Re: [SLUG] the parable of the mudpile...

2005-06-10 Thread Rob Sharp
The User Interface hall-of-shame have continued the software-developers-as-builders metaphor: http://www.userinterfacehallofshame.com/index.php?p=51 [via slashdot, so probably everyone has already read it] On 6/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: [SLUG] Debian Woody Dynamic MMap ran out of room.

2005-06-10 Thread Dan Treacy
Terry Collins wrote: Hello folks Are there any fiddles (other than extra RAMM[1]) to solve this error message Dynamic MMAP ran out of room when using apt-get? Have 128Mb of Ramm and 256Mb of swap. [1] naah, it would just be flamebait to stay anything. Can't remember exactly what it

Re: [SLUG] Why XML bites and why it is NOT a markup language

2005-06-10 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My vote still goes to plain ASCII with single character delimiters (e.g. TAB or one of the DLE/DCn set) because of simplicity. And you will work out what character set is in use how, exactly? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Re: Why XML bites and why it is NOT a markup language

2005-06-10 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Correct... and that's what makes HTML successful. The whole world wide web thing simply would not have happened if we started out with something as strict and breakable as XML. Actually, if the initial spec had said all HTML pages MUST be

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu kernel upgrade woes

2005-06-10 Thread Michael Chesterton
John Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You've probably guessed what happened next. Neither of the new kernels would boot -- the error was VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0). I tried for about half an hour to fix it, but without There are some kernel bugs I hit recently. Both

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu kernel upgrade woes

2005-06-10 Thread Michael Chesterton
Michael Chesterton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You've probably guessed what happened next. Neither of the new kernels would boot -- the error was VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0). I tried for about half an hour to fix it, but without

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu kernel source and binary packages

2005-06-10 Thread Michael Chesterton
John Clarke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's still something I don't understand. Ubuntu released a new kernel yesterday, which I think I've installed, but the kernel still reports the same release number as it did before the upgrade: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# uname -r 2.6.10-5-686-smp

Re: [SLUG] Re: Why XML bites and why it is NOT a markup language

2005-06-10 Thread Ian Wienand
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 10:17:16AM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: Actually, if the initial spec had said all HTML pages MUST be valid XML or the browser MUST give an error and make no attempt at rendering it and this had been honoured by NCSA and Nutscrape, the web would be in a much better

[SLUG] RE: save A LOT montly on your Loan [Qurb #982011]

2005-06-10 Thread Art Pellenberg
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Re: [SLUG] Re: Why XML bites and why it is NOT a markup language

2005-06-10 Thread Jamie Honan
I can't believe I'm defending xml. I'm not a fan of it, but a lot of thought went into it, there's a lot of agreement on it, and there are some very good ideas in it. Correct... and that's what makes HTML successful. The whole world wide web thing simply would not have happened if we started

Re: [SLUG] Why XML bites and why it is NOT a markup language

2005-06-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 10:24 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ... I thought that libxml2 was widely accepted, used by gnome, etc. I checked the manpage and nowhere does it say this parser sucks, maybe I should submit a documentation bug? libxml2

[SLUG] [computerbank] Casula Open all Long weekend

2005-06-10 Thread Dan Treacy
Morning sluggers, Just a quick reminder to everyone that ComputerBank Sydney's Casula premises will be open all three days this long weekend. From 10:30am each day. Address: 1 Casula Rd Casula @ the Casula Powerhouse (literally right beside Casula train station) Come along and help get

[SLUG] Ubuntu on sony Vaio vgn b55g

2005-06-10 Thread linleycaetan
Getting closer to dumping windows from my laptop- but before I do would love to solve a few things. Sound- getting nowhere here, complete silence Power- acpi seems to be a complete washout. No susend or hybernate. Wireless- Will Thanks Jeff will give netapplet a go and look forward to 5.10

Re: [SLUG] Re: Why XML bites and why it is NOT a markup language

2005-06-10 Thread telford
On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 08:58:38PM +1000, Ian Wienand wrote: XML is so useful because it provides such good abstractions. You can define it with a DTD, whack all your data in it, walk it with XPath and display it with XSLT and some CSS. That's not really an intrinsic property of XML, that is

Re: [SLUG] X not starting on boot

2005-06-10 Thread Ken Caldwell
On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 10:35 +1000, Adam W wrote: Hi, Got a problem getting my machine to automatically boot into X. I can get it to boot into a console and then use 'startx' to get into X. but everytime i tell it to boot into X it just gives me a black screen when its meant to give me a

Re: [SLUG] X not starting on boot

2005-06-10 Thread Adam W
On 6/11/05, Ken Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2005-06-11 at 10:35 +1000, Adam W wrote: Hi, Got a problem getting my machine to automatically boot into X. I can get it to boot into a console and then use 'startx' to get into X. but everytime i tell it to boot into X it just

Re: [SLUG] X not starting on boot

2005-06-10 Thread Adam W
On 6/11/05, Adam W [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/11/05, Ken Caldwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What happens if you do /etc/init.d/kdm start or something like that (I'm not sure how Mandrake does things nor which display manager you are running) Will give it a try... currently using

[SLUG] FC3 and VMWare

2005-06-10 Thread Howard Lowndes
I have just upgraded FC3 kernel from 2.6.11-1.14_FC3 to 2.6.11-1.27_FC3 and VMWare now doesn't want to run. This is nothing unusual as I have to recompile the vmware modules with each upgrade of the kernel, and in the past it has never been a problem. This time the compilation provides the