Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

On 13/11/11 08:25, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: I sat down and spent a lot of time with Gnome 3's classic mode, and have been able to make it almost identical to my former Gnome 2 setup. My main problem with that route is that firstly I can't figure out how to enable it and second, I'm

[SLUG] Help with files that have identical filenames

Hi All, I'm trying to find the cause of a bug, the symptom of which is two copies of a file are created in the same directory with apparently the same filename. The files have different inodes and the filesystem is ext3. From what I know, this shouldn't be possible, so I'm assumed that there are

Re: [SLUG] Help with files that have identical filenames

On 13/04/11 08:10, Rick Welykochy wrote: Scott Finneran wrote: The files have different inodes and the filesystem is ext3. From what I know, this shouldn't be possible, so I'm assumed that there are some non-printable characters in the filename. ls -d doesn't show any however. Anyone hits

Re: XecureBrowser - looks like snake oil to me. (was Re: [SLUG] Browsers for banking)

On 11/11/10 13:29, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: One thing I like to do is use Firefox's profile manager to set up a profile which I only use for web banking. Nice idea. Do you do anything special on that profile or does it just provide isolation? Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] NASA’s own Nebula cloud re leased under an Apache 2

Marghanita da Cruz wrote: Any comments? The new OpenStack project will power NASA’s own Nebula cloud and puts new pressure on Eucalyptus, as well as Amazon’s EC2 and the whole Hadoop ecosystem. The system is being released under an Apache 2 license.

Re: [SLUG] mobile printer

Peter Miller wrote: Hi Folks, My google fu has failed me. Can anyone suggest a *small* A4 printer, suitable for lugging around for use with a laptop? Of course, it must be usable from Linux. I have seen such a beast: it was about 300mm x 80mm x 40mm, and was only able to cope with a

Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets

jam wrote: I'm not sure if this belongs here, sorry if it doesn't. Well looks like the government got it's way. Our Internet will be censored next year. http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2009/115 I wrote to Conroy talking about proxies and ssh tunnels and received

Re: [SLUG] Linux Saves Aussie Electrical Grid

Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: 2009/10/11 Richard Ibbotson richard.ibbot...@gmail.com: Hmmm... http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1556944/linux-saves-aussie- electricity QUICK THINKING open sourcerers might have saved an Australian power supply system after its electrical grid control room

Re: [SLUG] Linux Saves Aussie Electrical Grid

Scott Finneran wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: 2009/10/11 Richard Ibbotson richard.ibbot...@gmail.com: Hmmm... http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1556944/linux-saves-aussie- electricity QUICK THINKING open sourcerers might have saved an Australian power supply system after its

Re: [SLUG] Changing default ownership of /dev device in Ubuntu Hardy

Hi all, I currenty have a device with the following permissions and ownership: crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 64 Oct 10 11:05 /dev/ttyS0 Where and how do I fiddle to changes this so it sticks across reboots? The short answer is udev (or at least that is the approach I have taken in

Re: [SLUG] Coding and Camping, 19-21 September

Peter Miller wrote: Hi Folks, This is a reminder that Coding and Camping is on again this year, at Coledale caravan park, right on the beach. We have a powered site and an unpowered site. Power for laptops and plenty of room for tents. See http://slug.org.au/node/104 for details. Hi

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG Monthly Meeting, Friday 30 November

Ben wrote: On Nov 25, 2007 4:58 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where: Atlassian[1], 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney (corner of Sussex and Market Street) any recommendations for convenient and vaguely affordable parking in the area for a small van?

RE: [SLUG] New Epson Stylus Photo 1410 - Linux friendly?

Hi Mark, I don't know how different the models are, but I have a PSC 1410 (one of those all-in-one jobs) and it was almost zero setup and works an absolute treat running Ubuntu Fiesty. Cheers, Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark O'Connor Sent: Thu

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

Would the talk be focusing on or covering Ruby itself or mostly Rails as a system? Either would be good. Cheers, Scott 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

Re: [SLUG] data recovery specialists?

Jon Wilson wrote: David Kempe wrote: Jon Wilson wrote: Hiya, Can anyone recommend any data recovery specialists, preferably in Sydney? We have a several boxes of ten year old DLTIII tapes, but have only been able to read the data we need off about half of them. Payam have been good for