[SLUG] committee membership

2008-03-26 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I would like to propose myself as a member of the SLUG committee. My involvement with Linux started with [EMAIL PROTECTED], a community group whose aim was to provide low cost internet access for individuals and community groups. Since then I have worked professionally with Linux as a Technical

[SLUG] CPAN modules documentation

2008-03-26 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I'm without an internet connection at the moment (oh the pain). I'm doing a fair bit of Perl stuff at the moment; I've downloaded the tgz of all the Perl documentation for easy browsing. Anyone know if there's a similar tgz of documentation for all the CPAN modules for easy browsing locally? I

Re: [SLUG] CPAN modules documentation

2008-03-26 Thread Gavin Carr
Hi Sonia, On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 08:26:10PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I'm without an internet connection at the moment (oh the pain). I'm doing a fair bit of Perl stuff at the moment; I've downloaded the tgz of all the Perl documentation for easy browsing. Anyone know if there's a

Re: [SLUG] committee membership

2008-03-26 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Sonia Hamilton wrote: I would like to propose myself as a member of the SLUG committee. I'm happy to second that. Sonia has been long time SLUG attendee and mailing list contributor. Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Anna Buttfield

2008-03-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 at 11:43, James Dumay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am proud to nominate Anna Buttfield for the position of Ordinary Committee Member. Anna has been an integral organiser and liaison venue for the SLUG this year. She has demonstrated an amazing interest in both the SLUG and

Re: [SLUG] committee membership

2008-03-26 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 at 19:58, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would like to propose myself as a member of the SLUG committee. My involvement with Linux started with [EMAIL PROTECTED], a community group whose aim was to provide low cost internet access for individuals and community

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Anna Buttfield

2008-03-26 Thread Robert Collins
On Thu, 2008-03-27 at 08:27 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 at 11:43, James Dumay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am proud to nominate Anna Buttfield for the position of Ordinary Committee Member. Anna has been an integral organiser and liaison venue for the SLUG this

[SLUG] ABC Playback

2008-03-26 Thread Rodger Dean
A while the was a post to the mailing list regarding ABC playback being unable to function with Linux and it is also noted on their website that this is the case as well. http://www.abc.net.au/playback/ Being the adventurous type, I decided to register for the beta trials. Since the player only

Re: [SLUG] ABC Playback

2008-03-26 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Rodger Dean wrote: So either they have resolved all the issues with the player or there was no real problem to start with and they were just being cautious. Does seem that way. If they'd just said untested on other platforms it would have been much clearer. The

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

2008-03-26 Thread Amos Shapira
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 10:53 PM, Ken Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have started to tag things then stopped as I realised that potentially there were so many categories that tagging photos took longer than finding them on a visual time line. My personal favourite photo collection program

Re: [SLUG] Firefox javascript

2008-03-26 Thread Amos Shapira
On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [SLUG] Firefox javascript

2008-03-26 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 13:50:19 +1100 Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Alan L Tyree [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.