[SLUG] archaeology and open source?

Does anyone know anything of this? The source and language is not encouraging, but hints from other directions suggest there may be something in it. From http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/23/new-archaeology-apps-may-make-armchair-indiana-jones/?:

[SLUG] Re: Agora

4. Re. GPS Timing Notes (Adam Bogacki) 5. Agora Smart TV HDMI Dongle (Tom Worthington) 6. Re: Agora Smart TV HDMI Dongle (Amos Shapira) What is the situation in Sydney for Raspberry Pi? Available? I am in USA and have laid my hands on some. If not available in Sydney, I would be

[SLUG] cue cat

My cue cat used to work in Alexandria, but update of Alexandria now does not (on Debian: there may be more recent Alexandria??). There seems to be some trouble with Alexandria code--other library programs work better; though default of Library of Congress has gaps. (WorldCat better). Any thoughts

[SLUG] Raspberry Pi

Will Microsoft be able to lock this down? Today's Topics: 1. Australian distributor product page for Raspberry Pi (Model B) (Jeff Waugh) -- Forwarded message -- From: Jeff Waugh j...@bethesignal.org To: linux-...@lists.linux.org.au, slug@slug.org.au Cc: Date:

[SLUG] Re: nostalgia

What's with all this past golden age? I am OLD (punched cards were an innovation). But I am not tempted to pine for the Good Old Days. Remember Red Hat before.., remember ... I grant I do not, and never did, rely on programming etc. for daily bread! But come on .. I do not even miss DOS, or Turbo

[SLUG] Linux for Seniors

As a 77 year old I have some idea of the needs. The most important need is some kind of community. As we age, the chances of panic--what do I do now?--increase. Certainly at my age I found contemporaries using Linux a rare commodity--Computers for Seniors largely have no acquaintance or

[SLUG] keyboard entry sssllloooww

Any clues? suddenly i have to hold keys down for at least a second before they enter. Password on booting normal cannot use ctrl-alt for console Ubuntu 10.04-- working perfectly until this extensive command line--simple bash scripts mouse unaffected u won't believe how long this took

[SLUG] slow keys

sorry sorry sorry forgedaboudid--(am in Philadelphia presently) slow keys activated (how I know not!) Geoffrey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] odd system loss

If there are non-professional readers of this list, they might be interested in how this was resolved. (And even professionals *might* be curious as to why and how). 1. I was able to mount another distro from the second disk (so grub was working). (It was suggested that in other circumstances a

[SLUG] odd system loss

Thank you for your help. I was not using root. I rarely do, and anyway, to use it in Ubuntu is a pain! Sudo is the default, if needed. You can get root (sudo bash etc), but .. Everything mounts (except /dev/sdb3 = swap.) thanks again Geoffrey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

[SLUG] odd system loss

Thank you for your response. I have tried to df by mounting the partitions all in turn. All are using quite little except / which is up to 87%, although I have 8 partitions. /temp is a separate partition, and has little on it. /tmpwith / mounted has nothing. / has /vimlux and initrd all with

[SLUG] Fwd: odd system loss

-- Forwarded message -- From: Geoffrey Cowling geoffrey.cowl...@gmail.com Date: Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 11:46 AM Subject: odd system loss To: dan...@rimspace.net Cc: s...@slug.org Thank you for your advice. I have not been able to get to it till now. Using fsck all partitions

[SLUG] odd system loss

This is mostly a 'wot hoppen?' and 'wot's going on' -- but advice what to do about it would be very welcome. I was using a bash script with convert (from ImageMagick) to convert a lot of big tiff files, I mistyped a / for a x ... everything froze, and when I goto ut (it rebooted) there was only a

[SLUG] atom processor

Both the 701 and 1000 series can run Breezy (Puppy Linux variant) from an SD card. Minimal desktop, but quite usable. Geoffrey -- Forwarded message -- From: Dion [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: slug@slug.org.au Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:19:08 +0800 Subject: Re: [SLUG] Atom Processor

Re: [SLUG] Full / partition

On Fri, Aug 15, 2008 at 7:50 PM, Kelvin Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Geoffrey: Could maybe be a log file (I didn't notice you having a /var partition). Under /, try a du -cksh * And then cd into each directory. You should quickly find your space:) Good luck! Kelvin You're the

[SLUG] Full / partition

going through / and finding large files and removing them, but found northing that big. Any help would be very much appreciated. Geoffrey Cowling -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] USB mounting now fails

block device Might it be a hardware failure? USB Keys still work under (shudder) Windows. Sorry to butt in, but I would be very grateful for any suggestions. (The technician I take it too is bewildered by Linux). Geoffrey Cowling -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] country keyboards xfree 4.3.0

I security upgraded sarge, and got the apparently normal error messages about configuration bugs--upgrade xf86 or reduce complexity of configuration (how? what?). googling revealed it as a common problem, but no solutions! (or explanations) Being very much an amateur this was several degrees of

[SLUG] ppp not connecting

May be not the right kind of question for here? but i am baffled I have two machines side by side, both running Debian. Older machine had RedHat at one stage. Both configured with ppconfig. Both appear to have identical files, except that one uses ttyS0 and the other ttyS1 for modem. One

[SLUG] spam

As a non-expert: I get SLUG in groups as a digest--genuine mail plus the spam in one file. how do I use spam filter on these? Without rejecting the whole lot? With either thunderbird or providers' filters I basically get no spam--or only the very clever ones--on any individual mail, but SLUG mail

[SLUG] Re: SLUG] No photo for Tridge in Wikipedia?

Lordy, just looked up Tridge in Wikipedia and found there's no photo! There is one on his own website ---www.samba.org/~tridge--reference in wikipedia Geofrrey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 30, Issue 33

-- Forwarded message -- From: John Gibbons [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: slug@slug.org.auDate: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 17:13:59 +1000Subject: [SLUG] Debian 3.1Thanks to Jeff, Ken and Simon. I had been trying startx but when nothinghappened I had assumed I was using the wrong input. Since getting

[SLUG] mkisofs/cdrecord

I burnt a digitized book to a CDROM. There was an subdirectory images--a few of the images were e.g. A.png for initial letters. The other images were lowercased .. When burnt the letters were lowercased; e.g. a.png. This meant under Linux i had several bits left over (default used) M$ could not

[SLUG] no screens

This is probably simple, but I do not know where to start ... I am still very new to Debian .:-) X has been working perfectly, though I have only used the vesa mode until I work out how to load nVidia. Tonight I looked ta some of the games--when I finished, the mouse was not working, so I

[SLUG] no screens

Further fiddling showed default depth as 24--cutting back to 16 lets it work ... but I seem to have acquired TWO mouse drivers.. so panic is more or less over--but not WHY.. a 70 year old brain works slowly , I am sorry Geoffrey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] rights of root from su

which did you use? su or su - su will give you root priviliges with your path su - will give you root with root's paths. Thank you very much.. this is now clear. I sort of relised that su did not change environment variables...but thought that if user had access to X --or

Re: [SLUG] rights of root from su

Because of X authorisation (xauth). If you are the only using this box, do a 'xhost localhost' before su'ing. This will allow anyone on the local machine to connect. Yes, only I am only user, so this will be fine, but thank you for other note. Now I know what to look I think I can do it

[SLUG] rights of root from su

sorry for such an elementary Q... :-( I thought you could do ANYTHING as root.. Debian Woody -- su to root to install e.g. OO.o, error message: glibc version: 2.2.5 Xlib: connection to :0.0 refused by server Xlib: Client is not authorized to connect to Server ./setup: cannot connect to X

Debian install process not recommended (Re: [SLUG] (Re: [SLUG] Trouble finding Linux

I am afraid this is true--I'm trying to swap from RedHat to Debian and finding it VERY difficult to upgrade or add or anything. What I find oddest is that programs on the install disc say they need upgraded lib components--but I cannot find them with apt, or if I do I am told they are

[SLUG] Re: Reply to Question about MyDoom

Thank you--both my curiosity and fears are at rest :-) Geoffrey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Question about MyDoom

At a VERY much lower level than the present debate what is the significance of the virus alerts in the slug digests? emails with viruses purportinhg to come from slug? Does it mean that address lists on Linux boxes have been compromised? Do I--using a dialup to Pine on a server--need to virus

[SLUG] Re: just use pppconfig then run pon dave

Jubilation! She loves me again! I fall on the floor and I'm laughing! So I am not stoopid, just ignorant. Removed eth0 gateway (thank you both Davids). Now have access + many, many pages of man pppd :-) and learned something of what I knew NOTHING --networks. (and a kppp .deb I do not need now)

Re: [SLUG] just use pppconfig then run pon dave

Apr 4 13:47:26 Lancre pppd[1474]: Script /etc/ppp/ip-up finished (pid 1489), status = 0x1 Well, the PPP link came up and is working fine.. :) ping 137.111.7.4 should return ping replies.. - if not, your firewalling might be screwy? Cheers, Damien Thank you ... Yes, I can ping 137.111.7.4

[SLUG] just use pppconfig then run pon dave

Sorry--so I lied ... :-) I tried again to dialup on to ISP, finding that pon has a log file. This is part of it: does this say why it does not work? (Where is the eth0 address 192. ... kept? it is not in /etc/hosts..) Apr 4 13:47:26 Lancre pppd[1474]: sent [IPCP ConfReq id=0x2 addr

Re: [SLUG] wvdial again :-(

just use pppconfig then run pon dave I think I'll just have to stick to RH: too old a dog obviously to learn new tricks. pppconfig + pon do not seem to log into ppp--as best I can tell. wvdial does...I can ping some numerical URIs, though no DSNs. ?? cannot remember any website URI ## to try

[SLUG] wvdial

Having had my hand helo by KDE I am with Debian almost in a Catch-22 situation, not being able to upgrade until I can access the internet. Using wvdial I can log on, get ppp (with its PID), but clearly have no access to DNS. (URL, unless = number, times out). The man page speaks of a Check DNS

Re: [SLUG] wvdial

DNS has nothing to do with wvdial. Normally it would be set up when ppp negotiates the link. (Normally in 'stupid' mode) To set DNS manually, enter the nameservers of your ISP into /etc/resolv.conf: /etc/resolv.conf: nameserver DNS-IP-ADDR1 nameserver DNS-IP-ADDR2 Hope this helps,

[SLUG] rpm/dpkg

My thanks to all who contributed to this debate. Without descending to religious disputes (or not far) we amateurs got a clear picture of both systems. I almost think I understand it now ... both for my old RH system and new--still crawling--woody. Geoffrey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] Re: dektop publishing

Im using Scribus at the moment, but im having some problems with it. And as far as i know, crossover office doesn't supprt ms publisher (any other emulators do?) Has anyone used Lyx? Would it do the job? Geoffrey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

[SLUG] Printing: Software or Hardware problem?

Is there a command to send a signal to a printer to see if parallel port is working? I have lost all printing (and am hopelessly lost in the Printing HOWTO also). I have had intermittent printing problems for some time (after upgrading to RH 7.2, from 7.0, which may or may not have any