Re: [SLUG] Task bar not working

it back on again fixes it, or rebooting. These commands will disable and then reenable metacity compositing: gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager -t bool false gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager -t bool true - Jan. -- Jan Schmidt thay...@noraisin.net -- SLUG

Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs

to anything like that many tests per second! J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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 change first day of week in Gnome?

Sonia Hamilton wrote: (Ubuntu 7.10) The calendar that comes with Gnome (when you click the date) lists the first day of the week as Sunday - how would I change it to Monday? I've right clicked on stuff, looked in System, Preferences; didn't find anything. I've also dredged thru gconf-editor -

Re: [SLUG] Re: voip/Ekiga and could not open audio channel

here (even though dmix sucks in other ways, and we need to replace it - but that's an issue for future distro releases :) J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] The woman you buy -- and she is the least expensive -- takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself takes all your time. - Balzac

Re: [SLUG] OS or Linux equivalent of windows media streaming

/Vorbis streaming, but the commercial server does WMV/WMA. The Streaming Platform part provides hosting and bandwidth on top. Cheers, Jan -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] Recent SLUG Downtime

a long time ago. Thanks guys! J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Darl McBride had his way, he would have banned marriage too, because it obviously is against the remunerative interests of prostitutes - Bruce Perens -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Re: pentium M series

anyway because everyone is running new kernels that support all the MMX/SSE features of the cpus. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] It all works, but it limits Linux processes to a mere 512GB of virtual address space. Such limits are irksome to the kernel developers when the hardware can do

Re: [SLUG] Linux portable game/media

The marketing mentions that it plays 720x480 movies... but http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gp2x#Specifications says it does so on a screen that's only 320x240 pixels. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who

Re: [SLUG] Laptop sellers in Oz with preinstall Linux as an option (was: Partitioning software)

@ 1400x1050. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] 5.1 passthrough

to a decoder box, or decoding speakers. I believe the best you can manage in raw PCM is a 4 channel output at 48khz. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Low - mid level graphic card recommendations

On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 17:31 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 15:29 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, I've just had a graphics card die on me and I'm looing for a replacement. Here's what I'm after: - Easily/currently available - Less that $150 -

Re: [SLUG] Laptop recommendations?

nice vertex shaders etc, and there's the open source not-associated-with-ATI drivers that would love to do that if only the vendors would give us the specs to the hardware we paid for. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] DVD iso img - how to play?

On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 14:48 +1000, Bill wrote: Hi, I've successfully copied a DVD as an iso image to my hard-drive, and have managed to mount it with the loopback device, but I have not been able to figure out how to get it to play in Xine. If you decrypted the contents as you copied

Re: [SLUG] Compatibility Issues with Windows64

for networking adapters. That said, there has been some code from ReactOS that successfully wraps the ntfs.sys file from an MS Windows install to provide full read-write access to NTFS. I doubt that will work unmodified with the 64 bit equivalent, but may not lag too far behind it. J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] Annodex

. Hopefully we'll be seeing more and more of it in the next few years! http://www.annodex.net/ for anyone that doesn't know what annodex is yet. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Annodex

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:31 +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Jan Schmidt wrote: On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 16:01 +1000, Rowling, Jill wrote: Some information on Annodex which we saw recently; this is a CSIRO blurb: http://www.ict.csiro.au/topic/Apr05.htm#video Annodex is awesome

Re: [SLUG] Teeny-tiny Linux Device - Your Flight of Fancy?

. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Failing to install DVDStyler

or libjpeg-mmx-dev J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Re: does Apache log rollover restart re-reads httpd.conf ?

the change - if it's going to have an 'unrecoverable problem', better that it do it when you're around than at some strange hour when logrotate runs and you're sleeping. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Failing to install DVDStyler

are executing _2_ commands, separated by the statement. Hence you're running sudo ./configure and make - the first runs as root and creates a bunch of stuff, the second runs as a normal user and _doesn't_ have root permission to write to the directories created by configure. J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] Sharing IMAP Folders

prove me wrong. Judging from the wiki documentation, shared folders are in the 1.0tests dovecot series. http://wiki.dovecot.org/SharedFolders J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] The woman you buy -- and she is the least expensive -- takes a great deal

Re: [SLUG] FOR SALE: CTTE Positions!

below most others on list, but committees are about organising and doing the preparation. Ken I nominate Ken for Treasurer General Committee member Seconded. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Nomination - Taryn East - Ordinary Committee Member

to the SLUG committee. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Nomination: Grant Parnell

On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 19:52 +1100, Chris Deigan wrote: I'd like to nominate Grant Parnell to continue his job as secretary. Seconded -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] Re: Nomination: Lindsay Holmwood

Committee Member. Chris has been a backbone of SLUG for a couple of years as an honourary committee member - we should make it official. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] SB Live and Alsa

and play it back. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Turbolinux 10

Hey, Does anyone out there have a copy of Turbolinux 10? I'd be interested in checking it out if you do and don't mind. Cheers, J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] SB Live and Alsa

On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 23:10 +1100, Alexander Samad wrote: On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 10:53:08PM +1100, Jan Schmidt wrote: On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 22:40 +1100, Alexander Samad wrote: Hi I am trying to get 5.1 digital sounds out of my linux box, but I have so many sliders in alsa mixer

Re: [SLUG] SB Live and Alsa

-0.9.4.tar.gz?download Once compiled: $ emu-config -d emu-tools shouldn't be needed with an recent ALSA, you can just un-mute the 'digital output' slider in alsamixer. Cheers, Jan -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Slow Wireless Speed

looking in the wrong place. :-) Nevertheless, 40KB/s is pretty slow. For reference I get ~550KB/s here using scp, on a laptop with a 10Mb wireless chipset talking to a 55Mb Linksys AP. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] dhcpd not working

, which is also acting as a gateway. It's no sufficient to just enable ip_forwarding - have you also set up some iptables rules for the forwarding? In this case, you'll need IP masquerading, because the client machines have non-routeable 192.168.* addresses. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] problems getting apt-get through a firewall

On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 08:04 +1100, justin randell wrote: hi all, since the network firewall was tightened where i work, i can't get apt-get to work. i can't figure out why, because i thought apt-get used ftp and http, and both of these are allowed through: I don't recognise the firewall

Re: [SLUG] free software alternative to Big Brother

+swatch+snmp gives a great (and free) NMS You forgot Umbrella (hi Jaq!) ;) http://www.spacepants.org/src/umbrella/ J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place

Re: [SLUG] Find weirdo

in the current directory. You want to put smtpdAB* in quotes, or escape the wildcard so that the string 'smtpdAB*' is passed to find, rather than the list of matching files/dirs. find /spam -name 'smtpdAB*' -print %p or find /spam -name smtpdAB\* -print %p should do the trick. J. -- Jan

Re: [SLUG] Test sorry

[EMAIL PROTECTED] discarded: SpamAssassin score was 5.7 (discard threshold is 5.5) Can you send the mail through to me? J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't

Re: [SLUG] Test sorry

On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 20:28 +1100, Michael Lake wrote: Kevin Waterson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Test as I have been trying to post a msg here since Friday. weird. I leaves here but doesnt appear in slug. time now 8.10 pm Sunday Made it all

Re: [SLUG] Test sorry

quote who=Jan Schmidt Yes, looks like it: Dec 12 14:04:23 2004 (4249) slug post from [EMAIL PROTECTED] discarded: SpamAssassin score was 5.7 (discard threshold is 5.5) Can you send the mail through to me? Looks like it is falling afoul of some over-zealous 'kill those annoying we have

Re: [SLUG] no XP boot with ubuntu, dialup weirdness

Fedora Core used to have the same problem, but I can't find the bug report right now. It had to do with writing an incorrect drive geometry description to the partition table. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Darl McBride had his way, he would have banned

Re: Talks page (Re: [SLUG] talks last night)

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 16:41 +1100, Mary Gardiner wrote: On Wed, Dec 01, 2004, Jan Schmidt wrote: Not a silly question at all - that's the right place to find talks. The problem is converting them takes ages, especially since the audio is coming out quite dodgy on a lot of our recordings

Re: [SLUG] Is there a way to tandem on to a SSH connection?

quote who=Paul Ford I am new to Linux and would like to know if I could take over another users ssh connection as a root user? My Linux box is running RedHat 7.2.1 ttysnoop should allow you to join the users login session. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] talks last night

quote who=Taryn East * Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: Sorry, I didn't think to turn the camera on until half way through, so I missed the talks. We've got a recording of Luke's awesome Accessibility talk though. erm, silly question - where can they all be found? the only ones

Re: [SLUG] New SLUG member, not so new Linux user =P

On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 15:29 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 14:50:32 +1100 Stephen Merity [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm obsessed with computer graphics (mainly 3D art/animation, and I use http://www.blender3d.org Blender, opensource 3D suite =P) . If you'd like to

Re: [SLUG] talks last night

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 10:43 +1100, Phil Scarratt wrote: Ken Foskey wrote: I would like to thank the three people from last night. These were extremely interesting talks. We had a talk on IP telephony. This was great and the idea of a IP phone that plugs into my network for overseas

Re: [SLUG] No response to bowling for December meeting

if there are other takers. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Panic -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- 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] Ubuntu Linux DV camera

On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 22:20 +1100, konrad Zielinski wrote: I'm trying to connect a DV camara to a newly built Ubuntu(2.6 kernel recompiled for 686) box without success, So far i have learned that for some reason the system that Ubuntu uses dosn't create the appropriate dev node when the

Re: [SLUG] Re: Building kernels [Was: Maybe trying out gentoo again]

that you've managed to hit... I don't think there's much more productive coming from this thread. Please take it to slug-chat unless you've got something on-topic to add. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting: Friday, 29th October 2004

will be providing an overview of the changes and new features in the latest release of PostgreSQL Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing

Re: [SLUG] Why can I remove a file owned by root:root ?

to it or remove it. Im missing some basic understanding. When you remove a file, it's the directory that's being modified to no longer have the file in it hence it's the directory permissions that matter. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is hard to believe

Re: [SLUG] Re: Can't reboot: cannot open /mnt/etc/fstab: no such file

a) The hard disk was about to die b) The disk geometry was configured incorrectly, and the kernel was trying to seek past the end of the disk c) A bug in the kernel was simulating one of the first two. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ENOSIG -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Update on SLUG Goonellabah roadtrip

quote who=Jan Schmidt quote who=Lindsay Holmwood The next Slug roadtrip up to Lismore was scheduled to occur on the 30th and 31st of this month. We'd managed to get a good group of people together for the roadtrip, and all seemed to be set. We've got a few definites keen on making

Re: [SLUG] commonwealth bank netbanking stopped support linux?

working for me in firefox. Cheers, J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homer: No TV and No Beer make Homer something something Marge: Go Crazy? Homer: Don't mind if I do! rrrarrgghar! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] c programming - structures

structures have padding bytes that will be uninitialised (random) data. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came for the quality. I stayed for the freedom. -- Sean Neakums -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Update on SLUG Goonellabah roadtrip

, Lindsay. I hope the treatment goes smoothly. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. (Shut up! Bloody Vikings.) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] User mode linux 2.6

the UML without it locking hard, but the rest of the installed woody runs ok. Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homer: No TV and No Beer make Homer something something Marge: Go Crazy? Homer: Don't mind if I do! rrrarrgghar! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] installing amsn error

simultaneously connecting to multiple protocols and accounts. It can talk icq/aim, msn, jabber, yahoo, irc and others. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you been half-asleep? Have you heard voices? I've heard them calling my name... -Kermit the Frog (Rainbow

Re: [SLUG] Xine Colour display problem

. The xvinfo command tells you about the Xv extension that xine is probably using. You might try the xshm output with 'xine -V xshm' and see if that is ok. XShm output will use more cpu, but will avoid the Xv output and might work. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] Xine Colour display problem

quote who=Peter Rundle Jan Schmidt wrote: You might try the xshm output with 'xine -V xshm' and see if that is ok. J. Bingo! Thanks that does the trick! So, the next thing you want is to identify whether it's a problem with your Xserver or with Xine's use of the Xv extension. If you

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu newness

means that you need a CDDA based CD player to play them... which Gnome 2.8's CD player isn't, but 2.8.1's should be... the patch just missed the freeze date. Of course, this is not to say that your problem isn't just that the CD channel is turned down in your mixer :) J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu newness

quote who=David On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Jan Schmidt wrote: That may not be sufficient. On a lot of recent machines, the audio cable from the CD-ROM drive to the sound card is not installed. Windows Media Player uses CDDA digital extraction and then plays the music as if it were a wav file

Re: [activities] Re: [SLUG] University of Wollongong

successfully. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. - H.L. Mencken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] ATI Radeon, Video Out and MythTv

the binary drivers, because I think the 9600 is an R300 chip. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. (Shut up! Bloody Vikings.) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Elementary symlink question

as a http redirect that takes you to the real location. However, I maintain that's the way it _should_ work! That's the way hard links work, but they can only link within the same file system. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I

Re: [SLUG] terminal broken on 2.6.8

. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homer: No TV and No Beer make Homer something something Marge: Go Crazy? Homer: Don't mind if I do! rrrarrgghar! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] Encoding mp3 on debian

of multimedia related packages that can't go in Debian for legal reasons. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ENOSIG -- 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] Talk: Martin Gregory from Microsoft, Thursday August 12th

Just to clarify, the same as all our monthly meetings, this event is open to non-SLUG-members and the general public also. If you're interested, please come along. With Martin's permission, we'll also video the talk and make the recording available afterward. Cheers, Jan. quote who=Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] stoping/restarting ipchains firewall: OK from remote access ?

to do over shh, or, can I screw something up ? It depends entirely on the changes that you've made - it's entirely possible for you to lock yourself out of ssh access to the machine, in which case you'll have to get to the console to fix it. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Talk: Martin Gregory from Microsoft, Thursday August 12th

. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Darl McBride had his way, he would have banned marriage too, because it obviously is against the remunerative interests of prostitutes - Bruce Perens -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Running Gnome in Xnest

sounds like Nautilus isn't running - it is responsible for drawing the icons on the desktop and providing the root window popup menu. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homer: No TV and No Beer make Homer something something Marge: Go Crazy? Homer: Don't mind if I

[SLUG] Talk: Martin Gregory from Microsoft, Thursday August 12th

of ownership, security and sharing source code. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. (Shut up! Bloody Vikings.) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] What Debian dev package do I need to get gd.h ?

of gnome) inside an auto-apt session in order to let it prompt me for every possible dependency that the packages are searching for. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you been half-asleep? Have you heard voices? I've heard them calling my name... -Kermit

Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] Wireless fest - 14 Aug 2004 - Postponed for 5 weeks

quote who=Dean Hamstead doesnt it fall under slugs PLI? If it's a SLUG event, it sure does. I have no problem with making it an event run by Richard, head of the SLUG wireless SIG. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's

Re: [SLUG] Debian auto-logouts

shutting down BECAUSE you've logged out and there is no longer any clients. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ENOSIG -- 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] ssh and X forwarding woes.

quote who=Richard Heycock Can anyone shed any light on this as I am going completely mad! Make sure that xbase-clients is installed on the machine you're ssh'ing into - xauth is required on the destination machine. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] convert video formats

. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] stibbons Yeah. The whole climax thing would make much more sense if I'd paid attention. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] [OT] C pointer allocation

value, but often 0. C won't do any initialisation for you, but if it's the first time your process has used that particular piece of stack, the kernel will have initialised it to 0. If you need a variable to have a particular value in C, always initialise it explicitly. J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] linux laptop shopping

Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. - H.L. Mencken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] (walkman) device that plays ogg files?

, and he reckoned it would work. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came for the quality. I stayed for the freedom. -- Sean Neakums -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] remote desktop on linux accessing windows xp

. Worked a treat! And oh so open and cheap (...not)! J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive

Re: [SLUG] Wireless fest - 14 Aug 2004

quote who=Jeff Waugh Cool! (Cc'ing activities, the new festies, so the ctte can put it up on the SLUG website...) festies forwards to activities. Your duplicate messageid killer has turned against you! J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] stibbons Yeah

Re: [SLUG] no debsig/codefest?

the place. Cheers, J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] The woman you buy -- and she is the least expensive -- takes a great deal of money. The woman who gives herself takes all your time. - Balzac -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Codefest (and Debian RC bug squish): Sat 29th May, University of Sydney

believe so, yes. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. - H.L. Mencken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Rhythmbox - GStreamer osssink- Alsa - snd-intel8x0.. Something here is crackling...

have more luck using esdsink with that soundcard, or harassing the package maintainer to finish off his 0.8 debs. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Darl McBride had his way, he would have banned marriage too, because it obviously is against the remunerative

Re: [SLUG] cebit and fta

quote who=Ashley Maher G'day, interesting criticism of loose wording in FTA, with respect to digital media. http://www.cebit.com.au/html/news_4_art_5_prereg.cfm And of course, as Pia posted the other day and from Rusty's talk: http://linux.org.au/fta/ J. -- Jan Schmidt

[SLUG] New Membership Benefit

, is reported to be just this side of ecstatic at the opportunity to bring in some sales. In order to assist SLUG members with taking advantage of this deal, we've provided SCO Australia and New Zealand with a complete list of all our members, and they'll be in touch with everyone soon! Regards, Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] New Membership Benefit

quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Second that You can't second that, you're not a former committee member AFAIK! I'm afraid you'll have to propose your own motion to distance yourself. J. On Thu, Apr 01, 2004, Jan Schmidt wrote: After some lengthy negotiations, the Sydney Linux Users Group

Re: [SLUG] New Membership Benefit

, both the Linux kernel and the SCO source trees were written in the VERY SAME CHARACTER SET, which is clear evidence to me that there may be copying going on. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas -- Arnold 'Ace

Re: [activities] Re: [SLUG] New Membership Benefit

to the volunteer list administrators, chosen by the SLUG committee, and email addresses can obviously be collected by anyone subscribed. Subscribers concerned about this are probably best off using ficticious details when subscribing to the list. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Any one running mytv?

quote who=DE LUCA Ben Does any one on the list have a mythtv setup? I have a broken one. I haven't been able to get it going anywhere near satisfactorily, so I went back to using crontab. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karaoke bars combine two

Re: [SLUG] Any one running mythtv?

on the backburner. I may look at it again later, but for now I've gone back to putting an entry in the cron tables each time I want the computer to record something. Is that any clearer? J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you been half-asleep? Have you heard voices

Re: [SLUG] Intel release Centrino wireless driver

quote who=Simon Wong On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 14:35, Jan Schmidt wrote: P.S. It appears to still require a limited-license binary firmware, and doesn't have a lot of features finished yet, but it's a step upward from having to load the windows driver using ndiswrapper. ndiswrapper works

[SLUG] Intel release Centrino wireless driver

For people who have an Intel PRO2100 wireless chipset, the driver from Intel is now available. http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ I'll try this out tonight. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know

Re: [SLUG] Intel release Centrino wireless driver

quote who=Jan Schmidt For people who have an Intel PRO2100 wireless chipset, the driver from Intel is now available. http://ipw2100.sourceforge.net/ I'll try this out tonight. P.S. It appears to still require a limited-license binary firmware, and doesn't have a lot of features finished

[SLUG] Gnome 2.6 Release RSN

A great (p)review of the upcoming Gnome 2.6 release, due on March 22nd. http://www.clai.net/sayamindu/GNOME-2.6/GNOME_2_6.html J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. Lovely Pants

Re: [activities] Re: [SLUG] [Computerbank] Call for assistance

/03/msg00061.html for details) I think it sound like a great idea, so I vote yes. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Panic -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Committee Nomination: Sarah Webster

quote who=Jamie Wilkinson I'd like to nominate Sarah Webster for the position of Treasurer! Seconded. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] If Darl McBride had his way, he would have banned marriage too, because it obviously is against the remunerative interests

Re: [SLUG] Committee Nomination: Jaime Hemmett

quote who=Jamie Wilkinson I'd like to nominate Jaime Hemmett for the position of Treasurer! Seconded. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: President

quote who=Craige McWhirter Jan Schmidt You've done a good job Jan, give it another tilt. Thanks, Craige. Acccepted. I'm keen to remain on SLUG committee and ensure that SLUG retains the friendly atmosphere it has grown up with, and that it continues to foster and support the Open Source

Re: [SLUG] who wrote the most code?

file a bug. Fixed in 1.5, according to Jan. It's the dammit-they-fixed-it-in-unstable bind. Here's my patch for /usr/share/evolution/1.4/ui/evolution-mail-message.xml to add reply-to-list as a keybinding to evo 1.4. ctrl-l is the new keybinding (already in 1.5) J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] ATTN: thaytan.. [Fwd: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender]

quote who=Conrad Parker On Sun, Feb 22, 2004 at 01:35:28PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 01:45, Jan Schmidt wrote: Hi Rob, =20 There's a new speex file at http://masher.homeip.net/~jan/down/robc- arch.spx that you can fetch. Cool. So how do I get an ogg file

Re: [SLUG] Compiere

On Fri, 2004-02-20 at 11:52 +1100, Andrew Cowie wrote: On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 15:14, Hal Ashburner wrote: Any thoughts on Sourceforge in general? Slow, too much promotion and advertisement clutter, difficult to use, stupid forums that don't map to mailing lists. But nevertheless

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