[SLUG] Why would nautilus be using 50%

My system has begun pausing badly today and Nautilus is running 4 Gig virtual and 1 gig real, this would seem to be part of the problem. There is nothing really obvious on top. Any suggestions? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: h

Re: [SLUG] pps presentation for the web, is flash the go ?

On Mon, 2009-01-19 at 23:37 +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: > basically, it's a set of, well, slides (some with photos), would flash be > the best way to have that web viewable ? You could convert it to PDF using OpenOffice.org OOo may be able to convert it to a set of HTML pages as well. -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] On thinking about a Wireless Broadband USB Modem

On Sun, 2009-01-18 at 21:14 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: > 2009/1/17 Ben : > > The new network manager applet in Ubuntu 8.10 handles these beautifully. > > > > I tried my "3" Huawei E169G modem in Jeff's laptop at the November > > SLUG. It took about 60 seconds to get it online. > > Does anyone here

Re: MythTV performance was [SLUG] VLC to TV

On Fri, 2009-01-09 at 17:21 +1100, Jake Anderson wrote: > Section "Device" > Identifier "Generic Video Card" > Driver "nvidia" > Option "DPI" "100x100" > Option "UseEvents" "1" > Option "UseEvents" "True" > EndSection You have UseEvents in twic

Re: [SLUG] Update Manger error messages

On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 21:31 +1100, Chris Allen wrote: > On my Ubuntu 8.04, I keep getting an icon (to right of screen) to say I > should check update It is probably telling you to update to Intrepid now. There is some security reports on firefox though. update-manager -c I noticed that on my

Re: [SLUG] Help Please Fedora 10 Video nVidia Driver issue

On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 13:03 +1100, Heracles wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Daryl, > Don't know if this will help you but when I had a similar problem I was > advised to find and delete the following files: > > /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/volatile/nvidia.ko > /l

Re: [SLUG] sata drive problems - slow load

On Sat, 2008-11-22 at 09:31 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: > Reinstalling the kernel helped a lot but not the whole solution, thanks. > Now it gave me errors about invalid ext3 superblocks. Typing exit > allowed it to boot as normal. I have to figure out how to modify the > start delay/

Re: [SLUG] sata drive problems - slow load

On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 00:29 +1100, Michael Chesterton wrote: > On 21/11/2008, at 12:08 AM, Ken Foskey wrote: > > > > > I installed a very large harddrive today and now everytime I boot I am > > dropping to a kernel prompt. > > > > I have figured out tha

[SLUG] sata drive problems - slow load

I installed a very large harddrive today and now everytime I boot I am dropping to a kernel prompt. I have figured out that I need to modprobe sata_via exit It all boots OK but the modprobe takes a huge amount of time. Is there a step that I have not done in setting this up? Is there a

[SLUG] This is a direct attack on process

Is Vista pushing people towards Linux http://www.itwire.com/content/view/20367/1090/ Pia gets a reference on page 1. I find the attacks a little personal. The arguments are well put but a little flawed. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

[SLUG] syncml server?

On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 10:34 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: > On Tue, 2008-09-02 at 09:35 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: > > I just have to figure out how to sync evolution contacts with it... > > I use scheduleworld[1] for syncing all of my stuff. evolution contacts > and calendars sync u

Re: [SLUG] Prefered video card for Linux dual-head?

On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 10:12 +1000, Masood wrote: > Hi Amos > > I have a NVIDIA 8500 on my Hardy and it works fine in dual-monitor mode. I > hate the fact the driver is proprietary but so is AMD's. As Lloyd mentioned, > I too had very bad experience with AMD's drivers on Ubuntu. I think AMD > graph

[SLUG] Ubuntu intrepid warning

I am using ubuntu intrepid right now. It is pretty flaky, evolution corrupts itself a lot right now (was working fine a couple of days ago). I can barely tell the difference between the old and new, the application that I upgraded for wont work properly anyway. There are differences and it

Re: [SLUG] Email Domains --- handling of invalid email addresses

On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 13:29 +1000, R.G.Salisbury wrote: > Some ISP's do bounce a message , so you know the status , so you know it is > futile to try again to the same address. Knowing the dictionary attacks that spammers do and how often I get thousands (litterally) of bounced emails that they

Re: [SLUG] olympics viewing

Just found, anyone tried it? http://zattoo.com/ -- 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] olympics viewing

http://newblogonstuff.blogspot.com/2008/08/how-to-watch-live-olympics-on-linux.html I cannot get it working because I cannot get the XML file. I think that the service has blocked new users by removing the XML. Here is teh GUI version of the above (0.4) download the deb and install I am using a

Re: [SLUG] Debian: How do I remove a package and all it's dependencies?

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 18:07 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote: > Hey hey. > > On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 17:57 +1000, Michael Lake wrote: > > Jeff Waugh wrote: > > >> On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 17:17 +1000, James Polley wrote: > > >> "apt-get remove $PACKAGENAME" doesn't work for you? > > The above won't remove a p

Re: [SLUG] Debian: How do I remove a package and all it's dependencies?

On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 17:17 +1000, James Polley wrote: > "apt-get remove $PACKAGENAME" doesn't work for you? followed by apt-get autoremove This will clean up some of those dependencies. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: htt

Re: [SLUG] Linux client for Citrix Access Gateway?

On Sun, 2008-06-01 at 03:51 -0300, Gonzalo Servat wrote: > I don't know much about Citrix so I could be suggesting something silly, but > I searched a bit of Google and found references to some Linux "ICA Client" > that apparently connects to the Citrix Access Gateway. Have you used it? Is > this

Re: [SLUG] simple text formatting language

On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 10:27 +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > Can anyone recommend a simple text formatting language/package? > > To explain a bit more: I want a formatting language that's text based > (so it's easier to keep track of diffs in source control, and editable > in vim), for doing stuff

Re: [SLUG] Question on an update.

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 21:34 +1000, Grizzly(Francis Smit) wrote: > I'll second that Hardy Rocks I have had hardy since about January. The only issue I experience is some problems with flash on AMD 64. It seems to work fine now, very occasionally I have to totally log off and log on to clear th

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Gigabyte Motherboards

I don't worry about these things anymore. I do tend to buy at the high end of hardware then grind them to death, about 4 years. I did this recently the only problem I had was the video card which I had to run Ubuntu hardy on, BTW works great except that flash randomly crashes on AMD 64. Some

Re: [SLUG] Getting printer to print in black only

. > > I thought I might be able to solve the problem by editing the .ppd file, but > that didn't work. The print subsystem Cups (http://localhost:631) will alow you to set up another printer referring to the same physical printer with a greyscale setting. -- Ken Foskey FOSS

Re: [SLUG] Citrix client fails to open app

root root 27 2008-02-02 22:05 npica.so -> /usr/lib/ICAClient/npica.so -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] Surround sound cards?

upport 00:07.0 Audio device: nVidia Corporation MCP65 High Definition Audio (rev a1) I have a brand new standard PC system using Ubuntu Hardy, sound card above. 5.1 with logitech works great :-) I think I had to set the preferences on the sound control first though. So check first (double cl

Re: [SLUG] bash - identify changes within a directory.

are any new or deleted files, but not if files within the > directory are modified. > > Is there a trivial way to do it? In script something like this: ls -l >file1 ls -l >file2 diff file1 file2 In perl use File::Monitor; -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Use

[SLUG] sim card reader on LInux

Anyone used something like this on Linux? I am worried about loosing my phone and it does not have bluetooth or IR. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] Call for the likeminded.. Assistance with Local Linux Distro

On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:45 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > I wonder why you've come to the conclusion that having our own distribution > is the right place to start. :-) Puppet to control the installed software on all those servers springs to mind. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

[SLUG] Problem with new kernel in Ubuntu

My wireless does not work and other random things going wrong. Booting with the old kernel works fine. I have tried the suggestion and also switch APIC and LAPIC around. Any suggestions would be great. [ 35.088301] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing [ 35.088306] PCI: If a device doesn't work,

[SLUG] peekfd - interesting utility I have never heard of

There was a interesting article about peeking at what is being written inside a program to figure out what is happening. http://debaday.debian.net/2008/01/13/psmisc-a-closer-look-to-a-standard-package/ -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Lost directory

e lost it, rename the Desktop file and then look in trash for the original. If not there then hunt for the directory in the place moved with mouse moves. I have had to recover windows systems where Windows was renamed by a kid with good intentions. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Lin

Re: [SLUG] Wireless router with Optus broadband cable

er end of the house. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] fun with sed

e > other character's I've tried. except for bizarre shells that make it a comment anywhere in the line. Most shells so not think this is a comment s#x#y# some do. "s#x#y#" is never a comment. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing Li

Re: [SLUG] fun with sed

ore sed does not get it. use two \\. gets complicated if you go multiple shells :-) -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] Linux and Windows interoperabiliy

p profit. We have a non-saleable product that would generate support dollars if we released it open source. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] Linux and Windows interoperabiliy

e have plenty of Unix experts at my company so I leveraged those skills as well. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] Linux and Windows interoperabiliy

s good enough for me. We use Windows Unix components to create NFS exports to Unix and it works great. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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: USB camera not showing debian unstable (Ken Foskey)

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 08:24 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 01:04 +1000, elliott-brennan wrote: > > > Is this a webcam, or a digital still camera? > > Digital still camera. Sony, mount with vfat file system. I forgot to update this. I had to add myself to

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

tre of screen Battery life was great for about 12 months, then it would die after 15 minutes. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] toshiba sound

t no sound. My Toshiba has a separate volume control at the front of the laptop, a thumbwheel. Check for that. Double click on the volume control and ensure that the sound is not muted and the volume is up high enough. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Evolution slowness

ore performance. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] USB camera not showing debian unstable

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 12:24 +1000, David Gillies wrote: > Hi Ken, > > Ken Foskey wrote: > > Next questions is how do I get this to automount? > > Not sure what desktop environment your using so it may depend. I'm using > fluxbox and in my startup script I start g

[SLUG] Re: USB camera not showing debian unstable (Ken Foskey)

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 01:04 +1000, elliott-brennan wrote: > Is this a webcam, or a digital still camera? Digital still camera. Sony, mount with vfat file system. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] USB camera not showing debian unstable

On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 17:56 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: > I plug in my USB camera (fathers day woo hoo) and it does not show any > sign. The computer is running a USB mouse (so USB works) and the camera > shows USB mode so it is connected. I have same problem with USB sticks > as

[SLUG] USB camera not showing debian unstable

ver=usbhid E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 4 Ivl=10ms I got this working about 2 years ago but it stopped after one of the upgrades. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.or

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

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 14:31 +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote: > cd /var/log > sudo grep -H "not enabled" * | less > sudo grep -H "at startup" * | less My approach is simple cd /var/log/ ls -ltr Look at the last couple of logs, likely to be what I want. -- Ken Fo

[SLUG] Novell owns copyright for Unix, SCO is dead

http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070810165237718 I am only posting this because it is a major legal development. I, personally, have some reservations about Novell right now so I am in two minds about this decision. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] buying new linux dedicated PC, advice sought

You know I went down to the local store, they built a machine and I booted Ubuntu live and then paid for it. This really was a commodity type machine for my son but most of the time Linux just works now. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] HDD, new motherboard

up? Would it be better to install the drive in a USB case, build a new computer mount eh USB drive and pull down the data off it. There are sometimes conflicts with old hard drives with new ones, causing them to corrupt the signals and therefore the data. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sy

[SLUG] debian unstable upgrade keyboard break

FYI If you upgrade debian unstable xorg you have to replace 'keyboard' with 'kbd' in your xorg.conf. It is documented in the share docs and reportbug on xserver-xorg-input-kbd -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://

[SLUG] crashing rhythmbox solved

Ubuntu feisty crashed rhythmbox for me all the time. Something was tripping it up. I just upgraded and the install of metacity seems to have solved my problem. So if you have had mystery problems with feisty it is probably worth updating. Rock on (literally) Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] gnome wallpapers

found some... http://www.mydeskcity.com/QTBZ237.htm -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] LPIC-1

the abilities of others in the market place. I am sure there are a lot of people better than you but there are also many successfully employed that are worse. (Reminds me of the Unix admin that was hired partially because he had an MCSE) Thanks Ken Foskey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gro

Re: [SLUG] frozen throne under wine

On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 21:18 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: > On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 19:27 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: > > I have glx installed (now...) and I cannot run frozen throne under wine > > correctly. Have I missed something? > > OK so glxgears did not work and I am now usi

Re: [SLUG] frozen throne under wine

On Wed, 2006-12-27 at 19:27 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: > I have glx installed (now...) and I cannot run frozen throne under wine > correctly. Have I missed something? OK so glxgears did not work and I am now using proprietary nvidia drivers and glx is definitely working... opengl32.dll

[SLUG] frozen throne under wine

err:wgl:X11DRV_WineGL_InitOpenglInfo couldn't initialize OpenGL, expect problems err:wgl:has_opengl Intialization of OpenGL info failed, disabling OpenGL! -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] vym - cool mind map application

I just wanted to mention vym (View your mind) which is a graphical mind map application. It is really easy to use and you can quickly build a mind map to clarify your thoughts. Once installed it sits in the accessory group in applications. I have been using this a couple of days and it really

[SLUG] btlaunch...

Old torrents have been downloaded with btdownloadgui does the new process 'know' where they were sent to. How does it know where 'new' torrents are to be sent? Interesting is that Suse clearly describes how to seed their distribution in BT, Ubuntu does not. -- Ken Foskey F

[SLUG] apt- bittorrent

BT download it. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] X problems on debian

FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/CID/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi/" FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi

Re: [SLUG] Problems with Evolution email

at > causes it or how to fix. > > Can anyone on this list cast any light on this? I see this with downloading from UTS and Optus at the same time. UTS finishes and then I can remove JUNK from my inbox and it seems to give this message. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney L

Re: [SLUG] Watching DVD's on Ubuntu 6.06

On Sun, 2006-09-10 at 19:14 +1000, Michael Chesterton wrote: > Chris Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Noe I can watch some DVD's must not all. It is common to get to see the > > opening message from the production company (Paramount, BBC or what > > ever) and them it just stops. > http://eas

Re: [SLUG] Installing Netear USB wireless adapter on Ubuntu Dapper

On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 18:24 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there someone I can speak to about getting my wireless connection to > work in Unbuntu? More than likely. What is your problem and what is your hardware. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] change title of xterm window

each window > distinguishable preferably with a meaningful title? This is in my .bash_login stolen from Jeff who probably stole it from someone else. xtitle () { echo -n -e "\033]0;$*\007" } -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Ma

Re: [SLUG] Re: linux assignment

On Sat, 2006-08-19 at 17:08 +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote: > On Sat, 19 Aug 2006 16:36:01 +1000, O Plameras uttered > > Example of list and select: > > > > $man sort | grep " order ", > > > man sort | grep -w order > > I find that a bit easier. And correct, boundary conditions such as beginning o

Re: [SLUG] getting totem to play dvd's on ubuntu dapper (6.06)

On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 03:04 +1000, Grizzly(Francis Smit) wrote: > yep the subject says it does anyone know how to do this get easyubuntu. http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ Run this tick your items on the menu and it will all be good. Ken F -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - h

Re: [SLUG] apache2 https

On Mon, 2006-07-24 at 19:47 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: > I read the apache2 working mostly but I am having trouble with ssl: > > > [Mon Jul 24 19:41:28 2006] [error] [client 192.168.2.1] Invalid method > in request \x80U\x01\x03 > > https://enfield.dynalias.org/cgi-bin/blos

[SLUG] apache2 https

http://enfield.dynalias.org:443/cgi-bin/blosxom/scouts Works which is not what I need. Help... -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] .htacccess help

, e.g. JohnSmith). User TwikiGuest, password guest, to register if you do not have one.' AuthType Basic require valid-user require valid-user -- Ken Foskey IT Specialist Another effective [debugging] technique is to explain your code to someone else. This will often ca

Re: [SLUG] Is there a truly upgradable Linux distro?

On Tue, 2006-06-13 at 13:33 +1000, Luke Kendall wrote: > So: does anyone know of a Linux distro that is so easily managed and so > well structured, that not only can you easily update all your packages > (via apt or yum or whatever), but you can even upgrade the whole > distro, 99.99% reliably? (

[SLUG] movie not on output vga connector

I slot in my DVD and it plays and shows on the screen but not on the projector that I have borrowed. All other screen image shows but the movie area just shows black. Any suggestions, I am supposed to run a movie tomorrow night :-( Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Time to re-visit a curly one

On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 15:05 +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > We had a discussion about community on Friday night at the meeting, and my > gut reaction to this proposal is that it clips the wings of the mechanics of > that community that we are trying to protect and uphold. seconded... -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Occassional freeze-up in Ubuntu 5.10

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 18:14 +1000, elliott-brennan wrote: > Until recently I was running FC4 on the same > machine. I installed Ubuntu 5.10 (with KDE) approx > three weeks ago. Over the last three days, the > machine has started to freeze. Running at the time > is usually Konqueror (one instanc

[SLUG] citrix scroll bars do not go back up

I have citrix installed and it has grey scroll bars, It uses the motif libraries. The problem I am getting is that I can scroll down but not back up using the scroll bars. I have seen this problem with another program as well, vnc I think. Any guesses?? Ubuntu Dapper. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydne

Re: [SLUG] antivirus for sendmail

On Fri, 2006-05-19 at 00:16 +0530, list.security wrote: > Hi all SLUG's > > i want to install properitory email virus scanner in my RHEL4 box, for > sendmail [default installed] > > i didn't get any good docs for that. > > i have tried many things but not get the success. > help me to do this

Re: [SLUG] Spam filtering in Evolution in Ubuntu

r day that slip through. > (asking here as I think there are a few Ubuntu developers on this > list :-) Just a happy user of Ubuntu Dapper, it ROCKS :-) -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] Paying Money for Quality (and software testing)

y. However... When you want to make it fast you can be sure that your performance changes do not break your application because they are wrong. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer ** If I was truly worried about the quality of the code I can reliably refactor the code to be nice. I mean reliably, no m

Re: [SLUG] headphone buzz

On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 19:32 +1000, Hal Ashburner wrote: > I've got persistent buzzing in my headphones, using the headphone jack > on the front of the machine. Check the headphones themselves. I have headphones that work perfectly but when I plug in my speakers I get this buzz occasionally and it

Re: [SLUG] mplayer install probs..

t dependencies: > mplayer-386: Depends: libdirectfb-0.9-20 but it is not installable > E: Broken packages Might be worth trying easyubuntu and see if it fixes the problem. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscripti

Re: [SLUG] Newbie root problems

the password. Happened to me on a non-root account once. Finally you may simply have to remove the root password then create a new one. There are ways to achieve this if you need to. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.o

Re: [SLUG] Paying Money for Quality (and software testing)

n test, ensure that it fails. *** write code to make test work. run test, repeat until code works. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] Paying Money for Quality (and software testing)

ve found. Yes I work as a programmer under pressure. So this is not a personal exercise. Thanks Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] Lost Net connection--where to start?

On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 06:10 +1000, Leslie Katz wrote: > I'm an ignorant home user with a dual-booting machine connected to the > Internet via an ADSL modem. Firstly check /sbin/ifconfig you should see lo and eth0 there. (My laptop has 2 eth0 for the wire, eth1 for wireless) If that shows someth

Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: [Ubuntu Bug 37858] Re: Missing emails in data file]

forum thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=896033 -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] [Fwd: [Ubuntu Bug 37858] Re: Missing emails in data file]

m I got a confirmation from a scratch setup with the same problem. Happened 28th March after evolution upgrade. (Regular dapper updates...) Reading mail on my debian desktop laptop smoked :-) -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] debian vs FC threads - Genuine question.

nally, it is simpler to use the command line 'apt-get install newpackage'. If you are a newbie this is very easy to use. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] evolution not showing new mail - ubuntu dapper

index files cause I had that problems once rm volvo.*. It rebuilds the indexes but still nothing new. Any suggestions? ( I raised an Ubunutu bug report, it was closed. I posted on Ubuntu forum not meaningful response except me too). -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User&#

Re: [SLUG] SLUG codefest: 9th April

ends on the room booking, but let's > say loosely 10am-6pm Anyone interested in a beginners talks? - shell scripting & utilities - perl -??? nominate what you would be interested in doing or hearing. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User'

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] file permissions]]

d gid bit on the directory itself. I use this to force a group of files created in certain directories. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] Ubuntu Flight 5 - blank screen

On Sat, 2006-03-25 at 18:18 +1100, Peter Hardy wrote: > - edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf , and in the Device section for the video > card, change the Driver line from > Driver "ati" > to > Driver "fglrx" > > And then reboot. Are you a windows support person... ctrl-alt-backspace to kill t

Re: [SLUG] Linux user's group?

e time, and guess what it is BSD license. Often these queries are about connecting to and from other platforms than Linux. I am happy to educate Programmers on the subtle difference but seriously a Linux user should not have care about the subtleties of licensing. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer

Re: [SLUG] System Boot failure.

u can sign onto a text based system and try and figure out the problem -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] New User's Frustration

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 11:05 +1100, linley caetan wrote: > For ADSL I would strongly recommend that you install a dhcp router - > get a wireless one so you can connect wireless devices later. > Let the router manage the connection to the internet and then you will > have an easier life. > I recomme

[SLUG] upgrade to ubuntu dapper - destroyed system

grub... probably a shortcut) It did not like that cp menu.lst menu.lst.ken sed s@/dev/hda7@/dev/discs/disc0/part7@ < menu.lst.ken > menu.lst apt-get install --reinstall linux-image-2.6.15-10-686 (don't quote me on exact text like package names...) Help, any suggestions. -- Ken Foske

Re: [SLUG] what is SAO mode in a cd write

to figure out how to get xcdroast working again though... On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 22:02 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: > Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev= "ATAPI:0,1,0" > gracetime=2 fs=4096k driveropts=burnfree,noforcespeed -v -useinfo > speed=48 -dao -eject -pa

[SLUG] what is SAO mode in a cd write

de for this drive. and thus may have bugs that are not present in the original version. -- Ken Foskey FOSS developer -- 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] graduate programmers

On Sun, 2006-02-19 at 14:38 +1100, O Plameras wrote: > For $25,000 stipend (or salary) per year one could continue University > and earn a Ph.D. You are talking apples and potatoes. I gave some ranges based on knowledge of the applicant, you have picked only the smallest amount and then challe

Re: [SLUG] graduate programmers

On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 08:24 +1100, Benno wrote: > On Fri Feb 17, 2006 at 08:14:07 +1100, ashley maher wrote: > >G'day, > > > >Anybody know the ball park for grad programmers these days in Sydney? > > I'm not sure, it would totally depend on experience, and skills, > and not all graduates are made

Re: [SLUG] Linux client and windows dhcp server

bably in > dhclient.conf or equiv (maybe resolv.conf might provide a setting). Interesting, this works with one site at work and not with another. Also interesting is that they have enabled a feature of ssh that the IP address must resolve or else ssh fails, means I can ssh on one site and no

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

Found a fairly comprehensive HTPC (TV) howto. http://www.linuxis.us/linux/media/howto/linux-htpc/ Worth reading as he talks a lot about power supplies, harddrive reliability and other stuff that I found interesting. He seems to have destroyed more hardware than I have owned. Suggests 1Ghz to re

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