Re: [SLUG] interesting gnome trick
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 10:57 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: Found a trick today by accident. Put your mouse over the bottom bar, the one with the list of open windows, eg evolution and firefox.Use the scroll wheel to bring to the foreground the different applications. It is indeed cool. It also works on tab bars, so try it in Epiphany, or in a preferences dialog. At GNOME.conf.au 2008, I introduced myself as Hi, I'm Jeremy Visser, and I love scrolling my mousewheel on GTK+ tab bars. :-D 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] Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror?
On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 15:35 +1000, sonia wrote: Anyone know of (or how to find) an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror? Yes, way old (at 2 years...), but I'm trying to maintain an old machine that I don't want to upgrade. Gutsy has dropped out of the Ubuntu mirrors, and googling on Ubuntu Gutsy mirror etc isn't getting me far... as https://help.ubuntu.com/ notes, gutsy is no longer receiving security updates - or any changes at all. Given the continual stream of security updates I see for my machines, I really encourage you to upgrade. I suggest that hardy, a long-term-support release is probably easiest and best - it will stay supported for quite some time. -Rob 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] Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror?
On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:55:12PM +1000, Martin Barry wrote: $quoted_author = sonia ; Anyone know of (or how to find) an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror? IIRC it's no longer supported, so not even archive.ubuntu.com carries it. Ah, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases says EOL on 18/4/09. Time to rethink the upgrade? Hardy has support till April 2011 (Desktop) and April 2013 (Server). You can use deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main etc All the old releases are archived there all the way back to warty if you're that desparate :) But as Marty said I'd also recommend moving to Hardy. Cheers, John -- John Bloghttp://www.inodes.org/blog OLPC Friends http://olpcfriends.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] NY TImes article
I think this is on topic for slug. The article is entitled With New Software, Iranians and Others Outwit Net Censors. You need to register to read the article, but I found that BugMeNot passwords got me in. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/technology/01filter.html?pagewanted=1_r=1hp http://www.bugmenot.com/view/nytimes.com -- Alan L Tyreehttp://www2.austlii.edu.au/~alan Tel: 04 2748 6206 Fax: +61 2 4782 7092 -- 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: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror?
On 1 May 2009, so...@snowfrog.net wrote: Anyone know of (or how to find) an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror? Yes, way old (at 2 years...), but I'm trying to maintain an old machine that I don't want to upgrade. Gutsy has dropped out of the Ubuntu mirrors, and googling on Ubuntu Gutsy mirror etc isn't getting me far... Everything back to Warty is available from: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/ -- -rob -- 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] Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror?
* John Ferlito jo...@inodes.org [2009-05-01 16:20:52 +1000]: On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 03:55:12PM +1000, Martin Barry wrote: $quoted_author = sonia ; Anyone know of (or how to find) an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror? IIRC it's no longer supported, so not even archive.ubuntu.com carries it. Ah, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases says EOL on 18/4/09. Time to rethink the upgrade? Hardy has support till April 2011 (Desktop) and April 2013 (Server). You can use deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ gutsy main etc All the old releases are archived there all the way back to warty if you're that desparate :) But as Marty said I'd also recommend moving to Hardy. Thanks everyone, I'll go with that. Reason I still use Gutsy is that the visor module (for Palm/JPilot) appears to have broken after Gutsy. Admittedly I spent about 3 nanoseconds troubleshooting it and really should try to solve the problem or lodge a proper bug report... (Reminds me of the story given in management classes about the guy too busy chopping down a tree to stop for 5 minutes and sharpen his axe so he can chop the tree down faster). -- Sonia Hamilton. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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] Yum on Fedora 10 is wedged
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: However, it looks like the preupgrade-cli didn't work correctly because the yum still seems to be grabbing fc9 packages instead of fc10. For some reason, even if you use the command line interface to preupgrade, the first boot after the upgrade requires a GUI. That is just plain and simply horribly broken. So when I finally do get a gui connected, the anaconda installer post-upgrade barfs with a python traceback. Has anyone managed to successfully do an upgrade from fc9 to fc10 without using a gui? Is this really not possible? Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Calendar Server
Bedework is popular at universities, mainly because it easily deals with multiple calendars per user and talks to everything but Exchange clients (which is squarely in their plans). It may be a bit over-the-top for a small company's needs. -- 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: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror?
On Saturday 02 May 2009 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: Anyone know of (or how to find) an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror? Yes, way old (at 2 years...), but I'm trying to maintain an old machine that I don't want to upgrade. Gutsy has dropped out of the Ubuntu mirrors, and googling on Ubuntu Gutsy mirror etc isn't getting me far... Everything back to Warty is available from: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/ All the attempts at good advice are naive :-) I have embedded systems in the middle of the ocean with no internet and for years they *just work* and I don't need, want, or dare upgrade. (pulse audio on newer versions screws the audio) My customer wants to add extra usb-serial ports: easy install gutsy, build- essential, qt3 and the slug chat about gutsy solves everything - NOT head /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://old-releases.ununtu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted universe multiverse deb http://old-releases.ununtu.com/releases gutsy main restricted universe multiverse And [snip] Err http://old-releases.ununtu.com gutsy/main Packages Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2) Get:14 http://old-releases.ununtu.com gutsy/restricted Packages bzip2: (stdin) is not a bzip2 file. [snip] And [snip] Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ununtu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary- amd64/Packages.bz2 Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2) [snip] And W: GPG error: http://old-releases.ununtu.com gutsy Release: The following signatures were invalid: NODATA 1 NODATA 2 Can anybody show me the way out of the mire? Thanks 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] Re: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror?
On Sat, May 02, 2009 at 11:58:35AM +0800, jam wrote: On Saturday 02 May 2009 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote: Anyone know of (or how to find) an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror? Yes, way old (at 2 years...), but I'm trying to maintain an old machine that I don't want to upgrade. Gutsy has dropped out of the Ubuntu mirrors, and googling on Ubuntu Gutsy mirror etc isn't getting me far... Everything back to Warty is available from: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/ snip deb http://old-releases.ununtu.com/ubuntu gutsy main restricted universe multiverse deb http://old-releases.ununtu.com/releases gutsy main restricted universe multiverse [snip] Failed to fetch http://old-releases.ununtu.com/ubuntu/dists/gutsy/main/binary- amd64/Packages.bz2 Sub-process bzip2 returned an error code (2) [snip] Can anybody show me the way out of the mire? Try browsing to the URL above and you'll see why it doesn't work. You have ununtu instead of ubuntu. Cheers, John -- John Bloghttp://www.inodes.org/blog OLPC Friends http://olpcfriends.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
