Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion

Excerpts from Peter Rundle's message of Mon Aug 03 08:29:57 +1000 2009: Hi All, I'm after a few opinions about a good music player for Linux (Ubuntu). I don't like Rhythumbox and Amarok, they use a lot of CPU and I really don't like their interface. The player is just a boring old

[SLUG] Re: appaling wireless performance [update]

Well I finally got my PCMCIA (Netgear WG511T) back and tried it. Lo and behold it works like a charm, I get a sustained rate of about 2.7MB/sec so it would seem that it really does matter what devices are talking to each other. Thanks to all who responded. rgh -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 [e]:

[SLUG] appaling wireless performance

I've got a D-Link dir-300 flashed with dd-wrt (v24) and my network performance is shocking. If I transfer a file to another machine, scp reports 2 MB per second which steadily drops until I get down to about 200 KB per second at which stage it will vary from 200KB/sec up to about 450KB/sec. If I'm

Re: [SLUG] Spider a website

Excerpts from Peter Rundle's message of Tue Jun 03 14:20:08 +1000 2008: I'm looking for some recommendations for a *simple* Linux based tool to spider a web site and pull the content back into plain html files, images, js, css etc. I have a site written in PHP which needs to be hosted

[SLUG] key bindings

Ever since I upgraded to hardy (I had so many problems with hardy I went back to debian -- arr, life's good) some of my sawfish keybindings are simply ignored. It seems like something else is interpreting them but I can't find out what. Is there any way that I can find out what is interpreting

Re: [SLUG] Distro for Media Centre

Excerpts from Kyle's message of Thu May 22 09:54:40 +1000 2008: Hi Folks, I've got a superfluous PC I'd like to turn into a media centre and am wondering which distribution is best suited to that end. Can I have some opinions pls? I'm running Ubuntu Hardy with mythbuntu and it works

Re: [SLUG] search engine for company network (OT)

Excerpts from Sebastian Spiess's message of Wed May 14 07:10:01 +1000 2008: hi all, I know this is not a 100% linux related question but it's open source baby :-) On our company network we have a daily growing number of documents in lots of folders and stuff. Most of it is organised in

[SLUG] Compiz

I'm thinking about making the switch to compiz from sawfish but there is one thing left stopping me: can you can configure so that it doesn't raise the window when you move it? rgh -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and

[SLUG] Bi-directional ssh

Is it possible to use ssh as a type of dynamic vpn so that when I connect to a remote machine the remote machine has access to the initiating machine? rgh -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 [EMAIL PROTECTED] You're worried criminals will continue to penetrate into cyberspace, and I'm worried complexity,

Re: [SLUG] Bi-directional ssh

Excerpts from Jeff Waugh's message of Thu Apr 17 19:58:57 +1000 2008: quote who=Richard Heycock Is it possible to use ssh as a type of dynamic vpn so that when I connect to a remote machine the remote machine has access to the initiating machine? See the man page section for the -R

Re: [SLUG] looking for a command to composite sequentially numbered files

Excerpts from Alex Samad's message of Mon Apr 14 07:13:12 +1000 2008: On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:24:50AM +1000, elliott-brennan wrote: Hi all, [snip] $ for i in `seq 1 999`;do j=`printf %04d $i`; composite -compose atop bubbles.png 0*.png image$j.png; done but I get the following

[SLUG] openvz and openvpn

I'm trying to get openvpn working on an openvz vps. I've gone through the instructions as laid out in the wiki: http://wiki.openvz.org/VPN_via_the_TUN/TAP_device but to sadly to no avail. But I get the following: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# openvpn --config /etc/openvpn/incontext-server.conf

Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem and half bridge mode

Excerpts from Erik de Castro Lopo's message of Thu Feb 28 00:13:17 +1100 2008: Hi all, I'm trying to set up my adsl modem in half bridge mode and its almost working. The problem is that when it comes up it doesn't set the default route. I have successfully set it manually, but I can't

RE: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3

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Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3

Excerpts from Kristian Erik Hermansen's message of Tue Jan 22 05:24:39 +1100 2008: On Jan 21, 2008 5:59 AM, Daryl Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 287Gb of my music still on an external HD in Windows Wma format in multiply directory's under a top directory of wma i wish to mass

Re: [SLUG] linux filesystem

On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 02:51:08PM +1100, Sam Gentle wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 2:35 PM, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am going to be working on some large files (~5G) and I was in the process of making some room with lvm, did the formatting as ext3 and thought maybe there

Re: [SLUG] Installing Linux

Try booting a live cd and make sure that works. rgh On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 02:41:42PM +1100, Mervyn wrote: *Problem with Loading Linux* I profess my ignorance when it comes to computer complexities, although I do teach other “oldies” how to use computers. I am having problems loading

[SLUG] xterm fonts

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[SLUG] MySQL Consultant

Hi, Does anyone know a good mysql consultant? rgh -- Richard Heycock Senior Software Engineer Mooter Media Sydney, Australia http://www.mootermedia.com/ Level 1, 12 Help Street Chatswood, NSW 2067 Australia Phone: +61 (0)2 9325 5905 Fax: +61 (0)2 9325 5950 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality

[SLUG] apache2 rewriting

to fix this. thanks rgh -- Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others -- Oscar Wilde Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] cfengine DNS

On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 21:36 +1000, David Kempe wrote: Richard Heycock wrote: I'm trying to set cfengine to copy a file from one host to itself and I keep getting the error Server returned error: Host authentication failed. Did you forget the domain name. Which it seems is due to me

[SLUG] cfengine DNS

insert swear word of you choice work! Anyone? Please. rgh -- Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others -- Oscar Wilde Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] ssh and X forwarding woes.

On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 14:17, Jan Schmidt wrote: quote who=Richard Heycock Can anyone shed any light on this as I am going completely mad! Make sure that xbase-clients is installed on the machine you're ssh'ing into - xauth is required on the destination machine. Hurrah it works

[SLUG] ssh and X forwarding woes.

or a pass phrase(I'm using ssh-agent). Can anyone shed any light on this as I am going completely mad! rgh -- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, there is. -- Yogi Berra Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669

[SLUG] mini ide lead (OT)

Does anyone know where I can get a mini ide to mini ide cable (it's for an alpha multia)? Thanks rgh -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel

[SLUG] Visit to Australia

of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

[SLUG] flyer package for latex

Does anyone know a latex package for generating flyers? rgh -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669

Re: [SLUG] Which Laptop?

that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au

[SLUG] OT mergeant and oracle

of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] [OT] mergeant and oracle

of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Take 1.5 hrs to learn why linux sucks. ;)

. -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG

[SLUG] Reply-To:?

complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel : 0410 646 369 key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] Reply-To:?

On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 22:15, Tony Green wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 22:07, Richard Heycock wrote: Why is that this list doesn't have the 'Reply-To:' header field set? It would make life much easier, it's a pain in the arse to reply to reply to a list without cc'ing the original sender

Re: [SLUG] debian apt and jdk

and MANPATH and that's about it. I've had more problems than I care to mention trying to get apt and Java working together. rgh Rob T -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard

Re: [SLUG] Distros Versions for Sun Hardware

trees are like fish without clean water -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] LILO problems

/DualBoot.html good luck. -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4 661B 9D21 EAAB 4291 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] Help I just destroyed my Root filesystem... cont

of a play at some stage -- I'll post a message if I have any joy. rgh -- It is possible to make things of great complexity out of things that are very simple. There is no conservation of simplicity -- Stephen Wolfram Richard Heycock [EMAIL PROTECTED] key fingerprint : 909D CBFA C669 AC2F A937 AFA4

Re: [SLUG] Help I just destroyed my Root filesystem

On Fri, 13 Jun 2003, Richard Heycock wrote: Hi, I'm new to this list and I need some help! I just ran grub-install on my root partition instead of my boot partition and it appears to have wreaked it. Ouch. If I run file -s /dev/hda5 I now get 'x86 boot sector' instead of 'ReiserFS V3.6

[SLUG] Help I just destroyed my Root filesystem

Hi, I'm new to this list and I need some help! I just ran grub-install on my root partition instead of my boot partition and it appears to have wreaked it. If I run file -s /dev/hda5 I now get 'x86 boot sector' instead of 'ReiserFS V3.6 block...' and I can no longer mount it. When the machine