[SLUG] [ot] StartupCamp Friday 5th Sept 7:00PM until Sunday 7:00PM
Dear List, There fest to create a company in a weekend. Limited spots available. http://www.startup-australia.org/startupweekend What is StartupCamp? It's a get together of people from different disciplines that have an interest in startups and do a complete startup in one weekend. From coming up with the idea and making a business plan to pitching, design and development and marketing. The main goal is to learn from each others experience and to get a chance to work with a new group of people and of course to have a lot of fun. Where? The Geekdom boardroom Level 8 155 George Street The Rocks, Sydney 2000 When? Friday 5th Sept 7:00PM until Sunday 7:00PM regards, Richard Hayes begin:vcard fn:Richard Hayes n:Hayes;Richard org:Nada Marketing adr:;;PO Box 12 ;Gordon;NSW;2072;Australia email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:+(61) 2 8001 6179 tel;fax:+(61) 2 9327 4908 tel;home:+(61) 2 9436 0121 tel;cell:0414 618 425 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.nada.com.au version:2.1 end:vcard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] procmail guru anyone?
Hi
I'm struggling with procmail - as a complete newbie I should add.
Basically the pseudo code for what I want is as follows:
extract string from header.
if length($string) 6
pad $string left spaces to 6;
if test -d $string
file the email into the folder $string
else
forward to bad_folders alias;
What I have so far is:
:0
* ^X-My-Header:[ \t]*\/$
{
STRING=${MATCH}
:0
* ? test ! -d $MATCH
{
! bad_folder
}
$MATCH
}
I've managed to fudge my way so far with lot's of help from the Search
Engine Gods, but I'm stuck on the pad problem. I know I could write
this as a shell script or a perl snippet and then pipe the value of the
variable out to it but how do I get it back in again (or alternatively
how do I do it within procmail?
TIA
Nigel
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[SLUG] Glen Turner : The return of the Walled Garden
HI all, Glen Turner's blog post tweaked my interest. A bit of Googling showed that Internode is offering IPv6 ADSL connections: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com.au/articles/25688-ANALYSIS-Why-Internode-s-IPv6-product-makes-sense Is anyone using one of the IPv6 enabled Internode conenctions and care to tell us how it's going? Cheersm Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. -- Jef Raskin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Prefered video card for Linux dual-head?
jam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 25 August 2008 08:27:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My boss bought second-hand extra monitors for all of us and I now need to buy a graphics card which can support dual-head for Debian/Ubuntu (and Windows XP and Vista). Since there are always swings around about best linux support which I didn't follow, what's the order of the day? Should go with nVidia, AMD or maybe Intel? Any specific card families/models? Intel, unless you need serious 3D performance[1], then AMD/ATI, since they have released the spec for the cards and so open drivers are on the way. NVIDIA last of all, because they are as closed as ever, recently had a rash of hardware production quality faults, and the reverse engineering efforts are great -- but never as good as the hardware documentation. [...] I totally disagree, but I'm pragmatic not idealistic. So am I; pragmatically, using a driver that means you are less likely to hit problems, and that your problems are less likely to be ignored, is well worth the performance hit for using an Intel graphics chipset. Likewise, using an ATI part where you get passable support using the binary driver and good future support, seems more pragmatic to me than tying yourself to binary drivers forever ^W until NVIDIA get bored.[1] So, yes, I can see why the NVIDIA hardware might seem attractive, but I don't think it actually stacks up in the real world.[2] nvidia-settings let you setup 2 monitors, specify master monitor, and get it working in seconds, all in an easy GUI and IMHO setting up dual monitors IS a GUI task. *shrug* I have no strong opinion on this. Setting dual monitors of recent INTEL was an hour of googling and phaffing for a mate (and I have setup 100s vi-ing XF86config then xorg.conf over the years) THEN intel graphics performance on mythtv was so bad that he reverted to running DVICO under winders. sob :-) ...doesn't Intel only support video acceleration on the primary head of a dual monitor setup due to hardware limitations? Anyway, that experience is so divergent from any Intel experience that I have had, or that people I know have had, that it seems (to me) likely to be an outlier. Last I purchased a 5300 card was about $50, and worked well for google-earth and most tasks, was a bit low-end for mythtv *nod* Finally if pci is the only option, get a new mobo. Many ASUS with dual nvidia onboard. PCI is nigh impossible to get. (ASUS AMD uATX mobo for $70 ish) I agree here. My comments were regarding PCI*e*, or PCI Express, the new serial bus interconnect that is all the rage for new hardware these days, and has (finally) replaced AGP, fwiw. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] ...but, at the end of the day, I own a notebook with an NVIDIA graphics chip because it was the best option available to to my disappointment. [2] I am presuming, here, that y'all tend to set up your graphics hardware and then, you know, just use it. A handful of hours work up front isn't that big a price for six to twelve months of use.[3] [3] Actually, in my case, typically for three to five years of use, but apparently most people change hardware more frequently than I do. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Glen Turner : The return of the Walled Garden
Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Glen Turner's blog post tweaked my interest. A bit of Googling showed that Internode is offering IPv6 ADSL connections: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com.au/articles/25688-ANALYSIS-Why-Internode-s-IPv6-product-makes-sense Is anyone using one of the IPv6 enabled Internode conenctions and care to tell us how it's going? I have not used it, which makes me slightly outside your question, but my answer as to why is potentially illuminating: At the moment an ADSL service with IPv6 (eg: anyone but a business with Layer 2 Ethernet connectivity) means running an IPv6 on IPv4 tunnel back to their head end. None of the ADSL DSLAM equipment currently supports IPv6 in PPP, with the Agile equipment going through testing at present and likely to be deployed for native IPv6 support some time late this year.[1] Until then there is relatively little advantage to running an IPv6 tunnel via my ISP, compared to experimenting with the same thing via some other random tunnel broker -- and for production it has all the same issues that an IPIP tunnel always has. That said, reports from people using the service have been uniformly good in my experience, in that it more or less just works. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] ...if their estimates are correct. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: appaling wireless performance [update]
Well I finally got my PCMCIA (Netgear WG511T) back and tried it. Lo and behold it works like a charm, I get a sustained rate of about 2.7MB/sec so it would seem that it really does matter what devices are talking to each other. Thanks to all who responded. rgh -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 [e]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [im]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity, poor design and mismanagement will be there to meet them - Marcus Ranum -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] procmail guru anyone?
Hi Nigel.
You could post to the (very active) procmail mailing list.
I did some procmail stuff years ago and my experience with the help on that list was very
good!
hth.
Kr.
Luke.
Nigel Allen wrote:
Hi
I'm struggling with procmail - as a complete newbie I should add.
Basically the pseudo code for what I want is as follows:
extract string from header.
if length($string) 6
pad $string left spaces to 6;
if test -d $string
file the email into the folder $string
else
forward to bad_folders alias;
What I have so far is:
:0
* ^X-My-Header:[ \t]*\/$
{
STRING=${MATCH}
:0
* ? test ! -d $MATCH
{
! bad_folder
}
$MATCH
}
I've managed to fudge my way so far with lot's of help from the Search
Engine Gods, but I'm stuck on the pad problem. I know I could write
this as a shell script or a perl snippet and then pipe the value of the
variable out to it but how do I get it back in again (or alternatively
how do I do it within procmail?
TIA
Nigel
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Re: [SLUG] Prefered video card for Linux dual-head?
Hi. Amos Shapira wrote: My boss bought second-hand extra monitors for all of us and I now need to buy a graphics card which can support dual-head for Debian/Ubuntu (and Windows XP and Vista). Since there are always swings around about best linux support which I didn't follow, what's the order of the day? Should go with nVidia, AMD or maybe Intel? Any specific card families/models? I run 2 monitors under ubuntu. What I havent seen in this thread is mention of the fact that you want a video card with dual dvi. Most cards have 1 dvi and 1 analog. I find that I get screen 'lining' when I use the dvi/analog combi. That is highly annoying. The cheapest dual dvi card I could find was $65, then up to $120 etc. This was at allneeds.com.au in Adelaide. Kr. Luke. -- Luke Vanderfluit Analyst / Web Programmer e3Learning.com.au 08 8221 6422 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Restricting available visuals in X
Hi, Does anyone know how to restrict the available Visuals in X? I'm attaching a greyscale monitor, and want to exclude everything excet StaticGray. My xorg.conf file sets the default visual correctly; but xdpyinfo (and other applications) see lots of other visuals, attempt to use them, and make the screen unreadable. This is the `screen' section from xorg.conf: Section Screen Identifier GreyScale Device ATI Radeon X700 (RV410 PCIE):external Monitor GreyScale DefaultDepth 8 SubSection Display Depth 8 Visual StaticGray EndSubsection EndSection But xdpyinfo gives: name of display::0.0 version number:11.0 vendor string:The X.Org Foundation vendor release number:1040 X.Org version: 1.4.0 maximum request size: 16777212 bytes motion buffer size: 256 bitmap unit, bit order, padding:32, LSBFirst, 32 image byte order:LSBFirst number of supported pixmap formats:7 supported pixmap formats: depth 1, bits_per_pixel 1, scanline_pad 32 depth 4, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32 depth 8, bits_per_pixel 8, scanline_pad 32 depth 15, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32 depth 16, bits_per_pixel 16, scanline_pad 32 depth 24, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32 depth 32, bits_per_pixel 32, scanline_pad 32 keycode range:minimum 8, maximum 255 focus: window 0xad, revert to Parent number of extensions:33 BIG-REQUESTS Composite DAMAGE DEC-XTRAP DOUBLE-BUFFER DPMS Extended-Visual-Information GLX MIT-SCREEN-SAVER MIT-SHM MIT-SUNDRY-NONSTANDARD RANDR RECORD RENDER SECURITY SGI-GLX SHAPE SYNC TOG-CUP X-Resource XAccessControlExtension XC-APPGROUP XC-MISC XFIXES XFree86-Bigfont XFree86-DGA XFree86-Misc XFree86-VidModeExtension XINERAMA XInputExtension XKEYBOARD XTEST XVideo default screen number:0 number of screens:1 screen #0: dimensions:1280x1024 pixels (325x260 millimeters) resolution:100x100 dots per inch depths (7):8, 1, 4, 15, 16, 24, 32 root window id:0x56 depth of root window:8 planes number of colormaps:minimum 1, maximum 1 default colormap:0x20 default number of colormap cells:256 preallocated pixels:black 0, white 255 options:backing-store NO, save-unders NO largest cursor:64x64 current input event mask:0x58007f KeyPressMask KeyReleaseMask ButtonPressMask ButtonReleaseMaskEnterWindowMask LeaveWindowMask PointerMotionMaskSubstructureNotifyMask SubstructureRedirectMask PropertyChangeMask number of visuals:13 default visual id: 0x32 visual: visual id:0x27 class:PseudoColor depth:8 planes available colormap entries:256 red, green, blue masks:0x0, 0x0, 0x0 significant bits in color specification:8 bits visual: visual id:0x28 class:GrayScale depth:8 planes available colormap entries:256 red, green, blue masks:0x0, 0x0, 0x0 significant bits in color specification:8 bits visual: visual id:0x29 class:StaticColor depth:8 planes available colormap entries:256 red, green, blue masks:0x7, 0x38, 0xc0 significant bits in color specification:8 bits visual: visual id:0x2a class:TrueColor depth:8 planes available colormap entries:8 per subfield red, green, blue masks:0x7, 0x38, 0xc0 significant bits in color specification:8 bits visual: visual id:0x2b class:TrueColor depth:8 planes available colormap entries:8 per subfield red, green, blue masks:0x7, 0x38, 0xc0 significant bits in color specification:8 bits visual: visual id:0x2c class:TrueColor depth:8 planes available colormap entries:8 per subfield red, green, blue masks:0x7, 0x38, 0xc0 significant bits in color specification:8 bits visual: visual id:0x2d class:TrueColor depth:8 planes available colormap entries:8 per subfield red, green, blue masks:0x7, 0x38, 0xc0 significant bits in color specification:8 bits visual: visual id:0x2e class:DirectColor depth:8 planes available colormap entries:8 per subfield red, green, blue masks:0x7, 0x38, 0xc0 significant bits in color specification:8 bits visual: visual id:0x2f class:DirectColor depth:8 planes available colormap entries:8 per subfield red, green, blue masks:0x7, 0x38, 0xc0 significant bits in color specification:8 bits visual: visual id:0x30 class:DirectColor depth:8 planes available
[SLUG] Flash displays over everything else in webpages on Linux FF
Hi All, I'm a little frustrated by web pages that display flash, and their popup menus that become hidden behind it. I know I could block flash, but I don't always want to do this. I have searched the web and the only solutions I have found are targeted for the web admins, and not the client browsers. Does anyone know any solution to this problem? (and no, emailing the web admin is not a solution. Neither is blocking flash). Thanks, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] The USB2 Problem, amended.
The friend's equipment: Hardy Heron 100GB external hard drive (Seagate) USB2 connection The drive works with Windows, however Hardy won't recognise it. He has a tichier 4GB USB2 drive. Hardy recognises this. Many thanks to those who posted suggestions. Does this alter things? Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] The USB2 Problem, amended.
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 10:43 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The friend's equipment: Hardy Heron 100GB external hard drive (Seagate) USB2 connection This probably won't help, but I've given up on external USB drives completely because so many of them simply died on me. I've got four sitting in my dead hardware box. Maybe you have to pay extra for better cases - I didn't get the impression the drive was the problem.. I think it's the power supply or electonics on the external case. YMMV That doesn't account for it working on Windows but not Hardy. The drive works with Windows, however Hardy won't recognise it. He has a tichier 4GB USB2 drive. Hardy recognises this. Many thanks to those who posted suggestions. Does this alter things? Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Flash displays over everything else in webpages on Linux FF
Scott Ragen wrote: Hi All, I'm a little frustrated by web pages that display flash, and their popup menus that become hidden behind it. I know I could block flash, but I don't always want to do this. There are things like Adblock Plus which puts a small tab marked block on each picture and flash element allowing you to selectively block only the things that annoy you. Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo - Safety versus Expressiveness is a false dichotomy -- you can have both. Compare ObjectiveCaml with CeePlusPlus: OCaml obtains expressiveness without compromising safety, while C++ obtains it by throwing away safety. The latter is just bad design. -- David Hopwood -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] The USB2 Problem, amended.
wbennett == wbennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wbennett The friend's equipment: Hardy Heron 100GB external hard wbennett drive (Seagate) USB2 connection wbennett Many thanks to those who posted suggestions. Does this alter wbennett things? We really need more info to be able to help you. What's in the kernel log when you plug the drive in and switch it on? (type `dmesg' at a shell prompt, look for USB messages). What kind of USB controller is it (Is the appropriate driver module loaded?) Are you running a 64-bit or 32-bit kernel? Is this on an AMD/ATI chipset or an Intel one (the ATI chipsets with some kernel versions refuse to put the USB controllers into high speed mode)? -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Prefered video card for Linux dual-head?
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 10:00:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: My boss bought second-hand extra monitors for all of us and I now need to buy a graphics card which can support dual-head for Debian/Ubuntu (and Windows XP and Vista). Since there are always swings around about best linux support which I didn't follow, what's the order of the day? Should go with nVidia, AMD or maybe Intel? Any specific card families/models? I run 2 monitors under ubuntu. What I havent seen in this thread is mention of the fact that you want a video card with dual dvi. Most cards have 1 dvi and 1 analog. I find that I get screen 'lining' when I use the dvi/analog combi. That is highly annoying. The cheapest dual dvi card I could find was $65, then up to $120 etc. This was at allneeds.com.au in Adelaide. I have 3 ubuntu machines, all fanless nvidia, 1 dual vga (gigabyte agp) 1 dual dvi (8600) and 1 (8500) vga+dvi Except for minor hastles regarding the MASTER display (long solved) they are ALL perfect. The older agp machine dual(sic)-boots CentOS and SuSE without any problems. So I guess that it is your cards and/or your monitors causing your grief James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Glen Turner : The return of the Walled Garden
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Is anyone using one of the IPv6 enabled Internode conenctions and care to tell us how it's going? I'm an Internode customer at home (my employer doesn't do domestic premises). So I asked. Internode are currently shipping IPv6 to colocation rack customers. They are working towards shipping it to ADSL customers. They're got in in trial on one of their BRASs, but it's their test BRAS and so won't be solid (since the nature of test is that there's no change control, outage notification, etc). I've got a daughter at uni who will kill me if the Internet is down when an assignment is due (assignments these days are submitted over the Internet), so I had to pass on that. Give it a few months to bed in and for Internode to work out what a ADSL customer offering should look like and things should be very, very fine. The major fly in the ointment is the lack of IPv6 ADSL routers. To my knowledge there's only the Cisco stuff, a D-Link, and Linux boxes doing NAT connected via a ADSL modem. Tunnel brokers are fine for experimentation. It's nice to see Internode offer one, as the AARNet one is incredibly hammered (the most-heavily used Hexago box in the world). But neither the ISP nor the customer will want tunnels in the long run -- gamers cry about latency now, just wait until all their gaming traffic routes via Adelaide :-) What Internode have done is impressive. Someone in the commercial space had to make a start, and they have. More power to their arm. -- Glen Turner http://www.gdt.id.au/~gdt/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re:Subject:,[SLUG] Flash displays over everything else in webpages on Linux FF
Firefox 3.01 and Flashblock 1.5.6 Addon works for me - a bit of a pain at times but at least I decide what Flash I see. Hi All, I'm a little frustrated by web pages that display flash, and their popup menus that become hidden behind it. I know I could block flash, but I don't always want to do this. I have searched the web and the only solutions I have found are targeted for the web admins, and not the client browsers. Does anyone know any solution to this problem? (and no, emailing the web admin is not a solution. Neither is blocking flash). Thanks, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Glen Turner : The return of the Walled Garden
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 11:53 +0930, Glen Turner wrote: Tunnel brokers are fine for experimentation. It's nice to see Internode offer one, as the AARNet one is incredibly hammered (the most-heavily used Hexago box in the world). But neither the ISP nor the customer will want tunnels in the long run -- gamers cry about latency now, just wait until all their gaming traffic routes via Adelaide :-) Should be fine for internode games servers though :) -Rob -- GPG key available at: http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Glen Turner : The return of the Walled Garden
their traffic is already tunneled, its part and parcel of ADSL. Dean Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 11:53 +0930, Glen Turner wrote: Tunnel brokers are fine for experimentation. It's nice to see Internode offer one, as the AARNet one is incredibly hammered (the most-heavily used Hexago box in the world). But neither the ISP nor the customer will want tunnels in the long run -- gamers cry about latency now, just wait until all their gaming traffic routes via Adelaide :-) Should be fine for internode games servers though :) -Rob -- http://fragfest.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Flash displays over everything else in webpages on Linux FF
quote who=Scott Ragen I'm a little frustrated by web pages that display flash, and their popup menus that become hidden behind it. I know I could block flash, but I don't always want to do this. I have searched the web and the only solutions I have found are targeted for the web admins, and not the client browsers. Because of the way Flash works in X, it's not fixable until both Adobe and browser vendors (ie. Mozilla) sort it out. Mozilla has done their end of the task already, and some Flash implementations (such as swfdec, and possibly gnash, I'm not sure) already support it. I believe Adobe will support this in their next plugin release, but... we'll just have to wait and see. - Jeff -- OSDC 2008: Sydney, Australiahttp://www.osdc.com.au/2008/ http://www.xach.com/debian-users-are-beatniks.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Flash displays over everything else in webpages on Linux FF
2008/8/26 Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: quote who=Scott Ragen I'm a little frustrated by web pages that display flash, and their popup menus that become hidden behind it. I know I could block flash, but I don't always want to do this. I have searched the web and the only solutions I have found are targeted for the web admins, and not the client browsers. Because of the way Flash works in X, it's not fixable until both Adobe and browser vendors (ie. Mozilla) sort it out. Mozilla has done their end of the task already, and some Flash implementations (such as swfdec, and possibly gnash, I'm not sure) already support it. I believe Adobe will support this in their next plugin release, but... we'll just have to wait and see. Here are a couple of more specific links about this - Windowless mode (that's the name for the issue) for Linux is being alpha-tested now: Original mention of windowless mode support: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/07/turkish_localization_also_wmod.html And an important crash fix: http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/2008/08/windowless_mode_fix.html --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Prefered video card for Linux dual-head?
2008/8/25 Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I agree with open drivers, but if you are going to go buy an $80 video card and use it right away. The nvidia is the best option. Yes its a binary driver and no there isnt source code, so yes it taints your kernel. But right now, today, nvidia binary driver works the best. Thanks everyone. Dean's post is representative of my approach to this - it stinks but it works *today*. I just *might* have considered other stuff for home, where it's my money and a single computer to muck around with (and with a big question on how much time I'll have to play with it, small chance of that) but it's my company's money and I'll have to justify to my boss on why the new cards aren't just plug and play. Because next year the drivers will be open source? It's not going to cut it. Thanks everyone for your input. As much as I'd like to support back companies which support open source, I'll look for cheap dual-DVI nVidia cards now. Cheers, --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
