On Mon, 2011-09-26 at 17:24 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
There is little change of any WYSIWYG documentation package
to ever catch up.
See LyX for a more-or-less functional WYSIWYG frontend to LaTeX.
http://www.lyx.org/
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To answer OP's question, my Linux mail server uses spamassassin and ESET
for filtering. My Linux file server also periodically performs full
scans with ESET. I do not yet run any virus scanning on my desktop
though.
On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 11:30 +1000, Nick Andrew wrote:
On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at
On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 13:09 +1100, Martin Visser wrote:
I'm only an occasional SLUGger, but am interested in the outcome of last
Friday's meeting. Anyone care to post a summary?
The minutes from the EGM were recorded at
http://wiki.slug.org.au/2011egmminutes .
Looks like minutes from the AGM
And in case this hasn't been answered enough, yet, the kernel module
itself should log the interfaces it's handling when it loads. That will
turn up in the kernel logs (RH places kernel logs from the last boot
in /var/log/dmesg , or it'll be in /var/log/messages , or just run
`dmesg`); just grep
On Fri, 2010-11-19 at 15:25 +1100, david wrote:
Is it possible to use MondoRescue or some other software to clone the
server hard drive, preferably without shutting it down, and then create
a virtual machine from the resulting image?
If you don't mind free-as-in-beer, we've used VMWare's
On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 16:56 +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote:
...but the real question is if we love or hate the GMT/UTC difference, and
23:59:61?
Daniel
Also, do we hate the earthquake that changed the length of the day for messing
with our time-keeping?
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 09:55 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote:
http://www.cacti.net/ (Language PHP)
Cacti is a complete network graphing solution...
I found cacti to have a surprisingly steep learning curve, figuring out
how the data sources and input methods and queries work. But it's a very
very
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 09:47 +1100, Peter Chubb wrote:
I bought an Acer Aspire One a year ago, and am still happy.
+1 on the Aspire One. I have one that I picked up, oh, maybe 18 months
ago and it's been my main PC since. Unlike Peter I bought a model with a
hard drive, which is no worse than any
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 22:07 +1100, david wrote:
Does fstab allow for two UUID's having the same mount point thus:
UUID=2e7c5578-933a-4b09-a89d-14b6be718fe5 /mnt/BACKUP ext4 defaults 0 0
UUID=b007bc41-0280-48d5-b958-9160092e3d44 /mnt/BACKUP ext4 defaults 0 0
Yes. Have you tried it yet? :-)
FAT32 is easily usable by both Windows and Linux. But it suffers from
the same shortcomings Peter mentioned. It has no concept at all of file
permissions, so copying anything to it is going to result in the
destination having permissions set to whatever the default is for that
mount point.
On
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 15:22 +1100, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote:
ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1147685
which is headed How to install modem ZTE MF626 HSDPA in Jaunty.
It involves getting the latest modeswitch, installing same and then
editing it to recognise a modem.
This is
Hey hey.
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 20:44 -0800, j blrown wrote:
I've been looking at getting a wireless Broadband Prepaid kit from
either Vodaphone,Optus or Bigpond.
I have experience with Vodafone and Bigpond post-paid wireless broadband
on Ubuntu 9.04.
The Vodafone dongle works fine. Plugged it
Ken Foskey wrote:
Looking at installable packages we have:
multisync0.90 - PIM Synchronization Tool
opensync-plugin-syncml - Opensync SyncML plugin
opensync-plugin-evolution - Evolution plugin for opensync
There is a requirement for a syncml server in order to synchronise. Is
there an
On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 14:10 +1000, Mary Gardiner wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008, Voytek Eymont wrote:
is there any req on me having an 'apache@' address if I'm sending
emails as such ?
(i.e., who misconfigured their server ?)
Sender address verification is a fairly common anti-spam
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 11:07 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
Peter Hardy wrote:
Hey hey.
On Wed, Michael Lake wrote:
apt-get remove $PACKAGENAME doesn't work for you?
The above won't remove a package if there are dependencies.
It should. What version of debian / apt do you have
Can anybody recommend a USB adaptor that provides four serial ports and
works well in Linux? I used to have one of these beasts driving four GSM
modems, with kannel used to send and receive SMS. It's recently died,
though, and finding a replacement is problematic.
I've been toying with a Quatech
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 09:39 +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
I'm trying to put together a basic script to get 'on demand' traffic info
to my handheld, all commands more or less work as desired, but, I would
like to make a 'proper script' out of it:
I guess I should put the 'temp' files in
I've managed to avoid taking part in this thread to date, mostly because
enough people have been beating the FOR THE LOVE OF GOD USE YOUR
DISTRIBUTION'S PACKAGES drum. And I'm not entirely sure this even
dignifies a response but hey, why not.
On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 10:06 +0800, jam wrote:
Clarke
Hey hey.
Alex Samad wrote:
I am looking at putting together a file server for the house. looking
for a case that would support 4 (or 6) drives, the motherboard needs to
have 4-6 sata connectors (and maybe 2 esata connectors on the outside
and a gig eth (2 would be good), I am presuming a
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 14:35 +1000, DaZZa wrote:
Anyone know if there is a default minimum username length for some (or
all) current Linux distros?
I have a vague recall from somewhere it's 4 characters minimum - but
can't find any documentation to back this up.
My copy of O'Reilly's
On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 09:24 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote:
Just in case anyone missed it, there's been a major vulnerability for
any SSH keys generated on a debian system over the last two years or
so ... apparently the random number generator wasn't being seeded
right, so only a few distinct keys
Hey hey.
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 21:48 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
I want to install Fedora in a qemu VM for testing purposes. Since
I'm after a pretty mininal install I'm looking for something like
the 150Meg Debian netinst images, but all I can seem to find is
3+ Gig ISOs and rescue
On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 13:40 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
I am looking for a cheap data storage solution for many people. The
requirements are as follows:
* CHEAP (very important)
* storage space isn't important - maybe a couple of hundred kilobytes max.
* media can be lost and replaced
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 15:06 +1000, david wrote:
while inotifywait -e close somefile ; do
lots of stuff
rm foo/*.tif
done
The problem is that i need to make sure that foo/*.tif have closed
before I remove them, or strange things happen.
I don't know what the names of the
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 16:49 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 12:46:12 +0900, jam [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Using a fresh install of Gutsy, and having apt-get install openssh-server
he tunnels to me
ssh -R 1200:localhost:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I then go back the tunnel to
On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 18:48 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
Easiest way is to turn off StrictHostKeyChecking for localhost. Add this
to the end of your ~/ssh/config
Host localhost
StrictHostKeyChecking no
Erm, that should be in ~/.ssh/config , natch.
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On Mon, 2008-03-24 at 19:02 +1100, Richard Hayes wrote:
I am trying to connect a phone to my box. I can scan and identify both
the phone and computer but it looks like I need to create a 'shared
secret' for the wireless connection similar to a wifi link.
*snip*
The answers you seek lie in
On Mon, 2008-03-17 at 17:58 +0900, Hasnain wrote:
Is there anyway how to find which process is holding a tcp port in linux?
Say for instance, i checked
netstat -a |grep ###. but i dont know which process has opened or hold that
port currently. Is there anyway to find out this?
Nobody has
So, I have a sound card with a CM8738 chipset, that I picked up from
Dick Smith fairly cheaply. I'm using it with a set of Logitech 5.1
surround speakers, with plain old analogue connections (three 3.5mm
stereo connections).
This all sounds great, and the driver works reasonably well. But the
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Hi all,
I'm on Hardy Heron and like Jeremy, I have been suffering from
ugly fonts:
http://jeremy.visser.name/2008/03/ugly-fonts-in-hardy
In the comments to Jeremy's blog post Lindsay said:
System - Preferences - Appearance, click on the Fonts tab.
You’ll
I call shenanigans!
On Thu, 2008-03-06 at 16:22 +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
Don't stop there!
You probably mean bits not b(ytes) and mebi not mega,
so it's
108 Mibit/s
1) It's mibi not mebi.
2) The same standard that defines mibi- as a prefix (IEEE 1541 [1])
specifies that b is the
Hey hey.
On Thu, 2008-02-28 at 23:11 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Can anybody recommend an ADSL modem that does up to an including
ADSL2+, is Linux friendly and easy to set up in bridging or half
bridging mode? It would also be nice if the adminstrative functions
were still accessible
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 00:52 +1100, aggeyl wrote:
3. Find a way to be able to reinstall Xandros so I can try other
operating systems. Well, not try them so much as install Fluxbuntu or
Xubuntu. But I want to have Xandros on hand in case it doesn't work.
BTW, Xandros is not a bad OS. I'm not
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 16:52 +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote:
Anyone had a play with the Asus micro laptop?
Described here: http://tinyurl.com/ynnn9c
It runs some form of Linux, has no HDD, just 4 GB of flash.
Sounds ideal for travel ... but perhaps the 7 screen is
a bit too small.
Going
On Fri, 2008-02-22 at 18:14 +1100, Martin Visser wrote:
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 5:55 PM, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The screen resolution
is 1024x600.
All the doco says 800×480??
Sorry, brain fart.
It is indeed 800x480.
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On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 23:54 +1100, Bruce Bruen wrote:
On an entirely differnet theme.
Some time ago, it used to be possible to convince certain BIOS versions
that
they had a keyboard attached by shorting the PS/2 pins 3 4 with a 100K
resistor. Trying it today with a certain (Compaq
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 16:17 -0600, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 22:10 +1100, Rodolphe wrote:
Sonia Hamilton wrote:
Hi Rodolphe, welcome to Australia! By gnu/linux compliant internet
cafe, what do you mean? That they use Linux on their desktops (I don't
know of any),
Hey hey.
On Fri, 2008-01-18 at 09:59 +1030, Roger Symonds wrote:
I currently looking into Apache and am wondering if it can restrict the IP
Addresses it accepts incoming requests on, for a particular virtual host.
Apache has an absolutely mind-boggling array of ways to filter requests.
On
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 16:09 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
Here's a starting point. What's a more optimal way to perform this task? :-)
sed 's#[^,]*##g' input.txt | tr -d '\n' | wc -m
Tuesday afternoon shell optimisation party!
How do you want it optimised?
grep -o is the most readable. But
On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 17:05 +1100, Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
On Dec 18, 2007 4:35 PM, Martin Visser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
perl -e 'while(){$a+=s/[,]//g};print $a\n' input.txt
Ruby version:
I've got a sixpack of beer for a working PostScript variant. :-)
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Hey hey.
On Tue, 2007-11-27 at 13:28 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am not looking to create a flame war or anything like that.
Yeah, this seems very much at odds with the rest of your message. ;-)
The favourite distribution at the moment in South Africa is Ubuntu.
I would like to know
On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 12:03 +1100, David Peterson wrote:
Hi David
I also run vmware Win XP on linux and do the scp trick. I am wondering
whether there is an easier way to move files between my host FS and the
vmware instance, as it's a bit of a hassle using scp all the time.
Has anyone
Hey hey.
On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 00:36 +1100, Daryl Thompson wrote:
I have fedora install and wanting to Suspend the screen-saver from
starting when watching videos automatically when i start mplayer. is it
posable and if so what is the command or command base
I'm not 100% sure if Fedora is
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 14:13 +0900, jam wrote:
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 12:00 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to bounce mail with evolution (gutsy) as
per
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ResendingMailWithHeaders
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 10:15 +0900, jam wrote:
Hi
rant I find kmail to be the best featured mailer, I just crashes, usually
when searching :-( /rant
I want to bounce mail with evolution (gutsy) as per
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ResendingMailWithHeaders
Anybody able to offer any
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 10:21 +0900, jam wrote:
On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 12:00 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to bounce mail with evolution (gutsy) as per
http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/ResendingMailWithHeaders
Anybody able to offer any help?
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 17:05 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
configure
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking whether build environment is sane... yes
checking whether make sets ${MAKE}... yes
checking for working aclocal... missing
checking for working
On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 18:52 +1000, david wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/testdir $ cat test
1
2
3
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/testdir $ sed s/1\n/1/g test
1
2
3
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test/testdir $
The output I would have liked would be:
12
3
but sed doesn't seem to work like
On Sat, 2007-09-29 at 16:04 +1000, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
http://code.google.com/p/enchanter/
This is a java app.
Enchanter is a small library that helps you script
SSH sessions in a manner similar to Expect. It comes
in multiple flavors that support different scripting
What James said, with the addendum that my venerable old WRT54G also
runs OpenWRT quite nicely. But it's gone through a few hardware
revisions since I bought mine, and from memory the newer ones might have
issues.
It's probably worth checking the website before putting money in to it.
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On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 12:56 +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
I want to (as a simple example) update my password on n *nix machines
using the passwd command, which prompts me to enter my old password then
new password twice. With expect I can automatically feed in the old and
new passwords when
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 12:36 +1000, Del wrote:
James Dumay wrote:
It has not been delisted yet and the decision is subject to appeal.
So they have not been delisted from NASDAQ - apparently there is a certain
amount of time between filing chapter 11 and NASAQ delisting your company -
Just wondering if anybody's got any opinions about GanttPV
( http://www.pureviolet.net/ganttpv/ )? I'm particularly interested in
how well this integrates with MS Project, as well as how easy it is for
Project users to switch. The article I found GanttPV through
(
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 20:53 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a complete novice when it comes to setting up networks, and I'm
running an ADSL router (D-Link 504T) on Ubuntu 6.06LTS (Drapper?). Turning
of my firewall, through Firestarte, doesn't help. I wouldn't have a glue
how to setup the
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 10:09 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
'Description: The stone put, or clachneart, involves putting the stone as
far as
possible. The stone must be put; i.e. like in the shot put; the stone may not
be
thrown from behind like a baseball, underarm like a softball, or
Hey hey.
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 11:58 +1000, Scott Waller wrote:
*snip*
The Acacia program uses iptables as it's back bone I guess, it also uses
ULOGD to log the traffic.
EG log file
fw acacia E violation: IN=ppp0 OUT= MAC=(null) SRC=66.124.120.195
DST=220.245.83.141 LEN=163 TOS=00
On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 10:17 +1000, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
My knoppix/grup startup reports a couple of errors, which I have been happy
to
live with until now... however, I would like to look into them but am not
sure
how to capture the error messages before they fly by and KDE starts
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 17:35 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote:
However, I've got no sound, and this might be about the dumbest question
to ask, but do I have to connect the sound output on the capture card to
the sound on the mobo somewhere (it has integrated sound). The capture
card is a plain
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 10:02 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've looked in the obvious places, without joy.
How would I make f-spot's mailer thunderbird, not evolution
Looked in GNOME's Preferred Applications app? It's in the System -
Preferences menu, and apparently called
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 15:45 +1000, Del wrote:
I thought about participating with some hands-on fedora directory server
stuff but since the aim was mostly to play with desktop apps and not server
ones I decided against it. I may drop by during the day, though, and perhaps
I'll save the
Hey hey.
Because it's been about a year since this last came up on the SLUG list,
and because I have a need for something like this soon, I'd be
interested to hear what people are using for groupware these days.
I'd like something that can share contacts / calendars / tasks across a
fairly mixed
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 17:36 +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 16:24 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
I've also looked at Scalix in the best, and like what I see. My only
issue with it so far is that I'd prefer to keep my existing mail
infrastructure. Is it possible
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 21:21 +1000, Steven Tucker wrote:
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 16:24 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
I'd like something that can share contacts / calendars / tasks across a
fairly mixed environment - evolution, thunderbird and sunbird/lightning
on Windows and Linux, and Outlook
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 13:58 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
For full colour profiling, you should start by checking out little
cms[2]. It provides utilities to help generate ICC colour profiles,
which individual image editors are expected to know how to read (more
often than not, they also use lcms
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 16:14 +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote:
I have investigated this a bit further and extracted more information
using glxinfo.
*snip*
The problem seems to be:-
libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so
libGL error: dlopen /usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so failed
I shoot with analogue gear, and very rarely do any post-processing. But
hopefully I can throw a few useful pointers out there.
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 23:29 +1000, Sharon Doig wrote:
I am a photography student at ANU. Issues with colour management has
come up recently in my work flow. I want to
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 13:05 +1000, Peter Miller wrote:
Does anyone know of a tool which walks all the files on your system, and
((any files which are not part of any package) or (files which are part
of a package and which have been changed, thinking here of config
files)) print the file name?
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 10:06 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/05/24/1716222
If you select Swap Writer, suspend2 will write all data to the swap
space, so make sure your swap is at least twice the amount of your RAM
in size. You can also select File Writer
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 16:54 +1100, Leslie Katz wrote:
On that tab, I'm able to select my default web browser. I've got the
Custom Web Browser button highlighted and a box into which I'm to put a
command. The command which appears is the full path to the Firefox
executable. I've tested that
Hey hey.
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 14:09 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
correct me if I'm wrong
vmstat is your friend. A figure consistently 0 for the so column
(swap out) often indicates problems. My understanding is the memory
manager in 2.6 will use a lot of swap on purpose.
/correct me if I'm
I'm a little puzzled by this:
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:50050844816352 188732 0 1566443165540
-/+ buffers/cache: 14941683510916
Swap: 10526161052616 0
Is this sort of usage normal?
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 05:22 +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Peter Hardy wrote:
Is this sort of usage normal? Filling a gigabyte of swap space while
just under 1.5GB of memory is going towards buffers seems odd to me. And
vmstat reports no usage of this swap
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:24 +1100, Zhasper wrote:
On 22/02/07, Peter Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a little puzzled by this:
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem:50050844816352 188732 0 1566443165540
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 16:24 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
It's recommended that your swap space should be 2x your RAM. In your
case it's .2x
Has anybody seriously made such a recommendation this millenium?
In my experience, the formula doesn't really scale at all. I suppose, in
certain
Hey hey.
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:24 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
I have a number machines sitting in another country with access to
them via a VPN. On one of these machines host www.google.com
returns valid IP addresses, but wget www.google.com results in
Resolving
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:50 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Peter Hardy wrote:
How is your /etc/nsswitch.conf ?
Sorry, should have mentioned that I already looked at this.
This file controls how name resolution for different things is done. A
default Linux install will most likely
Howard Lowndes wrote:
I've just watched a preview of Vista on the Seven Sunrise program and
^ ^
Your reasoning has a fatal flaw.
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Alan L Tyree wrote:
It fails with all programs.
The problem is that the DISPLAY variable is not getting set. After
logging into both machines with ssh -X machine_name
-
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $DISPLAY
localhost:10.0 ** Ubuntu machine where everything
david wrote:
A directory with files of unknown names.
I want to rename each seperate file with it's date/time thus:
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 105 2007-01-19 11:20 test
becomes
-rw-r--r-- 1 david david 105 2007-01-19 11:20 200701191120
I've been messing with it for a few hours, and I'm sure
Peter Hardy wrote:
for file in `ls`; do
date=`ls -l --time-style=long-iso $file | awk '{ print $6 $7 }'
newname=`date -d $date +%Y%m%d%H%M`
mv $file $newname
Er, that should be awk '{ print $6 $7 }'
* Only partially tested. Your mileage liable to variance.
...told you so.
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Michael Chesterton wrote:
Here's my very minor contribution. If you change
for file in `ls`; do
to
for file in *; do
It should handle spaces
Oh, cool. I seem to recall having problems with the for file in *
construct, but I don't remember what they were, so I'll try it again
next time
Yo.
Tony Sceats wrote:
sounds like you want
tail -F log
or
tail --follow=name --retry log
Thanks Michael and Tony.
I did some tinkering with the -F option yesterday and, yeah, looks like
that one does the trick. Guess I misread the man page
never used the max-unchanged-stats argument
I have a script that uses `tail -f --max-unchanged-stats=5` to follow a
log file. The way I read the man page, --max-unchanged-stats will cause
tail to close and reopen the given file if it hasn't changed after 5
iterations. But after logrotate rotates the logfile, tail keeps watching
the old
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 03:10 +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
One thing I don't get about OLPC is their opposition to selling the
machines to people like us. It would increase their volumes and provide
a corpus of people making Cool Shittm for the machine. Sure, we're
not all educators, but
On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 19:37 +1100, Ben wrote:
I noticed there are no patches or modules released after early January
2006, but there are reports of things working on the mailing lists at
saillard.org
Hrmn. I hadn't checked how recent the saillard driver was. But, at least
on my model, it's
Ben wrote:
I'm after a couple of webcams with excellent low-light performance
(maybe even an infra-red option)
I've selected a Philips ToUCam II, which I got on eBay for $93ea.
including insured shipping, since they aren't available in Australia.
I have an older relative of the ToUCam, a
Peter Hardy wrote:
You can get the new driver from http://www.saillard.org/linux/pwc/ , and
it's also packaged for ubuntu (and probably debian) as pwc-source.
Install that, and you should find some documentation in
/usr/share/doc/pwc-source/ that will let you build a package and install
Sonia Hamilton wrote:
What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with
Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's Switching to VoIP) talks
about a Grandstream Budgetone - what's an Australian equivalent?
What about a recommended PCI card so Asterisk can communicate with
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Anyone know what package provides fglrx_dri.so?
Er, do you have xorg-driver-fglrx installed?
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Penedo wrote:
2. I use Skype to call overseas too but Skype requires me to seat in front
of my computer to talk to people and we virtually never hear it when people
call us (we have headsets both to keep the house quiter and to avoid
feedback loops). (Skype is supposed to support having the ring
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What I've lost is name virtual hosts. My router (dlink 604T) does suitable
virtual hosting, but all the necessary name information is lost before it
gets routed to apache2. ie router:80 - 192.168.1.254:80
Is there a way of hosting multiple sites with a router?
So,
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
In Xorg.0.log I find:
(II) LoadModule: GLcore
(II) Loading /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so
dlopen: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libGLcore.so: undefined symbol:
__glXLastContext
(EE) Failed to load
Ben wrote:
On 12/13/06, Nathan Eckenrode [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My wife and I are quite possibly moving to Sydney - maybe to Manly - in a
couple of months. I go to school online and need a high speed connection,
preferrably one with a static IP address, any recommendations for
which ISP
is
Thought I might throw this one out there, as I have no idea yet where to
even begin looking for information on it.
I have two ALSA devices; a sound card and a USB headset. Is there any
way to have sound input one one device routed and played via the other?
Specifically, I've got input coming in
O Plameras wrote:
The authority to associate NAME to ip address has to be propagated up to
the ROOT servers. You mean
to say that AARNET can do this without the express approval from the
owners of 203.7.132.1 ? NO, aarnet.edu.au cannot, otherwise it is against
the rules and perhaps against the
O Plameras wrote:
Ben Leslie wrote:
On Thu Dec 07, 2006 at 16:52:21 +1100, O Plameras wrote:
*snip*
I have first, second, and third editions. I have the third edition in
front of me.
The book covers the technical process. Unfortunately, it does not
cover the bureaucratic
processes. The
O Plameras wrote:
For a long time, I had wanted to ask: why use DHCP in home networks
when one can use STATIC ip (using private network ip addresses)?
Is it not that DHCP is mainly used in situations with the following
combinations of circumstances ?
1. Networks with large numbers of
O Plameras wrote:
Peter Hardy wrote:
O Plameras wrote:
4. Prevent customers of ISP from running WWW(FTP,MTA,etc) sites without
paying for fixed ip number(s).
Sorry? How does a dynamic address help here? Dynamic DNS services make
actually locating a service a snap. Only effective
John Clarke wrote:
I should have also said that if the dual-homed host has a static address
on eth1 then you should use SNAT instead of MASQUERADE:
iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -s 192.168.0.0/24 -o eth1 -j SNAT \
--to-source 10.0.0.1
Something that I've always wondered
Scott Waller (Lots of Watts) wrote:
and I want to let all the computers on eth0 network to talk to an
internet connection on the 10.0.0.1 network, how would I use iptables
and/or NAT to make this happen?
I have a theory but haven't tested it yet:
Why not? :-)
iptables -A FORWARD -j
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