[SLUG] Some events

2006-06-11 Thread Bruce Badger
Here are some events which I thought may appeal to SLUG members (it would be great if they could appear in the SLUG calendar :-)): ** The OpenSkills social evening will be held this Wednesday evening at the Cohi Bar from 18:30. It's a chance to network, get your key signed and to get OpenSkills

[SLUG] Calendar

2006-05-24 Thread Bruce Badger
The SLUG calendar does not seem to reflect upcoming events. Is the calendar no longer used? I ask because I plugged the SLUG calendar into my Google calendar and nothing showed up. I used the following link to the SLUG calendar: http://www.slug.org.au/events/event.ics Thanks, Bruce --

[SLUG] BSD SOckets

2006-05-22 Thread Bruce Badger
Chaps, Where is the specification of BSD sockets definitively expressed? What standards body is responsible for the specification? I read that BSD Sockets are a de facto standard (e.g. in RFC 2553), so the answers may be nowhere and nobody respectively ... but I'm hoping there is a body

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] re-announce: DebSIG Meeting: Wednesday April 12, 2006

2006-04-10 Thread Bruce Badger
On 10/04/06, Lindsay Holmwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, Bruce had taken care of the bookings. yes, we have the bookings in hand. We have the second Wednesday booked for the next few months, and we'll probably roll that forward. The Cohi Bar is a great venue for our needs. BTW, the

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] DebSIG Meeting: Wednesday April 12, 2006

2006-04-10 Thread Bruce Badger
On 10/04/06, Andrew Cowie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guest speaker Christof Wittig will be talking about db4o OODBMSes came and went as a technology in the late 80s/early 90s, so you might be saying WTF? Hey! Less of the went! :-) The OpenSkills SkillsBase uses a Smalltalk OODB called

Re: [SLUG] Re: Linuxworld Success!

2006-04-04 Thread Bruce Badger
I'd like to add my thanks to LA for letting us have some OpenSkills beer mats on the display, and for those on the LA stand for handing them out. Many thanks! -- Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills http://www.openskills.org/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Re: [Linux-aus] ACS FOSS SIG

2006-03-28 Thread Bruce Badger
On 28/03/06, Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK, we have WWF sorted, now we have to deal with Ah, OK. Sorry about that. ACS Australian Computer Society FOSS Free Open Source Software SIG Special Interest Group CMS Content Management System And which CMS is it? I don't know!

[SLUG] ACS FOSS SIG

2006-03-26 Thread Bruce Badger
As quite a few people will be in town for the Linux World conference, I thought I'd mention the ACS FOSS SIG talk on Thursday evening given by Matt Moore (SLUG member and all-round good guy) and a colleague of his from the WWF. The talk is about the CMS system used by the WWF. Details of the

Re: [SLUG] ACS FOSS SIG

2006-03-26 Thread Bruce Badger
On 27/03/06, Craige McWhirter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 14:09 +1000, Bruce Badger wrote: Details of the time and venue are here: http://tinyurl.com/rwfec Is registering necessary or merely optional? Not necessary, but appreciated. I hope to see you there :-) -- Make

[SLUG] Re: Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-25 Thread Bruce Badger
On 25/03/06, Bruce Badger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The system hung with the blank screen there and nothing else happening. The system responds to pings, but does not visibly respond to any keyboard input (e.g. trying to select other ttys). I restarted in recovery mode (from the Grub menu

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-25 Thread Bruce Badger
On 25/03/06, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 17:46 +1100, Bruce Badger wrote: The system hung with the blank screen there and nothing else happening. The system responds to pings, but does not visibly respond to any keyboard input (e.g. trying to select other

[SLUG] Dapper the Microphone

2006-03-25 Thread Bruce Badger
I'm still trying to get the microphone on my Thinkpad T21 to be picked up by recording apps (e.g. Audacity). I've installed Dapper Drake (Flight 5) and have the same symptoms I had with Debian Sarge. The mic works fine. I can hear sound from the mic through the laptop loudspeakers and

Re: [SLUG] Re: Dapper the Microphone

2006-03-25 Thread Bruce Badger
On 26/03/06, Matt Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 10:18:11AM +1100, Bruce Badger wrote: ... but if I run Audacity and hit the record button, none of the sound I can hear coming to the speakers from the mic is recorded. I end up with a recording of silence. I

[SLUG] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

2006-03-24 Thread Bruce Badger
In trying to solve a problem with recording sound using the built in mic on my Thinkpad T21, I thought I'd give the latest flight of Ubuntu a try. I burned the Flight 5 Ubuntu CD and went through the install to the point where the CD was ejected and the system rebooted. Everything seemed OK up

[SLUG] Re: Sound Recording - not

2006-03-22 Thread Bruce Badger
Apologies for the breach of netiquette in replying to myself, but I have news of progress. Not much, but some. Using Knoppix 4 I can get sound recording applications to record sound from the built-in mic on my Thinkpad. So, the hardware is fine. I have recording working on another sarge box

[SLUG] Sound Recording - not

2006-03-21 Thread Bruce Badger
I'd like to record some sound on my venerable Thinkpad T21 which is running Debian sarge. I can hear sound picked up from the microphone through the onboard speakers or via headphones. I can control the volume of the mic using the Gnome volume control and Alsa mixer. I can also mute and un-mute

Re: [SLUG] Sound Recording - not

2006-03-21 Thread Bruce Badger
On 22/03/06, James Purser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'd like to record some sound on my venerable Thinkpad T21 which is running Debian sarge. Have you tried Audacity yet? I hadn't. Nor Sweep. But I have tried both now, and neither of those will record from the mic either. :-( Thanks for

[SLUG] SSH/Bash journal

2006-03-01 Thread Bruce Badger
In the days of teletypes you had a hard-copy record of everything that happend in a shell session - the paper teletype roll. Is there a way to get a journal (electronic is fine, no need for the roll :-)) produced for SSH/Bash sessions? Thanks, Bruce -- Make the most of your skills - with

Re: [SLUG] SSH/Bash journal

2006-03-01 Thread Bruce Badger
Thank you all for the great information. Best regards, Bruce -- Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills http://www.openskills.org/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Looking for speakers

2006-02-20 Thread Bruce Badger
Hi all, I'm looking for speakers for the ACS FOSS SIG. If you can give a talk on a FOSS related subject, and you are free one last Thursday in the month ... of if you know of someone else who could give such a talk, please let me know. This is a chance to get a slightly different slice of the

[SLUG] [Fwd: [sydney-stug] Sydney Smalltalk Meeting at the James Squire on Monday 12th December 6PM]

2005-12-08 Thread Bruce Badger
I thought I'd pass on this announcement for a Smalltalk User Group meeting on the evening of Monday 12th. If dynamic languages and AI interest you, do come along. Forwarded Message From: McNeil, Andrew [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [sydney-stug] Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Anyone know of a LISP Users group in Sydney ?

2005-10-26 Thread Bruce Badger
On 10/26/05, Mark Jonathan Greenaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello fellow SLUGers, Does anyone know of any LISP user groups in our fair city ? Nope, but I'm willing to get involved with one. I'd probably pop along to such a thing largely out of curiousity. I think

[SLUG] Software Idea Patents - another nudge

2005-10-17 Thread Bruce Badger
SLUGgers, if you think software idea patents are a bad thing, you can do a little something to help, at least in Europe. There is a poll to find the European of the Year which is open to anyone, no matter where they live. Some of the candidates have worked to keep software idea patents out of

Re: dynamic vs static type checking (was Re: [SLUG] Your top-ten linux desktop apps)

2005-09-29 Thread Bruce Badger
On 9/29/05, Angus Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Tue, 27 Sep 2005 12:00:09 +1000, Bruce Badger wrote: In fact, the very best of the JITing VMs can get performance that exceeds that attainable by static compilation - because there is more information available at run time to base

Re: [SLUG] Your top-ten linux desktop apps

2005-09-29 Thread Bruce Badger
On 9/29/05, O Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bruce Badger wrote: integerArray := #(1 -2 3 -4 5 -6 -7 8 -9 32727000 9876543210). On my Computer which is a 32-bit, my C compiler is able to handle Integer size 4 bytes = 32 bits. So 2 exponent 32 less 1 is 2147483647. This is the max

Re: [SLUG] C-Pointers and Perl ?

2005-09-29 Thread Bruce Badger
On 9/30/05, Benno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know, but I don't agree with him. If the language is good, there is no reason why it *shouldn't* be used for device driver programming. The languages that save developers worrying about if a number is too big to be an integer mostly do the insulating

Re: [SLUG] C-Pointers and Perl ?

2005-09-29 Thread Bruce Badger
On 9/30/05, Benno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri Sep 30, 2005 at 10:24:56 +1000, Bruce Badger wrote: For problems that requires memory mapping, VM based languages are not going to be a good fit (given my experience of them, anyway). Mmm, that is true. Languages I've used/know of, generally

Re: [SLUG] Your top-ten linux desktop apps

2005-09-27 Thread Bruce Badger
On 9/28/05, David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If they are doing low volumes, I can't imagine a punter using mutt. It's really hard to convince someone raised on gui that consoles are actually easier. Perhaps we could have a SLUG talk on mutt? I've heard so many good things about mutt, so I'l

Re: dynamic vs static type checking (was Re: [SLUG] Your top-ten linux desktop apps)

2005-09-26 Thread Bruce Badger
On 9/27/05, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem with dynamic typing is that it postones testing for an important class of errors (type errors) until run time. Nah. In fact the oposite is true. Static typing is just another form of premature optimisation! I make extensive

Re: dynamic vs static type checking (was Re: [SLUG] Your top-ten linux desktop apps)

2005-09-26 Thread Bruce Badger
On 9/27/05, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are large classes of problems where running speed is an important issue. Static typing does make for faster run times and in cases where that moves your program from being too slow to being fast enough, that is not a premature

Re: [SLUG] Your top-ten linux desktop apps

2005-09-26 Thread Bruce Badger
On 9/27/05, O Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can RTFM but if I can see the equivalent of this code, it'd be helpful. I wish to have a quick idea of the language. #include stdio.h int integer_array[] = {1,-2,3,-4,5,-6,-7,8,-9,32727000}; int *ptr; int main(void) { int i;

Re: [SLUG] Re: dynamic vs static type checking

2005-09-26 Thread Bruce Badger
On 9/27/05, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 12:00 +1000, Bruce Badger wrote: As a developer intent on doing the best job possible, I want to discover whole classes of bugs long before the corresponding unit test is executed. (E.g. my keyboard can't spel.) I

Re: [SLUG] curious javascript phenomenon

2005-08-30 Thread Bruce Badger
On 8/31/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a _javascript_ file that gets imported into a php page. The curious thing about this is that if I name the the file:'cust.js', one particular field doesn't get checked. If I name the file something else like 'testJS2.js', then all

Re: [SLUG] Squid accelerator + SSL

2005-06-06 Thread Bruce Badger
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 12:00 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure if this is even possible. We have an Exchange server behind our Linux firewall runnning webmail on port 80. Would it be possible to run Squid as an accelerator on the firewall but adding SSL to it? So basically

Re: [SLUG] Co-lo, UML Dedicated servers

2005-06-01 Thread Bruce Badger
Just after some recommendations on the above probably in that order. Machines don't need to be overly powerful but reasonable traffic allowance would be good. The Co-lo would need to be located in sydney the others I'm fairly ambivalent about (but if O/S a nice exchange rate

[SLUG] 2-Way power splitter

2005-01-29 Thread Bruce Badger
I think I left my 2-way power splitter behind at the last DebSIG held at the James Squire Brewpub. Did some kind soul pick it up? It has a sticker on it with my email address. Thanks, Bruce -- Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills http://www.openskills.com signature.asc

[SLUG] Unzipping a big file

2005-01-03 Thread Bruce Badger
I'm having a problem unzipping a large file. I get: ... write error (disk full?). Which is, you would think, a hint that the disk is full. But I have 20GB free and everything is in the / partition. I created a 600MB file, and used cat as follows: cat 600.file 600.file 600.file 600.file

Re: [SLUG] Unzipping a big file

2005-01-03 Thread Bruce Badger
On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:20 +1100, Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 13:09 +1100, Bruce Badger wrote: I'm having a problem unzipping a large file. I get: ... write error (disk full?). Its probably not been built with 64-bit file pointers. try unzip BigFile which will use stdio

[SLUG] USB /dev/???

2004-12-02 Thread Bruce Badger
How can I work out the device name of a USB device? So, I plug in my USB device. I see the device in usbview. How can I work out what node in the /dev/ tree has been mapped to the device I just plugged in? Thanks. -- Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills http://www.openskills.com

[SLUG] OpenSkills social evening

2004-11-08 Thread Bruce Badger
There will be an OpenSkills social evening at the James Squire Brewhouse tomorrow (Wednesday 10th) evening at 20:00. http://www.malt-shovel.com.au/brewhouse.asp?Sydney=true People (and wireless Internet access) will be there quite a bit earlier as we'll be having some more formal meetings 20:00

Re: [SLUG] 3d graphics viewing/modelling

2004-11-05 Thread Bruce Badger
From: Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] The sort of thing I'd like to be able to do is define a 2d shape like this (ascii art): +---+ | | +---+ | | +-+ Spin axis ==

Re: [SLUG] 3d graphics viewing/modelling

2004-11-05 Thread Bruce Badger
From: Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] The sort of thing I'd like to be able to do is define a 2d shape like this (ascii art): and then spin it around the spin axis shown to trace out a 3d shape. Ah, here is an example of what I thing you are asking for as seen when using Jun for

[SLUG] RMS @ UTS on Friday @ 14:00

2004-10-12 Thread Bruce Badger
The ACS is hosting a talk by Richard Stallman at the UTS on Friday 15th October @ 14:00. That's this Friday at 2:00pm. Details registration here: https://www.acs.org.au/acs_events/index.cfm?attributes.fuseaction=eventdetailsevent_id=935branch=NSW All the best, Bruce -- Make the most

Re: [SLUG] NSW Tender meeting

2004-10-08 Thread Bruce Badger
From: Pia Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 09:39, Craige McWhirter wrote: put together a panel of who would be appropriate. It might be a good time to get together, look at all the requirements and

Re: [SLUG] NSW Tender meeting

2004-10-07 Thread Bruce Badger
__ From: Ben de Luca [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: SLUG [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] NSW Tender meeting Date: Thu, 07 Oct 2004 21:07:59 +1000 Do you think that being on the committee might give you a extra value from

Re: [SLUG] NSW Tender meeting

2004-10-07 Thread Bruce Badger
Further to Pia's announcement of the meeting about the NSW tender next week: The venue: ACS NSW offices Level 4, 122 Castlereagh Street Sydney NSW 2000 Ph. 02 9261 4411 Time: 14:00 - 15:30 Thursday 14th Oct 2004 -- Make the most of your skills - with

Re: [SLUG] NSW Tender meeting

2004-10-06 Thread Bruce Badger
Taryn wrote: Openskills you have to pay for... I find this a big turnoff and it's highly unlikely that I'd join. We know that some people feel this way, but OpenSkills does provide a number of hosted services, and these do need to be paid for. An alternative would be to look for advertising

[SLUG] Walking talking Gimp whizz

2004-10-02 Thread Bruce Badger
I thought a talk on the Gimp would be interesting for the ACS FOSS SIG meeting one month (and perhaps for SLUG too?). Is anyone here a Gimp whizz willing to give a 40 minute intro to the Gimp? Or, do you know such a person? Thanks, Bruce -- Make the most of your skills - with

[SLUG] RMS bed situation

2004-08-15 Thread Bruce Badger
Many thanks to all those who offered bed facilities for RMS. He now has accommodation all sorted out for his stay in Sydney during October, thanks to the power of the SLUG community :-) All the best, Bruce -- Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills http://www.openskills.com --

[SLUG] Richard Stallman - bed

2004-08-10 Thread Bruce Badger
Richard Stallman will be visiting Sydney for a week or three at the beginning of October this year. The initiating event is the Builder conference: http://www.builderconference.com.au/ I have been trying to line up a speaking engagements for him with the ACS while he is here (possibly taking him

Re: [SLUG] The Sound of Silence

2004-08-03 Thread Bruce Badger
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 15:38, Shaun Oliver wrote: try looking at your /etc/esound/esd.conf I think that's the properpath, and comment it out entirely The trick is, as Jeff said, to specify that the sound server should not start in the GnomeDesktopPreferencesSound dialog. Commenting out every

[SLUG] The Sound of Silence

2004-08-02 Thread Bruce Badger
I can't get sound on my new XPC :-( I am using Debian Sarge with Kernel 2.6.7. I am trying to work with ALSA. Everything seems to check out fine. alsamixer does the right thing. The /proc/ files show me the information I expect to see, but when I try and play something I get: [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] The Sound of Silence

2004-08-02 Thread Bruce Badger
On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:19, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Bruce Badger I can't get sound on my new XPC :-( [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:1155:(snd_pcm_hw_open) open /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p failed: Device or resource busy Which I guess means that snd_pcm_hw_open thinks that /dev/snd

Re: [SLUG] Need to replace htdig for personal use.

2004-07-03 Thread Bruce Badger
Terry, One option might be for you to look at an IMAP server running on your local box, and have your mail tool point at that. I use Cyrus which works well for me. As it happens, I run Cyrus on a server in the UK, but running locally would just make it faster. All the best, Bruce --

[SLUG] UTS FIT Seminar 5th May 2004 Wednesday 2 pm 10.4.460

2004-04-30 Thread Bruce Badger
This posted to both the SLUG and ACS open source SIG lists ... I just heard about this, and thought people may be interested (curtesy of John Leany at UTS). Rather frustratingly, I'm not available on the 5th May - darn. All the best, Bruce -Forwarded Message- FACULTY OF

[SLUG] BSD Sockets

2004-03-11 Thread Bruce Badger
Is there a definitive source of information on BSD sockets? e.g. is there an RFC? Many thanks, Bruce -- Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills http://www.openskills.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] nomation: robert collins

2004-02-23 Thread Bruce Badger
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 23:05, Robert Collins wrote: Looks like this year will be a little less insane for me. So, I'm nominating myself for either VP or ordinary committee member. Seconded for both. Good luck, Rob! -- Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills http://www.openskills.com

Re: [SLUG] Compiere

2004-02-20 Thread Bruce Badger
On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 14:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 15:14, Hal Ashburner wrote: Project of the month at Sourceforge. http://sourceforge.net/potm/potm-2004-02.php http://www.compiere.org/ You need Oracle, despite their use of db connection middleware. So

[SLUG] ACS OpenSource SIG

2004-02-17 Thread Bruce Badger
The slides for the last ACSOSS meeting on open source and the law are now available here, together with slides from a couple of previous talks (Gus on EmbPerl and Rob on Squid): http://openskills.com/acsoss/ At the next meeting Rob Collins will be telling us about Arch Thursday

[SLUG] The ACS open source SIG

2004-02-09 Thread Bruce Badger
It has been suggested that I post information here about upcomming meetings of the ACS (yes, the Australian Computer Society) open source SIG. The SIG is open to all. The ACS NSW branch only ask that you sign a register of guests. We meet on the last Thursday of the month, which is typically

Re: [SLUG] Open Source in Iraq.

2003-12-18 Thread Bruce Badger
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 14:48, David Killen wrote: An interesting article I found about the possibilities of Open Source in Iraq http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7320mode=threadorder=0 http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=7320mode=threadorder=0 We're seeing some activity

Re: [SLUG] Freedom and Alternatives

2003-12-14 Thread Bruce Badger
On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 23:32, Ken Foskey wrote: On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 22:35, Benno wrote: Umm, I have to disagree here. The BSD folk want a commons for *anyone* to leverage. The GPL folk want a commands for anyone except proprietary product developers to leverage.[1] OK let me flip this

Re: [SLUG] Freedom and Alternatives

2003-12-12 Thread Bruce Badger
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 02:08, Robert Collins wrote: On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 09:28, Benno wrote: 2) To a user of the system, the OOP COM object is hidden - it's not directly visible or usable as a standalone entity. Yes true. I think you are saying that this goes to making it a

Re: [SLUG] Freedom and Alternatives

2003-12-12 Thread Bruce Badger
On Sat, 2003-12-13 at 11:23, Robert Collins wrote: Hmm. So lets follow this: IDL file (GPL licence) -- smalltalk source (derived work) -- 'linked' into your smalltalk program (making that a derived work when taken as a whole). GPL requires releasing as GP. IDL file (BSD licence) --

Re: [SLUG] No more Red Hat Linux support after April 30 2004 - Quick Survey

2003-11-04 Thread Bruce Badger
On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 19:58, Ken Foskey wrote: Debian has three types of releases: Stable: Grandma runs this, very very stable. So stable nothing changes except security fixes. It is also very safe from crashing. Testing: Normal desktop use. People that want to have latest releases

[SLUG] Jabber

2003-11-03 Thread Bruce Badger
Does anyone have hands on experience in deploying a Jabber server in a business context? I'm looking for some help doing this (for $). Please drop me a line if you can help. Thanks. Bruce -- Make the most of your skills - with OpenSkills http://www.openskills.com signature.asc

Re: [SLUG] Databases, some advice please.

2003-10-13 Thread Bruce Badger
On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 15:00, Bill Bennett wrote: I'd like to teach myself something on databases. The table of Window equivalents lists:--- 1) KNoda 2) Gnome DB Manager 3) OpenOffice + MySQL 4) InterBase7 (Prop) 5) InterBase6 (Presumably no longer Prop) 6) Berkley DB 7) Rekall (Prop)

Re: [SLUG] Financial Membership

2003-09-28 Thread Bruce Badger
On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 13:23, DaZZa wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Jan Schmidt wrote: Details on becoming a financial member are available here: http://www.slug.org.au/membership.html Dare I ask if any progress has been made on accepting membership remotely? I am unable to get to SLUG

Re: [SLUG] finance under linux

2003-09-02 Thread Bruce Badger
, but being a real double entry system make it a breeze to track all the numbers. Of course, YMMV. -- Bruce Badger OpenSkills.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

[SLUG] Debian Kernel

2003-09-02 Thread Bruce Badger
is a reasonable one to go for? o Why I got the bonus SMP kernel? o Will the bonus SMP kernel be installed too? o If apt-get install will Do The Right Thing to make the non-SMP kernel bootable? Many thanks, Bruce - Bruce Badger OpenSkills.com signature.asc Description

Re: [SLUG] Debian Kernel

2003-09-02 Thread Bruce Badger
On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 19:17, Steve Kowalik wrote: At 3:41 pm, Tuesday, September 2 2003, Bruce Badger mumbled: So, would some kind soul please tell me: ... o Why I got the bonus SMP kernel? I'd need to see the output of apt-get to determine that. OK :-) wally:~# apt-get -d install

Re: [SLUG] Popular Distros in Australia.

2003-06-14 Thread Bruce Badger
, Bruce Badger http://www.openskills.com signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] really slick screensavers..

2003-04-02 Thread Bruce Badger
Jeff, I'm preparing the Smalltalk talk you asked me to give this month. What time-slot do I need to fit within? Thanks, Bruce On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 12:08, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Dave Airlie For those of you with Nvidia or ATI cards with hardware TCL, there are some welll

Re: FW: [SLUG] ps2tiff

2003-03-30 Thread Bruce Badger
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 07:01, Michael Still wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2003, Adam W wrote: fax. You open it in this kodak program(or really any image viewer), and it supports multiple pages within the one tif file. I have had pain with not all views supporting multipage TIFFs. What you describe

Re: [SLUG] iinet DSL + Debian

2003-03-19 Thread Bruce Badger
On Mon, 2003-03-17 at 10:51, Kevin Saenz wrote: I am with iinet, Do not use roaring penguin It will not work. I'm with iiNet, and I use the Roaring Penguin pppoe software which works fine for me. I mostly use tkpppoe to start the connection because I get a nice graph of the inbound and

Re: [SLUG] Visual traceroute ?

2003-03-19 Thread Bruce Badger
On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 20:52, Nick C wrote: Evening, Anyone got any ideas about a visual version of traceroute (tktraceroute, traceroute-nanog)? How about xtraceroute? It uses data from LOC records to show where hosts are on a 3D globe. Nice. It's a Debian package. I don't know about

[SLUG] October Open Source Expo

2003-03-05 Thread Bruce Badger
There has been some talk about having an open source expo of some kind in Sydney in the October time-frame. There are a few people quite keen on this, and it has been suggested that interested people have a get together to talk about objectives, structure etc. The ideas so far are to have a broad

Re: [SLUG] VMware on Redhat 8.0

2003-03-04 Thread Bruce Badger
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 10:39, Howard Lowndes wrote: If anyone is running VMware 3.2 on Redhat 8.0 without getting a closing error message, could they contact me OL pse. I'm not sure what OL pse means (sorry), so I'll post here. The current version of VMWare is not supported in RH8, though there

[SLUG] Searching the slug archives

2003-03-03 Thread Bruce Badger
Is there any way to search the slug archives. A search tool, that is, rather than just poking thought the archive? Thanks -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

RE: [SLUG] Where Can I get Red Hat Linux 8.0 ?

2003-03-02 Thread Bruce Badger
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 21:12, Jon Biddell wrote: So why offer the discount at all for one distro ??? OK, you asked, this is how it came about: Early last year I was in Dymocks and the only Linux distros they had were old and very expensive, some over $300. This seemed crazy to me. I asked the

Re: [SLUG] Where Can I get Red Hat Linux 8.0 ?

2003-03-01 Thread Bruce Badger
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 10:43, Louis Selvon wrote: Hi: As the subject says. The stores in my area don't have them. Does Dymocks sell version 8.0 or any urls that list vendors of Red Hat Products in Australia would do me. I am browsing the web but had no lukc yet. The main Dymocks shop on

Re: [SLUG] Where Can I get Red Hat Linux 8.0 ?

2003-03-01 Thread Bruce Badger
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 11:51, David wrote: On 2 Mar 2003, Bruce Badger wrote: On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 10:43, Louis Selvon wrote: Hi: As the subject says. The stores in my area don't have them. Does Dymocks sell version 8.0 or any urls that list vendors of Red Hat Products

RE: [SLUG] Where Can I get Red Hat Linux 8.0 ?

2003-03-01 Thread Bruce Badger
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 17:59, Jon Biddell wrote: = The main Dymocks shop on George St. in Sydney does sell Debian = Woody, BTW. And this is the distro that gives you $5 off SLUG = membership too! Particularly interesting as this the AGM =is at the = next SLUG meeting, and you need to

[SLUG] iiNet - not Mozilla friendly

2003-02-22 Thread Bruce Badger
It seems that iiNet (http://iinet.net.au) have improved their account management tools such that they will no longer work with Mozilla. Is it just me, or have they really just taken this step backward? Also - I'm having a shocking time with my DSL connection at the moment. The link light goes

Re: [SLUG] iiNet - not Mozilla friendly

2003-02-22 Thread Bruce Badger
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 14:15, David Kempe wrote: Hi Bruce, we had a customer with the same problem. do you have a dlink dsl-300? I do. If it is a modem problem, what can be done? Thanks, Bruce -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] iiNet - not Mozilla friendly

2003-02-22 Thread Bruce Badger
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 14:34, David Kempe wrote: Have you still got the serial cable that came with the modem? If so you need to plug it into a spare serial port, bark up your favourite comms program (like minicom) and connect at 9600,8,N,1 Great, thanks! I can talk to the modem now. You can

[SLUG] PII 400 no-fan heatsink?

2003-02-17 Thread Bruce Badger
I have a couple of PII 400 machines which are very noisy. As part of the campaign to make them quieter, I was wondering if there were any no-fan heatsinks around that could prevent the PII 400s from melting down. Google reveals that world+dog would like to sell me a heatsink *with* fan - but I

[SLUG] Getting to my app

2003-02-16 Thread Bruce Badger
I'm running Debian Woody, and am trying to access an application which is listening on a TCP/IP socket. The app is just a small http server, and I'm using a web browser to access it. I know the app is listening on the expected port, because if I connect using a browser on the same machine that

Re: [SLUG] Getting to my app

2003-02-16 Thread Bruce Badger
On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 20:35, Christopher Samuel wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sunday 16 Feb 2003 7:37 pm, Bruce Badger wrote: Any hints, tips (or complete answers :-)) would be most appreciated. What does: netstat -ntlp say for port 10045 ? I just knew this would

[SLUG] Autorepeat broken after suspend

2003-02-11 Thread Bruce Badger
I'm running RH8.0 on an IBM Thinkpad T21. I can suspend the machine with X running, and everything is fine when I resume ... except for the keyboard autorepeat which no longer works, and the mouse becomes prone to take a single click as a double click. Simply exiting X and restarting it makes

Re: [SLUG] Autorepeat broken after suspend

2003-02-11 Thread Bruce Badger
Peter, many thanks for the suggestions. On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 23:00, Peter Hardy wrote: Couple of things you can try: When you resume, run xset r to try turning autorepeat back on. The xset manpage will probably also tell you how to change the doubleclick timeout. I can't get this to work

Re: [SLUG] Autorepeat broken after suspend

2003-02-11 Thread Bruce Badger
On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 14:56, Myles Byrne wrote: I can suspend the machine with X running, and everything is fine when I resume ... except for the keyboard autorepeat which no longer works, and the mouse becomes prone to take a single click as a double click. I have exactly the same

Re: [SLUG] Palm Zire vs Psion Revo

2003-02-10 Thread Bruce Badger
I have a Revo and it's a great machine. My wife has one too. She is more gentle than I am, and her Revo has lasted 3 years now without problem. Mine had a battery recharge problem, but I had it fixed, though while it was being fixed I got withdrawl symptoms and bought a Revo Plus, so now I have

[SLUG] Pia Linux Australia makes the news ...

2003-01-27 Thread Bruce Badger
Linux Australia votes in first female president ... http://www.zdnet.com.au/newstech/os/story/0,224997,20271565,00.htm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] [OT] recoverying NT4 disk

2003-01-06 Thread Bruce Badger
You could talk to Piamen Pazov who is a SLUG regular. His comany is Xyber, and they specialize in data recovery. His number is 9906 7967. Good luck, Bruce Richard Hayes wrote: Dear list, Sorry about the subject. A small SCSI drive has gone walkabout and I need to recover the data. 1.

Re: [SLUG] Live! ALSA under Woody

2002-12-24 Thread Bruce Badger
Andrew Lau wrote: ...and the answer seemed to be ALSA ... Dear Bruce, ALSA in Debian is undergoing a major overhaul right now. /me points at StevenK and ducks. So the installation for it isn't as smooth as we'd like right now. Follow the below HOWTO and it should work fine.

[SLUG] Live! ALSA under Woody

2002-12-23 Thread Bruce Badger
I asked a while ago what sound system people recommended for Woody, and answer seemed to be ALSA. Well, I've not been able to get it going - this after spending much time reading FAQs and being on the Creative IRC channel. :-( Does anyone have ALSA working under Woody with a emu10k1 card (SB

Re: [SLUG] Case Study Speaker

2002-12-16 Thread Bruce Badger
Robert Collins wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 18:06, Bruce Badger wrote: Does anyone know of an open source system deployment within Australia, that would be a potential source of a speaker? The ideal would be finding someone who was on a project from evaluation through to deployment who

Re: [SLUG] SMS

2002-12-16 Thread Bruce Badger
Richard Rooke wrote: hi is it possible to send sms messages to a phone off my home pc without having to connect to the internet? I have an internal modem but no phone line pls reply because ive heard it is possible but i dont know how/where to get it from cheers Well, there is equipment that

[SLUG] Case Study Speaker

2002-12-15 Thread Bruce Badger
Does anyone know of an open source system deployment within Australia, that would be a potential source of a speaker? The ideal would be finding someone who was on a project from evaluation through to deployment who could tell the tale. It would be even better if it were a happy tale. Any

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