[SLUG] Re: [chat] recommend a PC repair shop?

first of all check the cmos batery. if that's flat that might explain some of your problem but I'd say from what you've said here it's more than that. have you tried pulling various components to see if any of them are flakey? give that a go first and see how you get on. -- Shaun Oliver I

Re: [SLUG] building pvr

On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Kevin Saenz wrote: Hi all, I am planning on building a PVR, and wondering what type of tv capture card people would recommend? At the moment I am using Mandrake, I am willing to use Debian or any other distro. Currently I am looking at the hauppauge WinTV 350 Go

RE: [SLUG] Re: building pvr

I'd actually recommend going with a DVB-T card. All TV stations now broadcast as an MPEG-2 stream as well as analogue, and the picture quality far exceeds that of any analogue card I've seen. There is zero interference from the internals of the PC. Most cards work well under linux.

[SLUG] Destroyed hard drive

Evening all, I've got a machine which has been vandalised, it looks like someone has copied/dd'ed /dev/random over the hard drive(s). Obviously, they're not mountable, the paritions are borked (rebulit but still not usable) and some of the data's going to be useless. From some digging, I can

Re: [SLUG] Destroyed hard drive

On 18/04/2004, at 19:58, Tony Green wrote: Evening all, Oh yeah, don't mention backups. If they'd had them, I wouldn't be going through this. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Destroyed hard drive

Tony Green wrote: ...snip. Anyone know any ways of automating part of the recovery? Don't most distros allow you to automate installation. If there is no backup, then it wasn't important. -- Terry Collins {:-)}}} email: terryc at woa.com.au www: http://www.woa.com.au Wombat

Re: [SLUG] Destroyed hard drive

On 18/04/2004, at 20:32, Terry Collins wrote: Don't most distros allow you to automate installation. Yes, which would be useful if I was looking to do an install. I'm looking to do a sector by sector scan of the drive and recover whatever I can. I'm trying to find tools which may make this

Re: [SLUG] Destroyed hard drive

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 07:58:10PM +1000, Tony Green wrote: Evening all, I've got a machine which has been vandalised, it looks like someone has copied/dd'ed /dev/random over the hard drive(s). Obviously, they're not mountable, the paritions are borked (rebulit but still not usable) and

[SLUG] Multi-function laser printer/copier recommendations?

Evening all! I'm looking into purchasing a multi-function device for home office use that is a laser printer. It should also be able to copy without PC intervention and optionally be able to scan in documents. Printing resolution of 600dpi is adequate and obviously black and white is OK. Being

[SLUG] ACT/CRM Alernative?

At work, the sales guys are pushing to replace ACT! with MS CRM. It relies very much on an MS infrastructure requiring MS-SQL2000, Exchange2000/2003 and it's own Win2000/2003 server running IIS, all in the same AD. We where planning an SQL server for our AD anyway, but we would still have to

Re: [SLUG] ACT/CRM Alernative?

Check out Compiere [http://www.compiere.org]. It's supposed to be good. Open Source, written in Java. Performance wise, the word is it's supposed to run rings around the likes of PeopleSoft. But I don't have the time to play around in the ERP/CRM space anymore, so I haven't loaded it. I had

[SLUG] Virus Alert

The mail attachment file message.scr was blocked, according to InterScan VirusWall's configuration. The action blocked was taken. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] bogofilter cut-off

I'm experimenting with bogofilter. I've noticed that all the spam's I've getting have spamicity of .5+ and all the ham is .1- What cut-off level seems to be the most effective? The default seems to be far too high. Thanks.. David. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Re: building pvr

I've got a nova-t on a via 10K. It's a good card, no lockups so far but I still haven't got mythtv going. More a time issue than anything else. You need linuxtv-dvb. I've heard it's built into 2.6 kernel but the media box is a 2.4 kernel - works OK anyway. The nova-t is around $200 with no

Re: [SLUG] Re: building pvr

I think maybe we could have a slug talk about them? I know most of the time I spent getting mine going was lost looking for documentation. I have just purchased a dvb card and am hoping to set it up some time today! :) On 19/04/2004, at 8:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a

Re: [SLUG] Multi-function laser printer/copier recommendations?

Does anyone have any recommendations and experiences that they'd like to share? I have a couple of HP 3330 MFPs which are laser printer / copier / fax / scanner, etc. Work well with the HPOJ software and sane / xsane etc. You can even do kooky things like set the clock on them via USB, etc. --

Re: [SLUG] Re: building pvr

I think maybe we could have a slug talk about them? I know most of the time I spent getting mine going was lost looking for documentation. I have just purchased a dvb card and am hoping to set it up some time today! :) I'll be getting one sometime between now and Xmas. Just depends on alot

Re: [SLUG] building pvr

I have been using the Hauppauge pvr350 and mythtv for the last few months with mixed results. My system is debian unstable with a 2.6.3 kernel. The pvr350 uses the ivtv driver which is not as mature as the bttv driver and currently needs to be patched to run on 2.6.x. I often have to restart

WAS: [SLUG] now: Work experience.

Hello, I was just wondering whether you have any advice on how to find work experience in the IT field. I am a great worker, with excellent marks who wants to work in IT Is this work experience part of an existing course? If so let your fingers do the walking and call some big companies.

Re: [SLUG] work experience (was: no subject)

On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:02:16AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering whether you have any advice on how to find work experience in the IT field. I am a great worker, with excellent marks who wants to work in IT Get your name out there, and meet lots of people. Good jobs

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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was just wondering whether you have any advice on how to find work experience in the IT field. I am a great worker, with excellent marks who wants to work in IT THank you, Tim call me on 0413 022 143 dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Multi-function laser printer/copier recommendations?

On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 08:55, Del wrote: I have a couple of HP 3330 MFPs which are laser printer / copier / fax / scanner, etc. Work well with the HPOJ software and sane / xsane etc. You can even do kooky things like set the clock on them via USB, etc. My further searching has led me towards

Re: [SLUG] Multi-function laser printer/copier recommendations?

My further searching has led me towards the HP3300mfp. I'll see how much the 3330 costs. Is the copying stand-alone i.e. no PC? Yes. Can you receive faxes to PC or even just direct print? Not on the 3300, it has no fax capability. Yes on the 3330. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

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Volunteer with ComputerBank. They need help creating distros, figuring out hardware settings, setting up networks, coordinating people, liasing with Council, etc On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 11:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was just wondering whether you have any advice on how to