Re: [SLUG] set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable
On Tue, November 11, 2008 12:59 pm, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Do qualify your assertion (eg if you are utterly clueless then ...)
because otherwise the advice is. well um, um, not useful
The original poster has a very long history of asking questions
on this mailing list.
yes ('extremely long' is probably more accurate)
From that history I have been able to gauge his level
of expertise and I adjusted my answer accordingly.
yes, I agree, rather accurate assessment, and, appropriate advice for this
UC OP
as always, thanks
(fwiw, it seems I've installed freetype outside of normal stuff, and, most
likely that's why I struck this problem)
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utterly clueless
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[SLUG] Logical Volume Management.
For me, this is a new although I gather it has been around for a few years. I recently upgraded Ubuntu 6.06 to 8.04. Before the upgrade I kept getting messages that there was not enough space (much to my surprise). I deleted old junk and did the upgrade. NOW, I see the ALL my data is on just one partition of only 4GB. There are are 2 more (unused and empty) partitions of 4 and 57 GB that I would like to use. As I read up on the best way to bring them on board, I stumbled on the new concept of Logical Volume Management. Sounds very interesting. However every thing I have read about using it, assumes you are start with a fresh install. I have seen nothing about converting a current system to LVM. Can any one offer some advise or recommend good reading material? Chris Allen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Jan 30 Fri - SLUG Speakers
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Re: [SLUG] I'm looking for a job {OOT]
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Re: [SLUG] I'm looking for a job {OOT]
Hello Mada. In your blog I'm welcomed to : About Me I'm a human that will be a corpse soon.. Not sure how professional you want your blog to be, but a step in the right direction might perhaps be editing this, among other stuff, out of your blog. Or better still, linking straight to your C.V. Just a friendly heads up. Tony. On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:32 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/8 Mada R Perdhana [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear Sir/Madam, I'm looking for a job in Ausie, I come from Indonesia, if anyone here have information about job vacancies related with Linux, I'll be very thankful.If you need my cv or information about me , please refer to my blog at www.mrp-bpp.net br, Mada R Perdhana Hi Mada, I suggest that you check out http://slug.org.au/jobs Cheers, Sridhar -- Bring choice back to your computer. http://www.linux.org.au/linux -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who falsely believe they are free. -- 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] Logical Volume Management.
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 08:02:07AM +1100, Chris Allen wrote: For me, this is a new although I gather it has been around for a few years. I recently upgraded Ubuntu 6.06 to 8.04. Before the upgrade I kept getting messages that there was not enough space (much to my surprise). I deleted old junk and did the upgrade. NOW, I see the ALL my data is on just one partition of only 4GB. There are are 2 more (unused and empty) partitions of 4 and 57 GB that I would like to use. As I read up on the best way to bring them on board, I stumbled on the new concept of Logical Volume Management. Sounds very interesting. However every thing I have read about using it, assumes you are start with a fresh install. I have seen nothing about converting a current system to LVM. Can any one offer some advise or recommend good reading material? The redhat admin guides are pretty good You could also try http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/index.html but that looks a little out of date to me. I can give you a quick overview: A volume group is made of one or more physical volumes. A volume group can be divided up into logical volumes. You create filesystems on these logical volumes. So: pvcreate /dev/the-partition-or-disk vgcreate some-volume-group /dev/the-partition-or-disk lvcreate --size 10g some-volume-group mkfs.ext3 /dev/some-volume-group/some-logical-volume then add that to /etc/fstab as well. Use lvdisplay and vgdisplay to show the config. -- 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] set the PKG_CONFIG_PATH variable
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 10:00:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Regardless of which distro or distro version you are using, replacing the distro installed package with something you compile yourself is almost always a bad idea, especially when you are downgrading Do qualify your assertion (eg if you are utterly clueless then ...) because otherwise the advice is. well um, um, not useful The original poster has a very long history of asking questions on this mailing list. From that history I have been able to gauge his level of expertise and I adjusted my answer accordingly I absolutely agree, was just making the point so that some strange bod reading your advice might get the idea that building your own packages is not really possible, whereas (as you point out) the answer depends on yourself. :-) James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Simple Accounting Stock Control software
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 to work with a barcode scanner for both products and serial numbers in the future. I don't know what double entry accounting is, and I don't want to find out unless absolutely have to. Ideally a book keeper would be involved at some stage. I only want to be able to generate a list of: * Money in this quarter * money out this quarter * parts on hand And in the future, it would be nice to be able to look up invoices for warranty parts based on serial numbers. FOSS or pay for, I don't mind. Emphasis on EASY. I've tried to use MYOB but the ensuing psychiatry is too expensive. -- 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] Steve Ballmer live rally Sydney November 6
Cibby Pulikkaseril wrote: I only hope that it's as high energy as this notorious performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc Ahhh, the monkey dance video - always good for a laugh. Makes you wonder what his white powder of choice is -- 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] en-AU Translation problem with Synaptic
http://soniahamilton.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/apt-translation-en_au/ (though my explanation deals with apt rather than synaptic) Murray Waldron wrote: G'day all, Each time I reload my package lists with Synaptic I keep getting the same error repeated and packages fail. The error I get is (from the list of upgraded packages): Failed Translation-en_AU http:// Translation-en_AU. Does anyone know how to remove this. It gave me great problems the last time I did a distro upgrade. Thanks in advance Murray. -- 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] Simple Accounting Stock Control software
ledgersmb.org is a good starting point Not perfect but rapidly improving. It's a fork from SQL-Ledger, uses perl/postgresql/apache etc I use it for basic ledgers but it also has stock control and invoicing and point of sale among other things. It has warehouse functions too, which sounds like it might help you. It has an active user base and developers which is always a good thing. I think when it comes to stock control, nothing is easy unless you have no stock. David 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 to work with a barcode scanner for both products and serial numbers in the future. I don't know what double entry accounting is, and I don't want to find out unless absolutely have to. Ideally a book keeper would be involved at some stage. I only want to be able to generate a list of: * Money in this quarter * money out this quarter * parts on hand And in the future, it would be nice to be able to look up invoices for warranty parts based on serial numbers. FOSS or pay for, I don't mind. Emphasis on EASY. I've tried to use MYOB but the ensuing psychiatry is too expensive. -- 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] OT: moving from Access to ...?
Others have raved about Django and mentioned Rails - I'll rave about Rails :-) I confess that in the mid 90's I was an Access programmer; I find programming in Rails to be almost as easy as Access programming, but giving you a web frontend on an open-source stack. When I was researching frameworks a few years ago, what tipped me towards Rails was that there was a lot more books available for Rails than Django, and this still seems to be the case. Pragmatic Programmers have a lot of Ruby/Rails books, but for a beginner I would recommend Build your own Ruby on Rails Web Applications, Lenz, published by Sitepoint. Sonia. Sebastian wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, this is a bit OT but as I want to do it at home on my linux box I thought I ask here for some guidance. For a bigger project at work I set up a access database a while ago - it does the job but I would like to get away from access. The database is basically a large list of past job/FEAdesigns for later reference. At some stage I wanted to import/export from and to out FEA software (a text file). I have to admit my knowledge in Access is not huge but I would be even more keen on learning something more open. I know a bit of VBA and HTML which is why I thought could there something be done with PHP and mySQL. I would prefer to have the reporting and data entry done in a web based format. Are there any simple good options? Thanks for any ideas. Cheers, Sebastian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iD8DBQFJE7hgMuBzgG5z7F8RAtHFAJ4obAQ+DCuETdbLcwxWUxEYDNYDhgCgtJh3 Uj3k4zmGELWKtwbGyDXhIUo= =Wg4A -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
