[SLUG] Linux/Playstation Supercomputer...

2008-03-13 Thread Chris MacKenzie
It's kind of Linux related, so I thought it would be of interest to the locals ;) _http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2007/10/ps3_supercomputer_ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Getting printer to print in black only

2008-03-13 Thread Leslie Katz
The printer's a Canon Pixma MP160. It has a black cartridge and a colour cartridge. Both must be present for the printer to work. The person for whom I've set the printer up (using Canon-supplied software) wants to use the printer as a black printer only. The Canon-supplied software includes

Re: [SLUG] spell check

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Phillips
All replies to list please. I too, now. have a problem with Australian English since I recently upgraded. I did the normal fixes including reinstalling the language packs and it still don't work. English UK and English US are ok. Due to high workloads atm I haven't had a great deal of time to

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 at 12:56, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: [SLUG] Firefox trunk builds with ActionMonkey: JavaScript with JIT

2008-03-13 Thread Simon Males
For those who don't know, Action Monkey [2] is the new JavaScript runtime for Mozilla. It is an amalgamation of the existing SpiderMonkey JavaScript runtime [3] and Adobe's Tamarin ECMA script Virtual Machine [4]. What this basically all means for users is that the first time you visit a

Re: [SLUG] spell check

2008-03-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
In OpenOffice, click the Tools menu, then choose Options. Go to Language Settings Languages. Under Default Languages for Documents, pick your language. Note that only languages that have a 'tick' icon to their left have a corresponding dictionary installed. If you choose one that doesn't have

Re: [SLUG] Firefox javascript

2008-03-13 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 01:17:25PM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:09:08 +1100 Martin Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You probably would need to specify the site - as it probably is a matter of bad jasvascript code that someone more knowledgable than me could comment

[SLUG] Lexmark E250D laser printer and Linux

2008-03-13 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Officeworks are selling the Lexmark E250D laser printer for $249, which looks like an absolute steal considering it has a duplexer. My office recently purchased one, but I can't for the life of me get it to work over USB with Ubuntu 7.10 or Fedora 8. I've tried standard CUPS as well as their

Re: [SLUG] Lexmark E250D laser printer and Linux

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Phillips
So where are the slug videos? Mark -- 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] spell check

2008-03-13 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Chris Allen wrote: I am using Open Office om Ubuntu LTS and cannot get spell checker to work. It works alright in Evolution's emailing but refuses to do anything in OO. I've looked at all the options I can think of. From what I can see everything is set correctly. I don't work a lot with OO.

[SLUG] f-spot and the tags, will it get messy?

2008-03-13 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Hi all, lately I was playing with fspot and a couple of pictures from two or tree events. I started tagging the pictures. People Family Brother People Family Sister People Friends ... Places AUstralia ...Uluru Places Germany ... Events holiday 1 Events holiday 2 other ugly people

Re: [SLUG] Firefox javascript

2008-03-13 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 23:01:55 +1100 Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP I thought maybe I had done something that screwed up the javascript in Firefox (well, Iceweasel). have you got the noscript plugin ? That would be a nice easy solution - but, no. I would have

Re: [SLUG] Firefox javascript

2008-03-13 Thread Mark Pearson
Alan L Tyree wrote: Can anybody explain this to me? I'm using Debian Etch. I connect to a commercial site that uses javascript buttons to initiate searches. With Iceweasel, Epiphany and Galeon, they don't work. With Opera they work just fine. They used to work with Iceweasel - I don't know if

[SLUG] Installfest at University of Wollongong tomorrow

2008-03-13 Thread Martin Visser
Just a reminder if you want to help out at the 'Gong Uni installfest we could still do with a 2 or 3 more volunteers to help assist tomorrow Incentives include enjoying the nice drive to Wollongong in early autumn, pizza and softdrink being provided, and the opportunity to show your installation

[SLUG] Re: [activities] Installfest at University of Wollongong tomorrow

2008-03-13 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:13 +1100, Martin Visser wrote: Just a reminder if you want to help out at the 'Gong Uni installfest we could still do with a 2 or 3 more volunteers to help assist tomorrow Incentives include enjoying the nice drive to Wollongong in early autumn, pizza and softdrink

[SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...

2008-03-13 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:13 +1100, Martin Visser wrote: Just a reminder if you want to help out at the 'Gong Uni installfest we could still do with a 2 or 3 more volunteers to help assist tomorrow I am told that XP now has some additional checks

[SLUG] receiving Attachments.

2008-03-13 Thread Chris Allen
For mu emails, I use Evolution 2.6.1 on Ubuntu LTS Some friends try to send me attachments created as DOC or XLS files on their MS boxes or even as PDF files. This works sometimes bur not always. 2 or 3 time now the attachment has listed in the email as a file named winmail.dat which I cannot

Re: [SLUG] receiving Attachments.

2008-03-13 Thread Phil Scarratt
Chris Allen wrote: For mu emails, I use Evolution 2.6.1 on Ubuntu LTS Some friends try to send me attachments created as DOC or XLS files on their MS boxes or even as PDF files. This works sometimes bur not always. 2 or 3 time now the attachment has listed in the email as a file named

[SLUG] Re: [activities] Installfest at University of Wollongong tomorrow

2008-03-13 Thread Martin Visser
Robert, Thanks for the suggestion which is a good one in hindsight, though at this stage I think old-fashioned SMTP will work just fine - I am not sure that waiting for a wiki to fill with names will actually decrease the inertia of any intending-but-yet-to-commit helpers (and maybe my mail

[SLUG] Re: Auntie excludes us

2008-03-13 Thread Andrew Thompson
On Mar 12, 8:30 pm, Rod Butcher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... This reminds me of the problems St George Bank had using Java applets and acres of bad javascript to allow online banking. LOL! I remember that applet. ...After thousands of complaints they dropped the Java applet and javascript

[SLUG] putty dies when 'unattended'

2008-03-13 Thread Voytek Eymont
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 ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] putty dies when 'unattended'

2008-03-13 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
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

Re: [SLUG] putty dies when 'unattended'

2008-03-13 Thread Nigel Allen
Settings. Connections. Keep alive. HTH Nigel. On 14/03/2008 2:22 PM, 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 ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Re: Auntie excludes us

2008-03-13 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Meanwhile at the CBC... Ogg Vorbis Format Ogg Vorbis Logo For an alternative, try our streaming on Ogg Vorbis http://www.cbc.ca/listen/index.html# -- Marghanita da Cruz http://www.ramin.com.au Phone: (+61)0414 869202 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...

2008-03-13 Thread jam
On Friday 14 March 2008 12:40:32 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:13 +1100, Martin Visser wrote: Just a reminder if you want to help out at the 'Gong Uni installfest we could still do with a 2 or 3 more volunteers to help assist tomorrow I am told that XP now has some

Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...

2008-03-13 Thread david . lyon
Are there any viable alternatives within FOSS ? My friends in germany all say go buy the windows tool.. are they right ? or is there another way ? Pretty much buncome. It JustWorks right up to a few day old purchase of Xp SP2 ok - no problem... so which tool reliably does it ? ie

Fwd: [SLUG] spell check

2008-03-13 Thread Nick Croft
* Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I too, now. have a problem with Australian English since I recently upgraded. ... English UK and English US are ok. I have Oo on my laptop with Debian, and in the desktop with Ubuntu. The Debian version works with no probs, including Australian

Re: [SLUG] spell check

2008-03-13 Thread Nick Croft
* Mark Phillips ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: All replies to list please. I too, now. have a problem with Australian English since I recently upgraded. ... English UK and English US are ok. I have Oo on my laptop with Debian, and in the desktop with Ubuntu. The Debian version works with no