are up, (thank you very much) they're in the 2008 directory.
http://mirror.linux.org.au/lug/slug/2008/
looks like the LA server script that transports the videos to folders is
not dealing with a new year.
Ken
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group
them together in the right sequence, but
if it is wrong email me and I will redo.
SLUG server seems to be missing storage at
/home/slug/slug.org.au/root/videos/
***could the sysadmins look at where the 200G disc has gone.
because it was not visible today.
Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
Ken
lyx has an indexing tool, where you insert tags to parts you want
indexed through your text and it generates an index at the end, much the
same as it can generate a bibliography. this requires author input and
thought about what you want indexed, rather than being automatically
generated.
Various problems.
Sound had sufficient noise to be unusable, which was traced to a lead
problem, now fixed with a new lead.
Last month I connected to a wrong output so got no sound.
This month looked OK as I was filming, and it should go up over the weekend.
Any help on filming appreciated, I
Alan L Tyree wrote:
This is really just the LaTeX embedded indexing. One of Jon's earlier
posts explained that this is not what real indexers do.
I both agree and disagree with Jon. Real indexers do not use embedded
systems. Unfortunately, in real life, the real indexer is the author,
and
Hi Stephen
No record of anyone paying membership under that name from 2003 on.
No Record on main mailing list of anyone under that name. ( but
someone's email address may not bear any resemblance to their name and
they could just read the archives and leave no trace.)
So I cannot pass on
There is an add-on that allows a reply to list button to appear on the
toolbar. I have just found it.
Ken
david wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Hi Irma,
Think about this for a second: if you can do that to other people,
can't other people do that to you?
Wouldn't it be annoying if everyone
EEPC900 fixed on warranty by manufacturer after Zandros wiped and ubuntu
installed.
Ken
Morgan Storey wrote:
I don't believe that manufacturers can claim that the warranty has been
voided by simply installing a different operating system. They will probably
not offer support, but so be it. My
I have 512MB of DDR-400 RAM sitting in a drawer, available free to the OP.
I had 2 x 512MB, one died so I upgraded to 2 x 1GB and that left an
orphan 512MB which might as well go to someone who will use it as sit in
my spares drawer till it becomes completely obsolete.
I am in Sydney and will
Cannon have just worked for me, but have been some models that were limited.
HP have just worked
I have a spare Canon BJC85 colour bubblejet printer and spare cartridges
just sitting idle as I now have a laserprinter, yours for the pickup, in
Newtown
cheers
Ken
Bruce wrote:
Sorry for the
For the archives
As one cites a reference in lyx there is an option to change how
author, date appears and insert arbitrary text before and after
author, date such as pp23-26. I could find no documentation
referencing this, and thankfully now don't have to attempt to understand
Bibtex style
I have several removable data backup drives that I swap over when I get
around to it. One had given some smart errors when last used, I returned
it to use a few weeks ago and it failed to be accessible 2 days ago.
Rebooting and the machine would not reboot. replacing the drive with the
other
Hi Patrick
I sometimes have similar problems with a usb memory stick, and the
following command fixes it. Its about one module being substituted for
another, but others will have better explanations.
#if usb disk doesnt work try this command in terminal.
sudo modprobe -r ehci_hcd
cheers
Ken
Google is usually good at giving me an option to get what I want rather
than what I type.
Ken
Amos Shapira wrote:
2008/12/23 Ken Wilson kenwi...@ozemail.com.au:
I have read the tutorials in lyx, and jabref, googled, installed extra
packages for jurabib and natbib styles, tried all the obvious
If you stopped while just arranging where you wanted the disk
partitioned, nothing has been written to the disk.
If you actually proceeded with partitioning the disk then all the disc
has been overwritten in the formatting of the disk/partitions, and data
recovery would be very difficult and
I am having trouble getting references in the format required for my
partners thesis.
Using lyx as a frontend to latek, and jabref as a frontend to bibtek.
Using Natbib style of citations.
currently getting
Author (year)
would like
(Author, year:page)
I have read the tutorials in lyx, and
Maybe this is why my optus cable is getting slower
Ken
Dean Hamstead wrote:
optus is being resold like crazy
check out plans from
http://www.dodo.com.au
http://www.exetel.com.au/residential-hspa-information.php
rumours are of woolies (safeway) and internode entering the market via
optus
Ben wrote:
I'd like to use some accounting and stock control software.
I run a computer business and I want to track the purchase price of parts
and correlate them with sales invoices.
I'd like to be able to categorise parts based on where they are stored.
It would be good if I could get it
I have had thunderbird fail as too many emails in inbox in a user that
did not expunge, and then multiple copies were saved, and this cycle
repeated itself to varyinging levels of success several times.
claws was able to handle the 50,000 + emails, and remove duplicates.
cheers
Ken
Voytek
Have you checked out Geoffrey Robinson at Grandville TAFE.
His courses are not official TAFE courses so you wont find them on TAFE
websites, but he manages to keep them cheap by having them as electrical
engineering certificate courses. This means official TAFE cannot tell
you about them.
I have an eee pc running on ubuntu eee, it ran fine on xandros, and
there are numerous other distros for it, fedora, mandriva opensuse?.
People have made eee specific kernels such as the ubuntu eee thqt have
the drivers .
Ken
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Your second partition mounted on / could be covering the contents of the
folder that is the mount point. Unmount your second partition and then
list contents of the directory that is your mount point.
If you inadvertently wrote to the mount point directory, because the 4G
partition was not
Somewhere in the one I received it said it was in lieu of a paper tax
pack as I had submitted on paper previously. They would like people to
submit electronically, as it saves them reading the paper ones, they
have the group certificates, share dividend data, interest data
electronically so
ubuntu heron firefox3 standard flash out of the box, works for me on
about 15 clips after 5secs of rotating dots
Ken
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
BBC News articles these days often included embedded video, playable via
Flash[0]. When I try to play any of them, all I get is a
A satellite phone would get low power requirement access in a durable
box, as long as it was modem compatible. Inmarsat email works well from
ships, but call duration is pricey.
Ken
Mehmet Yousouf wrote:
Hi all,
just to let you all know, I am grateful for the advice from Grahame, Del and
As far as I know yes, but Geoffreys server and name servers are down
yesterday and today, so no details, and I cant find his number.
cheers
Ken
R.G.Salisbury(default) wrote:
Hi all
Linux courses at Granville TAFE. Are they still happening?
Normal website is down it seems.
3 characters works in ubuntu and redhat out of the box.
Redhat has a minimnun password length of 5 and not all letters.
Ken
DaZZa wrote:
Folks.
Anyone know if there is a default minimum username length for some (or
all) current Linux distros?
I have a vague recall from somewhere it's 4
Sebastian Spiess wrote:
Hi all,
lately I was playing with fspot and a couple of pictures from two or
tree events.
I started tagging the pictures.
People Family Brother
People Family Sister
People Friends ...
Places AUstralia ...Uluru
Places Germany ...
Events holiday 1
Events
Getting sound to play with animation in the way and the repetition and
timeing that the artist wants just works in flash. In HTML there are
issues, Many options are not there, or not obvious. Flash animations are
also much smaller in file size than animated giffs (x10).
Ken
James Dumay
David Guest wrote:
Brad Thomson wrote:
It's not only the data retention requirements that feature in this
type of software, but depending on the exact nature of what the
business does, ongoing funding compliance.
I have just come off the back of a painful 5 months facilitating
the
David Guest wrote:
Ken Wilson wrote:
But they do have to keep it for 7 years plus, for the taxman,
I thought it was three years for the tax man but you could be right.
and in medical negligence court cases it can be 21+7 years plus.
I don't think financial records are relevant to medical
Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
Medicare is now quite broken and due for an overhaul.
So it will become even more complex, as it will retain current
complexities and add new ones, rather than wiping clean and building again.
Not sure about all the references to Legal stuff, is this record
David Guest wrote:
The most successful electronic medical record (EMR) packages in primary
care have been written by doctor programmers. To date non-programmer
doctors have been unable to articulate their requirements or have
misunderstood the technology. Most EMR packages use MS SQL as their
David Guest wrote:
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
In this case it's much more than billing data - we're talking about
sensitive medical records that meed to be managed and interchanged in
ways strictly defined by guidelines and legislation set by governments
and various other authorities.
Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
This one time, at band camp, David Guest wrote:
The format for this data is undocumented but should not be too difficult
to decipher. It changes from time to time so you are playing samba to
HCN's Microsoft.
Making assumptions about data,
Although people are the same everywhere, and diseases vary a bit between
regions, medical software is country specific.
4 areas
1 Accounting and practice management. Each country has its own laws so
accounting and tax vary in each country, and tax is changed each year,
also each country has
Once you have the composite jpeg you could use the mogrify command from
image magic to turn it into an animated giff which would flick through
the composite images in order. Focused details here:-
http://www.antarcticanimation.com/content/about/technology/technology.php
The image magic site
Some times on several computers at home usb memory sticks will fail to
automount. This happens after using some other usb device has required a
different driver? Happened intermittently for a while but not recently
after reinstalling Gutsy.
fixed with:-
sudo modprobe -r ehci_hcd
Ken
Rev
Nothing has really replaced the psion. small but usable keyboard, and as
much screen as can be fitted into a pocket with useful battery life from
2 AAs. PDAs are all lookup devices with very limited data entry.
Maybe this will stimulate progress in that direction.
Ken
Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote
amoungst the PDAs there has been nothing to replace the psion.
a keyboard that you can type on, a readable screen, it fits in your
pocket, it runs on 2 AA batteries, it houses its stylus and at a
relatively cheap price.
Palms are a lookup device, but for older eyes have small text size and
,
James Dumay
On Nov 27, 2007, at 3:15 PM, Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
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
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
Sydney Web Hosting has such
http://sydneyweb.net./
Geoffrey is a TAFE teacher, teaches Linux and is very helpful, lives in
Marrickville, member of SLUG. See website for prices but I think it is
$100 per year.
Lisa has her sites there.
Ken
Blindraven wrote:
I'm after a decent Sydney (or
might need to order in the WRT54GL
Ken
Jesus Jr M Salvo wrote:
On 28/09/2007, Jesus Jr M Salvo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Thanks ... so the consenses seems to be the WRT54GL.
Looked around Harris, OfficeWorks, and a local computer shop ... no
one has a WRT54GL, but they do have stocks of
system administration printing new printer local or network
manufacturer model add driver or select similar model if driver
not available.
Ken
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I am a Linux newbie.
Can anyone tell me how to get the Epson 3490 working properly in Ubuntu 7.04.
The rpm
try
http://www.elx.com.au/
Ken
Bryce Robilliard wrote:
I am after the latest release of Debian Sarge (4.0_r1) in the DVD
version, 4 DVD's worth, but I do not have a fast or reliable enough
Internet connection to download even one of the ISO images. Does the
SLUG distribute (even for a fee)
I had this/similar problem after a reinstall. didnt find any solutions
on forums etc.
complete CUPS removal, and it took gnome desktop as well; and reinstall
fixed it.
Ken
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
can anybody tell me in a line or two how to undo ubuntu breaking cups. Much
ranting on the
jam wrote:
Hi
I think Thunderbird must be the worst GUI mailer I've ever used. In case
baby-duck prevails and someone is able to set me straight, here are my
woes:
Slug mail is a digest. I want to reply quoting a selected bit, snipping
if need be. TB seems to not allow selection of the
cd burner software usually selects which drive it will use, with options
to change.
ken
Rufi_Dukes wrote:
after finally enabling mulitmedia in my new computer the other day,
and watching one video,
today i burnt an iso of some other distro, but noticed that i could
only use the second drive;
Thanks Erik
No large files with find.
Unable to unmount partitions to check under their mount points.
Once shut down unable to reboot,
Live cd showed that my rsync script had copied files to the mount point
and then mounted a filesystem on top.
Ken
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Ken Wilson wrote
On feisty or dapper you will still need to install required codecs to be
able to watch dvds, same work finding and installing the packages for
?libdvdcss and friends. Google and ubuntu forums can guide you.
libdvdcss2 and w32codecs for Ubuntu December 4, 2005
Posted by carthik in ubuntu.
Printing works fine on boxes upgraded to feisty but machine reinstalled
with fiesty from alternate cd after a change of motherboard and
processor wont install printer. Display issues stopped use of graphical
installer as the windows were larger than the screen, so some buttons
could not be
Ubuntu fiesty
get error message that disk is full, /. but I can't find the files where
the content is in /. Home and tmp are separate partitions, as is
everything mounted on /media. Computer still working reasonably.
Below are output of df and du.
cheers
Ken
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/$ df -h
vlc and oggle worked where others didn't for me
Ken
michael fitzgerald wrote:
Ken,
i've got these packets correctly installed and still when i try to run a
player like totem or mplayer i get:
messages to the effect that i need a plugin to play a video, without it
stipulating, in either case,
Hi David
Options, cheque or money order via post, or direct deposit works, you
would just need to deposit in SLUG A/C and send me the details via email
or post; date, amount, location, your name and address. I would then
wait for the bank statement showing it and when that arrives send off
xfig worked OK for me
Ken
ashley maher wrote:
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Does anybody know of a reliable svg=png renderer?
I tried inkscape, the png image was unusable (no details)
I tried the svg plugin for GIMP to import then save as png, image had
no detail.
I tried
P. G. Schmitt wrote:
Looking at installing for the first time. The drive is currently NTFS.
Will Linux install to this or do I need to redo it as FAT(32)?
Will Linux read NTFS formatted partitions?
Thanks,
Paul.
If you want to keep windows and have a desktop,then the simplest is to
I found this that sometimes fixes my USB memory stick. It lives in a
file on my desktop and I cut and paste it into a terminal to get a
module loaded that has been unloaded for some reason.
#if usb disk doesnt work try this command in terminal.
$sudo modprobe -r ehci_hcd
Ken
Geoffrey
+1
cheers
Ken
Taryn East wrote:
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,
Taryn
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/
Michael Lake wrote:
William Bennett wrote:
I have the opportunity to a) upgrade to Fedora 5 and b) buy a Seagate
160MB internal hard drive, hopefully to facilitate the Fedora.
It's a Fujitsu S Series Lifebook.
I've not done this before. Would the new hard drive fit the laptop and
would it
here is help I recieved with this
Ken
Ken,
I think that I have found the problem with your display. When you logged in
as root you lost the authorization for the display. The long version can be
found on this page...
searching tool is goal directed, which is excellent for stuff you
know of, but wont lead you into what you don't already know.
Ken
Amos Shapira wrote:
On 21/01/07, Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thats often the hard bit, finding programes that do what you want.
I browsed the applications--add
wrote:
Hey Ken,
Thanks for that. I had absolutely no idea. Never heard of it!
I've just installed it to check it out.
Again, thanks.
Regards,
Patrick
Ken Wilson wrote:
there is also prefixsuffix and thunar bulk rename in the ubuntu
repositories
Ken
elliott-brennan wrote:
...in Digikam
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
This is driving me up the wossname wall. Any suggestions? Was true for dapper
and is true for edgy:
I don't like and won't use the default partitioning. On most of my systems it
will be (1) 10G /, (2) 1G swap, (3) rest /home
To re-install a different distro
there is also prefixsuffix and thunar bulk rename in the ubuntu repositories
Ken
elliott-brennan wrote:
Hi all,
Okay, I know some posted a command-line 'how to batch rename/number'
some time ago, but I thought I'd post something I just found in Digikam.
If you select the photos you wish to
Having just sat lpi 101 and 102 exams and passed both after doing
Geoffrey Robinsons lpi 101 course at Granville TAFE, reading 4 books and
doing a whole pile of exam questions in those books and online and some
of the exercises in the books, I dont feel like I know much at all.
Most SLUG
Is the heat sink properly seated on the processor?
I removed a heatsink to clean the blanket of fluff the fan had forced
in, then replaced it but had not locked down all the catches properly.
It ran for a while then just shut down like the plug was pulled. Restart
immediately and it would shut
An ATA lets u use existing telephones, if you have some that you
currently like.
For a single line in house something like the sipura 3000 is simple and
small and easy
Ken
Peter Hardy wrote:
Sonia Hamilton wrote:
What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with
Fax does not go well on VOIP, to do with VOIP sending discrete packets
and suppressing silences, where a fax is one great big block of data,
not designed to be broken up.
Ken
Penedo wrote:
On 31/12/06, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not to mention the VoIP ports included, and the ability to
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
Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote:
The NSW Department of Education and Training (DET) may increase the
penetration of Linux on its 165,000 desktop fleet because open source is
clearly an industry trend.
Because it's trendy? Yeesh! I couldn't think
Hi Lynton
There is a thread on the SLUG mailing list about supporting new users
where various options and opinions were canvassed at the moment.
Re: [SLUG] ethical question - teach beginner doze or linux?
From the SLUG mail archives, here is where the thread starts and you
can follow it
As a non technical user, who has managed to teach myself linux, then
done 4 TAFE courses of 4 hours per week X 18 weeks each over the past
year, and a whole lot of reading and is now attempting to support a very
non technical partner, there will be many hurdles than do not just work.
Currently
I have done some of the courses that Geoffrey Robinson runs at Granville
Tafe and find them useful. Prices are cheap. You wont find info on them
via the TAFE website as they undercut the cost of some other TAFE
courses but there are details here; http://www.gonzo.edu.au/moodle/
Ken
Michael
Stephen Black wrote:
I have installed Suse Linux on my new computer with a Realtek RTL8111B
ethernet controler.
I have not had any success in connecting to the net and would like to know
if there is a way to test my ethernet port to see if it is compatable with
the OS (which seems likely as
I have found a couple of GUI backup programs;
grsync which is a graphical front end to rsync
http://www.opbyte.it/grsync/
sbackup which is a graphical front end to cron and tar
http://sbackup.sourceforge.net/HomePage
which are both available from the ubuntu repositories.
Both are simple to set
Geoffrey Robinson will be organising LPI exams in November at Granville
TAFE. These will include the
LPIC 101 Examination
LPIC 102 Examination
LPIC 201 Examination
LPIC 202 Examination
LPIC 301 LDAP Beta Examination
LPIC 302 SAMBA Beta Examination
$85 per exam for 101-2, and 201-2.
FREE for
Australian Securities and Investments Commission
is sending mail to the SLUG Mailbox at POBox Q811 QVB NSW 1230.
re Alvin Oga who does not live at the address they have recorded and
Linux Consulting Pty Ltd who does not occupy the registered office they
have recorded.
Letter is threatening
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