Re: [SLUG] Linux netbook?
This one time, at band camp, Danny Yee wrote: Does any vendor in Australia sell Linux netbooks? The only one I can find is the original 7 Asus EeePC - everything else seems to be XP. Dell in the US or UK will happily configure me a Mini 9 with Ubuntu, but Dell Australia doesn't offer that as an option. Kogan. http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/kogan-agora-netbook/ http://www.kogan.com.au/shop/kogan-agora-netbook-pro/ Anyone got one of these? Comments? I'd like some reviews from clueful people, whereas everything I've read is either from Windows weenies (clueless about what they're seeing) or Kogan cheerleaders. -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin -- 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] Defining Mainsteam
This one time, at band camp, Daniel Bush wrote: I don't always like the way debian (and perhaps by extension ubuntu) modify the conf files and arrange things for various software - I don't want to have to figure out the debian-way on top of figuring out the software itself Wait a second, you'd rather learn where every piece of software you install puts its config files rather than the single place you'll find all config files with any Debian package? This, for me, is the best thing about Debian! Configuration is in /etc/. Not /use/opt/lib/conf/ or wherever the weirdo who wrote the software thinks config files should go since he started using Unix on one of the proprietary open systems in the seventies and that was the place it put them. If config isn't in /etc/, it's a bug. The other thing is that debian and its non-commercial nature seems like an interesting phenomenon in itself. It feels big, comprehensive and reliable (that ssh thing last year notwithstanding :) ) but it's not backed by any big company or an overt commercial interest. Seems to me that there is definitely something valuable there in the way it brings together a lot of the best free/open-source software into a unified system that can be shown off to the world. The amazing thing is that the project has stuck to its guns throughout, and that's paying off. Nobody would consider forking their own distro from another source now unless they were deeply invested in another distro already. [1] it also helps that there are isp's like iinet who provide free mirrors for debian/ubuntu/* repositories which you can use if you are customer 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. -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ When bankers get together for dinner they discuss art, when artists get together for dinner they discuss money. - Oscar Wilde -- 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] Looking for a desktop PIM
(Sorry I deleted the original without reading, and just realised I can help here so I'm quoting from the quotes here) Peter Chubb pet...@gelato.unsw.edu.au writes: The quastion is, what do I use on my laptop? What's light weight, simple, can track appointments, contacts, TODOs, memos and keys, and can sync with a Nokia? I use GooSync to sync my Google Calendar with my mobile. Basically you should be able to sync (over the air GPRS or 802.11x, rather than having to use a cable) with anything that supports SyncML. No idea about any free software stuff, but there's a few services online that do it. Google Calendar has a beta offline version (using Gears) if you need that. That will sort your appointments and back up your contacts. Don't know about tasks, memos or keys though. I don't use the Nokia stuff for any of that on my crappy old phone. Buy another Palm Pilot, since nothing else out there is really going to give a lot of joy in terms of sync with Linux at the moment. Depends if you'll be happy with online services. http://www.goosync.com/ -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. - Somerset Maugham -- 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] Mythbuntu box shutting down at random
This one time, at band camp, elliott-brennan wrote: I checked the box when it keeled over while my wife was watching the telly and it was rather hot. It could be the box is not pushed far enough back in the TV cabinet (big mother which holds everything) so the air may not have been able to move around properly regardless of the fans. I've moved it right to the back (I had already cut a hole out of the rear of the cabinet to allow the box to vent properly - wife was not amused). Install the lm-sensors and sensord package. Then (as root) run sensors-detect. It'll test for available temperature sensors on your machine and set up the appropriate lines in /etc/modules.conf to load the right modules (first time you'll need to modprobe them yourself). Then type sensors to see all the output. For example, here's part of my output: adm1023-i2c-2-18 Adapter: SMBus I801 adapter at dcd0 Board Temp: +37.0°C (low = -128.0°C, high = +127.0°C) CPU Temp:+41.0°C (low = -128.0°C, high = +105.0°C) Fiddle around with /etc/sensors3.conf to set maximum temperatures, and actions when the maximums are exceeded (like, get it to send you an email?). -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. - Simeon Strunsky -- 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: Mythbuntu set up not 'quite' right
This one time, at band camp, Blindraven wrote: What about the Popcorn hour A110? http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/index.php?pluginoption=catalogtask=infoitem_id=6 It seems to do everything, cheaper. Erm, that doesn't appear to be a PVR but instead a media playback device. -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ a skid mark on the bed sheet of Australian politics - John Howard, as described by Dean Mighell -- 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] Mythbuntu set up not 'quite' right
This one time, at band camp, Rick Welykochy wrote: Out of curiosity, how does the price of an SD or HD do it yourself pvr-style setup, e.g. MythTV or other, compare to paying for a pvr from Topfield or Beyonwiz? SD Topfield ... approx $700.00, with 200 GB HDD HD Beyonwiz ... approx $1200.00, with 320 GB HDD I've had an SD toppy for, oh, four years now. Only hiccup was a damaged IR pickup which was repaired under warranty. Live TV? What is that? There's some fairly major functional differences, which I'll describe below. But how about this for my costs: IBM server from eBay: $50 2X 500GB SATA drives: $280 Diskless, fanless Via EPIA front-end: $400 So comparable to the Topfield, except that the bit in my lounge room is completely silent, and I have five times the storage. The only downside to the two PVRs I have played with: their software is riddled with bugs. Not show stoppers, but real annoying little gnats that have insane workarounds. These machines are software heavy but ... sigh. Whereas MythTV is pretty damn solid, and improving all the time. The vendors of these commercial PVRs don't have much incentive to help you maintain your existing system, since they've already made their money. So onto those functional differences: * Ability to separate backend and frontend (silence in the lounge room) * Commercial flagging * Upgrade to HD requires only a new frontend * Upgrading storage or adding tuners is trivial * Ability to schedule programmes with a web browser, anywhere * No vendor to go broke, stranding you with an out-of-date-system I'm about to move to HD myself. Just waiting on delivery of my new telly and PS3. -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Impact: Non-privileged primitive users can cause the total destruction of your entire invasion fleet and gain unauthorized access to files. - CERT Advisory CA-96.13 - Alien/OS Vulnerability -- 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: Netbook experiences?
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Hannigan wrote: I'm also going to put eeebuntu or possibly the eee fedora distro on it. (downloading eeebuntu 8.10 right now in fact) There's also Ubuntu Eee, just to be confusing. It's less dogmatic about the free software thing. I've been incredibly impressed with it so far! A brilliant UI, not sure what window manager it is but it's slick slick slick, and ideal for such a tiny screen. Only issue was hibernate and sleep didn't work. Followed the instructions on the Wiki and now it does. -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its people. The issues are much too important for the Chilean voters to be left to decide for themselves. - Henry Kissinger on Chile prior to the overthrow and violent death of Salvador Allende. -- 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] Netbook experiences?
Thanks for all the feedback folks. I've ended up buying the 900, which is 250g lighter than the 901 (mainly due to battery) and substantially cheaper. Will see how I go. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anywhere selling the Linux version, and had to pay the Microsoft tax. Anyone know the current state of play with Microsot tax refunds? -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Given the choice between two evils, I pick the one I haven't tried before. - Mae West -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Netbook experiences?
Hi folks. I'm in the market for one of these ultra-portable little laptops. I'm keen on a 9 screen, and would prefer not to pay the Redmond tax. So what's people's experiences? The MSI Wind is looking like a front runner from the reviews I've read. What are the real world experiences? -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. - Harry S. Truman -- 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] Netbook experiences?
This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead wrote: the msi looks like the same hardware as the aspire one. the main difference i have seem from the eepc to the aspire is better support for the network hardware in the aspire. MSI Wind apparently has a great keyboard. What's the Aspire's like? Which model have you got? The Windows one seems to have a better spec, but I suppose you'd need it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_One#Specifications -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. - Politicians and Other Scoundrels by Ferdinand Lundberg -- 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] Netbook experiences?
This one time, at band camp, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: I've just bought an Aspire One -- the Linux edition. The price ($320 after cashback from catchoftheday.com.au) couldn't be beat, although this one has the Intel (slow) SSD. The Linux version that's on there (Linpus) is a bit of a pain, so I installed Xubuntu instead. Wow that price is pretty amazing! Looks like there's similar prices out there too. That could win it for me. major advantages: very light weight (1Kg); 2.5hrs battery (or, I'm told, 6 with the larger battery one can buy) very cheap, reasonably put together, three USB slots and two SD card readers (you can apparently stick a 16G SDHC card in to triple your disc; the Linpus distribution mounts it as unionFS over /home, but I haven't played with it yet on Xubuntu). Low weight is very promising. The reviews of this one seem to say that the major downside is the battery life. Thanks for the info. -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. - Power and the Passion, Midnight Oil -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's Reply-To: In-Reply-To:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] X-URL: http://www.rumble.net/ This one time, at band camp, Jake Anderson wrote: heh anybody know of VoIP software that will run on a 3G mobile? Fring. It works, but it's pretty damn flaky. It does, however, allow you to define arbitrary SIP endpoints to register with, which is something I haven't found in any other SIP software for phones. http://www.fring.com/ For that matter can I get these data plans on the same sim as my standard mobile? IE have the standard voice calling stuff but in the same device have the ability to suck a few GB worth of data at a sane price. In general no. They want to segment you out of doing that. There's definitely a business model available here where someone sells you a mobile that has a landline phone number, which reverts to (divert so you'd have to pay for incoming calls) a real mobile number when out of 3G/802.11 range. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, then hire a hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids, and fuck his dog and smash his computer into little bits. Anything more is just extremism. - Paul Tomblin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's
X-URL: http://www.rumble.net/ This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead wrote: rumours are of woolies (safeway) and internode entering the market via optus also (cites IT sections in various editions of Financial Review) Internode isn't just a rumour. Confirmation from the big kahuna here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=972031ux=6258 -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If the designers of X-windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same prinicples -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that. -- From the programming notebooks of a heretic, 1990. -- 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] Desktop integration with Google Calendar and Remember the Milk
This one time, at band camp, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: What I want is a desktop reminder similar to what you'd get with Korganiser/Kontact, Evolution and so on - something in-my-face that I can't miss, but with an option to snooze/suspend. It should also not be dependent on a Web browser being in the foreground (or even open at all). Gcal and RTM _should_ allow for this easily, except that they don't export VALARM parameters in their ICAL feeds. Currently I just use the e-mail notification, but that isn't optimal. You can cobble together a couple of different services to get what you want. imified.com provides an instant message front-end to RTM and Google Calendar. This could work well for your desktop reminders. I synchronise my phone with my Google Calendar using goosync.com's service, and find it quite stable and reliable. Having my calendar with you wherever you go is perhaps the biggest productivity improvement I've had in recent years. There's also a tool to sync Outlook with your Google Calendar -- sadly I'm forced to use Outlook at work, but this way I can also sync it with my phone. Finally, check out the Firefox extension that overlays RTM over your gmail window. It's very very cool to have your todos right next http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/gmail/ You're running kinda close to the state-of-the-art by putting all your stuff in the cloud, so it's not quite as beautiful as it should be. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw -- 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] Talk request. Freenet or similar technology.
This one time, at band camp, Robert Collins wrote: privoxy isn't all that relevant actually, my memory of it was a little stale Privoxy is recommended if you're using Tor for web browsing. It prevents stuff leaking outside the Tor network, which could make the browser identifiable. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Christianity: The belief that some cosmic Jewish Zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree. Makes perfect sense. - From a t-shirt http://tinyurl.com/2ee6ke -- 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
This one time, at band camp, Robert Collins wrote: Make a note in your diary now and be watching at the dawn of a new age of freedom. ... In what psychotic world did you imagine this was ontopic for a linux users group list? The description makes me think Steve Ballmer is going to tongue-pash RMS live on-stage, before announcing the release of Windows GPL. Alternatively, the freedom is the freedom for MSFT shareholders to bend their customers over a barrel, but why be a pessimist? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. - Winston Churchill -- 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] Search engine traffic dominates
This one time, at band camp, Peter Chubb wrote: I'm a little cheesed off. In the last three months, people have downloaded 9G per month from our website; search engines have downloaded 21G per month. Only Google generated significant traffic through search engine hits (and it downloaded less than the others, too --- around 2G per month, as opposed to 10G for Yahoo, and 4G for MSNbot). In other words, search engine indexing traffic was double the actual traffic from www.gelato.unsw.edu,au. Ever since Google started being _really_ fast with index updates, all the others have been trying to catch up. By really fast I mean my work launched a new campaign on Sunday morning and it was in Google's results by Monday afternoon. Is there any good reason why I shouldn't block (or at least significantly slow down) MSNbot, MJ12BOT, and Yahoo Slurp! ??? Yahoo is particularly bad, crawling and downloading about twice what the others do, and yet generating 1% of the hits that Google generated for us. Depends how much you care about Yahoo's or MSN's referrals. In the consumer space I work in, Google still accounts for the vast majority of hits (85%) and a similar proportion of sales. MSN + Live are around 10%, essentially through Microsoft's domination of people who don't know how to change their home page let alone install an alternative browser. Yahoo gets around 4%. For us, these are the people we target so it's very important. For you, it might be less important. You might want to look into the Crawl-delay extension to the robots.txt standard, which can limit by robot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt#Crawl-delay_directive -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. - Abba Eban -- 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] Fortress .... err Firewall Australia
This one time, at band camp, SMITH GARETH wrote: I think censorship is a great idea. Young children need to be censored from harmful content. They don't need to be exposed to potentially damaging websites and now with internet on a mobiles, kids are being exposed to harmful content that they shouldn't see. 1. It doesn't work. 2. Who decides what is appropriate and what isn't? Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it. - Attributed to Mark Twain The task of deciding what is appropriate for children is the job of the parents. All filtering systems have faults -- over or under blocking, so aren't a perfect solution. A much better option is to have the computer in a public location. I think home internet plans should be filtered and business plans can be unfiltered. Feel free to install whatever filtering system you would like on YOUR internet connection. The government even provides the software for free. Me, I'll stick to my own thanks! China filters the whole internet to the country and this works for them No, it doesn't work. What it blocks is trivial access to sites like CNN, BBC and ABC. A few obvious porn sites (playboy, penthouse) are blocked, while the rest are open. It is trivially easy to get around the censorship -- I set up just such a system for a friend when he lived in Shanghai. How the Chinese firewall works is through fear of being noticed. My friend was okay running a VPN to my server because, as a westerner, he would have been deported. A local would be locked up in a prison for ideological offenders. This is the model we want for Australia? so it's feasable to do this technically. Censoring the whole internet is stupid but censoring HOMES and Schools is a great idea. Sure, a great idea. Except it doesn't work. Internet Filtering - It's like WorkChoices for your computer: You never asked for it, you've repeatedly said you don't want it, but the Government is determined to ram it down your throat, all the while smirking, and telling you what a great favour they're doing you. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If the designers of X-windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same prinicples -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that. -- From the programming notebooks of a heretic, 1990. -- 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] Fortress .... err Firewall Australia
This one time, at band camp, SMITH GARETH wrote: If you're a techno head and want to view an UNCENSORED content get an UNCENSORED CONNECTION. EG a business connection and censor it yourself. No. The point of the proposed internet censorship regime is it is MANDATORY. Whouldn't it be great if the ISP provided an content filter at the ISP level where you can manage your own content. You login and unrestrict the content you want to view. Their are indeed ISPs that provide this service. You are free to use one. I don't want to and resent you trying to force me to not have the option to be uncensored. Now tell me how do you stop your children from connecting to porn sites from their mobile phone? This has already happened. Look at the ACMA site. However, like all these filtering systems, it isn't 100% effective. The internet web content is already censored!!! But we don't have control over it. If your under the impression that the internet is uncensored you need to realise that it already is. Incorrect. You are clearly misinformed. There is no government filtering of the Internet in Australia. If the site is hosted in Australia, the government is able to get the site taken down. In all other circumstances, it is only filtered in the government-approved client-side filtering systems. Illigal content like online gambling and terrorist information is already blocked. Online gambling is not illegal. Nor are either types of information blocked. Schools and public computers are already censored with strict content filtering policies. Why not filter it at the ISP and not at the client site. Sure. As an option available to consumers it already is. LET THE ISP'S MANAGE THE FILTERING. I know I don't want to pay for the download of a site that ends up being blocked by my content filter. We are we paying for downloads that we don't want. Feel free. By default the SEX companies shouldn't be able to propogate PORN to our children by default. By default corporations shouldn't be able to propogate unhealthy foods to our children by default. When is my position going to be imposed on the entire population? I used to manage content filters for multiple businesses and managing client side content filters are annoying. I don't want to do this but the reality is we need content filtering!! So pay someone else to do it. Why should schools pay for the bandwidth of content that just gets stripped out by your content filter anyway. I don't think you understand how filtering works. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. - Somerset Maugham -- 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] Fortress .... err Firewall Australia
This one time, at band camp, James Purser wrote: Here's a radical suggestion, why don't we mandate that ISP's must offer a filtered service and see who actually picks it up. Instead of forcing Telly Tubby land on everyone, give it to those who want it, and leave the rest of us who are able to take responsibility for our internet usage alone. I know it's out of fashion this week, but how about letting the market decide? There are already ISPs that provide a filtered service. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ I call Windows the petri dish of choice on the Internet. It's the opportunity to download a virus from anywhere and infect corporate information. - Scott McNealy -- 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] Fortress .... err Firewall Australia
This one time, at band camp, Kyle wrote: Is this possibly for real? Yes. Our political overlords realise it will cost a fortune, will slow down our internets and won't work. They're being successfully wedged by the shrill wowsers like Hetty Johnstone that being anti-filtering is equivalent to being pro kiddy porn. Our job is to get across why it's a bad idea, and most importantly that it won't work: it will not prevent bad people from viewing bad things, but it will block innocuous things. Of course we're told it won't be used to block unpalatable political ideas. Like the terrorism laws that would never be used on peaceful protesters. Does anyone here have any insight pls? http://nocleanfeed.com/ -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Arguing online is like being in the Special Olympics. You might win, but you're still retarded. -- 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] ADSL2 modems that just simply work with linux -- existed for adsl1
This one time, at band camp, R.G.Salisbury wrote: I don't know of any adsl2 modems that just work in linux. All the ones with an ethernet port just work with Linux. It's really the best approach as it'll never be obsolete or unsupported with your OS, no matter what happens in the future. I've had good experiences with Billion. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. - Samuel Adams -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Reminder: Key signing this Friday in Sydney
Quick reminder that this is tomorrow night. Udo van den Heuvel[1] is visiting and would like to do a key signing[2] to improve the web of trust. I've suggested The Australian in The Rocks where I tend to take overseas tourists because they have good beer and pizzas topped with both our two national animals, in a good central location. If you're coming, please bring identification that matches your key and a bunch of little slips of paper with your key details and fingerprint on it, to enable people to verify your identity and key. I'll be following the informal[3] method. Friday 12th September 18:00 for 18:30 key signing, then beer and pizza. The Australian[4], 100 Cumberland Street, The Rocks Probably the back room ladies bar. I look roughly like this[5]. [1] http://keyserver.noreply.org/pks/lookup?op=vindexsearch=0x3AD6F8118300CC02 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party [3] http://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html#traditional [4] http://www.australianheritagehotel.com/ [5] http://rumble.smugmug.com/photos/69684016_4byEq-L-1.jpg -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Imagine a very committed funeral home director, whose proudest achievement in adulthood was to be elected president of the Queenbeyan and District Funeral Home Directors' Association--then halve his personality and halve it again, and you have pretty well got John Howard. - Bill Bryson from Down Under 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] Ubuntu friendly PCI/USB WiFi?
This one time, at band camp, Ben wrote: I need to buy a PCI or USB WiFi card that works with Ubuntu, and will _keep working_. I just can't seem to find anything concrete - maybe a market opening I should be exploiting? I've found the USB ones use too much CPU and the PCI ones are difficult to guarantee will be supported. I ended up using an access point flashed with dd-wrt in client mode. It's got a better antenna too. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Warning - Contains nuts! - On a packet of peanuts -- 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 friendly PCI/USB WiFi?
This one time, at band camp, Ben wrote: Yes, that's just it. The router idea is pretty good, but I don't have time to mess around with that right now (I haven't used ddwrt before). Not particularly difficult to do, though with some devices it does involve tftp shenanigans. Best current router is probably Asus WL-500G premium. I think I shall purchase a selection of cheap cards and see if I can get one of them to work. The current Atheros based one that I have causes a lock-up during boot up and the only thing I can do to get it working is disable ath_hal (the restricted kernel module the card requires). If you specifically say you need it to work under Linux, and the vendor doesn't specifically say it doesn't, you'll be entitled to a refund if it doesn't work. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships. - Sharon Stone -- 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] DODO
This one time, at band camp, James Sadler wrote: iiNet managed to screw up my broadband connection last year such that I could not get a sync signal at all. It took 4 months to resolve the situation. In the end it turned out that a neighbour had moved in down the road, got his phone connected and somewhere the cables running between the exchange and our apartments, the phone lines were physically touching. Then what you're saying is Telstra screwed up your line. Any other ISP would have had the same problems. I still haven't got my money back for the four months without a connection. I thought about going to small claims but at that point I was so stressed by the ordeal I just gave up. Have you made a formal complaint? if so, and it's still unresolved, call the TIO. While that may have been true (or not) I couldn't give a damn as I only have a contract with iiNet. Contact your federal MP demanding structural separation of Telstra and this might end up getting fixed. As it is, Telstra has no interest and no incentive to improving the service provided to its wholsale customers' customers, despite Telstra Wholesale being a massive profit centre in the organisation. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ A reactionary is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday. -- 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] DODO
This one time, at band camp, jam wrote: How about 'Drew Keating: The TIO can't make us change anything' 'you're wasting your time' One thing the TIO _can_ do is charge them. If you ring up the TIO and say the name of a telco, they get charged. It's how it works. 1-800 number too. ;) grin how bad can dodo be!! Oh you wouldn't believe... -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. - Samuel Adams -- 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] DODO
This one time, at band camp, jam wrote: Anybody: comments on DoDo? http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD/pc=PC_310964 http://apcmag.com/dodo_internet_in_complaint_crisis.htm http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-threads.cfm?f=31g=65 (for the last link, with any forum system, you either get fanbois or complaints, so not necessarily a great indicator) And a personal experience. An elderly friend signed up with them for ADSL only to find her computer couldn't support ADSL (via their crappy USB modem). Instead of letting her out of the contract, they managed to convince her to pay it out in full! Unfortunately I found about this much too late. You really want to avoid any ISP that: * goes for the absolute cheapest end of the market * tries to appear to be the cheapest with headline-grabbing prices but punitive excess charges and other penalty charges * charges for both uploads and downloads * claims to have an unlimited plan -- they'll either go out of business very quickly or they're lying If you want an ISP that complies with RFCs, has competent support staff and treats complaints seriously, go with Internode. They're not the cheapest ISP on the block. There's a reason for that. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Cocaine, habit forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years. - Tallulah Bankhead -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Key signing Friday 12th September, The Rocks
Hi folks. Udo van den Heuvel[1] is visiting and would like to do a key signing[2] to improve the web of trust. I've suggested The Australian in The Rocks where I tend to take overseas tourists because they have good beer and pizzas topped with both our two national animals, in a good central location. If you're coming, please bring identification that matches your key and a bunch of little slips of paper with your key details and fingerprint on it, to enable people to verify your identity and key. I'll be following the informal[3] method. Friday 12th September 18:00 for 18:30 key signing, then beer and pizza. The Australian[4], 100 Cumberland Street, The Rocks Probably the back room ladies bar. I look roughly like this[5]. [1] http://keyserver.noreply.org/pks/lookup?op=vindexsearch=0x3AD6F8118300CC02 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key_signing_party [3] http://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html#traditional [4] http://www.australianheritagehotel.com/ [5] http://rumble.smugmug.com/photos/69684016_4byEq-L-1.jpg -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ The problem with political jokes is they get elected. - Henry Cate 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] website or browser bug?
This one time, at band camp, Simon Males wrote: The print stylesheet is all wrong, basically culling everything. And it works fine in IE6 IE8 (just tried it) because IE simply ignores print stylesheets. Government departments tend to be reasonably responsive to these kinds of issues -- and this one's an easy fix, they could just remove the print stylesheet and the result will at least be better. So see if you cna find a technical contact. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Finster's Law: A closed mouth gathers no feet. -- 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] merging pdf
This one time, at band camp, Daryl Thompson wrote: I have a PDF document that is in parts and i need to merge them into one PDF. I have know idea can any any help me please $ man pdfjoin PDFJOIN(1) NAME pdfjoin - concatenate the multiple PDF files into a single file [snip] On Debian it's: Package: pdfjam Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 112 Maintainer: Eduard Bloch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Architecture: all Version: 1.20-2 Depends: tetex-extra | texlive-latex-recommended, tetex-extra | texlive-fonts-recommended Filename: pool/main/p/pdfjam/pdfjam_1.20-2_all.deb Size: 18042 MD5sum: 23f338751db75962d47070c0699649e4 SHA1: fa14adf6a543e8403189edcd68b0cd1ddbdf1dae SHA256: d61f68b595a9bb25b7115f307f9a627fb99db8826a02cd3979a5a97480c0d73a Description: collection of PDF document handling utilities PDFjam is a small collection of shell scripts that work similarly to the well known psutils (psmerge, psnup). They provide a simple interface to some of the functionality of the pdfpages package for pdfLaTeX. At present, the utilities available are pdfnup, pdfjoin, and pdf90. PDFjam depends on a working installation of (pdf)LaTeX. . - pdfnup puts multiple document pages together on one physical page at a reduced size - pdfjoin concatenates multiple PDF documents - pdf90 rotates the pages of PDF documents -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Wavy Gravy once asked a Zen Roshi, What happens after death? The Roshi replied, I don't know. Wavy protested, But you're a Zen Master! Yes, the Roshi admitted, but I'm not a dead Zen Master. - From Robert Anton Wilson's blog -- 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] temporary wireless internet?
This one time, at band camp, Amos Shapira wrote: I know about unWired and Three's offerings, which sound reasonable for a short period, but buying the hardware just for this period looks expensive, and I didn't find anywhere which offers it for rent. If you have a 3G phone with Bluetooth, you can use it to connect to the Net with a (cheap) USB Bluetooth dongle on your computer.. Though you'll want to keep your usage down as the rates are normally punitive. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If Jesus saves, why is he always asking for money? - landoverbaptist.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] wireless broadband?
This one time, at band camp, Del wrote: The problem is that I have *one* 240V outlet and the inverter is only rated to 400W, so I don't want to go powering routers and things with it as I will almost certainly need it for other things (charging the shaver and electric drill batteries, for example, which I don't have 12V chargers for). I'm assuming you're using a laptop then. If it takes the mini-PCI cards, there are internal HDSPA (3G) cards. Otherwise the little USB ones. I've heard they work okay, but never used one. I may look at 3, but the N3G002W is only an option if I can run it off 12V. As has been said, once you roam out of capital cities you're on Telstra at bend-over-and-take-me rates. You might be better going with Telstra direct on their NextG. It does get longer distance. If all you want is email, there are packet radio options on HF radio. Not gonna be watching any YouTube though. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. - George Bernard Shaw -- 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: eee pc 900 (20080709)
This one time, at band camp, Richard Ibbotson wrote: PC World (for example) which is hated by a lot of people for it's incompetence They're hated with very good reason. If you've heard the stories of Best Buy high-pressure say-anything-to-make-the-sale tactics, this place is very much in that league. This guy managed to get over a hundred thousand quid out of them through the courts. Hilarious! http://www.scotcourts.gov.uk/opinions/A187_04.html It's very unusual for this kind of retail chain to shift large piles of EeePCs with Linux installed. They are trying to move XP versions off the shelf but that doesn't seem to work too well :) They wouldn't really care, to be honest. It would all depend on the profit margin, and how many ancillary sales they can make alongside the laptop. I'm sure they'd be pushing their worthless extended warranties, external mouse and keyboard, laptop bags etc etc. On the issue of GST being levied on private imports: there's no published lower limit, but they don't tend to hassle you for them to stop a shipment and charge GST when it's books, CDs, t-shirts or similar in small quantities. If it comes in via one of the big courier companies (DHL, Fedex) you're more likely to get it stopped, but having Computer written on the customs declaration kinda guarantees it'll get stopped by any route. The problem here is that customs apply a 20% uplift to the invoiced price before applying GST as they assume you're getting it at wholesale prices (despite the fact you're only buying one), so you end up paying 32% GST! -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Cocaine, habit forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years. - Tallulah Bankhead -- 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] eee pc 900 (20080709)
This one time, at band camp, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: Has anyone had experience with shoppingsquare.com.au? Yeah I bought my Squeezebox from them and they were fine. Only problem for me was they use Fastway couriers. The courier forged my signature (I wasn't home) and left the device sitting on the front step. Fortunately it was still there when I got home. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ A lifetime of listening to disco music is a high price to pay for one's sexual preference - Quentin Crisp -- 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: WLAN VoIP phone
This one time, at band camp, Sebastian wrote: My question now is do I buy a VoIP router and hook my old phone on or is there another option? I thought about a hand set which connects to my existing WLAN. Is there something out there like that? Is it affordable? I think the link above is the right direction but I am not sure. Everything I've heard about the wireless handsets has been pretty negative. Poor battery life, poor quality, poor performance. Getting a VOIP router or just an ATA to plug into your existing hardware still seems the most reliable solution. Get yourself an ordinary cordless phone handset and plug it into your ATA. Ideally your cordless phone should be outside the 802.11a/b/g/n frequency ranges (DECT is good for this). I have this setup with the Billion 7404VGP-M which has two phone ports. I'm still paying the Telstra Tax (waiting for my ISP to offer naked) so incoming calls work just fine, and it automagically switches to VOIP for outbound calls. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. - Peter O'Toole -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Hyperthreading
I have an Intel Xeon 3 gig CPU and have hyperthreading turned on in the BIOS. I've been trying to work out what the advantages and disadvantages of this are. The CPU appears as two CPUs to the machine, which means that non-threaded apps don't appear to use the whole CPU. Is this a correct assumption? For example, using Devede to convert video, the transcode process only uses 50% of CPU in top. If I run another CPU-intensive process, the CPU usage in top goes close to 100%. So would I be correct in assuming that hyperthreading is useful for keeping the system responsive under load, but if running single-threaded CPU-intensive processes, it'll run faster without hyperthreading? This machine can actually take another CPU, but finding a suitable one and the matching fan and shroud (Dell) doesn't seem to be easy. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me. - Emo Philips -- 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] Hyperthreading
This one time, at band camp, Brett Morgan wrote: From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading): Yeah I read that. It didn't answer my question 8) -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. - Thomas Jefferson -- 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] Hyperthreading
Thanks for all the informative responses. So it seems there's only a minor performance decrease from having hyperthreading enabled if load is a single thread. i.e., my reading of top wasn't right. Thanks again. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ God is real, unless declared integer. -- 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: turning off blog comments
This one time, at band camp, Michael Chesterton wrote: A blog without comments is like posting to a list and not reading the followups. Who says I want your comments? I have a link to my contact form on my blog posts. If people want to talk to me, they can. Your conception of a blog is different to mine, clearly. I have three wordpress plugins for comment spam. Great, not one but three pieces of software to maintain. Then I get to moderate messages too. Not like I've got anything better to do. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Wavy Gravy once asked a Zen Roshi, What happens after death? The Roshi replied, I don't know. Wavy protested, But you're a Zen Master! Yes, the Roshi admitted, but I'm not a dead Zen Master. - From Robert Anton Wilson's blog -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)
This one time, at band camp, Chris Collins wrote: Matt's Script Archive, anyone? God... no. make it stop! I was a #perl op on Efnet back in 2000/2001. The channel had officially disowned Matt and anything to do with him. The standard recommendation being Don't. Just... don't. And a whole project to re-implement them properly: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/ -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport for white men dressed like black pimps. - Tiger Woods -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)
This one time, at band camp, Adrian Chadd wrote: Ah, if only writing software held the same risks and building bridges. :) You mean engineers don't test their newly-built bridge by driving a dozen variously-shaped vehicles across it, before opening it up to all and sundry? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place. - Douglas Adams on Windows '95. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)
This one time, at band camp, Mary Gardiner wrote: I suspect attacks through web apps like WordPress are pretty common causes of comprise of machines run by essentially knowledgable people at the moment, because there doesn't seem yet to be a good set of best practices for packaging and updating them (upstream tends to aims their instructions at people who might not even have shell access, let alone root access, and there's the whole plugin universe too). Yet people regularly ask me why there's no comments on my blog. This and the fact I couldn't be bothered keeping it up-to-date with the latest comment spam blocking hacks. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. - Simeon Strunsky -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)
This one time, at band camp, Daniel Pittman wrote: [2] formmail. I say no more. Matt's Script Archive, anyone? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time. - Alfred E Wiggam -- 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] Take 2 MythTV = Media Centre ++
This one time, at band camp, David Gillies wrote: I've got near perfect reception of channel 7 and I've found that ad detection is near useless on it. Detection on SBS and 10 is near perfect. 10 is near perfect _except_ for The Simpsons. Always seems to skip the segment after the last ad break straight to the credits. I suspect it's just something to do with the way The Simpsons is. I've noticed from the one program that I regularly record (Better Homes Garden) that the way they phase in and out of ads is slightly different to other channels. 10 and SBS from what I've noticed always seem to have even a single frame of black between the show and the ad, whereas 7 doesn't always seem to do that. Commercial channels are actively attempting to defeat ad skipping. Expect this to get worse. I'm not really sure about channel 9 since only on my mythtv box the reception is crap and I can't really record much at all. I'm not sure whether its the cards I've got, or the frequency that the mythtv box is picking up for channel 9 or what. Can anyone tell me what settings they're using for channel 9 in the inner city or eastern suburbs of Sydney (I'm in Waterloo)? Waterloo you probably want the VHF signal from Artarmon. Make sure you're not using the frequency for either the Manly or Kings Cross transmitters, which are both in the UHF range. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Why sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! - Michael Faraday 1791-1867: to Gladstone, when asked about the usefulness of electricity -- 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] Take 3 MythTV = Media Centre ++
This one time, at band camp, Grahame Kelly wrote: You are correct in thinking it is your antenna, most of the time it is; together with all the bits-n-pieces. Of course you will have to have reasonably good coax and depending where you live (or trying to DTV record), that you may be best getting someone to check your signal strength at the your antenna and at the end-points ti.e.: where cable connects to your DVB card/TV. Digital TV is much more susceptible to impulse noise -- crappy motor scooters and the like driving past will destroy your reception. On analogue this shows up as a momentary white dot somewhere in the image. On digital, at the right point in the stream, it can wipe out the whole thing for a few seconds as it tries to re-sync. Best thing you can do is replace all the coax and splitters with quad-shielded Belden RG6. http://www.jaycar.com.au/productView.asp?ID=WB2009CATID=22keywords=SPECIAL=form=CATProdCodeOnly=Keyword1=Keyword2=pageNumber=priceMin=priceMax=SUBCATID=415 Instead of the old-style connectors (Belling-Lee), use F-connectors (including for any splitters) all the way until your receiver, when you'll need an adapter. F-connectors are impedence matched, unlike the old style ones. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F_connector This is the cheapest thing you can do and it works in most cases. You can do it yourself too if you're handy with a ladder. There's a bunch of sites about wiring up the connectors online. It's pretty easy. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams -- 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] Take 2 MythTV = Media Centre ++
This one time, at band camp, Alex Samad wrote: so how does the setup work, does mythtv transcode everything to mpeg2 ? DVB-t (digital terrestrial) is already MPEG-2, so I doubt he bothers transcoding anything. I am currently using an xbox with xbmc on it, works well, except for the newer mp4 (h264) file, then there doesn't seem to be enough horse power to handle it. These kind of fanless machines don't tend to have enough grunt for anything other than the formats they support. There _are_ chipsets that do the algorithms needed for the mp4/xvid generation of codecs, but I believe none of the boards are supported under Linux. Since this is a bit of a show-and-tell, my setup. I bought an IBM dual 1 gig Xeon server off eBay for a couple of hundred bucks. That's my backend, running Debian, with a terrabyte of SATA drives in it for storage of video. Three capture cards, two PCI random ones I bought from Dick Smith, another is a Freecom USB one. Frontend is a fanless Via EPIA ME6000 with half a gig of RAM. OS is Minimyth that boots from CF (http://minimyth.org/) and remote is a StreamZap. At some point I'll buy a shiny new HD telly, in which case I may upgrade the front end to something that needs fans, but I'll stick it in the same cupboard as the server and run DVI either direct or over the Cat6 to the lounge room. Unfortunately the whole setup is out of action right now, pending running cables under and around the new house. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. - Abba Eban -- 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] Take 2 MythTV = Media Centre ++
This one time, at band camp, Kyle wrote: err GULP!!! Ok! he says meekly Thanks. I'll just walk before I go for the Olympics I think. For the record, if you're recording DVB-t, you really don't need much CPU grunt in either the back-end or front-end. All it's doing is pulling the appropriate stream our of what's coming down the antenna and spooling it off to disk. There's no transcoding or anything involved. If you want to do ad detection on the commercial channels, that might need some CPU power, though in my experience it's the disk thrashing that's more of an issue. In standard definition, MPEG decoder hardware means the CPU can be pretty puny on the front-end. Seriously, spend your money on disks -- which are cheap too ($300/TB these days). I find with free-to-air only and my viewing habits, about 600 gigs is plenty, and there's still loads of stuff I never get around to. I probably watch at most 6 hours of telly a week though, so perhaps I'm not typical? The beauty of MythTV, though, is that it's all thriller, no filler. No ads either. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If the designers of X-windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed the same prinicples -- but you'd be able to shift gears with your car stereo. Useful feature, that. -- From the programming notebooks of a heretic, 1990. -- 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] search engine for company network (OT)
This one time, at band camp, Sebastian Spiess wrote: I've heard of the various desktop search engines like beagle, tracker and google desktop but are there open source engines which can be run on a server so that many can connect to it and search? AFAIK Beagle and Tracker are free software. However, nothing beats Google Desktop. It's changed my work life enormously! I'm forced to use that other, horrible OS and its even worse mail client, but by indexing the whole lot everything is just a very quick search away. Google Desktop can be pointed at network drives, so it'll index those for you too. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ a skid mark on the bed sheet of Australian politics - John Howard, as described by Dean Mighell -- 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] search engine for company network (OT)
This one time, at band camp, Glen Turner wrote: It took me as long to set up consistent authentication between Samba, NFS and Apache as to do everything else. Your mileage may vary depending what mechanism you use for authentication. This is the main advantage of the desktop solutions. The search engine indexes what you have access to, nothing more. With a centralised solution, you essentially have to overlay your authentication and permissions system(s) over the top of the search engine, and give the search engine access to everything. Or only allow it to index stuff that everyone has access to. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. - Source unknown, often erroniously attributed to Hunter S. Thompson -- 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] SIM cards as cheap data storage?
This one time, at band camp, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I am looking for a cheap data storage solution for many people. The requirements are as follows: * CHEAP (very important) * storage space isn't important - maybe a couple of hundred kilobytes max. iButton? They're very cheap in volume. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Wire -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I suddenly realized I was talking to myself. - Peter O'Toole -- 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] DST in debain
This one time, at band camp, Sonia Hamilton wrote: Long and short of it some devices will change incorrectly todat (eg my mobile phone), others are correct. Thank $deity I haven't got a large server/blackberry/phone infrastructure to manage at the moment. My Ubuntu desktop doesn't seem to have done it right. Now how to fix it? There's no new tzdata package available... -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] DST in debain
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote: Make sure your /etc/timezone is actually set to Australia/Sydney. One of my machines did the wrong thing because it was set to 'User defined' -- perhaps the result of an errant upgrade? I've certainly not set it myself. Anyway, that might be the problem... sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Nope, definitely: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/timezone Australia/Sydney tzdata is at: Version: 2007f-3ubuntu1 But there does seem to be a more recent one in gutsy-updates: 2008a-0ubuntu0.7.10: all Installing that seems to have worked. What is gutsy-updates then, and should I have that in my sources.list? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ When bankers get together for dinner they discuss art, when artists get together for dinner they discuss money. - Oscar Wilde -- 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] DST in debain
This one time, at band camp, Martin Barry wrote:
I've never understood the ${ubuntu_release}-updates thing.
A separate repositry for security I understand due to the need to bypass
mirror lag.
But anything worthy of going into ${ubuntu_release}-updates is surely worth
putting straight into ${ubuntu_release} ? Or is it just me?
Yeah I don't get it either. And the fact it's not enabled by default is
even more bizarre.
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Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu repository components and what they mean
This one time, at band camp, Martin Barry wrote: nice summary. is that (or something equivalent) on wiki.ubuntu.com? Internationalised though. The Brits never had Get Smart. Any references I made got perplexed, blank looks. The movie will probably change that, though I expect it to be ghastly. Excellent summary and indeed something like it should be in relevant locations. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Only one person ever attended a parliament with honest intentions - and that was Guy Fawkes. -- 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] ABC Playback
This one time, at band camp, Rodger Dean wrote: So either they have resolved all the issues with the player or there was no real problem to start with and they were just being cautious. Does seem that way. If they'd just said untested on other platforms it would have been much clearer. The interface is pretty awful, but the underlying data is right out in the open, so I'm sure we'll be able to build our own interfaces to it in time. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. - Otto von Bismarck -- 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] Remove alpha channel from PNG
This one time, at band camp, Peter Rundle wrote: Does anyone know of a simple cmd-line utility that can remove the alpha channel from a .png? man pngtopnm These two switched look like they'll do what you want. Kinda crappy that it doesn't support alpha channels! -mix Compose the image with the transparency or alpha mask against a the background. When a background chunk is available that color is taken, else black will do. -background color If no background color chunck is present in the png-file, or when another color is required this parameter can be used to set the background color of images. This is especially useful for alpha-channel images or those with transparency chunks. The for‐ mat, to specify the color in, is either (in the case of orange) 1.0,0.5,0.0, where the values are floats between zero and one, or with the syntax #RGB, #RRGGBB or # where R, G and B are hexa-decimal numbers. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. - Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary -- 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] putty dies when 'unattended'
This one time, at band camp, Voytek Eymont wrote: whenever I use putty, as soon as I do not do anything in it, say for 1 or 2 minutes, it drops connection, is there any setting to prevent it ? It's likely your router or firewall's NAT timing out. In puTTY, go to the settings and select the Connection top-level option. There's a Sending of null packets to keep session active and Seconds between keepalives (0 to turn off). Set it to something like 30 and it'll work fine. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. - Robin Williams -- 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] Auntie excludes us
This one time, at band camp, James Purser wrote: With regard to your query regarding a Linux version - due to the technical requirements of ABC Now we have been unable to find a robust and secure tool for making the Flash based code into a stable Linux version at this time. Translation: We made a technology decision without reference to portability. You pay the price. We are keeping an eye on developments in this area and hope to bring a Linux version to you as soon as practicable. XULRunner, anyone?!?!? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ A 'critic' is a man (or woman) who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men (and women). There is logic in this; he is unbiased - he hates all creative people equally. - Robert A. Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazarus Long -- 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] Auntie excludes us
This one time, at band camp, James Dumay wrote: XUL is Mozilla only (open source lockin anyone?) That's platform-independent! We're talking a binary blob application here, so there's no reason it couldn't be distributed as a custom XULrunner binary blob for multiple platforms. Better yet, release the source! Its bullshit that people think that this sort of stuff needs to be done in flv - embedding an mpeg stream is easy enough todo in HTML. Indeed, it's insane and there's absolutely no justification. I'm sure it's just that the new media geniuses wouldn't even know to ask if there's another way. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Call me a cynic, but for me much more stable than the last version of Windows is not exactly a ringing endorsement. - James Riden -- 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] Auntie excludes us
This one time, at band camp, Ken Wilson wrote: Getting sound to play with animation in the way and the repetition and timeing that the artist wants just works in flash. In HTML there are issues, Many options are not there, or not obvious. Flash animations are also much smaller in file size than animated giffs (x10). Who the hell uses animated GIF files any more? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ For those who've come across the seas We've boundless plains to share - Advance Australia Fair, Australia's national anthem -- 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] Auntie excludes us
This one time, at band camp, Darren Hannah wrote: The ABC Playback website seems to require Adobe Flash Player. And as far as I can tell, it seems that everything to do with the video streaming and the menus and navigation and all that malarkey is flash. If you want to use the ABC Playback service you need an up to date browser with flash installed. That's not what I'm expecting. I'm expecting a binary blob that embeds the Flash movie. Otherwise they would say: Why is ABC Playback unavailable for Linux users?Due to the technical requirements of ABC Playback we have been unable to find a robust and secure tool for making the Flash based code into a stable Linux version at this time. We are keeping an eye on developments in this area and hope to bring a Linux version to you as soon as practicable We *have* flash. Without fullscreen mode. Enjoy your telly in a postage stamp. And working on x86-32 platforms only. Yes, I know it's proprietary software and in an ideal world the ABC would utilize a format that can be played by out-of-the-box linux distributions, but really, if I can get the content I am happy. What about if you want to watch it on your telly, in the lounge room, rather than at your computer? Adobe has given us a *native* linux client to use, for free (as in beer). There are plenty of proprietary file formats that we linux users cannot use at all. Flash is our friend. native being x86-32 only. Flash is not our friend. I watched the demo video and it looked pretty neat. So I applied for the Beta test (it all worked for me). Hopefully if I get in I can give them some Only-Uses-Linux style feedback. If for some reason being a linux user prevents me from using the service at all, I will tell them what I think. It looks like nothing that couldn't be implemented in standard HTML. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If we knew what it was we were doing, it wouldn't be called research, now would it? - Albert Einstein -- 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] Auntie excludes us
This one time, at band camp, James Dumay wrote: Perhaps this would make a good open source project to produce a player (and perhaps the backend services) needed for Television stations to distribute their media. More likely, reverse-engineer where the streams are coming from, how they're presented, and build an alternative front-end in a cross-platform manner. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. - Robin Williams -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Auntie excludes us
ABC website users will soon be able to watch TV shows in full-screen format. http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/12/2187599.htm The link on the front page to register for ABC Playback (http://www.abc.net.au/playback/) doesn't work. Certainly if the experience with ABC Now is anything to go by, this is going to be Windows-only with limited Mac support and no other OS support. http://www.abc.net.au/now/#faq16 This page might be helpful: http://www.abc.net.au/contact/complaints_process.htm Not sure how one requests a refund. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. - Winston Churchill -- 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] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software
This one time, at band camp, David Guest wrote: The format for this data is undocumented but should not be too difficult to decipher. It changes from time to time so you are playing samba to HCN's Microsoft. Making assumptions about data, especially something as important to a business as billing data, is fraught with danger. For all their foibles, the UK's National Programme for IT (the _enormous_ and mostly disastrous IT programme of the NHS) started specifically by defining data formats and open interchange, the idea being that they can chop and change suppliers if necessary. That really should be the starting point here too. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ a skid mark on the bed sheet of Australian politics - John Howard, as described by Dean Mighell -- 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] support enquiry
This one time, at band camp, Rick Welykochy wrote: The more experience and quality service one can bring to a project, the harder it is to get the job. Or so I am finding. Often companies opt for the young IT person, in an effort to save bucks. With all due respect to young geeks entering the workforce, there is a place for experience and wisdom in creating, implementing and deploying software projects (my specialty). The catch-22 is I don't work for peanuts. Anymore. The places that make the save a few bucks calculation aren't the kinds of places you'd want to work. It's the kind of short-termism that will mean the projects will be awful. The places you want to apply for use the word Senior in the job title. Senior doesn't mean old, just experienced. Smart places hire a Senior for every few Junior positions, so you've got some experienced peppered amongst the naive but keen. And every project needs a bitter old curmudgeon who's been there before, knows why it'll fail and will tell you after the fact that he knew it'd never work all along. If only to make the rest of us feel better about ourselves. The often touted response to this observation is that I should get into management. As if that is natural career growth path for someone talented in software design and development. Nothing of course could be further from reality. A good geek != a good manager. Heck, I even eschew project mgmt if I can avoid it. Certainly agree that management isn't always the best place to be for talented geeks. I find myself losing out out more and more jobs as I get older due to the almighty dollar and saving thereof. I've lost out on jobs because I've asked for what I'm worth and that's more than they're willing to pay. Though only rarely. I've got picky about which jobs I take. I wouldn't say it's the same thing as losing out to the almighty dollar. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ There's no 'I' in 'team'. But then there's no 'I' in 'useless smug colleague', either. And there's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'. Go figure. - David Brent, The Office -- 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] sim card reader on LInux
This one time, at band camp, ken Foskey wrote: I am worried about loosing my phone and it does not have bluetooth or IR. Does your phone support SyncML? If so, you can backup everything to: http://zyb.com/ Or even sync your calendar with Google Calendar: http://goosync.com/ -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ A lifetime of listening to disco music is a high price to pay for one's sexual preference - Quentin Crisp -- 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] Portable wifi hotspot or mesh node with Internet gateway
This one time, at band camp, Richard Hayes wrote: This there a small device that can taken to meetings / conferences that can relay an Internet wireless signal to other users. Ideally it would be similar to a WRT54 with a 3 or Virgin Mobile wireless broadband (ie cheap) card either internally or through USB. I seem to recall Billion had such a beast. I'm sure the Virgin Broadband hardware would do it, if you can find who makes it and buy it separately. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation. - David Brent, The Office -- 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] Data Leakage Prevention and Detection
This one time, at band camp, Martin Visser wrote: I tend to think that such devices are probably more security theatre as Bruce said it in his keynote, as it is hard to do reliably. If you allow users adhoc access to mail or web browsers, while you can catch sequences of numbers like 1234 if you are watching for credit card numbers, are you watching for one two three four, onetwothreefour, eentweedrievier and I,II,III,IV as well? This is simple encryption that people can easily detect, but with modest obfuscation are possibly hard for automated systems to correctly detect. In order to effectively limit data leakage I think you need :- Indeed, and I bet these places still have active USB ports on their PCs. To resolve this problem reliably takes a real systematic approach. But the snake oil vendors push security as product, not process. I would think that some kind of watermarking would be a better approach, so that each version of a sensitive file is striped in some way on checkout, so at least you can track who circulated the file. Of course watermarking can be defeated. Then again, the dodgy dossier used to justify the Iraq war by the British government still had tracked changes accesible, showing the changes to the official intelligence made by Blair's spin doctor. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- 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] Data Leakage Prevention and Detection
This one time, at band camp, Barrie Hall wrote: Employee signs a contract which says don't send our documents outside without permission, don't take sensitive stuff out of the office on a USB stick, etc, etc, if you do and we catch you we will dismiss/warn you. Sue you for damages more like it. Catch someone, make an example of them, problem solved!! I think the issue here is trying to catch someone. The stakes can be very very high, and I bet the military types have this issue solved where it needs to be. Think about all the corporate and government leaks that get reported in the media. Then again, there's always the print option ;) -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. - Simone Weil -- 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] Data Leakage Prevention and Detection
This one time, at band camp, Adrian Chadd wrote: ideally you want your data security right down to the individual syscall level. Various products like what Cisco offer let you specify what access to what data various applications have, but i don't know how useful it is protecting people from copy/pasting data around. I know at least the secure versions of IRIX and Digital UNIX were doing useful things like tagging individual IPC data with security ACLs, preventing you from copy/pasting between high-low security contexts. That was fun to work inside. :) But the nice security vendor man installed a box on our network and gave me a certificate that promised we were secure! -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so. - Thomas Jefferson -- 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] Data Leakage Prevention and Detection
This one time, at band camp, Ricky wrote: - first, you classify data Eg.engineering.doc is commercially sensitive or customer_creditcard.xls is personal privacy - setup rules in your DLP, likely to be an appliance box sitting behind the firewall - stops data from going out the LAN sort of like an application aware firewall, but instead of look at ports, ip addressesetc it looks for the classification of the data (doc, xls, pdf, email, IMetc) Short of full-blown integrated-at-the-core-of-client-OS-and-BIOS DRM (see Trusted Computing), I don't see how this wouldn't be trivial to get around with SSL or similar. But I see what you're getting at and, no, still never heard of it 8) -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. - Simone Weil -- 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] Data Leakage Prevention and Detection
This one time, at band camp, Ricky wrote: Has anyone come across any Linux/Open Source Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) solution ? Care to define your term? It's not something I've ever heard of. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on. - Winston Churchill -- 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] BWOI: Hi
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Hannigan wrote: Not satisfied with being either rude or whiny, today you've gone both! You telling me you were able to parse that post? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ War is God's way of teaching Americans geography. - Ambrose Bierce -- 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] BWOI: Hi
Good grief! Is this output from some spam engine's scanning of the list or is it the effect of writing COBOL on a human being's brain? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. - Source unknown, often erroniously attributed to Hunter S. Thompson -- 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] BWOI: Hi
This one time, at band camp, Rick Welykochy wrote: Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Good grief! Is this output from some spam engine's scanning of the list or is it the effect of writing COBOL on a human being's brain? I suspect ADHD and Ritalin. Not enough Ritalin or too much? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Warning - Contains nuts! - On a packet of peanuts -- 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] Firefox woes
This one time, at band camp, Heracles wrote: That is probably the problem. I use flash and usually have several tabs open when I run 32bit Ubuntu. When I boot into 64bit Debian Etch I have no flash and no problems. Unfortunately I need flash for some things - hence the 32/64bit dual boot. Flashblock has a whitelist for sites where you must use Flash, and you can click on the flash icon to load an individual flash control when needed. So you can whitelist youtube and for nearly everything else, just load the flash bits when you need it. It even makes MySpace pages load quickly, though it won't improve the standard eye-searing designs. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. - Timothy Leary -- 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] iAudio mp3 player won't automount after upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10, suggestions?
This one time, at band camp, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.10 yesterday. My mp3 player (an iAudio) automounted ok under Ubuntu 7.04, but now fails (Nautilus pops up an error message). Looking in dmesg, I see this error message (full log Just to make it clear: the iAudio mp3 player is a standard USB Mass Storage device. No fancy proprietary interface. Does a USB flash key or hard drive have the same problem? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin -- 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] Question on pixels.
This one time, at band camp, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: I'm thinking of purchasing a laptop, and I've noticed that Dell offers the option of high-resolution displays on some of their models (like 1920x1200 or 1680x1050 on a 15.4in, and 1440x900 on a 14in). What I've found with these widescreen monitors is that, while they're great for watching movies, the extra space is pretty much wasted in most windows systems. Particularly Windows and clones. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. - Joseph Pulitzer, the man who presided over the tabloidisation of newspapers in North America. -- 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] Question on pixels.
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a command that tells you the dimensions of your monitor in pixels. Maximum dimensions or the current dimensions? Maximum dimensions: X probes the monitor to work this out, so I guess you could get it from one of the X tools. Otherwise this looks promising: http://john.fremlin.de/programs/linux/read-edid/ Current dimensions: xdpyinfo -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ The only intuitive interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. - attributed to Bruce Edigar -- 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] Eee
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote: Most normals I know don't like my laptop because the screen is too small. They want 14 or more, basically as a portable desktop replacement. I don't know too many normals who like ultra-portables. Yes but that's like going to your accounting department, who use paper ledgers, and asking them how they'd like the replacement computer software to work. They'll explain exactly how the paper system works, and get you to implement that in software. I think this device, at this price point, defines a new genre. Something that, due to the price, justifies the limitations. I want one. Now to work on SWMBO... -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers -- 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] Eee
This one time, at band camp, Robert Thorsby wrote: The one I looked at yesterday (Myers, Erina Fair) had the opening blocked with a black plug that would have taken surgery to remove. I very much doubt if there was any connector underneath. If my observations are accurate then one would have to add the connector, an operation that would most certainly void any warranty. That sounds more like the blocked telephone jack (there's no modem, as yet, but there is the plug). The memory cover apparently has a warranty void if removed sticker on it. The mini-PCIe slots are also under this cover. (see photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/1831834917/) I don't recall seeing one but there are all the usual connectors (except for miniPCI) and someone in the States has already replaced the OS with ?ubuntu, so docking could be easily achieved via the LAN connection. No I mean so that you can connect it up with just one movement, rather than connecting power + monitor + anything else. It's a pretty standard thing with laptops, but tends to require a special connector. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Security experts have been saying for years that the security of the Windows family of products is hopelessly inadequate. Now there is a rigorous government certification confirming this. - Dr Jonathan S. Shapiro, http://eros.cs.jhu.edu/~shap/NT-EAL4.html -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Eee
So they've sold out apparently. Anyone got one? Comments? http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/australias-cheapest-laptop-sells-out/2007/12/05/1196812808404.html -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Only one person ever attended a parliament with honest intentions - and that was Guy Fawkes. -- 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] Eee
This one time, at band camp, Robert Thorsby wrote: Also, for one that doesn't have the miniPCI thingy blocked. :-( All this talk about opening the little yellow tab that says opening will void warranty is bollocks though, right? I'm pretty sure under consumer law that you can't put those kinds of restrictions on a warranty. As for the screen being too small, Jeff I think that's kinda the point. It's meant to be ultra-portable, like the old Toshiba Librettos. I think it's a reasonable tradeoff -- though I know Gnome has trouble with my already pretty low resolution laptop with some transient windows having important bits off the screen. Better, though, is the fact the external monitor connector can do MUCH higher resolution. Is there a docking cradle available? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Only one person ever attended a parliament with honest intentions - and that was Guy Fawkes. -- 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] Eee
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote: I'm all for ultra-portable -- my laptop preferences are restricted to 12 or 13 because I travel so much. I plug in to a 24 screen at home. :-) Actually I think weight is more important than size. Under a kilo is pretty impressive! So what does it have going for it? It's, uh, cheap. And the usefulness of the product reflects that. That's about it. :-) I think you overestimate what most people need. To do word processing, email and web browsing, you really don't need that much. Though I agree, they could fit a 10 screen in -- and probably will. What's cool about this is that it's shown that much cheaper is possible (especially without software license costs). This will change the market. The success of this device guarantees that every Taiwanese chop shop will have their own versions within the year. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed--they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce...? The cuckoo clock. - Orson Welles -- 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] Suspending the screen-saver by command line
This one time, at band camp, Daryl Thompson wrote: I have fedora install and wanting to Suspend the screen-saver from starting when watching videos automatically when i start mplayer. is it posable and if so what is the command or command base Generally mplayer will do that for you automagically, but there's the -stop-xscreensaver option if that's not your default. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. - Arthur C. Clarke -- 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] [Fwd: Give One Get One starts today!]
This one time, at band camp, Simon Males wrote: This is the only time we're making the XO laptop available to the public and quantities are limited, I have to say, this really does seem like a boneheaded idea. Surely it's in their interest to have loads of geeks buying these machines. First it gets the volumes up, which brings the prices down and makes the whole thing viable -- hell, they can even (as they are now) put a substantial markup on it. Second it creates a community of people hacking on it, scratching itches and generally helping out. Sure, they might not all have an educational focus, but so what? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. - Otto von Bismarck -- 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] [Fwd: Give One Get One starts today!]
This one time, at band camp, Jeff Waugh wrote: The answer to this is really simple: Retail *SUCKS*. They're sucking up a considerable cost (in time and dollar terms) to provide the G1G1 programme, because it massively increases their workload to deal with annoying customers, they have to deal with shipping costs (and people whining about how it's not available outside North America), etc. So get someone else to do it, and purchase 100,000 of them up-front. Get them to do all the annoying customers handling too. If it's an existing retailer, they're the experts already. The most important thing to remember about the G1G1 programme: Unless you're going to hack on the thing, it's almost entirely pointless to buy one. If you have three kids, by all means, buy three. Otherwise, it's not worth your time: The XO is made for kids, and made for collaboration. A single XO is a curiosity, looking for a friend. (This is why Pia and I take both our OLPCs around to demo -- most people, even if they've seen the XO, have never seen the software truly in action.) You're telling me it's not a well-priced, highly portable, networked computer with decent battery life? That's something I've been after for many years -- laptops are way to heavy and PDAs suck. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker. - Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary -- 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] unwired and linux
This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead wrote: has anyone used unwired with linux? Yes. comments? If you're using the ethernet modem, it Just Workstm. Standard IP and DHCP. gotchas etc? Unwired sucks. If there's any other option except maybe Next G, you'll be better off. The latency is enormous. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ No, Democracy is not identical with majority rule. Democracy is a State which recognizes the subjection of the minority to the majority, that is, an organization for the systematic use of force by one class against the other, by one part of the population against another. - Lenin -- 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] unwired and linux
This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead wrote: Ah yes, this i realise. I have unwired through internode which is just vanilla pppoe. Unwired has prepaid which is appealing for the circumstance for which i am investigating. Virgin Broadband has a 30-day cooling off period, which might be worth investigating if you're just trying to plug a gap waiting for fixed-line broadband. How does unwired know who you are if it is using dhcp? do they want your MAC address? You register the MAC address of the Unwired modem with Unwired. That's the access control. The DHCP server is inside the modem. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ ... Microsoft has a new version out, Windows XP, which according to everybody is the 'most reliable Windows ever.' To me, this is like saying that asparagus is 'the most articulate vegetable ever.' - Dave Barry -- 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] unwired and linux
This one time, at band camp, Dean Hamstead wrote: do any of those $30 1gig things work in linux yet? i spent some time trying to get an optus then a 3 one working. (both use the same hardware). but with no love. 1 gig isnt enough, and the data charges after 1gig are just theft. Probably, though I've never managed to get it going. Most of those deals are a scam unless you're already a heavy mobile user. They're only available for post-paid customers on hefty monthly plans. However, I was referring to this: http://www.virginbroadband.com.au/ Which is a hardware GSM+HDSPA (3G) terminal with a standard phone socket, ethernet and 802.11b, connecting to the Optus network. The deal is actually very good if you use 4 gigs a month and make lots of calls to landlines. Coverage is likely to be less patchy than Unwired too, as it's Optus's network. The trick I'm suggesting, however, is their 30 day money back guarantee. If you cancel in the first 30 days, you only pay for what you use. I've looked at the fine print (will be in a similar situation in a coupla weeks) and can't see a catch -- but I'd advise you to read it yourself as telcos are sneaky buggers. That said, if you look at the Whirlpool forum there's a lot of unhappy people. Then again, except for the Internode forum, that seems to be the case for every ISP forum on WP. http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-threads.cfm?f=18g=119 -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Impact: Non-privileged primitive users can cause the total destruction of your entire invasion fleet and gain unauthorized access to files. - CERT Advisory CA-96.13 - Alien/OS Vulnerability -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] CAD software for architecture?
Hi folks. I'm planning some building alterations and was wondering if anyone could recommend any free CAD-type software for architectural drawings or 3D models of houses? Something that doesn't take a lifetime to master would be good, as I want to keep it simple. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. - Harry S. Truman -- 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] Printer
This one time, at band camp, gav wrote: Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts ) to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. You can have a cheap printer or cheap ink, rarely both. I'd go for the cheap ink, expensive printer if I were you! I've had great success buying used HP laser printers with JetDirect cards from eBay. This means you just plug them into the network and they Just Worktm. Being lasers, they're incredibly cheap to run, unlike inkjets with their $60 for 3ml ink cartridges. The one I've got right now has a duplexer and cost me $50! Otherwise, try: http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting/Database/SuggestedPrinters -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Diplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you can find a rock. - Will Rogers -- 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] scp -c null ??
This one time, at band camp, Zenaan Harkness wrote: So the next question, which cipher has the lowest CPU overhead? DES? From the ssh man page: blowfish is a fast block cipher; it appears very secure and is much faster than 3des. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Impact: Non-privileged primitive users can cause the total destruction of your entire invasion fleet and gain unauthorized access to files. - CERT Advisory CA-96.13 - Alien/OS Vulnerability -- 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] e reader
This one time, at band camp, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: I've been looking at the sony e reader. I understand that it's possible to read pdfs on it. However it seems not straighforward. I've no experience with any of them but come now, it's Sony. There's a reason every format they've been behind has failed: they always want to own the entire ecosystem and lock the whole thing behind brain damaged restrictions. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light. - Joseph Pulitzer, the man who presided over the tabloidisation of newspapers in North America. -- 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] Where is which? [was Which which?]
This one time, at band camp, Rick Welykochy wrote: Sometimes a few simple commands are missing, and it takes quite a while to figure out in which package the command resides. You might want to make yourself a quick and dirty package that depends on these basic commands if you're doing this regularly. The package would be nothing more than the control file. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ There is only a small difference between a strong atheist and a Christian: they agree on a very long list of gods that don't exist, and disagree about only one of them. - nicked from Erik de Castro Lopo's 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] re: Not good publicity for Linux, is it?
This one time, at band camp, Zhasper wrote: What you're describing is called hotlinking, amounts to theft of bandwidth and resources, and is generally frowned upon. Theft? That's like comparing copying data to theft, rape and murder on the high seas . Hotlinking is part of the inherent design of the Internet. It's a feature, not a bug. If you don't want people to do it, there are ample technical means to stop it. But yes, it does leave you open to someone switching in a disturbingly gaping arse. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. - Somerset Maugham -- 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: Not good publicity for Linux, is it?
This one time, at band camp, Tom Worthington wrote: The UK designers had made the job for their server particularly difficult by giving every image on the site a different URL for each person who looked at it. Sounds similar to the 1901 Census site. When it launched on 1st January 2002, the PR flacks kicked in and, with everyone on holidays or being lazy at work, they flocked to the site. It ended up being down for many months while they increased capacity. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/2136572.stm Of course, a good idea with these sites would be to work out a method to stagger the traffic. If you only anticipate ridiculous load in the first few days after launch, it's silly to build capacity to cope with that one-off demand. Instead, have some kind of ticketing system for those days to manage the demand. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Every year the international finance system kills more people than the second world war. But at least Hitler was mad, you know. - Ken Livingstone -- 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: Not good publicity for Linux, is it?
This one time, at band camp, Amos Shapira wrote: E.g. use services like Akamai for your static stuff? That way you can probably rent their service during periods of overflow but save your money when the capacity is not required. Possibly. It can be as simple as getting your developers to do things sensibly. Like, all the everyday graphics hosted on a majorly-well connected web server with no fancy stuff (lighthttpd). Don't do session management for every browser, unless you really have to. PUBLISH every page that doesn't end up having different content for every user, rather than slurping it out of the database every time. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ A politician is like a nappy. He should be changed regularly, and for the same reason - Column 8, Sydney Morning Herald -- 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] Firefox pausing
This one time, at band camp, Heracles wrote: I have a small but annoying problem. I installed Ubuntu 7.04 on my daughter's machine (Celeron 1.7 G, 768Mb DDR333, 256Mb nVidia 6200 Compaq S720 screen) and all works OK except when she is on the net with Firefox it stalls from time to time. It never did this to her under XP so I don't see why it should do it under Linux. The only difference I can see is that X chose 1280x1024 as the native resolution. I've had weird pauses and lockups using the Skype Linux client (which I sadly have to use to talk to work people). Note, she has two browser windows and amsn running. This is the same for both systems. What client for MSN? I presume there's no official client for Linux. Also, pauses like this can sometimes indicate a cooling problem. Check that the CPU fan is working. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ I went to bed last night and my moral code got jammed, I woke up this morning with a frapaccino in my hand. - Nick Cave's day gets off to a bad start in Abbatoir Blues -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
