Re: [SLUG] Problem with Feisty Totem.

.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats. -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .| free speech, not free beer. -- 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] double-click "word selection" regex for xterm?

f the day. Ahhh, so that's why the cockroaches are always feasting on my toothbrush... -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .| free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailin

Re: [SLUG] double-click "word selection" regex for xterm?

to right click and copy and paste), but only if the email address is all lower case. How to config this so it works for mixed case email adddresses eg [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .| free speech, not free b

Re: [SLUG] USB dial up modem

rt"? This may help you: http://www.snowfrog.net/2007/05/04/howto-setup-3-broadband-wireless-on-ubuntu-linux/ -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .| free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User

Re: [SLUG] how do I log startup or where do I find the log?

t I can tell - just the error messages that flash > past. containing something about > *DMA not enabled > *ude..3958 at startup > *ude.3957 at shutdown M, as someone says in a subsequent post, almost all things will log in files in /var/log You could try this to try and find

Re: [SLUG] AFTPD problems.

to retrieve the file ie the problem isn't on the Linux side, rather the Cisco side. -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .| free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slu

Re: [SLUG] Injecting information into a bind server

he results in bind compatible format (or it could be another one of his tools). From there use a script to change the required records, etc, etc. Dig might also be able to be used; also the O'Reilly DNS cookbook probably has a section on how to do this using views. [1] http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/

Re: [SLUG] difficulty backing up (copying) an audio cd - copy protection??

* On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 05:51:39PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > I'm having difficulty backing up (copying) an audio cd - I'm wondering > if it has some sort of copy protection... > > I've tried GnomeBaker - it kindly turned a blank cd into a coaster. I > can&#

Re: [SLUG] disk full

* On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 05:48:03PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Ah, UTF8. Mine is POSIX. You probably need "sort -nr" for non-POSIX. Ahhh... sort of along the line of "my computer crashes when I do X" ... "well, don't do X"... :) -- Sonia H

[SLUG] difficulty backing up (copying) an audio cd - copy protection??

an 'Audio Disc' (but doesn't appear in the mount list when I run `mount`), and can be played using "CD Player" (/usr/lib/gnome-media/CDDBSlave2). Can someone hit me with a cluestick...? -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .

Re: [SLUG] disk full

* On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 01:52:24PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > > > "sort -r" should be "sort -nr" here for this to work. > > > > > > I think the printf with the width specifier gets around the problem >

Re: [SLUG] disk full

* On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 09:08:11AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > > * On Sat, Aug 04, 2007 at 08:16:52AM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > Since you have everything in different partitions you are only > > > interested in

Re: [SLUG] disk full

50 > > to find the 50 biggest files in /. "sort -r" should be "sort -nr" here for this to work. -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in | free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Grou

Re: [SLUG] ripping a window$ media stream?

* On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 10:20:13AM +1000, David Kempe wrote: > Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This doesn't give any errors, but mplayer won't play the file. Is this > > the right way to rip using mplayer? Is there an easier way to do this &

Re: [SLUG] ripping a window$ media stream?

!! I'll use a script like this: > newname=${1%wav}mp3 > lame -h -m s "$1" -o "$newname" Any easier way to do this? -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] ripping a window$ media stream?

ybe using another program)? Unfortunately I can't use streamripper - it doesn't support window$ media. -- Sonia Hamilton. -- 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] Unix printer driver breakthrough

od news > (http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9747520848.html) was > arguably achieved because of Linux. What's the "big picture" relationship between the LSB DDK and CUPS - complementary, competitive, ...? -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .

Re: [SLUG] subversion: best way to handle one local file different?

svn:ignore" property > for that. Thanks guys for all your replies. I'll read up on and play with subversion properties - sounds exactly what I want. The other solutions (make files, 2 config files) are also good ideas, I'll keep them in mind. -- Sonia Hamil

Re: [SLUG] drupal question - external urls in primary menu?

ked commercial rather than open source. I might check out the site on more detail - do you know if it's open source? -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .| free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Use

Re: [SLUG] drupal question - external urls in primary menu?

this sounds bar far the easiest way to go. Thanks everyone for replying! -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .| free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] subversion: best way to handle one local file different?

hanges, rather than having a separate branch. Thanks from a subversion noob, -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .| free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] drupal question - external urls in primary menu?

e and pass them thru to os-commerce? Would I being looking to make settings changes in Apache or Drupal? [1] http://www.oscommerce.com/ -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .| free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] mini-HOWTO - setup 3 broadband wireless on Ubuntu

47]: Terminating on signal 15 May 4 13:33:07 localhost pppd[9247]: Connect time 6.1 minutes. May 4 13:33:07 localhost pppd[9247]: Sent 69547 bytes, received 68454 bytes. May 4 13:33:07 localhost pppd[9247]: Connection terminated. May 4 13:33:07 localhost pppd[9247]: Exit. -- Sonia Hamilton

[SLUG] 3 internet wireless settings (was: recommended internet wireless)

going to cancel). I'vwe just upgraded to Ubuntu 7.04 to get the prestalled drivers. In the ppp scripts supplied from the manufacturers website, it has the settings for the phone number and isp. Would anyone know what these settings are for 3? Joseph? -- Sonia

[SLUG] virtual server resource problems - howto troubleshoot?

s also high: numproc actual: 48 soft limit: n/a hard limit: 65 pcs Number of processes and kernel-level threads allowed for VPS Would adding memory actually solve the problem? Thanks for any suggestions, -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .

[SLUG] iBurst PCMCIA modem experiences? (was: recommended internet wireless)

t.com.au/?deviceofferings=iburst_usb_modem&whatisit=deviceofferings&main=whatisit&appCode=&; -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .| free speech, not free beer. -- 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] portable MP3 player recomendations? (iIpod, iriver, ...)

pace, + USB mass storage, + ogg & flac - good. -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .| free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info an

[SLUG] portable MP3 player recomendations? (iIpod, iriver, ...)

uage study. After using (and hating) iTunes, I'm a bit cautious of an iPod (I disliked the Drag n Drool interface, and the lockin). -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in .| free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Blogging system recommendations

* On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 03:06:43AM +0100, Rev Simon Rumble wrote: > * Not written in PHP > * Not written in $trendy_language_of_the_week Rather limits your choices... I presume Ruby/Rails is too trendy, what about Python? -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - '

Re: [SLUG] Bigpond NextG on Linux (Ubuntu)?

, they are getting > nowhere. Robert, does this comment apply to data (ie internet) or voice/mobile phones? I'm only interested in data access - how good is it in non-metro areas? -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in |

recommended internet wireless (was: [SLUG] Bigpond NextG on Linux (Ubuntu)?)

nternet services for Linux (eg unwired.com.au, iBurst)? -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in | free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Bigpond NextG on Linux (Ubuntu)?

works; I'm interested in ppl's experiences before I take the plunge and submit myself to the next round of Telstra pain... [1] http://quozl.linux.org.au/bp3-usb/ -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in | free speech,

Re: [SLUG] Postfix/SASL issue on ubuntu

you feel it isn't reading the conf file, could it be errors related to postfix chrooting? On my server I do this in /etc/fstab, so postfix can access saslauthd: /var/run/saslauthd/var/spool/postfix/var/run/saslauthdnone rw,bind0 0 Also, is postfix a member of the sasl group?

Re: [SLUG] Open source document/content management system

well suited to online, collaborative > document authoring. You may also want to consider Drupal over Alfresco if the scope of the project is likely expand in future - Drupal has large number of modules that to extend it's functionality. -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux

[SLUG] imagemagick question

27;m using http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/color/#replace, but this section is a bit obtuse... -- Sonia Hamilton | GNU/Linux - 'free' as in | free speech, not free beer. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.

[SLUG] Re: imagemagick question

* On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 04:14:09PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > I'm trying to convert one colour in a collection of images to another > colour, but can't seem to get the imagemagick syntax correct: > > $ convert bg-content.png -fill #cfb4f4 -opaque #f8fbfd foo.png &g

Re: [SLUG] wenwe

SR gives up on Fedora, moves to Ubuntu", http://enterprise.linux.com/article.pl?sid=07/02/21/1340237&from=rss (Though 'who cares what ESR does' would be a fair riposte :-) ) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] Query re Firefox

* On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:40:41PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > * On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 05:06:53PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote: > > When I click on a link in my email client (Thunderbird v 1.5.0.9), my > > browser (Firefox v 2.0.0.2) opens, but with a blank page, rather than &g

Re: [SLUG] Query re Firefox

e that. Check that Thunderbird is listed for email, and check at the command line that the specified command opens Thunderbird. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] Networking Problem

* On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 01:27:39PM +1100, bill wrote: > How should I fix this? Just edit /etc/network/interfaces and remove > entry for eth1? Edit the file /etc/iftab - assigns card names based on mac address. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gr

Re: [SLUG] howto extract Chapters from movies?

ng to do the thing manually, you > can edit with Avidemux I haven't had time to work on this, but thanks for the replies. What James says mirrors my experience - bazillions of knobs to frob that have unknown effect, combined with long rip times followed by failures. If I find somethi

Re: [SLUG] Oddball memory usage?

problem I found is it was written by many authors--more than 20--and it reads that way. Information often is repeated and sometimes in contradictory ways," I've got the book and agree - perhaps go for the other book. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User&#x

Re: [SLUG] Backup System - Any recommendations

quires a bit of RTFM'ing to get working, and sometimes can make you pull your hair out with unfathomable problems. I used to backup about 8 mixed machines at once, including some virtual servers hosted overseas. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gr

Re: [SLUG] Oddball memory usage?

.. IBM do a good book on Linux Performance Tuning, which explains this well. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] howto extract Chapters from movies?

'm doing). By 'Chapters' I mean the chapters that appear in the Title/Chapter hierarchy in VLC. Thanks for any hints, [1] http://www.kalysto.org/utilities/dd_rhelp/index.en.html -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

reinstall and easily keep your old data. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] Fedora access and securtiy

interfaces masq policy routestopped rules shorewall.conf zones -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] A quick way to remove masses of whitespace from a csv file.

sed cheatsheets, etc. [1] http://www.snowfrog.net/?q=taxonomy/term/41 -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] how to import weird gpg keys in mutt?

* On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 06:26:40PM +1100, Sam Lawrance wrote: > I think that is not a key, but a message. Following an (offlist) suggestion, I saved the message as a file, decrypted and then imported it using gpg. Ughh.. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User'

[SLUG] how to import weird gpg keys in mutt?

: ... ... Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:28:35 +1100 X-Pgp-Agent: GPGMail 1.1.2 (Tiger) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.3) -BEGIN PGP MESSAGE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) hQIOAyLo+Up3tYIPEAf/Qg94dgzigZ7ZWBEIGeEum7mkycM5HVuDjnUixyirD6AX ... ... -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydn

Re: [SLUG] firefox 2.0, flash 9 and fc 5

irefox 2.0 causes > the browser to freeze. Am having lot's of problems too; haven't found a real solution yet. Backgrading to Firefox 1.5 can help... -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription in

[SLUG] (OT) camcorders & linux - MiniDV vs Hard Disk?

-board 30G hard disk allows for about 7 hours recording, but would need to be transferred off to allow more recording. I'm not considering DVD or Memory Card - doesn't record for enough time (I want to record sporting events). In MiniDV I'm thinking about a Panasonic NV-GS300. -

Re: [SLUG] Spamassassin effectiveness

* On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 10:39:03AM +1100, Dean Hamstead wrote: > Whatever suits your needs *shrug*, you have the flexibility > to do things in a way that suits you. > > rather than deleting them all, you could just auto delete > emails over a certain age (expire might be a good word). > > with

Re: [SLUG] apt & Translation-en_AU

= works. Is this a bug or a PEBKAC? On a related issue, what's the canonical way of changing a locale on a machine? Using the login screen, or editing /etc/environment and/or /etc/default/locale? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - h

Re: [SLUG] Gnome session/panel error

at the console and rename the .gconf directory (or .gconfd, .gnome, or .gnome2 - can't remember). As a bonus you get to lose all of your desktop settings :) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription inf

Re: [SLUG] apt & Translation-en_AU

ially a 100% > translation. We've recruited the en_AU translators to focus on one unified > translation. In other words, the en_AU translation is currently stagnant. > > Details are at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnglishTranslation Nice, thankyou, that makes sense now. Good to

[SLUG] apt & Translation-en_AU

es.list is: deb http://au.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted universe multiverse Are the 'Ign' messages a problem? And what does 'Translation-en_AU' have to do with updates? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: Blocking wang attachments with postfix [Was: [SLUG] Spam again]

* On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:22:32PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > I see you run Exim - any postfix users got ideas on how to do this in > > Postfix (ie block the mentioned type of attachments). > > Postfix for the win. Thanks heaps! -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B772

Re: [SLUG] howto remotely edit session & panel? (Ubuntu Edgy)

* On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 04:14:06PM +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 16:11:54 +1100 > Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > How do I remotely (ssh -X) edit the settings in sessions and the panel > > on an Ubuntu Edgy machine? > > >

Re: [SLUG] Spam again

as on how to do this in Postfix (ie block the mentioned type of attachments). -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] howto remotely edit session & panel? (Ubuntu Edgy)

el stuff - couldn't find anything relevant. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] howto safely remove Evolution (Ubuntu Edgy)?

ot;d" (depends) screen and find > what can you feed it instead of Evolution). Thanks guys. I had a look at above and it was taking too long, so I just removed Thunderbird & config'd Evolution - it'll just take a while for him to learn how to use it :-) -- Sonia Hamilton. G

[SLUG] howto safely remove Evolution (Ubuntu Edgy)?

ugh I've removed it from menus... -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] Searching the list archives

Rick Welykochy wrote: Is it PEBCAK, PICNIC or a scripting error? A PICNIC being...? (couldn't find it any acronym dictionaries) PEBCAK = ID10T error = "a layer 8 issue", I know :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.or

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

are interstate/overseas * like many things IT, I find experimenting at home is a good way to learn, & I can then sell my skills to customers :) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

* On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 07:41:57AM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 20:47, Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On 02/01/2007, at 7:38 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > > > What are people's recommendations for an ip ph

[SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

can communicate with the POTS? The book mentions "Digium X100P". I know I don't need both; I want to experiment. I attended the SLUG talk on VoIP - back then a lot of it didn't make sense so I didn't take notes :-) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney L

Re: [SLUG] postfix error "cannot finx your hostname"

ere: >From soniaXXsnowfrog.net Tue Jan 2 13:35:58 2007 Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 13:35:58 +1100 From: Sonia Hamilton To: slugXXslug.org.au Subject: ... -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] postfix error "cannot finx your hostname"

uter system that works, just, choose Microsoft. Nice sig. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] postfix error "cannot finx your hostname"

etup for my mail server. If so, would I ask for this to be configured with my isp or with apnic, or would I ask my isp to delegate control of the reverse mapping info to me? The netblock delegated to me is 203.57.122.96/27. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User'

[SLUG] Re: voip/Ekiga and "could not open audio channel"

mmended I use RhythmBox (because it uses ALSA). It's a bit clunky compared to xmms - any other ALSA music players people could recommend? -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] voip/Ekiga and "could not open audio channel"

xmms 1.2.10 $ ekiga --version Gnome ekiga 2.0.3 -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] denyhosts feedback sought

slow down boot up a lot, as it scans log files. I start it up after boot up using a crontab entry. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] howto backgrade Firefox to v1.5 in Edgy?

Joseph Goncalves wrote: On Sunday 24 December 2006 10:39, Sonia Hamilton wrote: * On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 08:26:07PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: What is the best way to backgrade Firefox to version 1.5 in Ubuntu Edgy? I've done some more playing this. I backgraded to Firefox 1.5, stil

Re: [SLUG] howto backgrade Firefox to v1.5 in Edgy?

* On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 08:26:07PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > What is the best way to backgrade Firefox to version 1.5 in Ubuntu Edgy? I've done some more playing this. I backgraded to Firefox 1.5, still got the problems, worked out it was the flash plugin causing Firefox to crash.

[SLUG] blocking image/html email in postfix. Was: SPAM is ramping up

On a related issue, I would like to block (at my mailserver - postfix) any mail that contains an image (gif) or is in html. Any pointers on how to do this? Radical I know, but I'm tired of the spam (yes I have spamassassin with regularly updated 3rd party rules + greylisting - a lot still get

[SLUG] howto backgrade Firefox to v1.5 in Edgy?

work done :-) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] Programming language

tc, etc. After that you'd probably want to assign a weight to each question (in another field), keep a running total of the score, put the answers into separate fields, and so on and so on... Hope this helps, good luck! -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] Gnome WeatherApplet

can be found here: http://mirror.bom.gov.au/weather/radar/ -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

e home edition, he doesn't have remote deskop - duh! (I love feature crippled commercial bloatware...). Nice how LogMeIn traverses NAT, firewalls, etc. I liked how I could share the pointer with him - Remote Desktop (VNC) under Ubuntu allows the same thing, doesn't it? -- Sonia Hamilton.

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

* On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 02:09:20PM +1100, Michael Kedzierski wrote: > having an "always-on" VPN can be handy. You can also then run Samba > filesharing across it, which is handy for transferring files. Even nicer :-) Will add to my todo list to setup on his box. -- Sonia H

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

* On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 01:51:43PM +1100, Michael Kedzierski wrote: > On 12/17/06, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >* On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 03:54:06PM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: > >> Have you considered using OpenVPN? > > > >My understanding

Re: [SLUG] PDA: nice, cheap, not windows; Calendar software.

r Ubuntu Edgy. Worked fine under previous Ubuntu's, not now :-( -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- 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] Programming language

- dirty, but quick. Also means as I get better as using the command line, my shell scripting gets better, and vice versa. When I need the heavy guns for a sysadmin task, I use Perl or Python, depending on which library I want to use, or which language the example I'm copying is written in :-)

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

out well. I've started to write up these suggestions on my blog http://www.snowfrog.net/?q=reverse_ssh - will add all these as I get time... -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

'doze messenger. Couldn't tcptraceroute him on 22 or 3389 tho. Oh the pain). -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] ADSL without paying for a phone line?

that too, but then realised I like the convenience of being able to SMS whilst out & about :-) I'll check out Exetel's bundling - could be the go. Hel$tra is dead! Long live Hel$tra! -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://sl

[SLUG] ADSL without paying for a phone line?

osts would work out the same. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] ethical question - teach beginner doze or linux?

? I'd be installing Ubuntu, so I'd show him http://easylinux.info/wiki/Ubuntu:Edgy when he's more experienced. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] ethical question - teach beginner doze or linux?

* On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 09:09:58PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > Here's an ethical question for you. I have a middle aged friend who > wants to "learn computers"; he's never used computers before (he's a Thanks to everyone for the many and varied answers to t

[SLUG] ethical question - teach beginner doze or linux?

magine if you were in the same situation with a friend/parent, and weren't going to be around for ever to help them. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] Simple and reliable home folder encryption for Ubuntu 6.10

and reliability (performance is not a major concern). The Ubuntu Hacks book has a hack (#70) about doing this - you could 'sudo apt-get install dmsetup cryptsetup' and read the doco, or get the book :-) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

[SLUG] laptop sound playing out onboard speaker & headphones

music :-) On previous version of Ubuntu, plugging in headphones would stop the sound coming out the laptop speakers. I've tried all the settings in System -> Preferences -> Sound (ALSA, OSD, OSS) - no effect. The chipset is Intel ICH6. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - S

Re: [SLUG] Problems backing up a server to SMBFS

Raphael Kraus wrote: G'day all, Distro/kernel: Debian GNU/Linux 2.6.8-3-k7-smp I'm writing backups to a directory mounted using smb, with tar - tar clpsvzf myfilename.tar.gz --atime-preserve --same-owner / It seems to be stopping after 2GB, and it isn't apparent as to what is causing the pro

[SLUG] asterisk & sms?

main thing I use my mobile ph for is sending/receiving sms's - if I could get rid of that, one less thing to pay for/carry around... -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] scripting proxy change in Firefox/changing laptop network settings?

hniques sound good, I'll have a play. Jeff, I'd be interested too in seeing Network Mangler tricks at the next meeting :-) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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] Re: [Systers] Reminder: Women's meet-up before Sydney Linux Users Group, this Friday

x contact me offline with whatever advice you have about the > classes and joining the Linux side of the world I replied off list to this. -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: ht

[SLUG] scripting proxy change in Firefox/changing laptop network settings?

ail instantly using foo as relay > myip=`ip a sh eth0 | grep 'inet\>' | awk '{print $2}'` > if [ $myip = "192.168.2.1/24" ] ; then > postconf -e "relayhost = [192.168.2.254]:25" > postfix reload > postfix flush > exit 0 > fi -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- 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 ruby run perl/python libraries?

s so much good stuff in the existing Perl and Python libraries/cpan. (Yes I know about Python/Django, but Rails seems to have better doco/manuals at the moment). -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscri

Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?

PIC "-I/usr/lib/perl/5.8/CORE" Tidy.c Tidy.xs:5:18: error: tidy.h: No such file or directory Tidy.xs:6:20: error: buffio.h: No such file or directory ... ... make had returned bad status, install seems impossible -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS t

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