On 24 Mar 2015, at 23:09, Voytek li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
Is there any advantage in getting Apple optical drive over a third party
optical drive?
I solved that conundrum by not using an optical drive at all (I don’t even miss
it), so I’m afraid I have no opinion there.
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On 24/03/15 14:02, Voytek wrote:
Someone had asked me for Mac Air advice, know nothing about Mac,
looking on Apple site, only choices I see is faster CPU, more RAM,
more storage.
more RAM and more storage, yes, is it worthwhile for a faster CUP?
Max out the RAM when you buy it because you
On 11/02/15 11:39, scott wrote: Try this:
sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
then
sudo dpkg --configure -a
Why are you suggesting the user _blindly_ wipe the sources.list.d directory?
That is irresponsible at best.
On 11/02/15 14:21, scott wrote:
The sources.list.d directory is almost
On 27/10/14 08:02, Ashley Maher wrote:
Opening a terminal and using vim is fine. However NetBeans IDE 8.0 is so
slow as to be unusable. Eclipse is totally out of the question.
Interesting. I had a similar experience with the Ubiquiti AirControl2 and
Cisco ASDM software, which is so slow as to
On 27/08/14 20:47, William Bennett wrote:
When last I used it, the command was dos2unix and I needed a dos
file line ends converted
When I mentioned this to a friend he sniffed and mentioned
Tyrannosaus rex.
Can anyone tell me what the latest command is, please?
I still use dos2unix and
On 27/07/14 19:50, William Bennett wrote:
I experienced the problem associated with the BCM 4313 802 Wireless Network
Adapter.
I did not have this problem with earlier versions of Ubuntu, presumably
because these versions had appropriate drivers for the adapter.
Does anyone know whether
On 28 Jun 2014, at 18:45, Jake Anderson ya...@vapourforge.com wrote:
I suggested to the myth devs that they change to innodb by default and was
basically laughed at
This is pretty common, and pretty indicative of the MythTV developers’ attitude
in general.
I once suggested they support
On 30/05/2014 16:36, li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
I have a user with with W7/TBird/IMAP on centos/dovecot 2.x server,
the user complains whilst he is composing lengthy emails he gets
'hour glass' over compose windows with some message about not being
able to save to draft folder,
he then powers off
On 23/05/2014 02:57, Rick Welykochy wrote:
I have a friend living in near jungle conditions in a small town
in the Philipines that wishes to span about 400m - 500m from
an Internet connection to his house in the bush.
Buy a pair of Ubiquiti NanoStation M5 units. Cheap as chips, easy
On 10 Feb 2014, at 10:08, Tom Worthington tom.worthing...@tomw.net.au wrote:
By the way, the situation is not as urgent as previous thought, as security
updates for XP will continue until the end of July of 2015:
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2451550,00.asp
Untrue — the article has
On 31/12/13 17:49, William Bennett wrote:
Question 1: If I download the latest Ubuntu to the thumb drive, will it
override ie., replace, the version already there, or will it sit next to
this version (assuming there’s room)? If it’s going to do this, it seems to
me that I’d better delete the
On 06/12/13 12:13, William Bennett wrote:
Can anyone tell me where I can get the latest (64 bit) Ubuntu, please?
Take your pick: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/
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On 24/11/2013 12:52, li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
Nov 21 09:25:39.035 /usr/sbin/amavisd[22499]: Net::Server: Binding to TCP port
10024 on host 127.0.0.1 with IPv4
Nov 21 09:25:39.035 /usr/sbin/amavisd[22499]: (!)Net::Server:
2013/11/21-09:25:39 Can't connect to TCP port 10024 on 127.0.0.1
On 6/11/2013 17:01, Jiří Baum wrote:
Can anyone tell me what it means when I get the error message Bogus
PPPoE length field (1502) a few hundred times a day, usually in
bunches? Always the same number, 1502, never any other.
Have you tried negotiating a differently sized MTU to see if it
On 5 Nov 2013, at 3:58 pm, Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
In addition it has also become clear that customers may also be able to
generate high IO load in a similar manner to this maintenance with the
potential to affect other clients systems. As a result we have now
implemented hard
On 01/11/13 21:56, li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
It only took them one week of on/off outages to arrive at that, I guess
they must've been very thorough in reviewing it.
and, about an hour AFTER I got that email, senior idiot phoned me to tell
me I've loaded vps in excess of it,s capacity.
So
On 13/09/2013 07:33, Ashley Maher wrote:
Is the coders list now defunct??
Certainly looks it. As such, I'd say coding questions are now on-topic
for this list. :-)
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On 02/06/13 10:01, Chris Barnes wrote:
come to think of it. the whole master/slave process of I2C would probably
make it terribly difficult to implement tcp/ip since each device would have
to be able to switch from slave to master to be able to send broadcasts
like arp requests, netbios name
On 02/06/13 21:52, Chris Barnes wrote:
Token ring would work.
Now, i wonder if anyone has already implemented token ring over i2c
under linux.
Just for clarity, I meant ‘token ring *type* approach’, not token ring
itself. Perhaps ‘round robin’ would have been clearer.
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On 07/04/13 17:28, Glen Turner wrote:
I really should update AUSCERT's AL1999-004
http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=80template=1 although apart
from updating the bogon list and adding IPv6 there's not really that
much which has changed in 13 years.
From the article you linked:
On 7/04/2013 10:00, Nigel Allen wrote:
I had been puzzling for a while why my combined mail/web/dns server
was getting slower and slower until I realised my mistake. I had
inadvertently left my named available for the entire world to do
recursive queries on.
This means your server was likely
On 07/04/13 10:58, Jake Anderson wrote:
Presumably the requests are generally coming from a limited subset of
addresses.
That's what I do for the email spammers.
We are not talking about e-mail spam. If you had been paying attention
in the last couple of weeks, you would have known that the
On 17/01/13 10:07, Tom Worthington wrote:
I chose the HP Pavilion DM1-4108AU ($368).
On 22/01/13 10:35, David Lyon wrote:
Alternatively, have you looked at using a Raspberry-PI.
Linux works fine on that.
Well that’s quite a 1:1 replacement, isn’t it?
(Not.)
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On 19/01/13 18:50, Chris Barnes wrote:
From what i understand about forking, a child can fork a child.
Correct.
So therefore calling fork() from within a child shouldnt return
zero...right?
A child can have a child, at which point it is a parent and child at the
same time.
I know both my
On 19/01/13 10:43, Del wrote:
More specifically: The parent gets the PID of the child process. So if
you need to fork a whole bunch of children and keep track of them, you
can read back the return result of fork() and then shove it in some kind
of array or structure. You can then send
On 20/10/2012, at 12:58 PM, Martin Visser martinvisse...@gmail.com wrote:
The antithesis of this is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
phenomenon
noted in the UK when the punters put on the kettle for a cuppa all at the
same during sporting matches and such.
Which reminds me of this
On 18/10/12 10:58, David Lyon wrote:
In the last few days, I've been reading studies showing that
average power consumption of a PC is about 12W. Which
is not incredibly high.
Makes me wonder how much I’m killing the planet with the 700W power
supply in my PC.
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On 19/08/2012, at 9:50 AM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.
(Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)
That error occurs when trying to access a HTTP URL with https://. Not sure
exactly what would have happened in that circumstance,
On 17/08/12 07:08, li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
I think HP server utility is restricted to run localhost only ? I've
tried editing HP's conf 'localhost:3128' to '*:3128', that didn't
work either
Try changing the localhost to 0.0.0.0. Don't forget to restart the
management app afterwards.
On
On 15/08/12 21:13, Jake Anderson wrote:
What I'm after is some kind of online training course [...] Arguments
over intelligence vs experience not withstanding these people have
used a computer for the past 10-25 years and don't know how to drag
and drop.
If they haven’t learnt in the last
On 21/07/12 15:40, Amos Shapira wrote:
(Writing from phone so can't test)
It should be something like:
sed -r -e 's/\[[0-9]{1,2}\]//g'
Now that's just showing off.
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Thus spake Heracles:
Firstly check the set-up in your network manager. You may have
accidentally replaced your old configuration file with the new network
configuration file provided by the developer and may need to go through
the set-up process again.
I have no idea what the above means. Can
On 2/02/12 20:42, Rod Butcher wrote:
Are there any things they can't do or can't connect to/interface with,
which other proprietary systems can ?
Not really, all there are lots of things it can't do that an open system
can.
Like logging in as root. Or, y'know, compiling the whole OS from
On 1/02/12 13:09, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
I was one of the people who originally asked for the coder's list
and now I'd like to suggest that it is time to shut it down.
As Matt Mullenweg once quoted, [0]
Pruning is an important and necessary step in growing roses. Pruning
keeps the
On 16/12/11 09:58, Jake Anderson wrote:
You should be using TRIM on everything that touches the disk, otherwise
it'll keep filling up its empty blocks table with stuff from your swap
writes.
Thanks for the tip.
I've now edited my /etc/fstab to include the 'discard' option for ext4
on my
Thus spake Tom Worthington:
with Linux taking up about 20 GB
Cripes — what are you filling it up with?
My fully loaded desktop PC which is pretty much a workhorse that hasn’t
been reinstalled since, gosh, 2008 or so (thus has a lot of cruft), uses
11GB on / (which includes everything except
Hi Patrick,
Thus spake elliott-brennan:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.12
netmask 255.255.255.0
gateway 192.168.0.1
The above is correct (I assume eth0 is the interface you are trying to
configure).
Dumb question, but have you tried
Thus spake Voytek Eymont:
I have userid/password to an aspx based website,
what can I use to script a login and get info or monitor for new info on a
page ?
is wget the way to go for aspx site, or what's a good tool for that ?
Depends on how you log on to the site. Nothing fancy about aspx,
On 14/11/2011, at 12:22, Rod Butcher wrote:
the unit manager and team leader were
god, and screens had to be and remain exactly as they had agreed with IT -
every button key must keep working as specified. stay in the same place
etc. Nothing to do with being dumbed down, but all to do with
On 14/11/2011, at 16:30, Glen Turner wrote:
- GNOME3 - 4 - Activities | Applications | Office | LibreOffice Writer
Activities doesn't count as a mouse click — it's a hot corner. Indeed, it's
*more* efficient than a mouse click, as you just thrust your mouse in the
general direction of the
On 13/11/2011, at 17:59, Simon Rumble wrote:
The problem here is that with Gnome3 (and they started this attitude in
Gnome2), they make it very difficult to do things any way other than the
default.
I work in tech support, doing a lot of phone support for non-technical users.
Let me tell you,
On 12/11/2011, at 22:21, Simon Rumble wrote:
Gnome and Ubuntu have totally lost the plot. They seem to think removing
options is the key to usability. At this point the Windows 7 GUI is looking
good by comparison!
Those who forget history are bound to repeat it. People complained the same way
On 01/11/2011, at 13:06, Jake Anderson wrote:
On 11/01/2011 11:26 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
The problem, unfortunately is:
* Supporting 30+ connections on a single AP is doable;
* .. and the commercial APs do it;
* .. but that source isn't open source.
I think what jeremy is saying is whilst
On 31/10/2011, at 16:09, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
Does anyone know of any affordable wireless APs that can reliably
handle 30+ connections?
You'll find that Wi-Fi is fundamentally unsuitable to that many wireless
clients on a single AP (with chatty XO traffic, anyway), whatever hardware
Thus spake James Linder:
I just tried all the gnome options but was unable to get right-click
the panel (task bar) to offer the usual Add-Widgets etc.
That’s because the feature has been removed. GNOME Panel is but a shadow
of its former self.
Those suggesting that you use GNOME Classic are
I wish it was green.
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checking for fastcgi/fcgiapp.h... no
In this case:
apt-get install libfcgi-dev
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On 07/10/2011, at 19:11, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
On Friday 07 October 2011 08:47:49 james o'regan wrote:
I live in the bush, i unfortunately have to be with telstra next
g, phone mobile broadband usb.
for Mint and Kubuntu you can probably start with wicd and wi-fi radar.
Use 'apt-cache
On 05/10/2011, at 14:28, Voytek Eymont wrote:
www.name.com is the web host, so, do I set a www.name.com.au host with
permanent redirect ? or how ? (I used in the past httpd directive to point
both hosts at same http/path/to/index.html, though I'm not sure that is a
good idea ?)
Your hunch is
On 29/09/2011, at 12:41, David Lyon wrote:
They're definitely not so common in Australia, but in the middle east such
as Turkey (well half europe/half middle east) most people have phones like
that.
Basically, if half of your friends are on one network, the other half are on
another. So
Thus spake Jon Jermey:
I did try and get around that by having
VirtualBox start up and load virtualised Windows XP when the server was
switched on, but it all got too complicated and we had reliability
problems.
VirtualBox isn't really designed for headless server operation. Though
Thus spake gonzo01:
Under Windows XP ( a few years back) I used to run a gui prg ( cant
remember its name) that showed every incoming connection by IP, host
name and port - a bit like IPBlock in reverse.
gnome-nettool is the closest thing I know of, although that's just a GUI
wrapper to
On 22/09/2011, at 1:08 PM, James Linder wrote:
2) Use nautilus to 'connect to remote server'
Even fewer keystrokes, in Nautilus hit ^L (or anywhere in GNOME, hit Alt+F2
instead), and type 'ssh://yourserver.local'.
GNOME even makes the remote filesystem available to command-line apps via
On 07/09/2011, at 6:43 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote:
where would ethernet show up insertion ?
ifconfig?
lsusb?
What distro is this running on? If you plug it into a PC running a different
distro where it works, what kernel module does it use?
Does the other distro's kernel include that module?--
Thus spake Voytek Eymont:
once ip changes, will that propagate to my CNAME...?
Yes.
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Thus spake Voytek Eymont:
I have an older Dell Inspiron 700m laptop, I made a Linux USB boot system,
set BIOS to USB HD boot, Dell boots OK from USB, but, doesn't seem to see
the built in HD
Normally that should work fine. Sounds like a hardware problem to me.
Or, at the very least,
Thus spake grant_malcolm_bai...@westnet.com.au:
If there are any SLUG members in south-west Sydney I would be
grateful if you could advise me as to the best options for continuing
to host my site.
If your needs are simple, you would probably be well served by one of
the numerous web hosting
Thus spake Steven Tucker:
For some reason there is a huge issue with Kubuntu and his hardware that
I have given up trying to fix, so I have installed Debian (wheezy) and
we both absolutely love it. The problem is it does not come with
something like software center on KDE, and he is not about
Thus spake Steven Tucker:
If Kubuntu ran on his machine this thread probably would not have
occurred. The part I think you may have missed above was the line
For some reason there is a huge issue with Kubuntu and his hardware
that I have given up trying to fix, so I have installed Debian
/me
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:23:18 +1000, Darren Gibbs dazzagi...@gmail.com
wrote:
My old email account, dagi...@gmail.com, has been hacked and stolen -
unfortunately, the mongrel who stole it also changed all the recovery
information so I can't recover it.
My suggestion is to fill this form out
James Polley said:
slug-sysadmins@ is a better contact address for problems like this.
Until someone borks the MX record next time round. ;-)
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David Lyon said:
The computers 'to-die-for' now, are no longer the Windows machines
but the Android and Apple computers.
Clearly, they both are Linux derivates.
...
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Thus spake K L:
1. that is one reason I want it gateway/router based as opposed to
host based. If he doesn't have the passwords to the gateway, he
can't mess with it.
I can picture the owl with the 'O RLY?' caption beneath it right now. In
this context, we need to make the use of the words
Hi Simon,
On 11/06/11 15:16, Simon Males wrote:
Quake 3 has being around for more then ten years. I bought an off the
shelf copy many moons ago and played successfully on Linux.
What is the recommend install process these days?
These days the official id Quake 3 release (1.32) runs rather
On 09/06/11 12:05, K L wrote:
I have thrice now wiped the entire disk and re-installed, including
physically zero-ing out the first 512 bytes (which I understand to be
the MBR) so I would've expected the re-installs to deal with that.
If you're 100% sure the BIOS is set to boot off the correct
david said:
Are there any gotchas if I just change my sources list and do a
dist-upgrade? This is a complicated desktop which would be a horror to
rebuild, so I really would rather know any problems in advance
It’s not like even officially supported upgrade scenarios go remotely
smoothly.
Jake Anderson said:
A filter that blocks frequencies not used for voice could well
improve the SNR as delivered to the ear. (The ear being quite able to
hear frequencies outside the range of the PSTN).
ADSL uses frequencies above 25 kHz.
Human hearing can hear frequencies up to 20 kHz, while
Zenaan Harkness said:
Does anyone have on hand an xorg.conf modeline for a DELL U2410
running at max resolution of 1920x1200?
Or otherwise how can I calculate such a modeline from the monitor specs?
$ gtf 1920 1200 50
# 1920x1200 @ 50.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 61.75 kHz; pclk: 158.08 MHz
Ken Foskey said:
So I can totally remove the filter if only adsl connected? Phone is
on another socket on same line
Yes, absolutely. ADSL filters stop the voiceband devices interfering
with the modem, not vice versa.
On a splitter+filter, the phone plug goes through the filter, but the
ADSL
Hey mate,
gonzo01 said:
Line Attentuation Upstream 31.5
Line Attenuation Downstream 44.0
Are these figures reasonable?
They may be reasonable for your distance from the exchange. Either way,
44 dB attenuation is not my idea of fun whether it’s able to be improved
or not.
Havent found
Jon and Hannah said:
I've used scan (dvbscan) to generate channels.conf which has
everything in it, but I can't for the life of me work out how to get
myth to read that and use that as its channel list. I've tried
google, and it just says import channels.conf - well how?
Why didn’t you try
Daniel Pittman said:
I bet whatever device is doing NAT or firewalling on the outside of
your network is dropping the idle connection
I would take the conntrack line of thought as Daniel suggests. Leading
on from that: Simon, did you change your router as a result of the
connection change?
elliott-brennan said:
...does this mean that we will keep the same mailing list or will we
have to merge ours with LA?
What you are referring to has more to do with ‘SLUG the legal entity’,
rather than the technicalities. SLUG will always exist, whether an
independent legal entity, a
On 26/02/2011 7:31 PM, Steven McDonald wrote:
On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:33:22 +1100
Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name wrote:
/me dreams for a future of Vorbis over RTSP over IPv6
Amen to that. Unfortunately, it seems about as likely to happen as HURD
does. :(
On that tangent, does anybody
On 26/02/2011 4:49 PM, Nick Urbanik wrote:
Until last week, it was possible to access the streaming audio from
Radio National with something like
mplayer http://media3.abc.net.au/radionational
This no longer works.
The following works for me:
$ mplayer
On 26/02/2011 4:49 PM, Nick Urbanik wrote:
Does anyone know how to access the new stream with mplayer or the
like?
In addition to the info in my previous e-mail, it looks like the ABC now
has a bunch of Shoutcast AAC+ and MP3 streams. While I'd love to see Ogg
Vorbis streams, you've got to give
Jim Donovan said:
A client who needs a server on which to run a Linux system. She
reports that both Dell and HP in their quotes for supplying a
suitable box insist that licences are required before the server can
be connected to another computer. Apparently different licences are
needed for
Peter Chubb said:
as root, do
lspci -v
It'll tell you which driver module is associated with each PCI device.
Bikeshed issue, but can I suggest:
$ lspci -k
It also shows what kernel module is associated with the device, but
without all the other verbose fluff.
Case in point, this:
elliott-brennan said:
Bugger. It was too late when I noticed the time.
Is there somewhere one can download it from?
Yeah. I also had MythTV scheduled to record it, but slept in that
morning. Surely it's on somebody else's MythTV somewhere...
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Voytek Eymont said:
I just discovered I have 'ipkg' on it, that should make things simpler
(for me) ?
# ipkg-cl --version
ipkg version 0.99.163
Hey that's pretty cool.
/tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1/REC # ipkg-cl install ncurses_5.7-1_mipsel.ipk
Installing ncurses (5.7-1) to root...
ipkg:
Jim Donovan said:
Commonwealth opens extra windows but only logs off in one of them;
you have to close the others by hand. Not that they will work after
logoff but it's lousy security.
I don't know what browser you use, but in Chromium I just typed
'netbank.com.au', logged in, and not a single
Voytek Eymont said:
/ # chroot
BusyBox v1.1.3 (2009.12.18-04:22+) multi-call binary
Usage: chroot NEWROOT [COMMAND...]
Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.
Yay!
guess not r/w ?:
/ # touch new1
touch: new1: Read-only file system
That's to be expected if you're writing
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 09:01 +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote:
I have a media player (Noontec) with ethernet, I can telnet to it as below.
how would I go about to get say 'mc' on it ?
do I search for binary build for mips ? realtek ?
Is the root filesystem read/write or read-only? Can you write to it
Hi Jon,
Jon Jermey said:
I'm currently running Windows XP for work in VirtualBox under Mint, and
it is usable but sluggish. I'm in the market for a new PC and one of the
options is to get one with hardware-assisted virtualization. Can anyone
comment from personal experience on whether this
wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au said:
I cannot find the .tgz file. I can only find
CptCrosswords-1.2.Linix.x86.tar at
http://freshmeat.net/projects/cpt-crosswords
Not sure what went wrong there. I clicked ‘Download’, and I got the .tgz
file. I know Internet Explorer 7 likes to de-gzip tar files
wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au said:
If I have an application that I wish to install --- a crossword compiler
in this case and I have the download on the desktop --- it's a .tgz file
--- is there an apt-get command 9or variation) that will install it?
Not really. The standard ./configure make
Josh Smith said:
Can Linux have trouble booting if there is bad sectors on the disk.
Definitely. No operating system in the world has mental telepathy. Every
OS boots based on the data the disk gives it, and if the disk doesn’t
give the right data, no amount of Open Source Magic™ or Reality
wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au said:
I was looking for a program that would clean up the hard drive, ie.,find
any scraps unconnected to anything and delete them.
Sounds like a solution looking for a problem. Have you any evidence that
is taking place at all?
(P.S. All versions of fsck since
james said:
Guys can anybody suggest a www host service that works.
DreamHost. Easy to deal with, responsive free support, and servers that
are quick and snappy.
http://dreamhost.com/
Supports all the bog standard LAMP stuff, including all your favourite
PHP modules, and they are incredibly
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 22:06 +1000, elliott-brennan wrote:
The missus has a Blackberry Bold (about 10 months
old) with a big data allowance.
I'm trying to tether the bugger and have tried a
number of approaches:
Have you tried seeing if it appears in the network-manager menu? A few
mobile
Sharon Doig said:
Perhaps you can help me with my question. I know there are networks for
Librarians that advertise jobs as well as information on seminars. Does this
exist for IT Professionals? I am interested in networks for NSW/ACT region.
Any
heads up appreciated.
You're probably
Jan Schmidt said:
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
Metacity compositing yes. Compiz compositing no.
Given that Chris
Erik de Castro Lopo said:
When I power up the machine, the login screen comes up correctly at
1280x800 resolution, but when I login it switches to 1024x767 for no
good reason.
$ rm .config/monitors.xml
Cheers,
Jeremy.
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On 16/06/10 10:41, Simon Rumble wrote:
So I watch telly through MythTV and apparently you can silence the terrible
drone on the World Cup broadcasts with some simple parametric EQ filters.
Any ideas how I'd do that on my Mythbuntu machine? Ideally without delving
into Linux audio config file
On 06/06/10 20:10, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
If I send email from a gmail account with the word 'casino' in the
subject line, the email is rejected and the gmail account gets a
'Delivery Status Notification' message.
However, even with all the above, I'm still getting emails with
'casino'
On 15/04/10 19:08, jam wrote:
Autologin and I get invited to enter the wallet password to enable
the wireless. How do I do away with that, to have nm automatically
start?
Applications Passwords and Encryption Keys
Right click on Passwords: login, click Change Password, type your old
On 06/04/10 07:25, Alan L Tyree wrote:
I personally think it is something that everyone should know. At least
according to the Herald article, such advice will be illegal (!) after
Chancellor Conroy is finished with us.
The easiest way is with SSH.
$ ssh -D 9000
On 29/03/10 20:58, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote:
How is this done? I'd rather not wipe the operative kernel by mistake.
This is done simply by removing the corresponding linux-image-X package.
Usually, they're also removed from the repository (and thus become
local) when the kernel is
On 28/03/10 14:23, Martin Visser wrote:
For instance, Internode provide unmetered content to their customers,
one of which is the ABC iView service. However at least in some part,
probably because of the use of content-delivery networks, Internode
ask to make you use their DNS.
iView uses the
On 27/03/10 21:37, Ashley Maher wrote:
So I entered the Bigpond dns servers for NSW, Queensland and Victoria
into network manager. This creates a nice shiny /etc/resolv.conf that
looks correct when ever the connection is made into the telstra network.
I use '8.8.8.8' as my DNS resolver in
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