[SLUG] Women's pre-SLUG meetup, Lindt Cafe, Darling Harbour, Fri Feb 29, 5:30pm

Hi all, We will have our regular women's meetup before SLUG this month. Feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be interested

[SLUG] Re: How do I relocate /home ?

On 2008-02-09, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [rsync] -av /home.orig/* /home/ (this will save symlink and > permissions and other stuff ) Some good practices with rsync: - if you've got doubt about the command line, run rsync -nv (+ other options) in order to get it to do a dry run (p

[SLUG] Re: Women's pre-SLUG meetup, Lindt Cafe, Darling Harbour, Fri Jan 25, 5:30pm

On Wed, Jan 16, 2008, Mary Gardiner wrote: > Date: Friday 25th January 2007 Sorry, this should say 2008! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Women's pre-SLUG meetup, Lindt Cafe, Darling Harbour, Fri Jan 25, 5:30pm

Hi all, We will have our regular women's meetup before SLUG this month. Feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be interested in coming. Date: Friday 25th January 2007 Time: 5:30-6:15pm Location: Lindt Chocolat Cafe, Shop 104–105, Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling

[SLUG] Re: Postfix configuration

OK! On Sat, Dec 01, 2007, Mary Gardiner wrote: > 1. mx.example.com should deliver mail for local users in the usual manner. > If local delivery is impossible (one case is when amavis, which is > specified as the content_filter, is down) it should queue it. This can probably be don

[SLUG] Re: Postfix configuration

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/postfix/2005-12/0669.html strongly suggests that I need to go into /etc/postfix/master.cf and add new transports (probably they don't need to be custom-written, just have different delivery options...). I'll post examples if I make this work. -Mary -- SLUG -

[SLUG] Postfix configuration

Can anyone guide me in the following Postfix configuration? mx.example.com has local users who receive mail, it is an MX for a particular domain AND it is a mail gateway for users of its network. 1. mx.example.com should deliver mail for local users in the usual manner. If local delivery is impos

[SLUG] Women's meetup before SLUG: Lindt Cafe, Darling Harbour, Fri Nov 30, 5:30pm

Hi all, We will have our regular women's meetup before the SLUG meeting this month. Feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be interested in coming. This month Melissa Draper is in town, so we will hear about her experiences presenting From "Equality to Diversity: The Road

[SLUG] Women's meet up before SLUG, Lindt Cafe, Darling Harbour, Fri Oct 26, 5:30pm

Hi all, As usual there will be a women's meetup before SLUG this month. Feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be interested in coming. Date: Friday 26th October 2007 Time: 5:30-6:15pm Location: Lindt Chocolat Cafe, Shop 104–105, Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling

[SLUG] Women's meet up before SLUG, Lindt Cafe, Darling Harbour, Fri Sep 28, 5:30pm

There will be the regular women's meet up before SLUG this month, feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be interested in coming. Date: Friday 28th September 2007 Time: 5:30-6:15pm Location: Lindt Chocolat Cafe, Shop 104–105, Cockle Bay Wharf, Darling Harbou

[SLUG] Women's meet up before SLUG, Fri Aug 31, 5:30pm

Hi all, *** PLEASE NOTE: due to the new venue for SLUG, the women's meet up is now also in the CBD *** All interested women are invited to a meet up in Sydney before the Sydney Linux User Group meeting this month. Feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be interested in com

[SLUG] linux.conf.au Call for Presentation closing soon (Friday 20 July)

Reminder: Are you planning on submitting a talk or tutorial for linux.conf.au 2008? http://linux.conf.au/presentations/announcement Get your submissions in by Friday 20th July. And for those of you concerned about the video option - please don't worry. It's entirely optional. We are aware that

Re: [SLUG] Women's meetup before SLUG: Fri June 29

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007, Pia Waugh wrote: > Hi Mary, > > > > > There will be the regular meetup of women before the SLUG meeting this > > month: feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be > > interested in coming. > > Added to the SLUG website. http://slug.org.au/node/76 Th

[SLUG] Women's meetup before SLUG: Fri June 29

Hi all, There will be the regular meetup of women before the SLUG meeting this month: feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be interested in coming. Date: Friday 29th June 2007 Time: 5:30-6:30pm (lateness is fine) Location: Olio, Shop 1, The Forum, St Leonards.

[SLUG] Open Source Developers' Conference 2007 - Brisbane - Call for Papers

(please feel free and encouraged to redistribute the text of this email anywhere you feel appropriate) Call for Papers --- Open Source Developers' Conference 2007 - Brisbane "Success in Development & Business" OSDC is a grass-roots conference providing Open Source developers with an

[SLUG] linux.conf.au 2008 calling for presentations

== linux.conf.au 2008 Call For Presentations == linux.conf.au isn't just a Linux conference. It is a technical conference about Free Software, held annually in Australasia. We invite submissions on any Free Software related subject; from Linux and the BSDs to OpenOffice.org, from networking to

[SLUG] Women's meet up before SLUG, Fri May 25

Hi all, Women Linux folks will meet in Sydney for an hour before the Sydney Linux User Group meeting this month. Feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be interested in coming. Date: Friday 25th May 2007 Time: 5:30-6:30pm (lateness is fine) Location: Olio, Shop 1, The

[SLUG] Women's meet up before SLUG, tomorrow Fri April 27

Hi all, There will be a women's meet up for an hour before the Sydney Linux User Group meeting this month. Feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be interested in coming. Date: Friday 27th April 2007 Time: 5:30-6:30pm (lateness is fine) Topic: We'll talk, I think, abo

[SLUG] Women's meet up before SLUG, Fri April 27

Hi all, There will be a women's meet up for an hour before the Sydney Linux User Group meeting this month. Feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be interested in coming. Date: Friday 27th April 2007 Time: 5:30-6:30pm (lateness is fine) Topic: We'll talk, I think, abo

[SLUG] Women's meet up before SLUG, TOMORROW Fri March 30

Hi all, There will be the usual women's meet up before the SLUG meeting this month. Feel free to forward this message to any women you think might be interested in coming. Date: Friday 30th March 2007 Time: 5:30-6:30pm (lateness is fine) Topic: Elena Akhmatova will talk about working as a co

[SLUG] Women's meetup before SLUG: March 30

The LinuxChix group will host the usual meet-up before SLUG this month, open to all women interested in Linux. Date: Friday 30th March 2007 Time: 5:30-6:30pm (lateness is fine) Cost: Free Topic: Elena Akhmatova will talk about working as a computer programmer in Russia, and about Ru

[SLUG] Women's pre-SLUG meeting: Friday 23 February 2007

Hi all, Each month before the SLUG meeting, there is a women's meet-up for coffee Women interested in Linux and Free Software are invited to come along. Time: 5:30-6:30pm (lateness is fine) Location: Olio, Shop 1, The Forum, St Leonard. The forum is the large courtyard/forum you en

[SLUG] AussieChix: the Australia-wide LinuxChix chapter

Hi everyone, An Australia-wide chapter of LinuxChix has formed, for women living in Australia who are interested in Linux and Free Software. More information is available on our website: http://au.linuxchix.org/ You can subscribe to our mailing list at: http://lists.au.linuxchix.org/lists/listin

[SLUG] SyPy Meetup Thursday February 1, 2007

See attached announcement. --- Begin Message --- This will be the second social gathering of Sydney Python Users Group for 2007 and any individuals interested in discussing Python, Web, Ruby, Perl etc. Laptops, code review, show and tell etc allowed and encouraged. We meet in the ground floor are

[SLUG] Women's meet-up before SLUG: Mon Jan 22, 2007

RSVP NOTE: Since we have visitors in town for linux.conf.au we would VERY MUCH APPRECIATE IT if everyone intending to come, including regulars, sent an RSVP, so that we have an idea of numbers. DATE CHANGE NOTE: This month's Sydney LinuxChix meeting is not in its regular slot. It is on MONDAY Janu

[SLUG] LinuxChix miniconference @ linux.conf.au 2007: Final schedule announced

Dear all, The LinuxChix miniconf @ linux.conf.au will be held Tuesday January 16 2007. All attendees of linux.conf.au, women AND men, are welcome to attend and to participate in discussion, but are asked to remember that the miniconf is women-oriented. All attendees, speakers and helpers at the L

[SLUG] Urgent call for discussion leaders for LinuxChix miniconf

Hi all, A speaker for the LinuxChix miniconf @ linux.conf.au 2007 has dropped out, leaving us needing to fill her slot. We are currently planning to run a Birds of a Feather style discussion session based around the topic "Getting What You Want: Women and Negotiation". This session will follow on

[SLUG] LinuxChix miniconf shirt orders have now closed

Sorry, but the deadline has now passed for miniconf shirt orders and we are not accepting any more orders. Anyone who had sent an order email by Jan 8, 10am Sydney time, will get a shirt, assuming that they pay quickly or have paid already. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] Women's meet-up before Sydney Linux Users Group, Mon Jan 22, 2007

NOTE: This month's women's meet-up has been moved to MONDAY January 22, because of the Australia Day public holiday. Jan 22 is the Monday immediately after the conclusion of linux.conf.au. Feel free to pass this on to any women coming to Sydney for linux.conf.au This month Taryn East will talk abo

[SLUG] Order now for Linuxchix Miniconf shirts @ LCA

Hi everyone, We will be selling both long and short sleeve t-shirts to attendees at the Linuxchix Miniconf in Sydney this month. The final shirt designs, including the colours, sizes and styles of the shirts can be found at: . There are sepa

[SLUG] Sydney Python New Year Social Meetup

- Forwarded message from Mark Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Mark Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Python-au] SyPy New Year Social Meetup Merry Christmas. It was suggested at OSDC that we should start 2007 as we intend to continue and since we plan to have a meeting on the first Thur

[SLUG] Re: [activities] Announce: 21st January SLUG meeting

On Thu, Dec 21, 2006, Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: > Date: 21st January 2006 (Monday after LCA) I hate to say it after you sent all those mails, but I'm pretty sure you mean Monday January *22*. January 21 2007 is a Sunday. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ S

[SLUG] LinuxChix women's miniconference at linux.conf.au

LinuxChix is holding a day long mini-conference as part of linux.conf.au at the University of New South Wales, from 15–20 January, 2007. Registration places are filling fast, and may sell out by the end of December or earlier, particularly if you want a ticket to the conference dinner. Remember to

[SLUG] Women's meet-up before Sydney Linux Users Group, Friday 24th November 2006

This month's women's pre-SLUG meetup will be in St Leonards: Time: 5:15-6:30pm (lateness is fine) Location: Olio, Shop 1, The Forum. The forum is the large courtyard/forum you enter when you leave the St Leonards train station. See

[SLUG] Reminder: Women's meetup before Sydney Linux Users Group: Friday 27th October

This month's women's pre-SLUG meetup for coffee and cake will be in St Leonards: Time: 5:15-6:30pm (lateness is fine) Location: Olio, Shop 1, The Forum. The forum is the large courtyard/forum you enter when you leave the St Leonards train station. See

[SLUG] Sydney LinuxChix meeting before SLUG, Friday 27th October 2006

This month's women's pre-SLUG meetup/Sydney LinuxChix meeting/coffee+cake will be in St Leonards: Time: 5:15-6:30pm (lateness is fine) Location: Olio, Shop 1, The Forum. The forum is the large courtyard/forum you enter when you leave the St Leonards train station.

[SLUG] Re-running X autoconfiguration on Ubuntu

The Internet at large thinks there are two ways to configure X on Ubuntu: 1. Autoconfiguration at the time of your install 2. dpkg-reconfigure xorg-server at any time, if you want to semi-manually configure things and answer a lot of semi-compehensible questions But is there any way to

[SLUG] Sydney Python Social Meetup

As per below. - Forwarded message from Mark Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 13:28:27 +1000 From: Mark Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Australasian Python Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Python-au] Sydney Python Social Meetup This Thursday October 5th from 6:30-8:30 pm,

[SLUG] Python User Group meeting, Thu 7th Sept

Or, so it seems from , it seems rather informally organised (and not by me, I just pass stuff on). The details are: Date: Thursday September 7 Time: 6:30pm Venue: Grace Hotel, 77 York

[SLUG] Seeking iptables interface-specific script

Is there a canonical way of writing interface specific iptables scripts? At the moment, I'm trying to write a couple of scripts with this behaviour to put in /etc/network/if[action].d/: - when lo comes up, add an iptables rule - when lo comes down, delete that same iptables rule Other rules, id

[SLUG] Re: [activities] Request For Venue: SLUG monthly meeting

On Fri, Aug 18, 2006, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: > So we're hoping that someone in the community can help us out. If you > know a venue, or work for a company than can organise a venue fitting > 40-100+ people, is close to public transport (trains especially), is > inexpensive (preferably free), and a

[SLUG] Web calendaring software

Anyone have any opinions about what the current market leader is in free software web calendaring? I'd like to install a calendar on my own system rather than, say, use the Google thing. Features desired: - all the usual calendaring stuff: all day events, repeated events on crazy schedules -

[SLUG] Sydney Python Meeting Thursday 27 July

As per the below announcement that went out to python-au - Forwarded message from Mark Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Mark Rees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Australasian Python Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [Python-au] Sydney Python Meeting Thursday 27 July Hi Everyone, The Sydney Pyt

[SLUG] Re: Automatic wireless profiles

On 2006-06-09, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > NM works on interfaces that aren't listed as well as interfaces that have a > complete auto/dhcp listing, like: > > auto eth1 > iface eth1 inet dhcp I had several listings along the lines of eth1-home, eth1-uni and such too :( Now, to fig

[SLUG] Re: Automatic wireless profiles

On 2006-06-09, Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I found that NetworkManager only did its thing on interfaces that > *weren'* otherwise defined in /etc/network/interfaces . Have you > commented out the eth0 and eth1 stanzas from there? That was the key: I discovered it via the aside in Jame

[SLUG] Re: Ubuntu : bypassing fsck when booting on battery

On 2006-06-08, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In what universe is 0 true and 1 false? > However, /etc/rcS.d/S30checkfs.sh does seem to be checking that 1 means battery, so that's not what's causing your system to fsck on battery. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] Re: Automatic wireless profiles

On 2006-06-08, Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.google.com.au/search?q=print_devices()%3A%20didn't%20get%20a%20reply%20from%20NetworkManager > returns only one result: > http://blog.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.general/day=20060508/page=2 >

[SLUG] Re: Ubuntu : bypassing fsck when booting on battery

On 2006-06-08, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Waugh wrote: > >> What happens when you do the above, when you're on battery? > > Not good: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > on_ac_power > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > echo $? > 1 If you were on battery running the above, that should

[SLUG] Re: Automatic wireless profiles

On 2006-06-08, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's exactly what NetworkManager does. :-) Plug in wired and you're on, > unplug, and it'll use your preferred wifi network (ie. one that you've > chosen before). Is it not doing this for you? Perhaps you're not actually > using NetworkManage

[SLUG] reportbug on Ubuntu (Re: Ubuntu verses Debian (pure))

On 2006-06-02, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One aspect where Debian has a definite advantage is the reportbug > utility and why that tool feels straight into the Debian bug tracking > tool. The reportbug utility is simply a mile ahead of any web based > bug entry tool. On ubunt

[SLUG] Re: SLUG on gmane.org

On 2006-05-31, "SLUG feeding spam to the world" wrote: > How long have you been using it? About a year, the period of time that I've been set "mail delivery off" on the SLUG list. I've known about it for much longer, given the existence of: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2002/09/msg00830.

[SLUG] Re: SLUG on gmane.org

On 2006-05-30, Terry Collins wrote: > Who was responsible for this bright idea? > If you are goingto start passing out the slug list in bulk to spammers, > I would like all address at woa-com-au pulled, please. I'm not sure who's reponsible, the gmane.org mirror dates back several years at least.

[SLUG] SLUG on gmane.org

Just for interests' sake, SLUG is also available via NNTP (Usenet news) on gmane.org for both posting and reading. This doesn't require registering for any accounts, but you will need to do a confirmation on the very first message you send. The NNTP server is news.gmane.org and here are the groups

[SLUG] Re: [activities] fwd: Free BBQ + Microsoft Seminar on Visual Studio 2005 & SQLServer 2005

On 2006-05-29, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Benno wrote: > >> Just so you know what we are up against... > > http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/activities/2006/05/msg00079.html > > Back on the main list because many people aren't on activities list. FWIW, activities isn't a

OSDC (Re: [SLUG] Snakes and Rubies?)

On Sun, May 21, 2006, Jeff Waugh wrote: > At which point, you're only a couple of steps away from making it an "Open > Source Developer's Club" [1] for Sydney folks. Thoughts? +1 basically. I think there is definitely a group of more language agnostic people about who aren't really attracted to a

Re: [SLUG] Snakes and Rubies?

On Sat, May 20, 2006, Michael Kedzierski wrote: > Hi all, > > Diazepam (Trent Murray) asked on IRC if anyone was interested in > restarting the old Python SIG again. For what it's worth, a Python Meetup was being organised by Alan Green throughout 2005 partly as a replacement for the Python SIG.

Re: [SLUG] Re: Software recommendations sought: jukebox

On Wed, May 10, 2006, Martin Pool wrote: > Yes, and flac. Anything that you can play on the server can be played, > so in practice anything but drm'd formats for which there is no free > implementation. Thanks, they actually look really cool; it's especially great that they have wifi capacity. I

[SLUG] Re: Software recommendations sought: jukebox

On 2006-05-10, Martin Pool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a Squeezebox (http://slimdevices.com/) and it works very well in > this kind of situation. It is rather biased towards listening > through the device attached to your stereo, although there are software > clients. The server and hard

[SLUG] Software recommendations sought: jukebox

We have a bunch of music files in our household, and for various reasons including disk space and only having one set of good speakers it would be good to play them from our one-box-to-rule-them-all (gateway, DNS, fileserver, mailserver) rather than from laptops. What's the jukebox software of choi

Re: [SLUG] Permission problems on linode (Ubuntu 5.10)

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > FWIW, Fedora4: > > $ grep -ir null /etc/udev/ > /etc/udev/rules.d/50-udev.rules:KERNEL=="null", MODE="0666" > > I guess this is the magic file that sets these things. > Does yours have the same? It's fixed as posted, but that line w

Re: [SLUG] Permission problems on linode (Ubuntu 5.10)

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006, Mary Gardiner wrote: > Since this upgrade, I am not getting the correct permissions on some > /dev nodes, in particular: > > # ls -l /dev/null > crw-rw 1 root root 1, 3 2006-04-30 11:54 /dev/null Completely purging udev and then reinstalling seems to hav

Re: [SLUG] Permission problems on linode (Ubuntu 5.10)

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > The other day I changed from using a 2.4 kernel to their 2.6 kernel: > > Can you try their 2.6.16 kernel and report back? (That's what I'm running, > it's finally TLS-happy too.) $ uname -a Linux [hostname] 2.6.16.1-linode18-bb1 #1 Fri Mar 31 12:3

Re: [SLUG] Permission problems on linode (Ubuntu 5.10)

On Sun, Apr 30, 2006, Michael Fox wrote: > On 4/30/06, Mary Gardiner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ># ls -l /dev/null > >crw-rw 1 root root 1, 3 2006-04-30 11:54 /dev/null > > It needs the rw other permission set, how you do that for a udev > device not sure (as

[SLUG] Permission problems on linode (Ubuntu 5.10)

Asking here because I know some other people use Linode. (For people who don't know, a Linode is a UML image provided by linode.com. One important thing to note is that using a Linode means I am using a kernel build of theirs, not a distro provided kernel. Nor do I have opportunity to build my own.

[SLUG] Re: SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

On 2006-04-07, Peter Chubb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Can you fix the way it doesn't failover properly as well? [snip] Well, possibly, but at the moment I'm completely unfamiliar with the codebase, so it's unlikely that we can do more than a couple of bigger changes in a day. -Mary -- SLUG

[SLUG] Re: SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

On Thu, Apr 06, 2006, Mary Gardiner wrote: > SLUG coders will be gathering together for a day of coding and talking > about coding. Andrew Bennetts and I will probably be poking at apt-proxy (the Twisted version) trying to work out things like "why does it use 200MB of memory?" I

[SLUG] SLUG codefest: this Sunday, 9th April

Hi all, A reminder about the codefest this coming Sunday. (If you have any questions for me personally, please make sure to Cc me, I am not subscribed to slug@slug.org.au). --- Event details --- SLUG coders will be gathering together for a day of coding and talking about coding. Date: Sun

[SLUG] SLUG codefest: 9th April

Hi all, SLUG coders will be gathering together for a day of coding and talking about coding. Date: Sunday April 9 2006 Location: TBA, likely UTS Broadway Time: Unfortunately this depends on the room booking, but let's say loosely 10am-6pm There will be short talks give

[SLUG] Re: Missing mouse cursor

On 2006-03-20, Russell Davie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If its a USB mouse unplug it and replug it. I find it works for the > usb mouse on this laptop I did; it did not work. Suspending and unsuspending the laptop did fix it. > This Acer has the same distro and about once a day the mouse curs

[SLUG] Re: Missing mouse cursor

On 2006-03-20, Simon Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What if you try reapplying the cursor theme from the mouse preference? It does not reappear, although it's not entirely clear what constitutes reapplying it. There is only one Mouse theme (Human), and it is already selected. I can't de-select

[SLUG] Missing mouse cursor

Hi all, I'm using Ubuntu Breezy/5.10 with what should be a fairly generic GNOME setup (a custom background, that's about it). Specifically, I don't recall making any changes whatsoever to it in the last week or so. As of this morning, when my laptop comes back from suspend or hibernate, I can't s

[SLUG] Volunteering for SLUG (Re: My Slug Report, 2005-2006)

[Cross-posting to activities for reasons that I hope are obvious after reading...] On 2006-03-13, Lindsay Holmwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Slug wiki was established, building upon the activities list by > giving people quick access to information about what's in the works for > Slug. Th

Re: [SLUG] Nominations page (Re: Nominations hotting up)

On Thu, Mar 09, 2006, Grant Parnell - slug wrote: > I felt that although the under 18's thing had been resolved there might be > other reasons but I guess we can always add it again later. There's been > no nominations anyway. I can certainly think of reasons why the committee might want to have

[SLUG] Nominations page (Re: Nominations hotting up)

On 2006-02-27, Grant Parnell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once again, I've updated the election page this morning... > http://www.slug.org.au/~grant/election.html A couple of suggestions for this page: 1. Can you put a strike through (HTML ) the entries for people who have declined a nominat

[SLUG] Debugging no data for the GNOME weather applet

Hi all, I have a Fedora Core 3 workstation and I like to use the weather applet to get a sense of the temperature outside. For the last couple of weeks, my weather applet hasn't worked: it has constantly shown a question mark instead of a weather icon and no temperature is shown. When I put the mo

[SLUG] Re: Debian

On 2005-09-27, Paul Maloney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I have finally got debian up and running, well in a text mode at > least. How do I got it to boot into graphics mode. thanks in > advance.Paul Installing the x-window-system package, which depends on pretty much all required applicatio

[SLUG] Re: local Ubuntu apt server

On 2005-09-27, Carlo Sogono <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I need to setup a local Ubuntu apt server but don't = know where to > start. I need something that syncs with official Ubuntu servers = but > I only want it to sync packages I define. Is this possible? I searched Google for "setting up a pa

[SLUG] Re: [Linux-aus] Linux Australia Update - Episode 2

On Sun, Aug 07, 2005, Pia Waugh wrote: > Quote James: > > http://glnlinear.sourceforge.net/laupdate_episode_2_20050806.ogg > > Just a warning, this fortnights file is a little large at 35 MB. > > Unforunately when I went to download it, it only got the first 25 mins of > the stream, the first ~25M

Re: [SLUG] Use of Linux Trade Mark in Australia

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005, Mary Gardiner wrote: > On Tue, Aug 02, 2005, Mary Gardiner wrote: > > If I see a thread there I will summarise for SLUG. And last but not least, Jeremy Malcolm's FAQ on the subject: http://www.ilaw.com.au/linuxfaq.html I will stop posting on this now, I tru

Re: [SLUG] Use of Linux Trade Mark in Australia

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005, Mary Gardiner wrote: > You may also want to ask about it directly on the linux-aus list, which > is their open list: http://lists.linux.org.au/listinfo/linux-aus > > If I see a thread there I will summarise for SLUG. As promised. This is a mail from the

Re: [SLUG] Use of Linux Trade Mark in Australia

On Tue, Aug 02, 2005, Michael Lake wrote: > Lets hope that Linux Aust wasn't really thinking of that. If they are > ditch them. Im sure some Linux Aust folks in SLUG can fill us in > better. You may also want to ask about it directly on the linux-aus list, which is their open list: http://lists.li

[SLUG] Re: [activities] this weeks meeting

On Sun, Apr 24, 2005, Robert Collins wrote: > We won't be able to break out to come to SLUG on friday ... as we're > working /hard/ - but perhaps SLUG would like to come over to UDU - Mark > has said we should be able to arrange a room, and anyone that comes over > is welcome to participate in the

[SLUG] Call for talk offers/talk ideas: May Codefest

Hey everyone, SLUG is having a codefest as per http://www.slug.org.au/events/detail.html?id=181 I've volunteered to organise some speakers for the day. I guess the idea will be for talks to be coder-oriented, demo oriented and fairly short. If you have a talk offer or a idea for a coding talk you

[SLUG] Re: Python Interest Group

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Hayes wrote: > Dear list, > > Is pig.slug doing anything? No. It hasn't met since early 2003 afaik. I updated http://pig.slug.org.au/ to that effect a few months ago, and now I've put it in red, since people missed it :) > If not, is there any other python

Re: [SLUG] St George banking (again...)

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > Thanks everyone for all your replies! Tony replied to me offlist, and > his solution worked - disable popup blocking altogethor. > > I'll email the maintainer of [1] so she can add it to her page (is this > the same Mary?). Yes it is. Thanks for the

[SLUG] Re: St George banking (again...)

On 2005-03-18, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > YASGQ (Yet Another St George Question): > > I can't get St George internet banking going, has anyone got this > working? Pointers on how to do it? In what way is it not working? I've seen several: 1. It crashes your browser (usually afte

[SLUG] Under 18 ctte members (Re: Nomination: Lindsay Holmwood)

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matthew Palmer wrote: > Having had a quick scroll through the Act, I can't actually see where the > restriction on committee members being under the age of 18 comes from. I > haven't recently read the SLUG constitution, but from memory there isn't > anything in ther

[SLUG] linux.conf.au early bird registration closes today

Just a note to people wanting to attend linux.conf.au (http://linux.conf.au/ !) in Canberra in April that if you want to receive the earlybird discount on your registration (the value of the discount is $100 for hobbyist registrations and $230 for professional registrations) you must have registere

[SLUG] Re: [activities] Community Code meeting at SLUG

On Fri, Jan 28, 2005, Mary Gardiner wrote: > Matthew Palmer is setting up a mailing list etc sometime tomorrow on > communitycode.org -- this discussion will move there from then on. The mailing list is now up at http://www.communitycode.org/mailman/listinfo/cc-talk it seems. Yay! -Mary --

[SLUG] Community Code meeting at SLUG

Hey folks, Here's my personal notes from the meeting we had at SLUG tonight about the community code project (that is, the project we're setting up to help Newstart recipients do mutual obligation work for Free Software, and to help others get involved in Free Software). Matthew Palmer is setting

Mutual obligation and Free Software work (Re: [SLUG] Work For The Dole)

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005, Adelle Hartley wrote: > Hi all. > > Has anyone thought of registering a non-profit organisation with Centrelink > so that newstart and youth allowance recipients could be contributing Open > Source code as part of their Mutual-Obligation/Work-For-The-Dole > requirements? For

[SLUG] Re: Re: Re: Work For The Dole

On Mon, Jan 24, 2005, Matthew Palmer wrote: > It wasn't high on my priority list, but I'll certainly make the effort to > come up for a discussion of this. Perhaps we could even make it the > sluglet? I guess that's up to the organisers... we could also discuss it during that slot in a third grou

Re: [SLUG] Re: Re: Work For The Dole

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005, Matthew Palmer wrote: > I propose the name "Community Code" for the project. The fact that I > registered 'communitycode.org' when I got home to host some resources > for my vision of things (before reading my SLUG list e-mail) has > nothing to do with my preference for that

Re: [SLUG] Re: Work For The Dole

On Sun, Jan 23, 2005, Terry Collins wrote: > I detect a misunderstanding. Correct me if I am wrong. > > AFAIK, all the mutual obligation activities (education, community, wftd, > etc) are available to Newstart (dole) recipients. I think we're all on the same page actually. My page reads: while yo

Re: [SLUG] Re: Work For The Dole

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005, Matthew Palmer wrote: > Since a WftD activity is supposed to be primarily about work > experience and not about training, you couldn't spend a lot of time > teaching the participants the skills of programming -- and considering > that I know a lot of CompSci graduates who coul

Re: [SLUG] Work For The Dole

On Sat, Jan 22, 2005, Adelle Hartley wrote: > Has anyone thought of registering a non-profit organisation with Centrelink > so that newstart and youth allowance recipients could be contributing Open > Source code as part of their Mutual-Obligation/Work-For-The-Dole > requirements? If there isn't a

Off-topicness (Re: [SLUG] For Sale: SGI Visual Workstation 540)

On Fri, Jan 21, 2005, Dean Hamstead wrote: > i dont want to make this more off topic than it need be. This kind of line signals a good time to either take the thread private or move it to slug-chat. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info an

Re: [SLUG] St George Internet Banking

Note for people tracking this: I tend to try and keep up with the latest developments at http://puzzling.org/computing/help/banking -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

FIXED: Re: [SLUG] clamav can't access files in /var/lib/amavis despite being in correct group

Never mind... On Wed, Jan 19, 2005, Mary Gardiner wrote: > Now Google very happily tells me that this happens when the clamav user > isn't in the amavis group because of this: ... > > Which is all well and good, except that the clamav user IS in the amavis > group: > # id

Re: [SLUG] clamav can't access files in /var/lib/amavis despite being in correct group

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005, Mary Gardiner wrote: > I have clamav-daemon running as my my virus scanner on Ubuntu Warty 4.10 > (clamav isn't Ubuntu supported software however, it's in their universe > repository). Sorry, to be precise, I have clamav-daemon running as the virus scanner

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