Re: [SLUG] Recycling/Disposing of old PC's - Send to kids in Africa for their schools

2012-08-15 Thread Ken Wilson
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.

Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

2012-02-03 Thread Ken Wilson
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,

Re: [SLUG] Cheap Linux/Windows wireless home networking options ?

2011-10-12 Thread Ken Wilson
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: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/10/11 21:29, Rod Butcher wrote:

[SLUG] IBM thinkpad R30

2011-06-05 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu 9.04 to 10.04 upgrade

2011-06-01 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Testing live streaming for tonight's SLUG

2011-04-29 Thread Ken Wilson
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.

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 10.4 desktop freezes

2011-02-18 Thread Ken Wilson
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

[SLUG] Ubuntu 10.4 desktop freezes

2011-02-12 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Oh I hate Shredder

2010-06-05 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Oh I hate Shredder

2010-06-03 Thread Ken Wilson
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,

Re: [SLUG] Suggestions for a monochrome printer.

2010-05-24 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Membership decline -info

2010-04-05 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Data Redundancy, RAID5/LVM backup decisions

2009-11-11 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Data Redundancy, RAID5/LVM backup decisions

2009-11-11 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Need to implement a Net Nanny on Ubuntu PDQ

2009-11-04 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] CentOS 5.4 release, in stock

2009-10-26 Thread Ken Wilson
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,

Re: [SLUG] Wanted : Cisco Router for CCNA

2009-10-22 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Re: 40 Years of Unix

2009-08-26 Thread Ken Wilson
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

[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Re: SSEM 2009]

2009-08-01 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] draft intro/outros for SLUG monthly meeting videos

2009-06-27 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: Fwd: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides? SYSADMINS:- LOOK AT VIDEO STORAGE

2009-06-01 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: Fwd: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides?

2009-05-31 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides? SYSADMINS:- LOOK AT VIDEO STORAGE

2009-05-30 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Indexing under Linux

2009-05-29 Thread Ken Wilson
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.

Re: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides?

2009-05-29 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Indexing under Linux

2009-05-29 Thread Ken Wilson
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

[SLUG] Re: Colin McCormack contact details

2009-05-18 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] XBitHack

2009-05-13 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux netbook? (Marghanita da Cruz)

2009-04-27 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] New Install Advice

2009-04-21 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] URGENT: best printer $100 (Quick - HPDJ710 just died and OW is closing soon)

2009-01-17 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] referencing lyx jabref bibtek

2008-12-29 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] borrowing/renting external box for an ATA drive

2008-12-29 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] MP3 player mounting on old machine but not new machine

2008-12-26 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] referencing lyx jabref bibtek

2008-12-23 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] How do you un-partition a HD

2008-12-22 Thread Ken Wilson
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

[SLUG] referencing lyx jabref bibtek

2008-12-22 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's

2008-12-04 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Simple Accounting Stock Control software

2008-11-14 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] copying files by email header date, file date stamp same

2008-10-17 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Comp TIA+ / CLP

2008-10-08 Thread Ken Wilson
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.

Re: [SLUG] Atom Processor - what distro works?

2008-10-07 Thread Ken Wilson
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: BODY { font-family:Arial, Helvetica,

Re: [SLUG] Full / partition

2008-08-16 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Aust Tax Office and e-tax

2008-07-26 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] BBC Embedded Media Player

2008-06-21 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Advice on data transfer over shortwave

2008-06-15 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Granville TAFE Linux Are they courses there for next term enrolments

2008-06-01 Thread Ken Wilson
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.

Re: [SLUG] Minimum username length?

2008-05-16 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] f-spot and the tags, will it get messy?

2008-03-16 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-06 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-06 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Re: Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-06 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-05 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-05 Thread Ken Wilson
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.

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread Ken Wilson
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,

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-03 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Trying to create 'brady bunch-style' video

2008-02-03 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] iAudio mp3 player won't automount after upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10, suggestions?

2008-01-20 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Eee

2007-12-08 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Eee

2007-12-08 Thread Ken Wilson
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

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

2007-12-01 Thread Ken Wilson
, 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

[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

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

2007-11-27 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] Aus based web hosting?

2007-10-13 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Wireless router with Optus broadband cable

2007-09-28 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Epson 34 90 Ubuntu

2007-09-18 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Distributing Linux CD/DVDs

2007-09-01 Thread Ken Wilson
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)

Re: [SLUG] cups ubuntu

2007-08-28 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Baby Ducks and thunderbird mail

2007-08-23 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] drive woes

2007-08-05 Thread Ken Wilson
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;

Re: [SLUG] disk full

2007-08-05 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] DVD drive not working with ubuntu

2007-08-03 Thread Ken Wilson
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.

[SLUG] ubuntu fiesty printing

2007-08-03 Thread Ken Wilson
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

[SLUG] disk full

2007-08-03 Thread Ken Wilson
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

[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] DVD drive not working with ubuntu]

2007-08-03 Thread Ken Wilson
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,

Re: [SLUG] Joining and a Question

2007-06-18 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] svg to png rendering

2007-05-29 Thread Ken Wilson
xfig worked OK for me Ken ashley maher wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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

Re: [SLUG] I'd like to know...

2007-05-09 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] USB mounting now fails

2007-04-28 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Ruby-on-Rails talk - interest?

2007-03-25 Thread Ken Wilson
+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/

Re: [SLUG] On fitting an internal hard drive

2007-02-20 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] ssh and vnc

2007-01-28 Thread Ken Wilson
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...

Re: [SLUG] GUI batch renaming and renumbering tool

2007-01-22 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] GUI batch renaming and renumbering tool

2007-01-21 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Partitioning

2007-01-20 Thread Ken Wilson
[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

Re: [SLUG] GUI batch renaming and renumbering tool

2007-01-20 Thread Ken Wilson
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

[SLUG] LPIC-1

2007-01-06 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

2007-01-03 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: FoIP (was: Re: [SLUG] Modem/Router recommendations please.)

2007-01-01 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Gnome WeatherApplet

2006-12-14 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Video: DET considers Linux on the desktop

2006-12-06 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Linux for Seniors

2006-12-05 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] ethical question - teach beginner doze or linux?

2006-12-03 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Course

2006-11-30 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Connecting to the Internet

2006-11-22 Thread Ken Wilson
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

Re: [SLUG] Backing up to dvd

2006-11-17 Thread Ken Wilson
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

[SLUG] LPI exams including FREE level 3 Beta exam and a donation to SLUG

2006-10-22 Thread Ken Wilson
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

[SLUG] Alvin Oga, Linux consulting services Pty Ltd

2006-09-22 Thread Ken Wilson
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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