Re: [SLUG] keyboard layouts

2008-09-22 Thread Ben
You may find it useful to grab the colemak layout files from colemak.com and see how they've done it. Colemak is available from the menu in Hardy, but before then you needed to do things manually. On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 1:07 PM, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've bought an ASUS laptop which

[SLUG] mountinig a USB flash drive

2008-09-22 Thread Chris Allen
A friend at work has installed Ubuntu (hardy heron) on an Asus EEE pc. When he plugs in a in a USB flash drive, he gets an error message explaining that he need SU rights to do this. this surprises me because I have no trouble on my machine. I said he should see what happens if he logs in

Re: [SLUG] mountinig a USB flash drive

2008-09-22 Thread Owen Townend
2008/9/22 Chris Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A friend at work has installed Ubuntu (hardy heron) on an Asus EEE pc. When he plugs in a in a USB flash drive, he gets an error message explaining that he need SU rights to do this. this surprises me because I have no trouble on my machine. I said

Re: [SLUG] Choosing a sensible host

2008-09-22 Thread Daniel Morrison
Jim Donovan wrote: Can anyone suggest a better host which also allows SSH logins? Quadra Hosting have Australian servers, nice value plans, and in my experience, zero noticeable downtime. SSH access with a bash shell is available, you just need to fill in a form. Their servers do

Re: [SLUG] mountinig a USB flash drive

2008-09-22 Thread R.G.Salisbury
Brief howto . to enable sudo for a non priveleged user you will need to 1/ edit /etc/sudoers (you need root passwd to do so) 2/ you will need to boot in safe mode (runlevel 1) from grub create a root password as below: #passwd 3/ add a line to /etc/sudoers ( run

Re: [SLUG] mountinig a USB flash drive

2008-09-22 Thread Owen Townend
2008/9/22 R.G.Salisbury [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Brief howto . to enable sudo for a non priveleged user you will need to 1/ edit /etc/sudoers (you need root passwd to do so) 2/ you will need to boot in safe mode (runlevel 1) from grub create a root password as below:

Re: [SLUG] Choosing a sensible host

2008-09-22 Thread Peter Chubb
If bargain-basement is the goer, try www.memebot.com --- website is free up to 30M space, 100MB/month. An additional $20US fee enables ssh for a year, and ups the data allowance to 300MB/month. If you want your own domain name, you can use their DNS, also included in the price. CGI is

[SLUG] Re: Choosing a sensible host

2008-09-22 Thread Daniel
On Sep 22, 11:57 am, Jim Donovan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I run a site with about 20MB of files and a finite amount of traffic. We've been using a $100/100MB plan with Smartyhost which gives us SSH access and a linux server. Unfortunately, smarty's service seems to be falling off.