[SLUG] January SLUG Monthly Meeting - this Friday

2009-01-27 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
== Call for Speakers == Our General session for this month's meeting will be a round-up of the linux.conf.au conference in Hobart last week. We welcome everyone who attended to share their experiences with the group. This can include what you learnt, whom you met, what the conference was like,

Re: [SLUG] dns attack

2009-01-27 Thread Kyle
Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:15:25PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: doesn't stop them getting down my adsl link, but atleast it keeps them off my dns server :{ Which begs the question; IF it is your personal DNS, it is surely only caching the outside world and updating for

Re: [SLUG] Mythbuntu set up not 'quite' right

2009-01-27 Thread Owen Townend
elliott-brennan wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for some ideas to help me complete my installation set-up. I've just installed Myth on top of Ubuntu 8.04.1. The machine: - 3Ghz P4 - 1.3G RAM - HDD x 2 (160G primary, 500G secondary) - PVR-150 x 2 - Nvidia MX4000 128Mb RAM - On-board Intel

Re: [SLUG] Mythbuntu set up not 'quite' right

2009-01-27 Thread Rick Welykochy
Owen Townend wrote: I'm looking for some ideas to help me complete my installation set-up. I've just installed Myth on top of Ubuntu 8.04.1. Out of curiosity, how does the price of an SD or HD do it yourself pvr-style setup, e.g. MythTV or other, compare to paying for a pvr from Topfield or

Re: [SLUG] Mythbuntu set up not 'quite' right

2009-01-27 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Rick Welykochy wrote: Out of curiosity, how does the price of an SD or HD do it yourself pvr-style setup, e.g. MythTV or other, compare to paying for a pvr from Topfield or Beyonwiz? SD Topfield ... approx $700.00, with 200 GB HDD HD Beyonwiz ... approx

Re: [SLUG] dns attack

2009-01-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 10:40:14AM +1100, Kyle wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:15:25PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: doesn't stop them getting down my adsl link, but atleast it keeps them off my dns server :{ Which begs the question; IF it is your personal DNS,