[SLUG] Re: Python, XML, and Splitting a 750M XML File?

G'Day, An option that is based on XQuery/Xpath is STX (Streaming Transformations for XML). There is a Java implementation called Joost. Here is a link to the STX sourceforge page (http://stx.sourceforge.net/). That page includes a link to Joost. Regards, Bill Donoghoe - Forwarded

[SLUG] RE: Perl Regular expression help

RegExr is built with Flex 3, and uses ActionScript 3's built in RegExp engine.. Thus, it is almost certain that there are differences in the regular expression syntax for Flex 3 and Perl. Regards, Bill Donoghoe -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] New mobo question - re SATA

Thanks Dazza Obtained a couple more Orange SATA cables and connected up HD's. All's well. Guy in shop didnt know if the red cables were the same as the orange cables or not. Given that my new Gigabyte mobo has SATA 2 connectors and came with orange cables, that's what I bought. Bill

[SLUG] Re: Brasero AND K3B both creating coasters

Just a dumb suggestio - have you tried saving the .iso to HD and seeing if you get the errors? If no errors, then try burning the .iso to DVD ( Verbatim DVDs/CDs I find are most reliable). Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

[SLUG] New mobo question - re SATA

this. thanks Bill -- 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] MythTV hardware advice sought

Not MythTV but may be of interest anyway How to Build a High Definition HTPC for $500 (using XBMC) http://www.ausgamers.com/features/read/2810841 Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Windows XP Pro OEM EULA and VirtualBox

it myself yet - I'm running Win 7 RC - as I've only just retd home from NZ vacation, and am more concerned with installing and setting up Ubuntu 9.10. Bill Subject: [SLUG] Windows XP Pro OEM EULA and VirtualBox From: Scott Waller sc...@wallers.com.au Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:26:19 +1100 To: slug

[SLUG] Re: Advice Request for moving a Ubuntu installation to a larger disk and 4Gb RAM

is not worth the potential costs. Thanks, Bill Donoghoe -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Thanks RE:Network Traffic Visualisation - any gui prgs/interfaces?

KarenWare (http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptlanmon.asp) It is a VisualBasic program and is free (including sourcecode) but it doesnt run under Wine for me. Thanks again Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] Advice Request for moving a Ubuntu installation to a larger disk and 4Gb RAM

USB?) d. use pgdump / pgrestore to move postgres databases across e. Backup new disk f. find out what doesn't work? What have I missed? Thanks, in anticipation Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] Network Traffic Visualisation - any gui prgs/interfaces?

In the old days when I used Win XP I had a gui tool that showed all incoming/outgoing network/web activity by port and IP address, and it was useful for determining off-site activity etc when browsing the Web. Can't remember the program's name. The nearest that I have found for Linux is tnv

[SLUG] Solved - Re: Asus 1000hd - excessive HD noise

Thanks Richard Problem solved - updates included new kernel 2.6.29.1.netbook - booted from old kernel and problem went away. Bill Subject: [SLUG] Re: Asus 1000hd - excessive HD noise From: Richard Ibbotson

Re: [SLUG] SATA pci Card question

Hi Jonathan Thanks for the reply. Solved problem by replacing SATA DVDRW with old IDE DVDRW and thereby freeing up SATA connector on mobo. Bill Hi Bill, Sometimes there is a jumper to disable SATA2 and run the disk using SATA1. This may help for compatibility with your older controllers

[SLUG] Asus 1000hd - excessive HD noise

Havent used my Netbook for a few weeks. Booted up last night and installed 94 updates. Now whenever I use streaming media ( shoutcast in Exaile or Youtube in Firefox) The HD clicks like crazy. Booted MoonOS from USB thumbdrive ( ubuntu 8.04 based I think) and no problem. Googled without

[SLUG] SATA pci Card question

card. Google hasnt helped. Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] SLUG] Asus Eee PC 900

. At the same time, I don't want to wipe XP You could always run Remix in a virtual system. http://blogs.howtogeek.com/mysticgeek/2007/09/27/add-a-virtual-pc-to-xp-part-1/ Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 44, Issue 5

Thanks Daniel Must have been half asleep - I do know that case is important in Linux :-[ Since fixing symlinks I have installed Ubuntu-Tweak, which has provision for changing path of default folders, among other things. Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] Ubuntu Jaunty default folders - symlink to elsewhere?

I've just installed Ubuntu Jaunty and have most things set-up ok (old install is Kubuntu 8.04), including finding replacement apps under gnome for those I've used under KDE. What I want to do is symlink my /home/bill/Documents;Videos;Music;Pictures folders to another folder :- ie /home/bill

Re: [SLUG] Writing Double layer DVD-R - problems

of plugins though as stated I can play the written DVD on one of these PCs with SMPLayer and Kubuntu 8.04. Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Writing Double layer DVD-R - problems

appreciated, else I'll do a temp install of Suse to see if that does work. Thanks Bill -- 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] BBC News: 40 Years of Unix

to Firefox 3.0 if I can get Mint to run it properly, which it wont at the moment. Luckily its a new install and not my daily PC. Bill Amos Shapira wrote: 2009/8/21 Amos Shapira amos.shap...@gmail.com: http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/program/414471 Will try to get around to watch

[SLUG] Re: Transferring iceape bookmarks

/thunderbird, copied them across again from old working Kubuntu and re-ran firefox -profilemanager and thunderbird -profilemanager as user. Firefox opened up with everything in place but I somehow stuffed Thunderbird. Have to try again. Good luck Bill Thanks, I imagine that would also work

Re: [SLUG] BBC News: 40 Years of Unix

Speaking of Windows - did anybody watch ABC1's Web Warriors last night? Should be required viewing for the average PC (ie Windows) user. Subject: Re: [SLUG] BBC News: 40 Years of Unix From: gr...@zeta.org.au Date: Fri, 21

[SLUG] getting Ubuntu to see changed DVDRW?

I've replaced my DVDRW (from IDE to SATA) on one of my PCs which is currently running XUbuntu 9.04. The new DVDRW doesnt automount when a disc is inserted. I've googled and as a result looked at the hal policy files but there is no entry there for the DVDRW, nor is there an entry in fstab.

Re: [SLUG] The growing size of programs

How about something like Puppy? http://www.puppylinux.org/ Requirements http://www.puppylinux.org/?q=wiki/hardware/minimal-system-requirements -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Last Word Re: [SLUG] FINALISED - HD ( 1920 x 1080) monitor and Linux - advice pls.

/products/specificationsPrinter.cfm?product=1323 Very happy with it anyway. Owen, the shop is GDWorld, Shop 4 252 Botany Rd Alexadria. Thanks to all again Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] FINALISED - HD ( 1920 x 1080) monitor and Linux - advice pls.]

at that price. Thanks to all who replied to my original post. Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [Fwd: Re: THANKS - Re: [SLUG] HD ( 1920 x 1080) monitor and Linux - advice pls.]

doesnt. Guess that I'll just have to let my eyes be the judge of qualit for $ Bill Just a quick note further to the below. I had a further play last night and found my older card is a Radeon, which is now happily running at full HD over VGA. So, I guess the answer to your question is; yeap. Your

THANKS - Re: [SLUG] HD ( 1920 x 1080) monitor and Linux - advice pls.

from Hospital after an overnight stay and was - and still am - flying from the meds they gave me :) Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] HD ( 1920 x 1080) monitor and Linux - advice pls.

Or Provide advice re suitable reasonably priced mobo with suitable onboard graphics which will handle HD ouput ( and has SATA and Gigabit LAN) Have googled but not found anything suitable. Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: Subject:,[SLUG] MP3 player mounting on old machine but not new machine

for a good connection. Just a thought. Bill Subject: [SLUG] MP3 player mounting on old machine but not new machine From: elliott-brennan elliottbren...@gmail.com Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:21:34 +1100 To: slug@slug.org.au

[SLUG] THANKS Re: How to restart sound?

Thanks Ben and Elliot. Followed your advice and problem with loosing sound was apparently fixed. Then after saving youtube clips using Firefox's Download Helper plugin, saved as mpg, problem resumed. Solved when I changed Download Helper's prefs from ffmpg to mencoder. Thnks Bill

Re: [SLUG] How to restart sound?

Hi Dean Thanks for the reply. My Bad not thinking that problem may be with Flash. Have just found a post on a Forum that recommended installing libflashsupport deb for Flash 9. Installed, and so far everything is working fine. Bill distribution? in general /etc/init.d/alsa[-utils

[SLUG] How to restart sound?

Quite often after viewing youtube clip in Firefix 3 on Kubuntu 8.10 I lose sound - ie if I load another clip or try to play anything sound-related, - there is no sound. What is the command to restart sound - a Service I assume, but cant see which one. Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] Re: Ubuntu Ibex Network Manager Prepaid Wireless Broadband Question

See http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=964920 There seems to be problems with Network Manager. Using the Kubuntu version of Intrepid Ibex I cant connect to my Ntwork LAN. Bill Subject: [SLUG] Re: Ubuntu Ibex

[SLUG] ReFirewall Australia

It's made the BBC online news http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7689964.stm -- 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] Fortress .... err Firewall Australia

YES! AUSTRALIA is the pilot! Sounds like Paypal. Are we so gullible? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Atom Processor - what distro works?

the Intel board comes out on top. Board cost 10800 Yen ( sale prce ) which, depending on currency exchang rate of the day, wil be somewhere around $130 Aust. I was spending Yen cash that I purchased last year for 92=$1 Aust so I got it for a good price :-P Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] Re: Kubuntu Hardy DVDRW not seen

Thanks David and Masood. Problem was that upon replacing DVDRW the system saw the drive as sdd21 instead of CDROM0/CDROM1 as in original setup during installation. bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] Kubuntu Hardy DVDRW not seen

a symlink somewhere? Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re:Subject:,[SLUG] Flash displays over everything else in webpages on Linux FF

Firefox 3.01 and Flashblock 1.5.6 Addon works for me - a bit of a pain at times but at least I decide what Flash I see. Hi All, I'm a little frustrated by web pages that display flash, and their popup menus that become hidden behind it. I know I could block flash, but I don't always want to do

[SLUG] Re: Kill Firefox

Isnt it ps ( in a terminal) to get the PID for Firefox, then kill PID? Bill Still a newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Send slug mailing list submissions to slug@slug.org.au To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug or, via

[SLUG] Aust Tax Office and e-tax

will be returned to the Tax Dept , at thier expense, with a nice little note attached. Anyone else received such a package? Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] SATA cards and mobos

case, which I prefer to avoid. I have posted re my PATA/SATA problems here before, particularly in regard to UUIDs. Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] OT - Sorry but couldnt resist - Big Brother Tracking Tux

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7475654.stm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] RE: BBC Embedded Media Player

Kubuntu 8.04 Final (Hardy) and Mozilla 3. (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061015 Firefox/3.0) works fine with Flash plugin Subject: [SLUG] BBC Embedded Media Player From: Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:36:12 +1000 To: SLUG list

Re: [SLUG] Answer Found - RE:Ubuntu drive designations (Re: update to Hardy)

message. I have now installed Mandriva Powwrpack 2008 which runs fine, no problems and still uses /hdXX and /sdxx. After much googling, I'm convinced that there are problems with some mobos when both IDE and SATA hds are attached. Bill Hi Bill Try replacing root=/dev/sdb1 with root=UUID

Re: [SLUG] Answer Found - RE:Ubuntu drive designations (Re: update to Hardy)

of this is that if I want to attach a SATA hd to my main system which currently has 3 IDE hds, I need to change the GRUB boot entry and be prepared for all of the IDE drives (hds and DVD-RW) to be deprecated by 1 - ie /sda becomes /sdb, /sdb becomes /sdc etc. Bill James Rogers wrote: Hi Bill, If you

[SLUG] Re:LaCie 2TB 2Big Dual + debian (LaCie SATA II PCI-Express eSATA cards)

/SATA problem within the last couple of weeks. Bill Subject: [SLUG] LaCie 2TB 2Big Dual + debian (LaCie SATA II PCI-Express eSATA cards) From: Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2008 08:44:02 +1000 To: Slug

[SLUG] Answer Found - RE:Ubuntu drive designations (Re: update to Hardy)

It seems that the problem that I have regarding SATA and IDE HD's and Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.04 Hardy are related more to a known Grub bug than anything else. Booting my Hardy install using the LiveCD to boot from 1st HD allows the system to see the SATA hd, though it does shuffle the IDE drive

[SLUG] Re:Thunderbird addon?

? Just a couple of random thoughts Bill Subject: Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird addon? From: Michael Still [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 06:53:12 -0700 To: Nigel Allen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nigel Allen [EMAIL

[SLUG] RE: update to Hardy

have I changed Hardy's boot setup, I just removed the SATA drives and put them in a different PC ( not running Hardy). As I often swap drives around this is a real pain. Posting to the Ubuntu Community Forum elicited no reply. Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Thanks Re: [SLUG] NTFS HD, chkdsk and ntfsresize?

Thanks for the reply Amos Prior to your advice I tried G4L but stuffed it by reversing Source/Target . Dont know what data I lost ( Home PC), but nothing irreplaceable I think. Oh well, at least I now have an empty 120gb SATA HD that I can reformat for Linux. Thanks again Bill Subject

[SLUG] NTFS HD, chkdsk and ntfsresize?

43896M /dev/sda1 or do I risk losing my data? Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Thanks Re: Disk Full Message

Thanks to all that provided suggestions and advice. I learned quite a lot from your comments. Problem however was due to errant line in /etc/mtab - once line was removed, there was no longer a problem - its apparently a know problem wit Ubuntu. Thanks again Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Thanks Re: Disk Full Message

Martin Visser wrote: Hi Martin, Ooops - I usually put the solution into my posts - forgot this time. Errant line was overflow /tmp tmpfs rw,size=1048576,mode=1777 0 0 Info obtained from Ubuntu Forums http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=677185page=2 Bill Bill, No worries. Any

[SLUG] Disk Full Message - help pls

large unneccessary files held in the / partition? Ideas and suggestions please. Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] UUID problem in Kubuntu Hardy 8.40 beta after updates.

a drive, but I fixed that OK. This problem is not related to anything being changed in the PC other than updating the packages. Any help/links appreciated. Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] Re: Gigabyte mobos

problems. Bill Subject: [SLUG] [OT] Gigabyte Motherboards From: Murray Waldron [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:51:39 +1100 To: Slug slug@slug.org.au To: Slug slug@slug.org.au G'day Sluggers, Time to upgrade my old PII machine. The local computer shop uses Gigabyte motherboards in all

[SLUG] Re: Lexmark c532dn

way of moving the gears. At present I'm using a generic driver called PCL6 because the printer doesn't appear on the Lexmark list that comes with CUPS. Can anyone advise, please? Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

[SLUG] Thanks - Re: How do I relocate /home

( not as symlink) with nothing on /hda3 Thanks again Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] How do I relocate /home ?

spent hours recently changing UUID's and disk/partition labels due to moving HDs from another PC ( I currently have 3 IDE and 2 SATA HD's plus a DVDRW in this PC) and don't want to stuff this up. Everything was so much easier before UUID. Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird question

Check out http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html which is an Impor/EXport Tools script for Thunderbird Bill Subject: Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird question From: Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:41:24 -0600 To: slug@slug.org.au To: slug@slug.org.au

[SLUG] Re: THANKS - Widescreen advice reqd please

Bill I have an LG widescreen monitor, which until now I have not been able to have display its native resolution properly - ie 1680x1050 at 60hz. Bill, -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: THANKS - Widescreen advice reqd please

) - I had Mint 2.2 installed - and installed restricted nvidia drivers and after using monitor controls all is almost well ( desktop just a fraction too far right) and I get 1680x1050 at60hz . Thanks again Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

[SLUG] Widescreen advice reqd please

appreciated as after having the widescreen work properly in Fedora 8 its hard to go back to a stretched 1024x768 on Kubuntu/Mint. Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Auto backup of Bookmarks/Mail Settings etc

of scripting and don't want to just run anyhing that I get from the 'Web in case its malicious or flawed. Am willing to try scripting myself but don't want to risk making matters worse, particularly whilst I am in midst of rebuilding my Kubuntu setup. Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] Thundebird problem

- they are there, in the Mail folder. Have tried tools/import command, script from http://nic-nac-project.de/~kaosmos/mboximport-en.html etc, but can't get folders to show. Advice please. Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

[SLUG] Re: Thunderbird problem - SOLVED

Problem solved - somehow not everything was copied due to insufficient space. OK now Bill -- 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] Death to trackerd

). Fixed problem - removed tracker from system. Why distros don't give one the option of install/don't install such programs I cannot understand, especially when distro concerned automounts everything. Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

[SLUG] Colour Printer recommendations please

as LinuxMint. Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Aust Govt Netalert - Not for Linux

assessment process to provide Australian households with access to the best available filters through the /National Filter Scheme./ Seems like the Govt has missed the boat again Re Linux, or maybe Linux users are considered intelligent enough not to need Govt assistance? Bill -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Networking problem -- partially solved - help still reqd

fine wit the gigabit switch. May be chip-type related - who knows? Thanks again Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Networking problem -- partially solved - help still reqd

been the only user, and my accoun has always been created during distro installation. THanks Bill On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 11:04:04AM +1000, bill wrote: I have a home LAN of 4 PCs and 1 laptop. Connected phone-line

[SLUG] Networking problem - help pls!

I have a home LAN of 4 PCs and 1 laptop. Connected phone-line -- modem/router -- gigabit ethernet switch -- PCs ( via CAT5 cable) Problem: the laptop and 3 PCs connect to the 'Net OK. 4th PC won't even ping the modem/router, although it did access the 'Net properly a couple of months ago (

[SLUG] Re:Widescreen Monitor, ATI Radeon and desktop positioning problem

( everything else was automatic). Works 100%, desktop located properly on screen. Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Widescreen Monitor, ATI Radeon and desktop positioning problem.

drivers ( and I'd prefer not to use them if possible). Advice pleas ( other than buying a couple of Nvidia cards - they'd need to be AGP as the PCs are a couple of years old.). Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] Re: Graphics Card/Laptop

. Bill In similar topic - I'm looking at buying a Dell E520 with their end-of-financial-year special and wondering whether it's worth the 38$ to upgrade from Nvidia GeForce 7300LE TurboCache to ATI Radeom X1300 Pro. I'm mostly concerned about Linux (Debian) compatibility. Is any open-source

Re: [SLUG] How to capture/print flash .swf file?

doesn't have all options available in old Flash 7 plug-in for Windows unfortunately. THanks again Bill On 4/29/07, bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've already got Flash Player 9 plugin installed for Firefox, and it has a print option - which as stated - doesn't work for me. I actually didn't

[SLUG] How to capture/print flash .swf file?

please. Bill -- 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] How to capture/print flash .swf file?

arrows to move the image about. What I need to do is download the whole image so that I can print it all at once. Failing a solution I'll just move the map around, grabbing screen shots, then paste them together and then print. - pretty messy way to do it. Thanks again Bill I wouldn't

Re: [SLUG] AcetoneISO is a disk image emulator that mounts images of DVD and CD media.

Installed without problems for me in Kubuntu 6.06 and LinuxMint KDE 2.2 version ( ubuntu 6.10) and works well - though on Linux Mint the GUI is a little off. Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] Re: Video card that is actually a terminal server?

. NX doesn't need a video card as far as I know, correct me if I'm wrong Still learning re such myself and still want to access actual desktop. Bill Subject: [SLUG] Video card that is actually a terminal server? From: Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 01:26:12 +0100

SOLVED: RE: [SLUG] P2P question re Stealthed Ports

with 43 Seeders. My problems have, in retrospect, been with aMule and KTorrent settings/setup. Thanks again Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] RE:Bigpond NextG on Linux (Ubuntu)?

people as an interim FREE solution while they investigate other alternatives. Also, swapped my Mum to Virgin prepaid as she makes only a few short calls a week, and Telstra have halved their pre-paid periods ( effectively doubling the price for low-usage customers). Bill Subject: [SLUG

[SLUG] RE:Bigpond NextG on Linux (Ubuntu)?

Hi Alan Thanks for the link. May be the way to go for me when Mum and I next need to top-up. Bill so that it now costs $15/month even if you don't use the damned things at all! I haven't tried this yet, but it looks very interesting: http://www.ecomtel.com.au/cgi-bin/go/web?rm=mobilekey

[SLUG] P2P question re Stealthed Ports

does not accept incoming traffic. refers to traffic originating elsewhere other than as a result of a request from my system? or should the appropriate ports be open rather than stealthed Thanks for info\references\links Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] (no subject)

). My biggest issue is the lack of time to do this myself. So if you know of a business that performs this type of work please email me using BillDonoghoe [at] yahoo [dot]com [dot]au. It would be useful to get an indication of the cost and turnaround time. Bill D -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] LightTPD, MPD, phpMp - help please

PC's browser? I have posted to the MPD Forum but no replies yet. By the way, the server is running Sidux 2007-01 Any advice/links etc appreciated. Thanks Bill -- 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] LightTPD, MPD, phpMp - help please

based on Debian sid and was originally created by a group of developers who split from the KANOTIX project and launched their own distribution. Always another learning experience. Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] Re: ATO online

. Bill Since they reckon that they have already got 90% online lodgement and are targeting 95%. perhaps they are tacitly admitting that they are not interested in the remaining 5% that represent Linux desktops. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] Networking Problem

and remove entry for eth1? Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Need to backup system from laptop. - SOLVED - Please ignore

2,14 LiveCD, which incidentally has PuppyBackup, Pudd and PuppyMirror Backup, none of which I have tried yet, but will try. Thanks Bill My Benq Joybook A32E has suddenly developed a stuffed eth0 port. The port can be seen by the system but cannot connect to anything I've checked the Lan

[SLUG] Need to backup system from laptop.

is to attach an external hard disk via firewire or usb and use Keep to backup but I's rather use MondoRescue. Thanks in advance Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Brand New User - Ubuntu Feisty Fawn - BEWARE

[/] D Linux63686 5 1 116264 15 63 52999317 [/] As yet I haven't figured out how to use Testdisk to hopefully correct my problem - any advice appreciated. Bill I've just been having a look at the new Feisty Fawn (groan!) version of Ubuntu. In the Add/Remove programs

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 12, Issue 69

Seems that the Vista launch at Hardly Normals has already happened. at midnight last-night. Caught part of the Ch 7 11AM news which showed the countdown at a HN store with Gerry Harvey spruiking their deal with M$. Showed some IT student buying (the only oz copy?) the Bill Gates autographed

[SLUG] Re: Vista preview on Seven Sunrise

to spend the money on a Wii or even an XBox 360. I haven't used Windows (XP Pro) since last April and haven't missed it ( well, except for the Trojans, Virii etc.). Bill I've just watched a preview of Vista on the Seven Sunrise program and all I can say is: Wow!! I get a new looking desktop

[SLUG] Modem/Router recommendations please.

-2 capable Modem/Router. Thanks Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] LSOF - is there a real-time GUI?

monitoring programs but haven't as yet found one that does what I want. I'm using Kubuntu 6.06 Dapper and Kubuntu 6.10 Edgy on a home LAN. Thanks in advance for URL's/program names etc. Bill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 11, Issue 40

Hi Gerald Check the settings in AlsaMixer. May need to set volume via AlsaMixer and KMix as well as in individual programs. Its a bit of a balancing act in my experience. Another thought - Does the laptop allow the sound to be turned on/off by way of function keys? Bill Subject: [SLUG

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