Re: [SLUG] Linux midi interface

2013-02-08 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 9 Feb 2013 15:29, "Ben Donohue" wrote: > > Pity midi keyboards don't just have a USB port at the back and do away with the round midi plug. That would be so much easier! > Some do. I have a behringer umx61 that you can connect via USB, works fine with linux. - Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Us

Re: [SLUG] Building Java for embedded Linux

2011-12-22 Thread Steve Lindsay
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:19 AM, David Lyon wrote: > I'm wondering how to get Java running on an embedded linux ARM > board. > > Anybody know how to do it? > I haven't used it myself but there is an "embedded" port of OpenJDK that is meant to run on ARM: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/j

Re: [SLUG] Re: Alternatives to Gnome3

2011-11-15 Thread Steve Lindsay
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Rod Butcher wrote: > > I don't see how Gnome 3 being forced on folks who never asked for it meets > above > realworld rules. > Unless I misunderstand your point, I think "forced" is a bit strong. There are more alternative window managers on linux than actual us

Re: [SLUG] USB Wireless Inet under Linux.

2010-09-01 Thread Steve Lindsay
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Carl Adams <52midni...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who has either a good, > inexpensive wireless Inet connection, or experience with these modems. > We're using a bunch of Huawei E160E and E169 USB modems from Virgin on some embe

Re: [SLUG] FC 5 sound problem

2007-10-19 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 10/19/07, Luke Vanderfluit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get a > /~~~ > 'Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it.' > \__ > > Not 100% sure but I think you should be able to find out which app (by name and process id) is holding onto the sound

Re: [SLUG] alsa, jackd, recording radio, Amarok

2007-10-17 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 10/17/07, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can I use jackd at the same time as something like Amarok? > Don't know about amarok but. - Aqualung (http://aqualung.sourceforge.net/) claims jack support, never used it so I can't vouch for it's quality compared to Amarok (I don't u

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]

2007-09-20 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 9/20/07, Kevin Shackleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and > adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've > applied a solution without knowing what the problem was. Any clues as > to how to identify the pr

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

2007-07-19 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 7/20/07, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks, that worked! Out of interest, what format would that be coming out as natively (I'm an audio noob)? Playing says: > Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders > AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/4.54% (rat

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

2007-07-19 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 7/19/07, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: $ mplayer http://138.25.162.211:8080 -dumpaudio -dumpfile foo 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 (maybe using another program)? It

[SLUG] Newcastle LUG - LOGIN

2007-06-19 Thread Steve Lindsay
Howdy, This is a reminder for any Newcastle/Hunter region based subscribers to slug that LOGIN (the Newcastle LUG) meets at 7:30pm on the 3rd Monday of each month at the Wallsend Enterprise Centre. Our next meeting will be on the 16th July and will be about gaming on linux. Please give me a yell

Re: [SLUG] Fedora access and securtiy

2007-01-26 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 1/26/07, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:38:45PM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote: > > Thanks for that, but is there not a simple method to simply edit a file? This *is* the simple method. Once you've installed shorewall, you'll only have to edit a few files

Re: [SLUG] Re: apt-file

2007-01-02 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 1/3/07, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmm, I can't get apt-file to work at all: Sorry, I replied in the other thread. You need to run "apt-file update". It needs to build up an index of the files in the packages before it works properly. Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 1/3/07, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One problem with both "dpkg -S" and "apt-file search" is that they only work on packages that have actually been installed. When Pendo first mentioned apt-file I thought it was actually able to find files in packages which weren't instal

apt-file (was Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper))

2007-01-02 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 1/3/07, Robert Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can also use 'dpkg -S fglrx_dri.so' 'apt-file' lets you search through packages you haven't installed yet (but are in the relevant apt repositories). I think dpkg -S is only for installed packages? Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Lin

Re: [SLUG] Re: Html to pdf conversion with all the formatting

2006-11-23 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 11/23/06, param <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have checked the FO:XSL file which is generated by my application. It seems to have all the formatting tags etc. :-(. Any error messages during the fop processing? It'd be weird for it to silently drop formatting. Fop doesn't implement the fo sp

Re: [SLUG] Re: Html to pdf conversion with all the formatting

2006-11-22 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 11/22/06, param <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Firstly I am converting HTML object to corresponding XML file & then this XML file is converted to FO:XSL file. Using FOP I convert this XSL file into PDF using Tranformer. I recently worked on a project using fop, we used the style sheet that the

Re: [SLUG] Html to pdf conversion with all the formatting

2006-11-21 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 11/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I am able to convert HTML to PDF document, but the colors, images & styles etc do not appear on pdf document. Does anybody has any idea how to do this? What are you using to do the conversion currently? There was a thread on slug n

Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?

2006-11-14 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 11/14/06, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I (well my boss actually) want to convert several hundred html pages to pdf - what's the easiest way to do this? Any pointers, ideas? We're using Apache FOP for html -> pdf conversion. It might be slightly more involved than the other tool

Re: [SLUG] DHCP client vs sendmail

2006-08-08 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 8/9/06, Peter Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I googled for this problem, but I had no luck in finding anything specific, only very general stuff for desktop machines that don't wander between networks. Not the answer you're looking for but have you thought about using some sort of webm

Re: [SLUG] A comparison for fun ...

2006-07-08 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 7/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why SuSE Why Ubuntu I've never used SuSE so nothing too useful to contribute however: SuseUbuntu - RPM

Re: [SLUG] Playing DVD isos from HD

2006-07-01 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 7/1/06, bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is there any program that will handle DVD menus ( remotely) from dvd isos copied to hard disk and streamed over a home LAN? VLC will work to play such isos and handle menus on the pc on which the isos are stored, however I want to be able to do this rem

Re: [SLUG] Stallion

2006-05-16 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 5/17/06, Christopher Vance <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have just inherited an old ISA bus EasyIO 8-port card, for the purposes of running a bunch of other machines with serial consoles. Having checked the board against the documentation for IRQ and I/O address information, I added the needed

Re: [SLUG] decode librarary for imagemagick

2006-05-16 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 5/17/06, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2006 11:21 pm, Sam Lawrance wrote: >> Not %100 sure but I'd guess you're missing the jpeg development >> libraries. > > Or, the configure didn't pick them up for whatever reason. FWIW > ImageMagick configure obeys CPPFLAGS an

Re: [SLUG] decode librarary for imagemagick

2006-05-16 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 5/16/06, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: looking at config.log I see this: - configure:42977: checking for JPEG support configure:42979: result: configure:42993: checking jconfig.h usability configure:43005: gcc -c -g -O2 -Wall -pthread conftest.c >&5 conftest.c:209:21: jconf

Re: [SLUG] Re: The joy of APT (was: photo gallery recommendations sought)

2006-05-07 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 5/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But again a real eg: http://www.ltsp.org lbe used to build, does not NOW. Where were you (in terms of versions) when it DID build. How do I tell my friend that it did build around Marchish with all the latest upgrades, but does not now. Go

[SLUG] Re: The joy of APT (was: photo gallery recommendations sought)

2006-05-06 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 5/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Take DammSmallLinux and try to make a development system and (real) soon apt-get gives fatal errors and again 'the bell tower' Isn't that more about the distro/packaging quality/dependencies etc.? (I don't know anything about DamnSmallLi

Re: [SLUG] Mounting flash drive.

2006-05-02 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 5/3/06, john gibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From all four approaches I ended up with the statement that the usb disk does not exist. My own technical know-how has long since fizzled out. How does one make it exist in the first place? Ignoring the philosophical implications of that qu

Re: [SLUG] Newbie -> Can't execute anything I've downloaded

2006-05-01 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 5/1/06, Josh Shone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, first e-mail: Howdy. Trying to get Firefox 1.5 and Frostwire on to my Kubuntu 5.10 install. Firefox comes in a tar.gz, Frostwire in a .deb package. Firefox: The newer version of ubuntu (dapper) has firefox 1.5. Dapper is in beta now s

Re: [SLUG] setting up sound card in RHEL3

2006-04-05 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 4/5/06, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've inserted an Ensoniq PCI sound crad in a RHEL3, on power up, the > 'altered hardware' picked it up as Ensqniq ES1370 > > how can I test if I have sound support from command line ? > (and, to tell me if I plugged speakers in correct jack...)

Re: [SLUG] Podcasts from the ABC

2006-03-31 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 4/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > We already have tools to maintain a local cache of network-accessible data: > * USENET news propagation and caching (going back approx 25 years) > * ftp archive mirror maintenance tools (going back approx 15 years) > * HTML web spidering,

Re: [SLUG] Podcasts from the ABC

2006-03-29 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 3/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wrote an RSS to HTML translator because I couldn't see the value > in RSS (no doubt someone will explain it to me). Then I just click on > the links in the HTML and download it like any regular file > (oh wow, downloading files, I've on

Re: [SLUG] Re: mp3/ogg players recommended

2006-03-26 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 3/27/06, David Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanx alot for all the replies guys (and for cleaning up my email ;) ) > > Where would one find these Samsung Yep players on sale ?? > Got mine from Tandy. Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

Re: [SLUG] mp3/ogg players recommended

2006-03-26 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 3/27/06, David Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Ogg playback without too much messing around, that is, no need to > re-sample to 44100hz or change to a specific bit-rate just to get the track > to play on the device. > Plug and play in Linux. Thus needs to comply to the USB m

Re: Java/Flash on ppc was [SLUG] Ubuntu install cd's to give away...

2006-03-13 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 3/14/06, Peter baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm hoping installing flash and java is'nt too hard on ubuntu. I'm a newby! > I'm running Ubuntu (very happily) on an ibook, unfortunately support for non-free technologies on non-x86 platforms can be a bit of a pain sometimes. I think you

Re: ocaml vs python/ruby/perl etc. was [SLUG] Why not C

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 11/23/05, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cool, thanks Erik. Will check it out. CheersSteve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

ocaml vs python/ruby/perl etc. was [SLUG] Why not C

2005-11-23 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 11/23/05, Erik de Castro Lopo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While I agree wholeheartedly that tests are necessay, I'm curious > why you are advocating writing Python tests to find bugs at run time > that say an Ocaml compiler will find for free at compile time. > While I would agree that catch

Re: [SLUG] Funniest thing I've seen in months.

2005-09-15 Thread Steve Lindsay
DaZZa wrote: Microsoft tries to recruit ESR. Seriously http://esr.ibiblio.org/index.208.html I laughed. Lots. I think you should find out the real story about esr, it's much more amusing. http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://sl

[SLUG] Re: OT: GPG for Windows (Outlook)?

2005-07-14 Thread Steve Lindsay
James Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My Question to the group: is there some sort of plug-in for Outlook (F/OSS preferred) users that provides similar integration. I've looked at PGP but the external user (the sender) doesn't want to spend that much $$$ on it, so I'm back to square one. I

[SLUG] Re: Why XML bites and why it is NOT a markup language

2005-06-09 Thread Steve Lindsay
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, how DO I get perl to read such a file? Just forget the xml jazz and grep out the mp3 links :) http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder is about 10 lines of bash and works nicely. In addition to hack, John Safran and Dr Karl are also available via

Re: [SLUG] wiki choice

2005-02-13 Thread Steve Lindsay
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 11:30 +1100, Peter Miller wrote: > > My question: is there a small footprint, file-based wiki engine out > there driven by CGI and written in C? Freshmeat's search, Sourceforge's > search, and Google have all bean less than forthcoming on the question. > Not C, but awkiaw

Re: [SLUG] Further to "Poor Qantas Web Site"

2005-01-23 Thread Steve Lindsay
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 10:12 +1100, Michael Still wrote: > I've used the Qantas website for _years_ using Firefox (well, Mozilla > before that) and Linux. You just need to have popups turned on for that > one site... Their new international booking stuff is actually kinda nice. > I booked several

Re: [SLUG] linux on ibook

2003-08-28 Thread Steve Lindsay
Quoting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Any comments? I'm running yellowdog linux on my ibook which I got a couple of months ago. Getting the graphics card working with the version of X in debian at the moment (xfree4.2) requires some work, whereas with yellowdog it was a put the cd in, click a coupl

[SLUG] Debian Testing

2002-09-24 Thread Steve Lindsay
Hi y'all, A question for debian-ites. Is there much value in tracking debian testing? I was thinking that it might be a nice way to stay relatively up to date with new software (compared to stable), not _too_ risky in terms of stability (compared to unstable), and not too hard on the dialup co