[SLUG] Debian Seperatists (was: LinuxChix chapter in Sydney)

2002-04-16 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
gunoo-lee-nucks sankyouverymooch. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Send email with subject send key pub for public key. Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. - Winston Churchill msg22565/pgp0.pgp

Re: [SLUG] Recommendations for offline HTML browsing ?

2002-04-02 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
be better solutions. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Send email with subject send key pub for public key. Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place. - Billy Crystal msg22170/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] mailing list software recommendations

2002-03-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
to be creative. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Send email with subject send key pub for public key. See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a penis, and only enough blood to run one at a time. - Robin Williams msg21843/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Maps of Sydney ...

2002-03-21 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
have a hard time convincing my grandmother why she should be paying for GIS data that you are going to use. Though I have a feeling there could be some very good (market-building, mainly) arguments in favour of free GIS data. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Illegal arrivals

Re: [SLUG] lynx's homepage?

2002-03-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
the developers know their own home page. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making. - Otto von Bismarck -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo

[SLUG] Encrypt whenever possible (mutt)

2002-03-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
way I can get mutt to check if a recipient exists on my public keyring and encrypt if they do? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Warning - Contains nuts! - On a packet of peanuts msg21721/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Cluesticks on testing USB scanner under Linux

2002-03-15 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Sat 16 Mar, Jeff Waugh bloviated thus: I've *never* seen a good USB or parallel scanner. Epson 660U. Works brilliantly, was a doddle to set up. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net A reactionary is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday

Re: A good troff book (was: RE: [SLUG] troff)

2002-03-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
to lay out a document that don't have you learning incredibly obscure commands and syntax. Troff has had its day. it's almost fast enough to do interactively. My point precisely. Use something that _IS_ interactive, or at least something that is a bit easier to learn. -- Rev Simon Rumble

Re: [SLUG] Another place to eat

2002-02-27 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Try www.austlii.edu.au if you want legislation. However this sounds like a regulatory kinda thing. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Think: In which world is speech most free: 1) A world where you can send single personal messages to anyone, but can't send multiple copies

[SLUG] Putting faster RAM in a machine that can't deal with it

2002-01-17 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
stuck it in and the machine wouldn't even get to POST beep stage. Is there some fundamental different between 66MHz and PC100/133 RAM that means I can't donate my spare RAM to him? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other

Re: [SLUG] Putting faster RAM in a machine that can't deal with it

2002-01-17 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
always thought it was pretty simple. Sadly my DDR mobo required more expensive RAM... Lucky I bought enough before the current price hike. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Isn't it strange that the same people that laugh at gypsy fortune tellers take economists seriously

[SLUG] Pine-style sent-mail folders in Mutt

2002-01-15 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
or similar before running Mutt again. -- Bruce -- Gllug mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://list.ftech.net/mailman/listinfo/gllug - End forwarded message - -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Imagine a very committed funeral home director, whose proudest

Re: [SLUG] (OT) M$ Dirt

2002-01-15 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
job winnuking his machine randomly 8) -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. - Winston Churchill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] VNC like it does in Windows

2002-01-14 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Think: In which world is speech most free: 1) A world where you can send single personal messages to anyone, but can't send multiple copies of the same message to people who haven't authorized you spending their resources that way. 2) A world where you

Re: [SLUG] VNC like it does in Windows

2002-01-14 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
/software/x0rfbserver/ Yeah I saw that but most of the links are broken. Will grab the binaries later and see if I can get it going. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed---they produced

Re: [SLUG] Crazy stuff with osd and procmail

2002-01-13 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
) in there for it to know where to stick the text. I use -b and -o 53 to get it just above KDE's bottom-bar thingy. Now Jeff, how would I get it to also put up the From address? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Think: In which world is speech most free: 1) A world where

Re: [SLUG] Umla?ten in dem Mutt index

2002-01-10 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
of things, but don't know how to do it. xterm, mutt and probably my ssh client from work (putty). Any pointers? Finally, I think mail headers need to be 8-bit clean so no extended characters hence the weird encoding of your umlaut. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Women might

[SLUG] Freenet 0.4: anyone got it working?

2002-01-07 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Has anyone managed to get Freenet 0.4 working? None of the seed nodes seem to respond. Ever! -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Why sir, there is every possibility that you will soon be able to tax it! - Michael Faraday 1791-1867: to Gladstone, when asked about

Re: [SLUG] audiogalaxy?

2001-12-28 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
you need a shares.txt with a full path to your share directory or directories, eg: /home/simon/mp3 Then you just run it with ./AGSatellite Also worth checking out http://agqt.sourceforge.net/ which lets you download whole albums. Very handy! -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net

[SLUG] How to apply kernel patches?

2001-12-26 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
So I want to toy around with the preemptible kernel patches (http://www.tech9.net/rml/linux/) but how do I actually apply them? I always thought patch was smart enough to work it out but it's having none of my kernel! -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Women might be able

Re: [SLUG] How to apply kernel patches?

2001-12-26 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
kernel is excellent! The system is vastly more responsive and, here's the important bit, the PPP link doesn't slow down any more when I rip CDs. But the nice side effect is far more quick screen refreshes when I switch virtual screens in X. Thanks for the tip. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL

Ol' Blighty (was: Re: [SLUG] Christmas - That Special Time !)

2001-12-21 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
-- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Re: Christmas - That Special Time !

2001-12-21 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
recipe. because of our laws most of it has to be used for non-human purposes. Kangaroos are not as far as I know farmed for their meat but have to be culled at various farms where they are a nuisance and eat the crops. Spit or hungi roasted Wombat. NOw that's what I'd like to try! -- Rev Simon

Re: Fw: Re: [SLUG] Samba pdf printer problem solved

2001-12-21 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
No need to mess around with cron jobs and the like: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue72/bright.html -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. - Mao Tse-tung -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List

[SLUG] Samba pdf printer problem solved

2001-12-18 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
by the user that Samba # is running as (for example, the nobody user) OUTDIR=/var/spool/pdfdropbox ps2pdf $1 $OUTDIR/$DATE.temp /tmp/pdfprint.log mv $OUTDIR/$DATE.temp $OUTDIR/$DATE.pdf rm $1 -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net What a country calls its vital economic interests

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Conectivity

2001-12-18 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
security in any of this! You _MUST_ set up some form of encryption and authentication between these two! Do not rely on the Wired Equivelant Privacy (WEP) on the wireless cards. It is incredibly insecure and can (and does) be broken in a few minutes. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] Cable providers

2001-12-17 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
select the best version to view, I suggest you upgrade. I can recommend mutt for this. The email looked fine to me. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. - Milton Friedman -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

[SLUG] Samba printer tuncating files

2001-12-17 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
. printer driver = Apple Color LW 12/660 PS printer driver location = \\%h\printer$ -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net HTML's a cheap whore. Treating her with respect is possible, and even preferable, because once upon a time she was a beautiful and virginal format, but you

[SLUG] IDE cd burner weirdness

2001-12-15 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
yet DRQ isn't asserted It worked fine before. What would this be? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Inflation is the one form of taxation that can be imposed without legislation. - Milton Friedman -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

[SLUG] ps2pdf quality

2001-12-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
seconds later. However the quality of ps2pdf leaves a bit to be desired. In particular the fonts look really heavy on-screen but print perfectly. Is there better (free) software out there that does the conversion? Perhaps if I use a different Windows postscript driver? -- Rev Simon Rumble

Re: [SLUG] vnunet.com Linux lined up as virus target

2001-12-07 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
site is a dog's breakfast and I can't find any mention to free Linux software. I presume you mean free beer? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info

Re: [SLUG] M$ Round table meeting

2001-12-07 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
for the Disabled? b) Both state and federal governments understand they pay for the 'donations' It would be worth really really pointing this out. Lost taxes are an important factor here! -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many

Re: [SLUG] Penguins Out Of Natural Habitat

2001-12-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
) -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] GUI standard question: Button label changes

2001-11-14 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
what is the standard? Is there one? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Matrox Marvel G450 and Linux

2001-11-09 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
the previous respondant said, there are _some_ applications working on video-out support for this card. Notably some DVD players. It's early days yet though. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] Matrox Marvel G450 and Linux

2001-11-09 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Fri 09 Nov, Jeff Waugh made the following spurious claims: Oh. I was more excited by the video-in (and thus disappointed by the lack of drivers for it). :) Errr, my G450 doesn't do video-in. Is the Marvel a different model? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Kernel Goodness..

2001-10-19 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
of the happenings on the Kernel list each week. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Print Screen to clipboard in Linux

2001-10-18 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
of the time and ignores it some of the time. Really frustrating. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Why the different platforms

2001-10-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
and diversity within species? It's all about having the right tool for the job. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] NT-Samba Q

2001-09-27 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
smbclient but you'd be better off with something like rsync. Hell rsync can probably even use smbclient since it was written by Tridge. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] 4x Displays under Linux X?

2001-09-21 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
do coke-snorting wankers get all the cool toys? :) -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Samba hooks in Perl?

2001-09-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
. Now the specifics: is there some way to export things to Samba through Perl? The only Perl modules matching Samba are smbclient front-ends which isn't what I'm after. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] VERY worrying

2001-09-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Agreement of the Americas conference (much to the disgust of some South American countries who have been compulsorily licensing AIDS drug patents). -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] Check this out

2001-09-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Holy shit! Feeling rather comfortable here on the 19th floor in the tallest building in this part of London working for an Israeli company. Erk. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] St George, internet banking and Linux.

2001-07-02 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
the beeps -- it actually takes in the PIN and works fine. No success with Konqueror or Mozilla though :( -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Quick Debian Network Q.

2001-06-29 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
-modules. Then to get the interface up: ifup eth0 To get it to start at boot time, see the man page for interfaces. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Spend time working around bugs!

2001-06-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
worry about fixing the bugs, write a whole new system to work around it. http://www.microsoft.com/office/evaluation/fastfacts.htm -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Dress impressively like the French, speak with authority

Re: [SLUG] Proxy Filtering

2001-05-23 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Why would you need such a product when Senator Alston has made the Internet safe in Australia? -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net No, his mind is not for rent To any god or government. Always hopeful, yet discontent

[SLUG] Re: Non-GUI ppp configuration for RedHat?

2001-05-15 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
but it only seems to have pppdialin whereas I want to dial out instead. Hmmm the right packages (pppd) are installed so what am I doing wrong? -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net What does education often do? It makes

Re: [SLUG] Mutt and setting pithy single line quotes in sig :-)

2001-05-09 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
of the command. set signature=/home/simonr/bin/sigchange.sh| -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Polymer physicists are into chains. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] Linux Electronic Voting Software

2001-05-09 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today -- I think he's from the CIA. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

[SLUG] Non-GUI ppp configuration for RedHat?

2001-05-09 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Okay RH afficionados, please tell me there is a non-GUI way to configure ppp under RedHat 7? If there isn't it's the last straw and I'm gonna install something sane instead. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net

Re: [SLUG] Non-GUI ppp configuration for RedHat?

2001-05-09 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Either CONFESS now or we go to PEOPLE'S COURT!! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Why RedHat sucks

2001-05-05 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
to make a Lefty political analogy :) If I can't talk about the warts, this isn't my movement. If I can't dance, this isn't my revolution. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net A gentleman is a man who wouldn't hit

Re: [SLUG] Why RedHat sucks

2001-05-05 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
(but regularly hilarious) tabloid headlines over here... -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net In this vale Of toil and sin Your head grows bald But not your chin. -- Burma Shave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] RedHat dependencies

2001-05-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
? Please tell me there's a better way! (and without X) If this is still what RH required what's a good package search facility? RedHat's own one sucks. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net The two most common things

Re: [SLUG] RedHat dependencies

2001-05-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
to third-party additions. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. -- B. Franklin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] Why RedHat sucks

2001-05-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
time trying them out. You may just like the green grass on the other side. So here's my evolving rant about problems I've had with RedHat recently. http://www.rumble.net/redhatsucks.html -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [SLUG] RedHat dependencies

2001-05-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
in Debian -- not swept under the carpet. (Do I sound whiny enough yet? I'm trying to affect that annoying Nanny voice. Mabye I'm becoming a whingin' pom?) -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Drakenberg's Discovery

Re: [SLUG] Why RedHat sucks

2001-05-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
. If not (big Kezza Packer owns the copyright now so I don't like my chances) I'll write it again. Might even repurpose it as a RedHat refugee's guide to Debian. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net There is a vast

Re: [SLUG] Biggest Corporate Contributions to Free Software

2001-05-03 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
IBM: Postfix and plenty more Sun: Staroffice (not quite free though) Netscape/AOL: Mozilla (loses big points for AOL instant messenger though) UC Berkeley: BSD et al -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net If you don't do

Re: [SLUG] Telstra ADSL Debian vs RedHat

2001-05-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
crazy quotes at the bottom? Here's mine. I'm sure there's better ways to do it. #!/bin/sh cat $HOME/.signature /tmp/sig.simonr /usr/games/fortune -s /tmp/sig.simonr cat /tmp/sig.simonr This line in .muttrc makes it work: set signature=/home/simonr/bin/sigchange.sh| -- Rev Simon Rumble

[SLUG] Testing a range of modes under X?

2001-04-19 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
the LCD? Alternatively, is there some way to get ALL the information needed for X about the video modes Windows is using? -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you

Re: [SLUG] Buying VA Linux in .au

2001-04-19 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
or now. 3) Shipping will either be slow and expensive or fast and ludicrously expensive. Surely there's someone in Australia who can provide Linux support? How about IBM? -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Those who c

[SLUG] Anyone got a radio card?

2001-03-28 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Player format so I can't listen to them over here. So I'm wondering if someone with a radio card within 2SER's catchment area would be willing to set up a cron job to record, mp3 and send me a copy of those shows each week? Anyone up for it? Would be much appreciated. -- Rev Simon Rumble

Re: [SLUG] Mime type for PDF documents?

2001-03-24 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
nce, I got this from /etc/mime.types -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net If Love Were Oil, I'd Be About A Quart Low -- Book title by Lewis Grizzard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://s

Re: [SLUG] Opinions on PS/PDF Output?

2001-03-23 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
ample: H3: This is a heading Here we have a paragraph with {{I:some italics}}. Here's another paragraph and an image coming up. * Some bullet * points here SDF can output in HTML, postscript, LaTeX, SGML (Linuxdoc DTD), Man, pod and Framemaker formats. www.mincom.com/mtr/sdf -- Rev Si

Re: [SLUG] How do I find the minor number of a Video4Linux device?

2001-03-21 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
... 127 = /dev/radio63 Radio device ... -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Leela: "If you could change form, why didn't you change it in the one place that counts?" -- SLUG - Sy

Re: [SLUG] How do I find the minor number of a Video4Linux device?

2001-03-21 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
/dev/radio0 c 81 64 Does this help at all? Well it does help in that I've got a /dev/radio that no longer complains when I run gradio or similar. However it still doesn't work -- no sound coming out of the card. :( Thanks for the help. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location

Re: [SLUG] Mutt Character Wrapping

2001-03-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
to set the _editor_ to wrap like that. I, personally, use emacs but my partner is an ex-piner so I set her up with nano which is a small editor. Maximum pico-emulation mode is -p. So her .bash_profile has: EDITOR="nano -p" export EDITOR -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physica

Re: [SLUG] muttrc's

2001-03-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Anything but the default colours color hdrdefault brightcyan black color quoted green black color signature red black color indicator brightgreen blue color attachment brightmagenta black color error brightred black color status brightgreen blue color tree brightgreen black color normal white black --

[SLUG] How do I find the minor number of a Video4Linux device?

2001-03-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net The best way to accelerate a Macintoy is at 9.8 meters per second per second. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists

Re: [SLUG] Debian Vs SuSE ?

2001-03-09 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
also a "live" distribution so you can type "apt-get install package" and it'll grab it from your local mirror and install it. Updates occur in a similar way. No idea about SuSE. Never used it. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PRO

Re: [SLUG] ps2html

2001-03-09 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
, paragraphs, lines drawn across the page. Postscript describes pages based on lines, curves and text on pages at specific font sizes. Not H1, H2 etc. You could use pstotext which sucks out the text, where possible. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] Debian 2.2r2 running under RH 7.0 ?

2001-03-09 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
to move, don't. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info

Re: [SLUG] Debian Vs SuSE ?

2001-03-09 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
. (yeah yeah, on a diet but still allowed look at the menu) -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands

Re: [SLUG] Potato

2001-03-08 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
atest stable release. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net This dungeon is owned and operated by Frobozz Magic Co., Ltd. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Open Government- No linux interface

2001-03-06 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
site (IBM is a founding member of the Web Accessibility group) managed to really embarrass them. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net I owe the government $3400 in taxes. So I sent them two hammers and a toilet seat

Re: [SLUG] Proof! Proof!

2001-03-05 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Hey hep daddy-o I think you might be onto something. Kerouac woulda been a Deb geek! -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net You will never know hunger. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Introducing Linux/Open Source Into The Coporate World

2001-03-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
dmin staff. If all they need is email, web, spreadsheet and word processor, that's all you need give them! -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Q: How do you stop an elephant from charging? A: Take away his cr

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Fixed IP ADSL

2001-03-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
iness" (ethernet rather than USB). 100 quid ~= AU$280 -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. -- Thomas Jones -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing L

Re: [SLUG] lilo stalls at L

2001-02-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
ia failure or a geometry mismatch (e.g. bad disk parameters, see section "Disk geometry"). -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net If Beethoven's Seventh Symphony is not by some means abridged, it will s

Re: [SLUG] Anyone heard of this? (Redmond Linux)

2001-02-18 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
http://www.redmondlinux.org/ -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Machines that have broken down will work perfectly when the repairman arrives. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Is Linus killing Linux?

2001-02-18 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
e GPL the mainstream kernel could always plunder their good ideas. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net Tempt me with a spoon! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.o

Re: [SLUG] Is Linus killing Linux?

2001-02-18 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
changes the commercial vendors make intoa central distribution of software compnents so its kept organised. I guess this could be okay, though it needs to be managed right. It does sound like Linus' bandwidth is somewhat constrained. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK

Re: [SLUG] Is Linus killing Linux?

2001-02-18 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
the development themselves, they can't afford to be in the software development business. Having people do stuff for them "for free" should be seen as a nice bonus, not something guaranteed. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [SLUG] Is Linus killing Linux?

2001-02-18 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
e for whom this would ever be a problem as they need to squeeze out the last ounce of performance. They're also intelligent enought to understand the dynamics of the development process themselves. If they chose to go with Linux, it wouldn't be a poorly thought out decision. -- Rev Simon Rumble

Re: [SLUG] Quick Mutt Tips

2001-02-16 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
more since it's all in lbdb! lbdb stands for Little Big Brother Database, BTW. It can also be set up to do ldap querioes, query your Palm address db and a heap of other cool shit. It's just plain cool! -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [SLUG] Why do all mail servers suck? (Maildir + POP3)

2001-02-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
the Bernstein Way? Wash your mouth out with soap son! 8) -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Why do all mail servers suck? (Maildir + POP3)

2001-02-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 09:54:32AM +1100, Jeff Waugh uttered: quote who="Rev Simon Rumble" What you mean there's a way of doing things that isn't the Bernstein Way? Wash your mouth out with soap son! 8) What happens when the Debian Way and the Bernstein Way collide? [

Re: [SLUG] RPMs for Debian!

2001-02-05 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
on a prospective bed partner converting 8) -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]Travel site: http://www.rumble.net/travel http://www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] OT: wysiwyg://0 in logs

2001-02-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
just want to know if someone is ripping off our listings which wouldn't be nice. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]Travel site: http://www.rumble.net/travel http://www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] You get the weirdest email when you...

2001-02-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
. from http://www.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,41527,00.html -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]Travel site: http://www.rumble.net/travel http://www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More

Re: [SLUG] Any updating bind in Debian from aarnet?

2001-01-31 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
when the maintainer uploads it) are stuck there to bypass the mirrors system for rapid distribution. -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]Travel site: http://www.rumble.net/travel http://www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group

[SLUG] ** CRITICAL **: Couldn't open playlist font

2001-01-31 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
? -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]Travel site: http://www.rumble.net/travel http://www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Internal office email system

2001-01-31 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
/ and http://www.e-smith.com/ -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]Travel site: http://www.rumble.net/travel http://www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://slug.org.au/lists/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] progeny debian

2001-01-28 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
urage everyone to join in our efforts." Hmm so how is it "enhanced"? Anyone used it yet? -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]Travel site: http://www.rumble.net/travel http://www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Use

[SLUG] Fun with USB scanner

2001-01-13 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
:41:12 budvar kernel: usb_control/bulk_msg: timeout -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London, UK [EMAIL PROTECTED]Travel site: http://www.rumble.net/travel http://www.rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] Fun with USB scanner

2001-01-13 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Hmmm actually it FINALLY did this: find-scanner: checking /dev/scanner... open ok find-scanner: found disk " " at device /dev/scanner Have I done something wrong and the scanner is acting like a disk or something? -- Rev Simon RumbleCurrent physical location: London,

Re: [SLUG] UK sub branch of SLUG?

2001-01-12 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
interested in catching up with all the London/UK sluggers. So is there enought interest out there to actually form this chapter for real? Better to bring the SLUG spirit to gllug and then there'll be two LUGs in the world as good as SLUG. See you at the next Lonix gathering then. -- Rev Simon

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