[SLUG] YUM and PUP---respective virtues

Having just installed fedora 6 and connected to the internet, I watched an application called PUP do its thing. It seemed to me to be analogous to one I've seen called YUM. Is there any significant difference between them? Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] Nomination: John Ferlito for Treasurer, Secretary, Ordinary Committee Member

I'd like to nominate John Ferlito for the positions of Treasurer, Secretary and Ordinary Committee Member. John is a valuable member of the community, having been involved in SLUG from the very early days, and more recently as a core member of the LCA2007 team. He has a sound financial and

[SLUG] Nomination: James Polley for Secretary, Ordinary Committee Member

I'd like to nominate James Polley for the positions of Secretary and Ordinary Committee Member. James has shown considerable initiative and dedication to the community in the past six months, volunteering at linux.conf.au 2007 and drafting an important ammendment to the SLUG constitution.

[SLUG] Nomination: Lindsay Holmwood for President

I'd like to nominate Lindsay Holmwood for the position of President. Lindsay has been a part of the SLUG committee for the past two years, serving as President for the past twelve months. Lindsay has proved himself invaluable, whether simply working out the agenda for a monthly meeting,

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: John Ferlito for Treasurer, Secretary, Ordinary Committee Member

Matt Moor wrote: I'd like to nominate John Ferlito for the positions of Treasurer, Secretary and Ordinary Committee Member. I'm happy to second that. Cheers, Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo

[SLUG] Nomination: Sridhar Dhanapalan for Ordinary Committee Member

I'd like to nominate Sridhar Dhanapalan for the position of Ordinary Committee Member. Sridhar has become increasing involved in the local Linux + FOSS community over the last year, helping out at Software Freedom Day, linux.conf.au 2007 on the AV team, and currently organising the LA stand at

[SLUG] Nomination: Matt Moor for Vice President

I'd like to nominate Matt Moor for the position of Vice President and Ordinary Committee Member. Over the last 2 years Matt has proven to be a valuable contributor to the SLUG community both as Secretary and VP, through organising and running events, reforming and documenting organisational

[SLUG] Nomination: James Dumay for Ordinary Committee Member

I'd like to nominate James Dumay for the position of Ordinary Committee Member. James is an ideas man. He is an incredibly active member of the community behind the scenes, extolling the virtues of Linux FOSS on behalf of SLUG to the local media, evangelising cutting-edge technology to his

[SLUG] Nomination: Silvia Pfeiffer for Secretary, Vice President

I'd like to nominate Silvia Pfeiffer for the positions of Secretary and Vice President. Although a newcomer to the SLUG committee last year, Silvia has proven herself to be an outstandingly reliable and dependable member of our community, handling: * recording of talks at various SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Lindsay Holmwood for President

Matt Moor wrote: I'd like to nominate Lindsay Holmwood for the position of President. Lindsay's done a great job. I'll second that. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ When

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Sridhar Dhanapalan for Ordinary Committee Member

Lindsay Holmwood wrote: I'd like to nominate Sridhar Dhanapalan for the position of Ordinary Committee Member. I think Sridar would do a great job. Seconded. Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Sridhar Dhanapalan for Ordinary Committee Member

On Wed 28 Mar, 2007 at 22:40:52 +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: I'd like to nominate Sridhar Dhanapalan for the position of Ordinary Committee Member. Sridhar has become increasing involved in the local Linux + FOSS community over the last year, helping out at Software Freedom Day,

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Silvia Pfeiffer for Secretary, Vice President

Lindsay Holmwood wrote: I'd like to nominate Silvia Pfeiffer for the positions of Secretary and Vice President. Seconded. Silvia rocks! Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Matt Moor for Vice President

Lindsay Holmwood wrote: I'd like to nominate Matt Moor for the position of Vice President and Ordinary Committee Member. Seconded! Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ C

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: James Dumay for Ordinary Committee Member

Lindsay Holmwood wrote: I'd like to nominate James Dumay for the position of Ordinary Committee Member. Seconded! Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo +---+ I saw `cout' being

[SLUG] Pls Visit www.fizzaartgallery.com

Pls Visit gallery at www.fizzaartgallery.com and write ur remarks in guestbook if applicable. webmaster -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Women's meet up before SLUG, TOMORROW Fri March 30

Hi all, There will be the usual women's meet up before the SLUG meeting this month. Feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be interested in coming. Date: Friday 30th March 2007 Time: 5:30-6:30pm (lateness is fine) Topic: Elena Akhmatova will talk about working as a

[SLUG] LightTPD, MPD, phpMp - help please

The March 2007 issue of Linux Journal has an article about the creation of an MPD-based Audio Appliance using the above 3 programs. Unfortunately the article does not give specifics/examples of setting up these programs. I have installed them on the PC that I wish to use to serve the audio

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: James Polley for Secretary, Ordinary Committee Member

On 3/28/07, Matt Moor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to nominate James Polley for the positions of Secretary and Ordinary Committee Member. James has shown considerable initiative and dedication to the community in the past six months, volunteering at linux.conf.au 2007 and drafting an

[SLUG] Looking for an RPM package

Does anyone have kernel-headers-2.6.18-1.2869.fc6.i386.rpm that they could email to me pse. I tried to upgrade to 2.6.19 and 2.6.20 and they both blew away my 2.6.18 kernel headers package. Unfortunately .19 and .20 have problems with my Ralink rt2500 wifi card so I am trying to back out back to

RE: [SLUG] Looking for an RPM package

Googling shows it at http://frontier.eas.asu.edu/updates/fedora6/kernel-i386/ Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail:

Re: [SLUG] LightTPD, MPD, phpMp - help please

Thanks Rev Simon I'll follow your advice and report back on success or otherwise. I'm using phpMp (as in magazine article) and not phpMp2. After receiving your email, realised that I'd have to set /etc/network/interfaces to fixed IP ( i'd upgraded the network card to a 1000/100/10 from a

Re: [SLUG] LightTPD, MPD, phpMp - help please

This one time, at band camp, bill wrote: Also realised that I'd need to open port 6600 in my router, and actually place some mp3's in the default directory. You shouldn't need this, unless you plan to control it from outside your own network. mpd has minimal security, so unless you have a

Re: [SLUG] LightTPD, MPD, phpMp - help please

Okay it sounds like you've missed some of the background of mpd, so I'll recap. mpd is a simple server process that sits around and waits for clients to connect to it. Clients instruct it to do music player things like play track load playlist etc. Clients have been written in many different