Re: [SLUG] LaTeX niggle.

2014-09-02 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi https://www.writelatex.com/ Don't know if this helps but here it is anyway. -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Rusty Russell – Kernel Code Developer

2014-02-20 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi http://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org/journalism/?p=191 Might interest someone out there. I've re-written some of the magazine features that I've produced over the years. -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Issues with Ubuntu 12.04 LTR

2014-02-07 Thread Richard Ibbotson
. -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Photographs and Archive

2014-02-01 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Saturday 01 Feb 2014 12:16:13 Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote: Nice one, Richard. I like the layout and the text that appears on the images when you select one. :) You don't get a lot of choice if you are a photographer and want to show your pictures on the net. Due to either theft

[SLUG] Photographs and Archive

2014-01-31 Thread Richard Ibbotson
. Regards -- Richard Sheffield UK https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Booting problem

2013-12-01 Thread Richard Ibbotson
. You might try this but I'm sure that someone else can come up with something better... http://www.supergrubdisk.org/rescatux/ http://www.sysresccd.org/SystemRescueCd_Homepage http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1 -- SLUG

[SLUG] Raspberry Pi

2013-11-19 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi http://youtu.be/o774LMtfeJY Might interest someone out there. Interview I did with the Raspberry Pi team. -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] James Vasile Talks about Legal Aspects of Software Licences

2013-06-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi http://www.mixcloud.com/Johno395/ We'll try that again shall we. SoundCloud just closed me down. I have to pay for extra space. Try this instead. -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] James Vasile Talks about Legal Aspects of Software Licences

2013-06-03 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi https://soundcloud.com/richard-ibbotson/james-vasile-came-to-sheffield I did this so that everyone could listen to it. Not for me to prevent it's distribution. With that in mind I thought I should put it on SoundCloud. This is a presentation that we did back in April 2008. This is a talk

[SLUG] Open Source News

2013-04-11 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi http://www.sheflug.org.uk/news/ I don't claim that this is anything amazing but if you are having one of those days when you are bored out of your mind this might help for a few minutes. Some of it is worth reading. -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1

Re: [SLUG] 20 years of using Linux at Home

2013-04-06 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Well today pretty much marks 20 years since I've used Linux at home. I started using Debian and RedHat Linux when I was at www.shef.ac.uk back in 1993. Then I got into e-mail discussions with Richard Stevenson at Pegasus Mail in New Zealand. By 95/96 I was helping to start the first UK

Re: [SLUG] Managing software across a cluster

2012-08-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
to - linux-us...@fnal.gov. Linux Users - http://fermilinux.fnal.gov/maillists/ -- Richard https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: blank desktop / window management

2012-08-13 Thread Richard Ibbotson
/RBerlich.shtml -- Richard https://twitter.com/SleepyPenguin1 http://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org/blog/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Android phones

2012-05-28 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Monday 28 May 2012 22:29:53 Ben Donohue wrote: Anyone out there with Android able to sync with a Linux desktop? Works for me. See also http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJMdTYek8Cs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnLqjvlfUWE -- Richard

[SLUG] Re: Australian distributor product page for Raspberry Pi

2012-03-01 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Thursday 01 March 2012 02:06:24 Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote: More information: http://www.rasberrypi.org/ These seem to selling at a greater rate than the original Asus EeePC 701. Thought I was imagining something until I saw this e-mail. -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG

[SLUG] Re: Raspberry Pi

2012-03-01 Thread Richard Ibbotson
is aimed at the educational market. Which is owned by Microsoft under direction from Whitehall. Say n'more ?... cough Winduhs advert... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jT3_UCm1A5I Best winduhs advert out there ;) -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

[SLUG] Re: Alternatives to Gnome3

2011-11-13 Thread Richard Ibbotson
dock in the bottom of the screen also helps. Leafpad as a text editor and PC Man as a file manager. XFCE can be good. Thunar is a good file manager. Lot of people out there don't like Gnome 3. -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] Re: Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Richard Ibbotson
have to log out to try the next one. Not hard to do. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.oorg.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: mobile broadband enabling

2011-10-07 Thread Richard Ibbotson
that we can understand which USB hardware you are using. I know this is an advanced subject for yourself but we have to understand a few things to help you. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] Re: mobile broadband enabling

2011-10-07 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Friday 07 October 2011 12:25:34 Jeremy Visser wrote: On 07/10/2011, at 19:11, Richard Ibbotson wrote: On Friday 07 October 2011 08:47:49 james o'regan wrote: I live in the bush, i unfortunately have to be with telstra next g, phone mobile broadband usb. for Mint and Kubuntu you can

[SLUG] Re: updating SUSE

2011-08-30 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Stewart Most of it is on the openSuSE site http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Software_Repositories http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Software_Repositories Search this site for further info. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] Re: Text to HTML?

2011-08-28 Thread Richard Ibbotson
DaZZa Lyx - http://www.lyx.org/ Abiword - http://www.abisource.com/ LibreOffice - http://www.libreoffice.org txt2html - http://txt2html.sourceforge.net/ -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] (OT) Document and Content Management System

2011-08-21 Thread Richard Hayes - Nada Marketing
in advance. Regards, Richard Hayes Nada Marketing Level 5 Edgecliff Centre 203-233 New South Head Road Edgecliff NSW 2027 Australia PO Box 12 Gordon Australia 2072 +(61) 0414 618 426 http://www.nada.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

[SLUG] Re: Printer problem in Ubuntu

2011-06-16 Thread Richard Ibbotson
/showthread.php?t=644041 http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_1005 -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Printer problem in Ubuntu

2011-06-16 Thread Richard Ibbotson
on the wire ? I don't like to complain if I get a desktop that mostly works :) I would try and suggest Linux Mint or Trisquel but you'll probably be better of staying with Ubuntu. -- Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] Re: Printer problem in Ubuntu

2011-06-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
downloading a fresh copy of the drivers from HP). It will then work fine until my computer is restarted. Any clues would be appreciated. Which printer is it ? http://www.openprinting.org/printers -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] Re: Email Client

2011-06-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
desktop search. Deslect the Enable Muk box. Easy to do. If system settings isn't installed do 'sudo apt-get install systemsettings'. Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] Re: Email Client

2011-06-13 Thread Richard Ibbotson
. I've been fine with it since. Of course, if you are a real/proper Linux advocate you will use Mutt ;) hides under the table. I use Alpine as a stand in if I can. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

[SLUG] Re: Can't Create Certificate

2011-06-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Richard == Richard Ibbotson richard.ibbot...@googlemail.com writes: Richard Hi Any one give me a clue what I'm doing wrong ? I've done a Richard two day web search on this and nothing is working... Debian Richard Squeeze Apache server Peter Chubb wrote: Have you verified with CaCERT

[SLUG] Re: Can't Create Certificate

2011-06-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
.. can't understand why something went wrong... -- Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Can't Create Certificate

2011-06-03 Thread Richard Ibbotson
to be removed as well ? So, far I've tried . sleepypenguin sleepypenguin.homelinux.org richard Richard Ibbotson as the common names. None of these work. Tried to have a chat to Marc Balmer (OpenBSD consultant) about this who said that the documentation might provide an answer. Nothing

[SLUG] PyCon Australia 2011 CFP still open

2011-05-04 Thread Richard Jones
be starting the review process in the next couple of days. Richard Jones PyCon Au 2011 Program Chair http://pycon-au.org/cfp -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Virus Scanner

2011-04-03 Thread Richard Ibbotson
-- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Debian 6

2011-03-20 Thread Richard Ibbotson
. Richard Stallman uses GnewSense. I could be wrong but this sounds like FSF intervention once again. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] PyCon Australia 2011: 20th 21st August, Sydney Masonic Center

2011-02-08 Thread Richard Jones
following the conference proper. International guests should note that Kiwi PyCon is to run on the following weekend, making it a great opportunity to attend a couple of awesome Down Under conferences and hopefully do some sprinting with the locals. Richard Jones http://pycon-au.org

[SLUG] Re: A Toshiba Computer.

2010-12-29 Thread Richard Ibbotson
to evaporate. It's the result of someone reverse-engineering some Toshiba interfaces. Has anyone heard of Toshset? Sorry, no, not heard of that one. -- Richard http:/www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] Re: Upgrade from 10.4 to 10.10

2010-11-24 Thread Richard Ibbotson
-remix.org/ http://trinityhome.org/Home/index.php?wpid=1 http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page -- Richard htp://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: detecting hard drive failure ?

2010-11-12 Thread Richard Ibbotson
not be helpful. http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/linux-find-out-if-harddisk-failing.html http://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/monitoring-hard-disks-smart Hope this helps. -- Richard http://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org/blog/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] Re: detecting hard drive failure ?

2010-11-12 Thread Richard Ibbotson
would send out a text file by e-mail or dump into /var/log with a cron job. Of course, I'm supposing that Voytek is using a Linux or UNIX operating system. -- Richard http://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org/blog/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

[SLUG] Re: detecting hard drive failure ?

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Ibbotson
/2010/10/msg00016.html -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: detecting hard drive failure ?

2010-11-11 Thread Richard Ibbotson
, Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition® with multicasting. Well, now there is an OpenSource clone system (OCS) solution called Clonezilla with unicasting and multicasting! -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

[SLUG] Re: An apt-get question.

2010-10-24 Thread Richard Ibbotson
on Debian and Ubuntu. If it doesn't work untar the tgz and tar again at crossword.tar.gz. That should do it :) This might or might not work for a compiler but it's worked for me a lot of times. Sometimes it didn't. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] Re: On buying a laptop.

2010-10-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
to service and rebuild an IBM laptop. Easy to do. Easier than most car engines or gear boxes. Other than that Advent or Dell. I've burnt out several Advent laptops. All of them were good. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org/indexpage -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] Re: Learning Linux

2010-09-22 Thread Richard Ibbotson
. A good graphics card also helps. I like to use Nvidia. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Accounting and business software

2010-09-19 Thread Richard Ibbotson
/InstallerGuideHomeShort Probably something better out there but this might help for a start. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Evil on the Internet

2010-09-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi http://www.sheflug.org.uk/clayton.html A meeting we had last week. Might interest someone out there. This is a short summary with a YouTube video. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] Re: Travelling Overeseas - USB Modems

2010-09-05 Thread Richard Ibbotson
. If you need some help when you are over here send me some e-mail. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Is the Internet Filter Australia's Berlin Wall

2010-09-02 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Is_the_Internet_Filter_Australia%27s_Berlin_Wall I'm not sure if you should take anything too seriously on this site but there are times when it makes for interesting reading. The above seems to be a good read. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG

[SLUG] Windows Applications Making GRUB 2 Unbootable

2010-08-29 Thread Richard Ibbotson
of ext[234] on plain block devices. It seems that the Windows-based software writes to a sector which is after the end of Stage 1.5, but before the end of the core image. This is why the problem appears to be new with GRUB 2. e-mail address on the page above. -- Richard http

[SLUG] Re: Using a DNS with Dynamic IP

2010-08-29 Thread Richard Ibbotson
/ -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p?

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
out of the box on this specific model or, failing that, a reliable set of instructions to get one working? My 1005HA works fine on Ubuntu 10.04. Might be that the drivers for your hardware aren't out there yet. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

[SLUG] Re: A distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p?

2010-08-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
with Ubuntu 10.04 I find that my 1005HA works fine. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] [ot] How to recover expired domain after some else registers it

2010-07-24 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear list, I have an expired domain and some else has registered it. How do I recover the domain? regards, Richard Hayes -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Samsung Galaxy S i9000

2010-07-18 Thread Richard Ibbotson
/softwaremanuals/softwareNpsUpdate.do?phone_model=GT- I5700 -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk http://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-30 Thread Richard Ibbotson
efficient way to get it. Running 'sudo a2enmod deflate' reveals that it's already running. It's already faster than it was. Thanks for everyone's help :) -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

[SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-30 Thread Richard Ibbotson
:) -- Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-30 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 14:27:34 Richard Ibbotson wrote: On Wednesday 30 June 2010 13:50:01 Jeff Waugh wrote: I hope you mean the 'php-apc' package, rather than php-fpm. Yes. wp-cache is unmaintained, wp-super-cache was forked from it and is kept up to date by the creator

[SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-29 Thread Richard Ibbotson
. Not sure what that's about. DNS configuration seems to be okay and there is 2 Megabits of bandwidth on my home line. Shouldn't be any problems. Thanks for everyone's helpful comments. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-29 Thread Richard Ibbotson
operating system I use to view the site. Same result. There is 1Gb of RAM in the box which should be enough for a machine that delivers about two web pages a week. Kind of wait for seconds and then download slowly. Annoying problem. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-06-29 Thread Richard Ibbotson
remember to include a cricket section. -- Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] PyCon Australia 2010 Registration Closes Tomorrow

2010-06-21 Thread Richard Jones
registrations at the door. We will NOT be accepting money at the door. If you're registered and haven't paid by tomorrow you will not have a seat at the conference dinner. Richard Jones PyCon Australia 2010 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

[SLUG] 500 node mesh network for Parramatta

2010-06-10 Thread Richard Hayes
/ suggestions?? Regards, Richard Hayes 0414 618 425 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] PyCon Australia 2010 registration deadline reminder

2010-06-09 Thread Richard Jones
registrations do not include a seat at the conference dinner. Additional seats at the conference dinner may be purchased for $77 each. All prices include GST. Information about the registration process is on the PyCon Australia website. Richard Jones PyCon Australia 2010 -- SLUG

[SLUG] PyCon Australia 2010 program announced

2010-05-18 Thread Richard Jones
Hi all, The program for PyCon Australia 2010, to be held at the Sydney Masonic Center over the weekend of June 26 and 27, has been posted. View the full list of presentations and the schedule at: http://pycon-au.org/2010/conference/ Register here: http://pycon-au.org/reg Richard

[SLUG] Re: WordPress sessions [Was: WordPress, PHP]

2010-05-09 Thread Richard Ibbotson
95 and winduhs 95 Oh ! and winduhs 3.11. Just for a change. Wouldn't like to repeat some of the conversations I had with some of the lecturers holds head Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-08 Thread Richard Ibbotson
is on line 18 in WordPress 2.9), seem suspicious to me... sounds like Richard has something else running on every request? Notably session_start is not called in the WordPress codebase. Not that I'm aware of. Richard, you haven't turned on WP_DEBUG in wp-config.php, have you? (That would

[SLUG] Re: WordPress sessions [Was: WordPress, PHP]

2010-05-08 Thread Richard Ibbotson
sure there's more historical background (and rationale for not switching to PHP session handling in later versions)... I'll ask around and find out more. :-) Would be interesting to find out more :) Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] Re: WordPress sessions [Was: WordPress, PHP]

2010-05-08 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hmmm... Wordpress 3 beta 2 upgrade looks like a re-install to me :) .. http://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org/blog/ Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] How to get TightVNC to display remote desktop

2010-05-07 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear list, I have installed TightVNC and desktop on a Slicehost using Ubuntu 10.4. I can SSH into the server but I can not get the login through VNC What I have I failed to setup? regards, Richard Hayes 0414 618 425 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-03 Thread Richard Ibbotson
a few questions. Must get in touch with him http://derickrethans.nl/ Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-03 Thread Richard Ibbotson
what it does. Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-02 Thread Richard Ibbotson
now. The upgrade might have changed something in there without my knowledge. [1] If you don't test before release, particularly with an LTS, it is much harder to say but X doesn't work! with a straight face. Uhhmm.. I wouldn't like to say that about *any* software :) Richard -- SLUG

[SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-02 Thread Richard Ibbotson
before release, such as the requirement to update APC in the repo, etc. After doing the Wordpress upgrade I'd go back to Ubuntu 10.04 and have a look around in there. Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

[SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-02 Thread Richard Ibbotson
-start'function.session- start/a]: Cannot send session cache limiter - h [Sun May 02 16:27:31 2010] [error] [client 10.0.0.2] PHP Deprecated: Function set_magic_quotes_runtime() is deprecated in /var/www/blog/wp- settings.php on line 27, referer: http://sl Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] Re: WordPress, PHP ... Re: Ubuntu 10.04

2010-05-02 Thread Richard Ibbotson
that anyway. Thanks very much :) Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Ubuntu 10.4

2010-04-30 Thread Richard Ibbotson
. http://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org/blog/ any suggestions about how to fix this greatly appreciated. Can't find an answer with a Google search. Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] Re: Ubuntu 10.4

2010-04-30 Thread Richard Ibbotson
it is released :) another option is to pin you php5-* packages to a karmic repository. Might consider that as well. Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] PyCon Australia CFP: One Day Left!

2010-04-28 Thread Richard Jones
/cfp As always, please pass this message on to people you feel will find it interesting. Richard Jones PyCon Australia 2010 http://pycon-au.org/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] PyCon Australia 2010 update

2010-04-25 Thread Richard Jones
sponsors for helping make the event a reality. Richard Jones PyCon Australia 2010 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] PyCon Australia Call For Proposals

2010-04-09 Thread Richard Jones
. See you in Sydney in June! Richard Jones PyCon AU Program Chair -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Asus EeePC 1005HA

2010-02-21 Thread Richard Ibbotson
found the part about ALT + F2 to start it but can't get the machine to find the USB stick. Do I have to format the USB stick as FAT16 or is just any old file system going to work ? Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

[SLUG] Re: Joomla

2010-02-21 Thread Richard Ibbotson
do it. Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Asus EeePC 1005HA

2010-02-19 Thread Richard Ibbotson
that attracts finger prints. Mine has a protection cover which you can get hold of from anywhere. Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?

2010-02-18 Thread Richard Ibbotson
edited 200 photographs from my Nikon camera in one hour. Happy ? Yeh... you bet... only happier when watching England v Australia playing test match cricket or eating roo sarnies. Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

[SLUG] Re: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?

2010-02-18 Thread Richard Ibbotson
edited 200 photographs from my Nikon camera in one hour. Happy ? Yeh... you bet... only happier when watching England v Australia playing test match cricket or eating roo sarnies. Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

[SLUG] Fosdem

2010-02-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Tanenbaum talking about Minix 3 and Richard Clayton talking about Evil on the Internet. You shouldn't miss that one. You can get hold of the slides here... http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/talks/ Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Fosdem

2010-02-15 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Monday 15 February 2010 12:44:20 Ken Foskey wrote: On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 11:08 +, Richard Ibbotson wrote: Probably the best of the whole bunch was Andrew Tanenbaum talking about Minix 3 Wasn't he the one that did the talk in LinuxConf 2006? I remember a rant about kernel

[SLUG] Re: Earliest open source?

2010-02-14 Thread Richard Ibbotson
miss them now (lest we forget?) Richard http://www.sheflug.org.uk http://www.linuxuser.co.uk/news/knoppix-founder-klaus-knopper-speaks/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: IE on Ubunto

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 10:13:01 Chris Allen wrote: Is there a simple solution (cheap) to this dilemma? http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] Re: IE on Ubunto

2010-02-02 Thread Richard Ibbotson
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 10:46:18 James Polley wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Richard Ibbotson richard.ibbot...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tuesday 02 February 2010 10:13:01 Chris Allen wrote: Is there a simple solution (cheap) to this dilemma? http://www.tatanka.com.br

Re: [SLUG] LAMP - researching setup for hosting on multiple servers

2009-12-18 Thread Richard Buggy
PDO is a standard database access abstraction layer. It provides a uniform API for different databases but doesn't deal with syntax differences. Rich On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: justin randell justin.rand...@gmail.com writes: 2009/12/18

[SLUG] Re: Mini-itx Smoothwall

2009-12-06 Thread Richard Ibbotson
... http://www.pfsense.com/ http://m0n0.ch/wall/ http://sourceforge.net/apps/trac/ipcop/wiki If you absolutely have to use GNU/Linux and iptables then IP Cop is really good for a lot of things. For hardware I use https://kd85.com/soekris.html -- Richard http://www.linuxuser.co.uk http

Re: [SLUG] 64-bit Karmic Koala or not?

2009-11-19 Thread Richard Ibbotson
desktop. -- Richard www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: 64-bit Karmic Koala or not?

2009-11-19 Thread Richard Ibbotson
once I've built it. Except for once every six months I'll run a vacuum cleaner around the inside of it and check the CPU fans and PSU. Good idea to look at those. I used to build PCs and servers for IBM and Compaq. Thanks for the input, much appreciated. Yes. -- Richard -- SLUG - Sydney

[SLUG] Re: 64-bit Karmic Koala or not?

2009-11-19 Thread Richard Ibbotson
!. Works for me;) -- Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Skype

2009-11-04 Thread Richard Ibbotson
solutions, and VoIP provider Skype have announced a one-year development period for a Skype plugin to the free telephony service. The proprietary Asterisk plugin provides Skype users with not only SkypeIn and SkypeOut to friends worldwide but also in other PSTN and mobile networks. -- Richard

[SLUG] Re: Asus 1000hd - excessive HD noise

2009-10-11 Thread Richard Ibbotson
it. Ideas please. Could be something else but the above seems like a good place to start :) -- Richard www.linuxuser.co.uk www.sheflug.org.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Linux Saves Aussie Electrical Grid

2009-10-11 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hmmm... http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1556944/linux-saves-aussie- electricity QUICK THINKING open sourcerers might have saved an Australian power supply system after its electrical grid control room network got infected with a virus. Winduhs ... my friend for life -- Richard

[SLUG] Re: Linux Saves Aussie Electrical Grid

2009-10-11 Thread Richard Ibbotson
:) An EDS consultant I know is also thinking the same way. -- Richard www.linuxuser.co.uk -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?

2009-09-17 Thread Richard Ibbotson
something out of it. Drupal 7 is something different compared with previous attempts. DB layer issues fixed and PHP pass algorithm now in use. I suppose this doesn't plug all the holes but it's a step in the right direction :) -- Richard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

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