Re: [SLUG] Perl Regular expression help

2010-07-27 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 28/07/2010, at 1:03, Martin Barry ma...@supine.com wrote: You could get crazy and try to do this in a single regex but two stage is clearer. e.g. sed -e 's/pg=[^]*//g' -e 's/?pg=[^]*/?/' Now you have 2 problems. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Perl Regular expression help

2010-07-14 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 14/07/2010, at 13:27, Peter Rundle pe...@aerodonetix.com.au wrote: P.S I didn't understand Lindsay's question about doing the replace. I'm replacing the arg with nothing, I.E I just want to remove the pg= argument from the string. Didn't know what you were replacing your match with,

Re: [SLUG] today's scary thought

2010-07-14 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 15 July 2010 02:10, Jamie Wilkinson j...@spacepants.org wrote: The equivalent on MacOS is Time Machine, as I understand it (which is not very much as I don't understand Macs at all), but I'm not aware of any Linux application that does this either.  I like Peter's idea of using inotify

Re: [SLUG] Perl Regular expression help

2010-07-13 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Now you've got the search, I'm curious how you are going to do the replace. Is the Perlism to just use the substitute operator, or split on the pattern, iterate through the array, and join again? Lindsay On 14 July 2010 10:30, Jamie Wilkinson j...@spacepants.org wrote: Try: /pg=[^]*/ match

Re: [SLUG] Open source POS software and MYOB - also: ATO new system

2010-05-18 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 19 May 2010 11:20, Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net wrote: On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 11:52:21AM +1000, david wrote: While on the subject, does anyone know anything about the ATO's new consumer tax system interface? Their main page is http://www.sbr.gov.au/ They use something called XBRL

Re: [SLUG] Virtualization - Whither goes thou?

2010-05-12 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 13 May 2010 10:52, Nigel Allen prosm...@jamesons.com.au wrote: Questions: 2) Is there a GPL solution that fit's this scenario? Even if it's not a bare metal hypervisor and needs an O/S. Remember it has to virtuaize both Server 2003 and CentOS KVM, Sheepdog[0], and libvirt. Sheepdog

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Club History

2010-04-21 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
2006 21:59:29 -0700, Lindsay Holmwood writes: Although i'm familiar with the past few years of SLUG history, would some of the old timers care to help me out with the following email? -- Forwarded message -- From: Steve Demeo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 27, 2006 4:29 AM Subject

[SLUG] Devops Down Under - Tickets on sale

2010-04-07 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hey all, Tickets have gone on sale for the Devops Down Under conference! You can sign up at http://devopsdownunder.eventbrite.com/ The conference will be on May 1 + 2 at the Atlassian offices in Sydney. Schedule and location information can be found on the website at http://devopsdownunder.org/

Re: [SLUG] System admin graphing tools

2010-02-25 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 25 February 2010 17:55, Ken Foskey kfos...@tpg.com.au wrote: We all know we should do it.  Provide a monitoring system to see how our system loads are going.  I have a couple of links that look interesting: http://flapjack-project.com/ It is local so goes first :-) Flapjack is a scalable

[SLUG] Inaugural Sydney Devops Meetup

2010-02-18 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hi all, The Inaugural Sydney Devops Meetup will be this Thursday (the 18th of February 2010), at the James Squire Brew House on King Street Wharf. People will start arriving from 18.30 onwards. Devops is a movement of like-minded sysadmins and developers interested in bridging the artificial gap

Re: [SLUG] Fosdem

2010-02-15 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 15 February 2010 06:08, Richard Ibbotson richard.ibbot...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi In the past we have had visits to Fosdem by some people from Australia.  This year the streets of Brussels were empty of our Australian friends.   With this in mind you might like to have a look here...

Re: [SLUG] Fosdem

2010-02-15 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 15 February 2010 08:15, Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name wrote: Tanenbaum was also the recipient of the only linux.conf.au hat at that conference (as opposed to the linux.con f.au hats). Actually it was a minix.conf.au hat we had custom made. :-) Lindsay -- w:

Re: [SLUG] postgrey

2010-02-10 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 10 February 2010 10:15, david da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: Does anybody have an opinion about postgrey? Does it annoy legitimate users? Slow down the system? Create false positives? Work as intended? Any other thoughts? We use it on Rusty (SLUG's mail/web server), and it's the main cause of

Re: [SLUG] Server Admin comp's

2009-11-18 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hi Kyle, You might want to try posting this to j...@slug.org.au. Both companies and people looking for work are subscribed there. Cheers, Lindsay 2009/11/18 Kyle k...@attitia.com: Apologies if I'm dumping in the wrong place. There used to be a slug 'jobs' list, but site seems to indicate it

Re: [SLUG] Integration testing

2009-09-19 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
There's experimental but functional support for testing Python from within Cucumber[0] using rubypython[1], a C bridge between Ruby Python. :-) Cucumber also has support for testing Java through JRuby, C# through IronRuby and Flex through FunFX. There's also Cuke4Duke[2], which is a pure Java

Re: [SLUG] Integration testing

2009-09-18 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
2009/9/18 Stuart Guthrie stu...@polonious.com.au: Hi there, If you're not a developer, you can ignore the rest of this post... Just wondering what people are using for integration testing their applications (should they write them). We're evaluating tellurium (groovy-based) which is

Re: [SLUG] Server Monitoring: RAID6, VMs, disk usage

2009-06-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hi Ben, 2009/6/22 b...@bensand.com b...@bensand.com: Features:  + Email notifications on critical events (that I can specify)  + Overview of all systems being monitored showing current status Monitoring: Critical: * status of software RAID6 array (eg. if any drive fails, even if a hot

Re: [SLUG] Server Monitoring: RAID6, VMs, disk usage

2009-06-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
, but I assume Nagios is centralised at some point, so where would be the most sensible place to do that? Is there ultra reliable hosting built for just that purpose? 2009/6/22 Lindsay Holmwood lind...@holmwood.id.au Hi Ben, 2009/6/22 b...@bensand.com b...@bensand.com: Features

Re: [SLUG] Server Monitoring: RAID6, VMs, disk usage

2009-06-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
for that comprehensive answer. So collectd runs on each system itself, but I assume Nagios is centralised at some point, so where would be the most sensible place to do that? Is there ultra reliable hosting built for just that purpose? 2009/6/22 Lindsay Holmwood lind...@holmwood.id.au Hi Ben

Re: [SLUG] rdiff-backup

2009-06-04 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
2009/6/4 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: The matter with backups is not just to make them - but also to manage a catalog to help you find the right file when you have to restore things. On that note, you can use the rdiffWeb[0] tool to browse your rdiff-backup revisions and recover

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

2009-04-03 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
2009/4/3 Rick Welykochy r...@praxis.com.au: Rev Simon Rumble wrote: One of my colleagues was complaining this week that a Vista service pack is something like a gigabyte (and her ISP doesn't have free mirrors) of download in one hit.  Ouch. Sounds outrageous! I had a peek on the Microsoft

Re: [SLUG] bugzilla setup

2009-03-10 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
2009/3/10 Ken Foskey fos...@tpg.com.au: Is there a better very simple web based bug tracking that I should be using? I can highly recommend Redmine[0]. It's written in Rails, and is very easy to set up. I've heard people complain about previous versions, but the current release s pretty great

Re: [SLUG] bugzilla setup

2009-03-10 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
2009/3/11 Lindsay Holmwood lind...@holmwood.id.au: I can highly recommend Redmine[0]. It's written in Rails, and is very easy to set up. Might be helpful if I link :-) [0] http://www.redmine.org/ -- http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/ (me) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

[SLUG] Re: [activities] SLUG Committee elections: progress so far

2009-03-10 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
2009/3/8 James Polley s...@zhasper.com: Ken Wilson has never done anything less than a stellar job as Treasurer. I'd like to nominate him for the same role again, if he's willing to shoulder this burden yet again. I second Ken's nomination. Ken's work as Treasurer over the last few years has

Re: [SLUG] Draft paper submission deadline extended (will not be extended further): SETP-09

2009-03-08 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Sorry about the spam getting through from this guy. The sender is blacklisted in Mailman but Mailman's filtering isn't working, so i've blocked them in Spamassassin. Again, apologies. Lindsay 2009/3/8 John Edward jeedw...@yahoo.com: Draft paper submission deadline extended (will not be

Re: [SLUG] LPI training

2009-02-04 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
I haven't spoken to Geoffrey in a while, however he did post to SLUG in July[0] about introductory Linux classes. He mentioned a new website in his mail too, http://eleceng.org/, but there doesn't seem to be any Linux specific courses running this semester. Lindsay [0]

Re: [SLUG] [job] Help prepare technical documents / web

2009-01-18 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day Richard, Just wanted to let you know that we have a mailing list dedicated to these requests: j...@slug.org.au. You'll probably have better luck posting there. Thanks! Lindsay 2009/1/19 Richard Hayes n...@nada.com.au: Dear List, I am look for a person to help prepare technical

Re: [SLUG] DODO

2008-08-26 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
2008/8/27 Mehmet Yousouf [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I totally recommend Internode - plans are a little more pricey but the speed is always consistent and so far I've never had to call tech support. When we connected to internode their support and sales guys have been top notch. I've been using TPG for

Re: [SLUG] DODO

2008-08-26 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
2008/8/27 Adrian Chadd [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, Aug 27, 2008, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: Unfortunately TPG have a *very* broken transparent HTTP proxy. Trying to work around it's bugs is a nightmare for web developers (I know, i've been there). I wonder if they're still using Squid

Re: [SLUG] Processor Profiler

2008-08-18 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Check out the sysstat project[0]. Useful utilities for what you're doing are sar, iostat, and pidstat. Setting up a simple monitoring script using pidstat run out of cron would be your best bet. Pidstat can give you info on memory utilisation (paging, swapping, rss), io, cpu utilisation, and

Re: On Systems Administrators who are Programmers (was: Re: [SLUG] composite multiple images command in imagemagick)

2008-07-01 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
2008/7/1 Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/6/17 Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Leave programming in the large to analysts. I still have to disagree with you. snip (Despite the two weeks I've had to think of more examples, I can only think of one in the public eye. I do not

Re: [SLUG] Recent SPAM on SLUG

2008-06-26 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Just for reference, requests like this should be sent to the slug-sysadmins list. cc'ing this there, and checking it out. Lindsay 2008/6/27 James Dumay [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hey guys, Im a little concerned with all the recent Work from Home/Get Rich Quick spam thats appearing on the ML. Could

Re: [SLUG] Recent SPAM on SLUG

2008-06-26 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Looks as though spamd died in the arse - i've restarted it and it all looks good. Let slug-sysadmins@ know if spam doesn't abate. Cheers, Lindsay 2008/6/27 Lindsay Holmwood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just for reference, requests like this should be sent to the slug-sysadmins list. cc'ing

Re: [SLUG] Filesystem which allows online fsck?

2008-06-11 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
2008/6/12 Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Does anyone know of a Linux filesystem which allows online fsck on a disk that is currently mounted read/write? Do you want to do a check, repair, or both? btrfs (pronounced Butter FS) will do repair, though it's definitely *not*

Re: [SLUG] easiest way to check if a .deb is installed?

2008-06-07 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 4:21 PM, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the easiest accurate way to check if a .deb has been installed on a system, from a script? At the moment I'm using `dpkg -l | grep ...`, which is messy. dpkg -s $package Return code is 0 for installed, 1 for not

[SLUG] Call For Volunteers: Linux Australia stand @ OpenCeBIT

2008-05-12 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day all, Linux Australia is looking for volunteers to man the stands at OpenCeBIT, on the 20th-22nd of May 2008. Volunteers will be answering people's questions about Linux and open source, showing off a number of demos we have set up, and giving out CDs and flyers. People can volunteer from

Re: [SLUG] Easy way to duplicate a setup?

2008-04-28 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 12:51 PM, DaZZa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK guru's. :-) I'm in a situation where I need to duplicate on a mass basis - to the order or 3000-5000 units - a Linux setup off a headless box. All the destination boxes will be identical in specification, and the same

Re: [SLUG] working wvdial.conf file for Vodafone Huawei E220?

2008-04-15 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:42 PM, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just bought a 3G Mobile Broadband plan from Vodafone. Anyone got a working wvdial.conf file? # /etc/wvdial.conf [Dialer Defaults] Init1 = ATZ Init2 = ATQ0 V1 E1 S0=0 C1 D2 +FCLASS=0 Modem Type = Analog Modem Baud =

Re: [SLUG] whack MBR

2008-03-31 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Tue, Apr 1, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Lazy Web, I am presently debugging PXE installs for our product. This involves a lot of round trips like this: If you don't need to test directly on your hardware you could run the PXE install in a VM with either

[SLUG] 2007 AGM meeting minutes

2008-03-25 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
=== Friday 30th March 2007 at Level 13 IBM building 300 Pacific Hwy St Leonards Meeting opened at ?7pm Presidents report by Lindsay Holmwood Sydney Linux Users Group (SLUG) President's Report 2006-2007 The 2006/2007 period was a reasonably historic one for SLUG on a number of fronts

Re: [SLUG] Lexmark E250D laser printer and Linux

2008-03-14 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:35 AM, Mark Phillips [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So where are the slug videos? Mate, this is not helpful. We've all been doing our best to get the videos served, but comments like this are not constructive. The video is currently being uploaded, and a URL will be

Re: [SLUG] Lexmark E250D laser printer and Linux

2008-03-14 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:12 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Officeworks are selling the Lexmark E250D laser printer for $249, which looks like an absolute steal considering it has a duplexer. My office recently purchased one, but I can't for the life of me get it to work

Re: [SLUG] bash - identify changes within a directory.

2008-03-09 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
I second this: inotify-tools is a fantastic package (written by an Aussie, no less) that's very easy to wrap in shell script. The only problem i've ever had with inotifywait was when I recursively ran it over a directory with about 30 subdirectories and 80,000 files. It took *ages* to start, and

[SLUG] 2008 AGM Annoucement: nominations are open!

2008-03-04 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
to thank you for your interest in SLUG and involvement with the community to date, and encourage you to pass on any questions or ideas you may have about the organisation's future to the SLUG mailing list or the committee directly. Yours sincerely, Lindsay Holmwood President, Sydney Linux Users Group

[SLUG] Nomination: Sridhar Dhanapalan for President

2008-03-04 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Ok, time to kick off the nominations! I'd like to nominate Sridhar Dhanapalan for the position of President. Although his current position on the committee may be Ordinary Committee Member there is nothing ordinary about what he's acheived - over the last year Sridhar has demonstrated an

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting AGM: Friday, March 28 2008

2008-02-29 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day all! == March SLUG Monthly Meeting == When: 18.30 - 20.30, Friday, 28 March, 2008 We start at 18:30 but we ask that people arrive 15 minutes early so we can all get into the building and start on time. Please do not arrive before 18:00, as it may hinder business activities for our

Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

2007-12-17 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Dec 18, 2007 4:35 PM, Martin Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perl -e 'while(){$a+=s/[,]//g};print $a\n' input.txt Do I win?? No. Ironically, your solution is 3 characters longer. :-) Lindsay -- http://slug.org.au/ (the Sydney Linux Users Group) http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/ (me) --

Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

2007-12-17 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Dec 18, 2007 4:53 PM, Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: quote who=James Gray Not the most graceful, but the following seems to work: grep -o ',' input.txt |wc -l Assuming we're using GNU grep we can leave the pipe off: grep -c -o ',' input.txt Hmm, unfortunately the

Re: [SLUG] Tuesday afternoon shell command optimisation party!

2007-12-17 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Dec 18, 2007 4:35 PM, Martin Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perl -e 'while(){$a+=s/[,]//g};print $a\n' input.txt Ruby version: ruby -e p IO.read('input.txt').count(',') Lindsay -- http://slug.org.au/ (the Sydney Linux Users Group) http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/ (me) -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] {Commercial} SafeSquid SPEED-BOOSTER 4.2.0 Released

2007-10-03 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 10/4/07, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Entirely spam, a commercial product riding on the squid name and brand. Not happy! I sent them a particularly nasty email last week on behalf of the mailing list mods. I don't think they'll be posting here again. Lindsay --

Re: [SLUG] removing source installed after rpm install ?

2007-09-28 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 9/27/07, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed courier authlib from source, subsequently, I built rpm and installed it (again) from the rpm, whats the best way to determine what got installed /remove whatever got installed for source install ? going by below, the source

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-14 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On 9/13/07, James Gregory [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone recommend a laptop that is small (11.1 - 13.3 inches), reasonably fast, and can do suspend (both to RAM and disk) easily? Oh, and that I can buy now; old models aren't so interesting to me. Ubuntu is my OS of preference, but if it

[SLUG] REMINDER: Venue change for monthly meeting

2007-08-30 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hi all, Just a friendly reminder that this month's SLUG meeting's venue has changed. The meeting will be held at Atlassian, 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney. A map of the area can be found at http://tinyurl.com/2z7ph9. See you there! Lindsay -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] {OT} Have a read of this

2007-08-14 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hi Nicholas, For future reference, any mail that you think is off topic should be sent to the slug-chat mailing list. Thanks, Lindsay On 8/15/07, Nicholas Tomlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://cecaust.com.au/main.asp?sub=ausnewsid=2007_08_13.htm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

[SLUG] Notes from my Puppet talk

2007-07-27 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hi all, I didn't provide any links during my talk for people to go off and get started with Puppet, so here they are now. :-) CFT is a tool for monitoring work you do to a machine and produce Puppet manifests of that work. It could be quite handy if you're looking at migrating an existing site to

[SLUG] Rusty migration complete

2007-07-20 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Rusty's migration is complete. It took slightly longer than expected due to memory issues, but things are back up and running again. Thanks for your patience, Lindsay -- http://slug.org.au/ (the Sydney Linux Users Group) http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/ (me) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] Rusty migration + downtime, 20/07/2007 @ 1500 - 1800

2007-07-19 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hi all, We're migrating SLUG's server Rusty to a new machine in the Solutions First rack. The migration should only take an hour, but please expect downtime of up to 3 hours. The migration will start this afternoon, Friday July 20 @ 1500. The current machine's disk controller is on its last

Re: [SLUG] Re: how to edit slug calendar event?

2007-06-06 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Peter Miller wrote: Strangely, the web site doesn't say who to email should you have problems with the web site. Anywhere. The webmaster contact info was at the bottom of the contacts page. I've added another link in the body to make it a bit clearer. :-) Could some kind person tell me

Re: [SLUG] Re: photo/graphics processing SIG anyone?

2007-06-04 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
David wrote: Let's keep the conversation going please. There MUST be a need for this sort of thing. If SLUG don't want to do a mailing list I'm quite happy to do one. Whoa, hold your horses! We're quite happy to do one, we just hadn't gotten around to it yet. :-) The new list is at [EMAIL

[SLUG] New digital arts mailing list

2007-06-04 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day all, Just announcing the new digital arts mailing list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can sign up at http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/digitalarts. If you're interested in using FOSS for photo processing, vector graphics, digital animation, or any other type of digital design, this is the

[SLUG] May SLUG Monthly Meeting

2007-05-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day all, == May SLUG Monthly Meeting == When: 18.30 - 20.30, Friday, 25 May, 2007 Where: Level 13, IBM Building, 601 Pacific Highway, St. Leonards This month's meeting will be at the IBM building, Level 13, 601 Pacific Highway, St. Leonards, starting at 18.30. We ask that people

Re: [SLUG] Guests wanted for Free Dinner and Coffee!

2007-05-03 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Trent Murray wrote: Hi, Just another email to say that our LIP 199 class would love to hear from anyone that can give a short presentation on Introductory LDAP. Though i've already talked about this with Geoffrey, i'm quite happy to come and talk again. The Granville tafe run an awesome

Re: [SLUG] Doing a demo of Ubuntu at my place of work

2007-04-17 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 05:33:35PM +1000, Michael Lake wrote: Beryl/Compiz is of no use to sales persons. Find out quickly what sofware they are using and look around for some applications that they can use as alternatives if they were running under Ubuntu. Demo those. Michael hit the

Re: [SLUG] Doing a demo of Ubuntu at my place of work

2007-04-17 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 12:07:08PM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: Be pragmatic and realistic as possible. Admit shortcomings Start small and focus on one area that you *know* you can excel in. Once you have success there, move up to something a bit bigger. There are two issues here: a)

Re: [SLUG] Two CUPS questions

2007-04-11 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day Leslie, On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:13:35PM +1000, Leslie Katz wrote: I did that by installing two RPMs supplied by Canon, which it said were for Fedora Core 6. Among the installed files from the two RPMs were: (1) a .ppd file; (2) a filter file; and (3) a backend file. The .ppd

[SLUG] Nomination: Sridhar Dhanapalan for Ordinary Committee Member

2007-03-28 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
I'd like to nominate Sridhar Dhanapalan for the position of Ordinary Committee Member. Sridhar has become increasing involved in the local Linux + FOSS community over the last year, helping out at Software Freedom Day, linux.conf.au 2007 on the AV team, and currently organising the LA stand at

[SLUG] Nomination: Matt Moor for Vice President

2007-03-28 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
I'd like to nominate Matt Moor for the position of Vice President and Ordinary Committee Member. Over the last 2 years Matt has proven to be a valuable contributor to the SLUG community both as Secretary and VP, through organising and running events, reforming and documenting organisational

[SLUG] Nomination: James Dumay for Ordinary Committee Member

2007-03-28 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
I'd like to nominate James Dumay for the position of Ordinary Committee Member. James is an ideas man. He is an incredibly active member of the community behind the scenes, extolling the virtues of Linux FOSS on behalf of SLUG to the local media, evangelising cutting-edge technology to his

[SLUG] Nomination: Silvia Pfeiffer for Secretary, Vice President

2007-03-28 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
I'd like to nominate Silvia Pfeiffer for the positions of Secretary and Vice President. Although a newcomer to the SLUG committee last year, Silvia has proven herself to be an outstandingly reliable and dependable member of our community, handling: * recording of talks at various SLUG

[SLUG] Nomination: Ken Wilson for treasurer

2007-03-25 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Ok, time to get the ball rolling on the nominations front! I'd like to nominate Ken Wilson for the position of treasurer. Over the last 3 years Ken has been a fantastic treasurer, adeptly managing SLUG's finances, helping out above and beyond what was required of a committee member's duties, and

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

2007-03-25 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 11:39:58AM +1000, 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? Hey Taryn, A talk of this ilk would be fantastic! I've added

Re: [SLUG] Club portal software

2007-03-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 09:44:56PM +1100, Zhasper wrote: I hereby second drupal, including the reccomendation to install from source. Does news tracking, polls, calendar, and simple forums. The project as a whole is heavily slanted toward community-building sites, and groups like civicspace

[SLUG] March SLUG Monthly meeting + AGM

2007-03-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day all! == March SLUG Monthly Meeting == When: 18.30, Friday, 30 March, 2007 Where: Level 13, IBM Building, 601 Pacific Highway, St. Leonards SLUG's monthly meeting + AGM, featuring the normal AGM bits and a general talk. Meetings are open to the general public, and free of charge.

[SLUG] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [activities] Call For Participation: Distro Discussion Panel @ Friday's meeting]

2007-02-21 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day all! We're running low on volunteers - anyone else want to represent their favourite distro? Lindsay - Forwarded message from Lindsay Holmwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] - From: Lindsay Holmwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SLUG Activities [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:10:22 +1100

Re: [SLUG] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [activities] Call For Participation: Distro Discussion Panel @ Friday's meeting]

2007-02-21 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 02:55:47PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: What ones do you have? Right now, Fedora and Slackware. Lindsay -- http://slug.org.au/ (the Sydney Linux Users Group) http://holmwood.id.au/~lindsay/ (me) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [activities] Call For Participation: Distro Discussion Panel @ Friday's meeting]

2007-02-21 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:12:52PM +1100, Michael Kedzierski wrote: I've switched from Gentoo to Arch on my main desktop about two weeks ago, I could do either. Either would be perfect. You can choose on the night. :-) Lindsay -- http://slug.org.au/ (the Sydney Linux Users Group)

Re: [SLUG] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [activities] Call For Participation: Distro Discussion Panel @ Friday's meeting]

2007-02-21 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Thu, Feb 22, 2007 at 03:28:10PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: Do you need Debian reps or was this spot filled out the quickest? :-) I'm NOT a Debian Developer but I use it for many years so might be able to fill in. Nobody has put their hand up yet, so look like you're it. :-) If other

[SLUG] SLUG February Monthy Meeting

2007-02-18 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
together, who develops and uses it, and how people can get involved in the community. Technical Talk: James Dumay + Lindsay Holmwood - Anna: WRT management, Jabber Style You've been tasked with deploying a large wireless network in a hostile environment with an ever changing and variable

Re: [SLUG] Linux and POS

2007-01-31 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Heya Russell, I've done a bit of work in this area before with Kennards Hire, and some general research of available POS systems. They developed a custom application in Java that sits on top of a Fedora install. The app runs at all their branches nation wide and replicates data back to a central

Re: [SLUG] impromptu DebSIG meeting?

2007-01-29 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day Paul, You might want to try posting this to activities, the list where we organise events such as DebSIG. Cheers, Lindsay On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:36:54PM +1100, Paul Wise wrote: Hi all, I'm a new DD and I'm in Sydney for a few weeks (till feb 17th), was hoping DebSIG would have an

Re: [SLUG] impromptu DebSIG meeting?

2007-01-29 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 12:54:29PM +1100, Paul Wise wrote: On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 08:08 +1100, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: You might want to try posting this to activities, the list where we organise events such as DebSIG. Thanks for the advice, apologies for misusing the main list

Re: [SLUG] Searching the list archives

2007-01-05 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day Rick, On Sat, Jan 06, 2007 at 01:36:38AM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote: Is it PEBCAK, PICNIC or a scripting error? http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2006/01/ and click Search! the following page appears: lists.slug.org.au Mailing Lists but no search results, just a list of

Re: [SLUG] Slugs iCal generator script?

2007-01-03 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hi Amos, We're actually using the event module for Drupal, which comes with a bunch of iCal generation goodness out of the box. You can find everything you need at http://drupal.org/ and http://drupal.org/project/event. Good luck! :-) Lindsay On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 08:56:42AM +1100, Amos

[SLUG] Re: [Fwd: Re: [CTTE] SLUG after LCA]

2006-12-15 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 07:15:11AM -0800, Leslie Hawthorn wrote: If this is going to be just a talk, it would honestly take 10 mins, with as many minutes of QA as possible to follow. I can also do the Google and Open Source talk, which takes about an hour. I am honestly happier with the

Re: [SLUG] xmas party venue?

2006-12-08 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hi Peter, It's going to be at Coogee beach. I'll update the calendar now, thanks for pointing it out. Cheers, Lindsay On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 09:08:55PM +1100, Peter Miller wrote: Could some kind person refresh my memory as to when and where on the 16th the SLUG End of Year Function BBQ is

Re: [SLUG] Sydney Open VOIP user group

2006-12-07 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hey Craig, Nice to hear from you. :-) If you'd like to crosspost this to activities, that would be most excellent. Also, if to put the event up on the SLUG calendar, head to http://slug.org.au/user/register and i'll grant you the appropriate event creation permissions. :-) Cheers, Lindsay

Re: Elementary DNS theory (Was: Re: Why DHCP ? (WAS: Re: [SLUG] My father wants an inexpensive computer))

2006-12-06 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 06:04:03PM +1100, O Plameras wrote: Plameras Hi all, This thread is done! Any further posts to the list on this thread by 18.20 today will put the list into full moderation mode for the next 3 days. Your friendly list admins, SLUG committee -- http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Google for trends

2006-11-25 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
More telling though Ubuntu vs Mac: http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+macctab=0geo=alldate=all Ubuntu vs Apple: http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+applectab=0geo=alldate=all Sorry, they're still ahead in search volume. :-) Lindsay On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 11:37:18PM +1100, Luke

Re: [SLUG] Google for trends

2006-11-25 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 10:27:48AM +1100, Sam Lawrance wrote: On 26/11/2006, at 10:16 AM, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: More telling though Ubuntu vs Mac: http://www.google.com/trends?q=ubuntu%2C+macctab=0geo=alldate=all Is that a big mac or an apple mac? Or maybe a MAC address

Re: [SLUG] scripting proxy change in Firefox/changing laptop network settings?

2006-11-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hi Sonia, On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 11:49:41AM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: * what's the best way *in general* to handle changing network related settings on a laptop? At the moment I'm just writing scripts that are called from cron that detect which n/w I'm on and adjust things. For example,

Re: [SLUG] scripting proxy change in Firefox/changing laptop network settings?

2006-11-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 02:00:33PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: Maybe I should do a quick demo up-front -- will there be time for it, ctte folk? Sounds great. We'll slot you in. Lindsay -- http://slug.org.au/ (Sydney Linux Users Group) http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ (linux.conf.au 2007)

[SLUG] November SLUG Monthly Meeting

2006-11-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day all! == November SLUG Monthly Meeting == When: Friday, 24th November, 2006 Where: Level 13, IBM Building, 601 Pacific Highway, St. Leonards SLUG's monthly meeting, featuring talks and SLUGlets. Meetings are open to the general public, and free of charge. This month's meeting

Re: [SLUG] November SLUG Monthly Meeting

2006-11-22 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hi Penedo, Thanks for picking this up, we've had a few people notify us of this. The Drupal event module does some wacky stuff with date munging, to the point where most readers get the date completely wrong. The date is (almost) always correct on the website, so you should check there when in

Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?

2006-11-13 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 05:42:59PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I (well my boss actually) want to convert several hundred html pages to pdf - what's the easiest way to do this? Any pointers, ideas? I guess I'm looking for a tool like pdf2html (but going in the reverse direction). I've

Re: [SLUG] Novell and Microsoft

2006-11-06 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:29:21AM +1100, James Dumay wrote: The Novell/MS should really mean nothing to developers who respect intellectual property of Microsoft - Microsoft and Novell under the deal (and any Novell customer) are able to share each others respective intellectual property and

Re: [SLUG] Re: perl, php

2006-11-02 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:33:43PM +1100, Michael Lake wrote: Alan Harper wrote: *puts on fireproof suit* Why bother with perl when you know python? :) Try installing Python eggs compared to installing Perl modules. No wonder the Python packages are called eggs - they break easily :-)

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 10, Issue 8

2006-11-02 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 11:33:47AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday 03 November 2006 11:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 5 spam in 10 mail from the cleverest mail-admin folk in Oz. Wow the spammers are winning! SLUG's mailing lists and servers are admined by an entirely volunteer

[SLUG] Re-announce: October SLUG monthly meeting

2006-10-26 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
G'day all! == October SLUG Monthly Meeting == When: Friday, 27th October Where: IBM Building, St. Leonards SLUG's monthly meeting, featuring talks and SLUGlets. Meetings are open to the general public, and free of charge. This month's meeting will be at our new venue, the IBM

Re: [SLUG] iCAL for meeting tomorrow says 06:30 rather than 18:30

2006-10-25 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hi Matthew, On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 09:42:58AM +1000, Matthew Pittman wrote: I noted the problem in Google calendar and found it in the SLUG calendarhttp://slug.org.au/event/2006/10/27 . Thanks for this, I just fixed it. Lindsay -- http://slug.org.au/ (Sydney Linux Users Group)

Re: [SLUG] October SLUG Monthly Meeting

2006-10-21 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Hi Martin, On 10/21/06, Martin Pool [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You didn't actually say what day it is. I guess it's the last Friday, which is next week, but wouldn't it help to say so? Yes, it would be useful, but I was in a rush and left it out. :-) I'll resend the announce with the date

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