[SLUG] Re: mencode question

2005-03-15 Thread Ben Buxton
Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: I would like to shrink some movie files down to something more manageable. do I use mencode or transcode? This will read almost any video format for input: transcode -y divx5 -w video_bitrate -b audio_bitrate -i input \ -o

[SLUG] gd version ?

2005-03-15 Thread Voytek
how can I determine what version of gd do I have installed ? as far as I recall, I've installed 'gd-2.0.21-5.20.1.i686.rpm', but what will tell me actuall installed version ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] fax2png make error

2005-03-15 Thread Voytek
Im trying to install fax2png from http://www.boutell.com/fax2png/ but I get this error: $ ls -l total 24 -rw-r--r--1 voytek voytek 3745 Jan 28 2004 fax2png.1 -rw-r--r--1 voytek voytek 5910 Jan 28 2004 fax2png.c -rwx--1 voytek voytek 1748 Jan 28 2004

[SLUG] Press Release

2005-03-15 Thread Cabadian Business Database
Press Release for slug@slug.org.au Canadian Business Publications is pleased to announce the introduction of the Canadian Business Database a high-performance database application containing more than 900,000 canadian businesses on cd-rom. This fully exportable B2B list allow every entrepreneur

Re: [SLUG] Re: mencode question

2005-03-15 Thread Kevin Saenz
Thanks I am testing transcode . Kevin Kevin Saenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing: I would like to shrink some movie files down to something more manageable. do I use mencode or transcode? This will read almost any video format for input: transcode -y divx5 -w video_bitrate

Re: [SLUG] Latex question: fi -- theta

2005-03-15 Thread Angus Lees
At Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:06:26 +1100, Nick Croft wrote: Recently any occurrence of `fi' is rendered by a greek letter. So a word like Office become OfØce. I'm not sure what to switch off or what kind of package I'm using which does this. Typical preamble: \documentclass[12pt]{article}

[SLUG] Suit, Counter-suit and legally selling your M$ OS

2005-03-15 Thread Elliott-Brennan
For those who are interested and haven't heard about this. Thought some people may be interested in this. David Zamos, a student in the US was being sued by M$ for selling an unopened, unused packet containing their OS, after trying to get his money back from them - his letter on this site

Re: [SLUG] Latex question: fi -- theta

2005-03-15 Thread Nick Croft
* Angus Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: If you add \useencoding[T1] to your preamble, you'll end up using some different font files that may bypass the problem. Thanks Gus, the encoding maybe influenced by me installing the ucs package, although it's hard to see how if I don't call it

Re: [SLUG] Suit, Counter-suit and legally selling your M$ OS

2005-03-15 Thread Voytek
quote who=Elliott-Brennan For those who are interested and haven't heard about this. David Zamos, a student in the US was being sued by M$ for selling an unopened, unused packet containing their OS, after trying to get his money back from them - his letter on this site clearly explains what

Re: [SLUG] gd version ?

2005-03-15 Thread James Gray
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:03 pm, Voytek wrote: how can I determine what version of gd do I have installed ? as far as I recall, I've installed 'gd-2.0.21-5.20.1.i686.rpm', but what will tell me actuall installed version ? If you have PHP =4.3.0 installed and compiled with GD support dump the

Re: [SLUG] gd version ?

2005-03-15 Thread Voytek
quote who=James Gray ?PHP print_r(gd_info()); ? That do the trick? thanks, James, yes Array ( [GD Version] = bundled (2.0.15 compatible) [FreeType Support] = 1 [FreeType Linkage] = with freetype [T1Lib Support] = [GIF Read Support] = 1 [GIF Create Support] = [JPG Support] = 1 [PNG Support]

[SLUG] Antigen found VIRUS= Win32/Netsky.P!Worm (CA(InoculateIT), Sophos) worm

2005-03-15 Thread Antigen_BARSBS1
Antigen for Exchange found document.zip-data.rtf .scr infected with VIRUS= Win32/Netsky.P!Worm (CA(InoculateIT),Sophos) worm. The message is currently Purged. The message, Re: your document, was sent from slug@slug.org.au

[SLUG] OO.org export issues - printer driver

2005-03-15 Thread Julio Cesar Ody
Hi list, I'm using OpenOffice 1.1.4 Linux (Slackware 10.0) for converting powerpoint presentations into Flash through a software using OO as backend. However, the fonts in the output file get VERY small every time, and a little bit screwed (bad appearance, incorrect spacing between chars, etc). I

[SLUG] proftpd

2005-03-15 Thread Luke Skywalker
Hi, I have installed proftpd, and as far as i know its setup porperly. but every time i log in with this user/pass i get $ftp localhost Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1). 220 PRIVATE NETWORK. NO EXCEPTIONS Name (localhost:skywalker): exangel 500 AUTH not understood SSL not available 331 Password

[SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping

2005-03-15 Thread Edwin Humphries
G'day all, Is anyone aware of a Linux-based bookkeeping or accouynting package - one that can conform to Australian accounting and tax rules? We're contemplating an upgrade to our Quickbooks Pro ($599 - $1,494), or cross-grade to MYOB ($596 - $1,494), but we're a Linux company, so a Linux

Re: [SLUG] proftpd

2005-03-15 Thread QuantumG
Luke Skywalker wrote: drw-r--r--4 exangel ftp 128 Mar 16 09:43 ftp_private Well I don't know about the rest of it but presumably you want +x on that dir, otherwise no-one will be allowed to cd into it. Trent -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Lake
Edwin Humphries wrote: Is anyone aware of a Linux-based bookkeeping or accouynting package - one that can conform to Australian accounting and tax rules? We're contemplating an upgrade to our Quickbooks Pro ($599 - $1,494), or cross-grade to MYOB ($596 - $1,494), but we're a Linux company, so

Re: [SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping

2005-03-15 Thread john
You could look at www.muli.com.au John Edwin Humphries [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16/03/2005 11:37 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To slug@slug.org.au cc Subject [SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping G'day all, Is anyone aware of a Linux-based

Re: [SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping

2005-03-15 Thread Phil Scarratt
Edwin Humphries wrote: G'day all, Is anyone aware of a Linux-based bookkeeping or accouynting package - one that can conform to Australian accounting and tax rules? We're contemplating an upgrade to our Quickbooks Pro ($599 - $1,494), or cross-grade to MYOB ($596 - $1,494), but we're a Linux

Re: [SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping

2005-03-15 Thread David
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:37:40AM +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote: G'day all, Is anyone aware of a Linux-based bookkeeping or accouynting package - one that can conform to Australian accounting and tax rules? We're contemplating an upgrade to our Quickbooks Pro ($599 - $1,494), or

Re: [SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping

2005-03-15 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:53, David wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:37:40AM +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote: G'day all, Is anyone aware of a Linux-based bookkeeping or accouynting package - one that can conform to Australian accounting and tax rules? We're contemplating an upgrade to

Re: [SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping

2005-03-15 Thread O Plameras
David wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:37:40AM +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote: G'day all, Is anyone aware of a Linux-based bookkeeping or accouynting package - one that can conform to Australian accounting and tax rules? We're contemplating an upgrade to our Quickbooks Pro ($599 - $1,494), or

[SLUG] 2 questions - mail smarthost network changes

2005-03-15 Thread Denis Crowdy
Hi All, Two problems/questions I have at the moment: 1. I use a laptop between home and work. Static IP at home and a dhcp connection to an ipcop firewall at home. I'd like to be able to type something like ifup eth0-home or if-up eth0-work rather than what I do at the moment, which is to edit

[SLUG] PCI dial-up modem

2005-03-15 Thread Leslie Katz
I would very much welcome some guidance about the above subject. I set out the circumstances below. I bought a used computer with a view to getting it running under Linux and then giving it as a gift to a person who hasn't got one. For economic reasons, I am aware that she would want to use

Re: [SLUG] PCI dial-up modem

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Fox
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:04:01 +1100, Leslie Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would very much welcome some guidance about the above subject. I set out the circumstances below. I had good success with the netcom winmodems that used the lucent chipset. and the LT-modem module which you could

Re: [SLUG] 2 questions - mail smarthost network changes

2005-03-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Denis Crowdy 2. When I do change networks, I need to change my smarthost, otherwise the uni mail server rejects stuff from my ISP. I can change the config files in /etc/exim4 and run the update-exim4.conf script, but is there an easier way? It's very easy with Postfix, if that is

Re: [SLUG] PCI dial-up modem

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Fox
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:32:06 +1100, Leslie Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Michael. The post to which you replied was the first I made on SLUG. Please excuse my ignorance, but I thought that any reply to my post would go to the mailing list, not directly to me. I guess I had that wrong. I

[SLUG] Nominations

2005-03-15 Thread Ken Wilson
committee treasurer nomination accepted Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html