On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 10:00:02 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> Scenario:
>
> * Ubuntu presently installed without LVM.
> * New hard drive formatted with:
> /boot ext3 partition (empty so far)
> LVM group containing ext3 LV
>
> I want to copy the original root partition onto the n
On Tuesday, June 14, 2011 10:00:02 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > IMHO thunderbird is completely unusable ...
> > Try to reply to an issue (eg this one) when you get digest mail and
> > you will get a deep and clear understanding of stress.
> >
> >
> >
> > kmail is pretty nice but has some
On Monday, June 13, 2011 10:00:03 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> I have been using evolution for years now and its been OK but now i want
> to know is there a better email client then evolution, that do you think
> of Thunderbirds?
>
> OK before you send me an email asking what i want to do
On Thursday, June 09, 2011 09:30:55 PM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> Hi, haven't used a linux box in many a years and am tossing up to run
> either OpenSUSE 11.4 or CentOS 5.6 due to specific software requirements.
> If you had to choice an OS which one would it be?
>
> Since I'm gonna be a ha
On Thursday, June 02, 2011 10:00:02 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > Finally running OSX in a VM looks as though it utterley complies with
> > the license. (I have done it: a working vbox OSX 10.6
> > (5?6?latest) running on my desktop)
>
> Every new Mac comes with a fully licensed copy of
G'day
It's a *long* story, I'm considering getting one of the new imacs to run
linux (some of the howtos say dual boot OSX in case you need to update the
firmware)
So
Has anybody done it, what experiences?
I want to wake on lan. BIOS (EFI) available enough to do that?
I want to build an run
On Saturday, May 14, 2011 10:00:04 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> Does anyone have on hand an xorg.conf modeline for a DELL U2410
> running at max resolution of 1920x1200?
>
> Or otherwise how can I calculate such a modeline from the monitor specs?
>
> I've tried the 1920x1200 modelines fro
G'day
short version:
Please any pointers to how xorg uses event devices
long version:
I need to configure a microchip/hampshire/tshark touch panel.
The (no source) drivers from hampshire do not work
The 2.6.35 hampshire module does nothing. Why would it with no configuration.
How/where does it
On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 10:00:02 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> Is it just me or does anyone else on this list find the unity desktop in
> 11.04 beta a PITA.
>
> The workspace switcher is stuck in the side panel that is hidden when
> anything is on the screen. Nothing is truly configur
On Thursday, March 31, 2011 09:00:03 AM slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> January 19th, 2011 at ubuntuforums.org thread 1259082, someone posted
> that Evolution works fine with mircosoft ecxhange 2007.
> (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1259082&page=3)
>
> Has anyone on this list gotten i
On Tuesday 11 January 2011 09:00:02 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> Hi David
>
> All the linux big boys are moving fast to KVM. Redhat and IBM have
> abandoned Xen completely, making it an out of kernel patch set
> maintained by Citrix and perhaps code from Oracle. Youll find that
> Debian ha
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 09:00:03 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > Cute and true, but this does NOT enable the service it starts it [once]
>
> It should be enabled by default on installation, I thought the question
> was just how to start it as a one-off. The best way I've found to
> manag
On Tuesday 28 December 2010 09:00:01 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure I remember seeing Services as a menu option in earlier
> > versions of Ubuntu
>
> There is more than one way to do it. Open up a shell and type:
>
> sudo /etc/init.d/apache start
>
> Familiarise yourself wit
On Tuesday 28 December 2010 09:00:01 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> t seems to have disappeared. I now use (on Ubuntu) the package
> 'tofrodos'. The two programs are
> fromdos [ options ] [file...]
> todos [ options ] [file...]
vim does easily and without fuss dos->unix->mac
metric truck load of
> heat!! Hence the reason I'm ditching them for an SSD and external NAS.
Actually the thought experiment is krap.
Perth: outside 33C inside 32C cpu clocked normally and doing 'normal' stuff (a
couple of VMs, some mythbackend, a firefox or two, kmail, gnome desktop
On Wednesday 22 December 2010 09:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> >> Using apt-get, you can automagically install memcached. It's great as
> >> it starts a daemon and that daemon will start on boot.
> >>
> >> Though for Christmas I need two daemons running on different ports:
> >> 11211 and
On Tuesday 21 December 2010 09:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> Using apt-get, you can automagically install memcached. It's great as
> it starts a daemon and that daemon will start on boot.
>
> Though for Christmas I need two daemons running on different ports:
> 11211 and 11212.
>
> I've
On Monday 06 December 2010 09:00:03 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > Bugger. It was too late when I noticed the time.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there somewhere one can download it from?
>
> Yeah. I also had MythTV scheduled to record it, but slept in that
> morning. Surely it's on somebody else's Myt
On Monday 06 December 2010 09:00:03 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > Bugger. It was too late when I noticed the time.
> >
> >
> >
> > Is there somewhere one can download it from?
>
> Yeah. I also had MythTV scheduled to record it, but slept in that
> morning. Surely it's on somebody else's Myt
Wunz upon a tyme
I fiddled with about:config to prevent ANZ internet banking from opening a
window fullscreen, as they do.
I have THAT setup, but I've trashed other stuff and a clean slate (mv .mozilla
othername) made it easy to fix. I did not note what I did, and trying to
rediscover is provi
On Saturday 17 April 2010 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > Autologin and I get invited to enter the wallet password to enable
> > the wireless. How do I do away with that, to have nm automatically
> > start?
>
> Applications > Passwords and Encryption Keys
>
> Right click on "Password
Guys
I've just setup an eeepc for my wife that runs karmic notebook remix
Minor fun-n-games to get the wireless to work, but all sorted except this PIA
If anybody has wise words it'll save me ages ...
Autologin and I get invited to enter the wallet password to enable the
wireless.
How do I do a
> I'm not sure if this belongs here, sorry if it doesn't.
> Well looks like the government got it's way. Our Internet will be
> censored next year.
> http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2009/115
I wrote to Conroy talking about proxies and ssh tunnels and received back many
p
On Thursday 03 December 2009 14:09:00 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > Meryl thanks
> > I'll look at that. I've discovered that later editions of kmail (svn) do
> > not send html (when you don't want). Building was a big deal, but suse's
> > build service helped that problem. We'll try and may
On Thursday 03 December 2009 09:00:08 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> in the past I found Thunderbird & Evolution were not satisfying my
> needs. Eventually I found Claws Mail http://www.claws-mail.org/ and I
> have been extremely happy with the way it handles mail. It is plain
> text only, image
On Tuesday 01 December 2009 09:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> Every now and then I get sent a Word document that I can't
> just ignore, or ask the sender to resend as plain text or PDF or
> something.
>
> Most of the time wvMime can translate the doc so I can read it and
> convert
She-who-must-be-obeyed has just become the club secretary and sends mail to
the committee most of whom are winders users and here starts the saga:
kmail which she used (and is arguably the nicest GUI mailer) can't be
configured to not send plain AND html mail. It then wraps every quoted line in
On Saturday 21 November 2009 21:37:14 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> >> I'm going to get a new desktop at work and was wondering whether it's
> >> worth moving to 64-bit.
> >
> > I confess that I still dual boot 32-bit for one legacy application:
> > Vuescan. But with enough tinkering with ia32-
On Friday 20 November 2009 05:57:09 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> FWIW, the things that affect me using 64 bit on a given machine are:
> more than 3GB of RAM or
> need more than 2GB in a single process or
> doing 64 bit math (nb this isn't strict, you can get at the opcode in
> 32-bit installs,
On Friday 20 November 2009 05:57:09 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > 32bit is dead
>
> Not on subnotebooks.
>
> >> It'll have 4Gb RAM, which should be enough for my work needs.
>
> Which is a good enough reason to move to 64 bit.
>
> If you want to address more than 2GB of RAM in a single proces
On Monday 16 November 2009 09:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > a) I'd run back and front end of different machines
>
> I'd thought of doing that, but because the TV and aerial cable are in
> the same room, I'd still have to make this machine both fron and back
> end, so I don't see any gre
On Saturday 14 November 2009 23:05:47 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> Has anybody tamed the grub2 beast?
I uncovered a link
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275
James
> Whatever the technical merit, the lack of even basic documentation is
> overwhelming.
>
> I'm trying to: (https:
Has anybody tamed the grub2 beast?
Whatever the technical merit, the lack of even basic documentation is
overwhelming.
I'm trying to: (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootToRAM)
title RAM Session
kernel /casper/vmlinuz boot=casper toram splash
initrd /casper/initrd.gz
by editing ...
j...@dvr:~$ cat /etc
On Saturday 14 November 2009 02:26:52 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> I'm planning to build a MythTV box & have come up with what I think is
> suitable hardware to run it on, but I'm hoping that those of you with
> MythTV experience will point out anything I've got wrong.
>
> The box will be both
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 09:00:20 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> We can't help you unless you tell us what you want to do, *to what*.
> Is this in GNOME? XFCE? Some other interface?
This is just annoying noise
a) The question has been answer before
b) No matter what sort of session if your w
On Tuesday 10 November 2009 09:00:20 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> I upgraded to Karmic last night but I prefer one panel at the top of my
> screen so I removed the bottom panel and the workspace switcher in that and
> added another applet to the top panel.
> But now I can't switch between the
On Monday 09 November 2009 08:12:14 you wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 07, 2009 at 01:09:00PM +0800, jam wrote:
> > Hi
> > on the various distros log-out-switch-user prompts for a password as the
> > second user logs out and the first user is exposed again. Tried for weeks
> > t
On Tuesday 03 November 2009 20:49:58 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> I will soon be replacing a Windows 2003 server in a small business with
> some Linux variant. Traditionally I have used Debian or Centos, I have been
> wary of using Ubuntu (whether justified or not, I was not confident with it
On Friday 30 October 2009 09:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > Thanks everyone for the advice.
> >
> > Following the KISS principle I am going to:
> > 1. Live within the RAM can access now (just over 3Gb)
> > 2. Use a single Linux partition (besides boot) on the larger drive
>
> I find it u
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 18:37:16 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> jam writes:
[snip]
> >
> >> > Based on what you have said do yourself a favour and don't do LVM.
> >> > LVM is a wonderful idea but it requires that you understand
> >&g
[snip]
> > Based on what you have said do yourself a favour and don't do LVM. LVM
> > is a wonderful idea but it requires that you understand statistics
> > related to disk failure and the consequences of that.
>
> This comment makes no sense to me: in what way does LVM change the risks
> associat
On Wednesday 28 October 2009 09:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> I am about to upgrade a HP notebook to a larger hard disk (replace the 90Gb
> disk with 500Gb) and double the RAM (from 2Gb to 4Gb). In addition, to
> complicate matters, I would like to LVM on the larger disk to manage the
> l
On Thursday 08 October 2009 08:36:45 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> I've read that sinking it in an oil bath reduces the noise and gets rid
> of the heat quite well...
> Sunflower oil is OK but pure Aceite De Oliva Espanol Moro Pure Olive oil
> is best.
> Make sure it's the 100% pure (no cholest
On Thursday 01 October 2009 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> We use Westnet Huawei e169 usb drives on 701 EEEPC's
> I guess any reseller that uses Optus as a carrier will be the same.
> We use Mint and it has worked on Puppy and Ubuntu
> The default E program wont find 3g networks for us
On Thursday 01 October 2009 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> Does anyone know a good freeware for tv so you can schedule tv recording
> online and so on.I was using Mythtv on Ubuntu doesnt have those features
> like icetv has. Any recommendation?
I'm not being being a myth advocate ... b
On Tuesday 01 September 2009 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > [snip]
> >> The GUI paradigism allows people who have not learned to talk to
> >> computers to communicate using pictures.
> >> This picture mode is slow and cumbersome (imagine talking to a Russian,
> >> but using pictures t
On Friday 28 August 2009 07:20:35 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> I've tried Kubuntu 8.04, Xubuntu 9.04 and LinuxMint7 (Ubuntu 9.04 I
> think) on different PCs with different DVD-RW drives.
>
> All drives will "copy" a double layer DVD to an .iso file, but none will
> record the .iso to an 8.4 gb
On Friday 28 August 2009 07:20:35 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
[snip]
> and another aspect of Unix, which seems to have repeated
> itself (or not?) with "unix-like" linux is the different flavours:
> Solaris, BSD, AIX, Ultrix (now apparently known as HPUX).
[snip]
These are legal issues not tec
On Wednesday 26 August 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> The point about shells has already been made, but some people have got a
> bit sidetracked. Shells are command-interpreters; they mediate between the
> user and the kernel. Applications in Unix, as has already been said, get
>
On Tuesday 25 August 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> >> >> Can you throw light on the demise of the "unix shell"?
[snip]
> Respectfully, I disagree with your assumptions here:
[snip]
See that is my disclosure of biased, old fashioned opinion.
See where it says '40 Years of Unix'
On Sunday 23 August 2009 16:38:37 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> >> Can you throw light on the demise of the "unix shell"?
> >>
> >> Marghanita
> >
> > I'm guessing 'contextually', that you're asking about the demise of the
> > original Thompson shell that shipped with Unix? Since replaced by Ba
On Sunday 23 August 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Can you throw light on the demise of the "unix shell"?
> >
> > Demise?! :-)
>
> I have to agree with Jeff: the only places I have really seen the shell
> vanish it has been moving — albeit painfully slowly at times — to
On Friday 07 August 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> That's a given, mobile internet or not!
>
> 2009/8/6 Kevin Shackleton
>
> > Telstra == being shafted.
Could not agree more .. the masters of "If on the first rainy tuesday of a
leap year you stand with one foot in a copper vase o
On Thursday 06 August 2009 09:22:35 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > How much better are the more expensive 3G plans over the cheaper plans?
> >
> > I have just tried out a 3G broadband dongle on linux
> > Model : E160
> > I tried to get it to work on Centos 5.3 but failed. couldn't get
> >
On Tuesday 28 July 2009 05:59:39 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > I have a n000b question.
> > I found a neat housework script to change case & space but
> > I'm wondering is it possible to run it recursively?
> > If so where do I put the -r in it?
> >
> > #!/bin/bash
> > for f in *; do
> >
On Wednesday 15 July 2009 09:18:46 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > This is mostly a 'wot hoppen?' and 'wot's going on' -- but advice what
> >
> >> to do about it would be very welcome.
> >>
> >> I was using a bash script with convert (from ImageMagick) to convert a
> >> lot of big tiff files, I
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> This is mostly a 'wot hoppen?' and 'wot's going on' -- but advice what
> to do about it would be very welcome.
>
> I was using a bash script with convert (from ImageMagick) to convert a
> lot of big tiff files, I mistyped a / for a
On Tuesday 14 July 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> have a curious situation. I have a Sound Blaster Live card in my
> Ubuntu64 9.04 system and have turned the internal card off in the bios.
>
> The volume control tells me it is set for the Sound Blaster but does not
> control the v
Wearing my "I wish somebody had said this, useful, sharing" cap and not my
"dragons and swords" one I declare that, except for those interested in pages-
n-pages of python stack traces or very simple systems, rdiff-backup is
unmentionably awefull.
I backup daily 4 systems with a couple of 100s G
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 09:05:41 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > The mythtv folk are bitching that you can't nuke pulseaudio in 9.04 it is
> > entrenched.
>
> Of course you can remove it -- just 'apt-get remove pulseaudio'. Sure, that
> will prompt to remove the ubuntu-desktop meta-package, but
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 07:28:23 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> What a mess this is!
> Found this skype forum:
> http://forum.skype.com/index.php?showtopic=334081
> I'd like to follow the advice of one of the posters at the end but my sound
> settings aren't the same.
>
> Seriously thinking about
On Friday 15 May 2009 21:03:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > Lessons learnt:
> >
> > - a journalling file system is bigger than what you see, 3Tb is really
> > 3.3Tb when doing a direct copy.
> >
> > - Get lots of harddisk in the beginning. 750G drives really only give
> > you 698G. It is
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 07:34:12 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> Not having a digital set top box at the present, I'm wondering if
> anyone has any experience connecting one to a mythbuntu box with SD
> PCI tuners?
>
> I have a Mythubuntu 8.04 box with two PVR-150s and a telly cable
> splitter run
On Saturday 02 May 2009 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > Anyone know of (or how to find) an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror?
> >
> > Yes, way old (at 2 years...), but I'm trying to maintain an old
> > machine that I don't want to upgrade. Gutsy has dropped out of the
> > Ubuntu mirrors,
On Sunday 19 April 2009 10:00:03 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> On Sunday 19 April 2009 00:16:35 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> >> I've decided to increase the RAM on my home CentOS server. As best I
> >> can recall, the accepted wisdom is to have SWAP approx.~ 2 x RAM. Or
> >> was that appr
On Sunday 19 April 2009 00:16:35 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> I've decided to increase the RAM on my home CentOS server. As best I can
> recall, the accepted wisdom is to have SWAP approx.~ 2 x RAM. Or was
> that approx.~ 50% of RAM?
>
> Can someone point me in the direction of an explicit tut
On Thursday 16 April 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
>
>
>
>
> I'm trying to use this snippet of code to embed a sound. I can't persuade
> FF or Epiphany to respect the autostart attribute. I've tried variations
> such as autostart=["0"|0|"false"|false|etc] but to no avail.
>
> BTW
x27; -print0 | xargs -0 chmod -R 644
> > >
> > > See the manual pages for the fine detail, obviously.
> >
> > Um sure, but in this context too complicated IMHO
> > find . -type d -exec chmod 775 {} \;
> > find . -type f -exec chmod 664 {} \;
>
> need
On Saturday 11 April 2009 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > On Saturday 11 April 2009 00:06:56 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > > > What am I missing?
> > >
> > > find(1), which is used to locate a list of files matching a given set
> > > of criteria, allowing you to do
On Saturday 11 April 2009 00:06:56 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
[snip]
> > What am I missing?
>
> find(1), which is used to locate a list of files matching a given set of
> criteria, allowing you to do something like this:
>
> chmod -R 644 `find -name '*.jpg'`
>
> (Note the single-quotes aroun
On Friday 03 April 2009 14:21:42 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> Does anyone have any experience here with the Beagle?
> http://beagleboard.org It looks very nice and it looks as if it's
> supported in Angstrom.
I'm about to try Jaunty.
but cannot give feedback yet.
If you are about to purchase
On Wednesday 01 April 2009 09:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> Recently I had a Pentium 4 Celeron installed in my PC. Although it
> replaced an AMD Athlon, the machine rebooted without problem and functions
> fine, except for the sound. The Pentium came, I understand, with its own
> soundc
On Thursday 19 March 2009 11:29:41 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > > > > Looking for some advice. I have used RCS version control for
> > > > > writing LaTeX documents for some time, but am looking at the
> > > > > advantages of using a distributed version control system.
> >
> > Is there any r
On Thursday 19 March 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> >> I have not been able to get VMWARE to keep time on my dual AMDs
> >> despite trying all the solutions I could find. (Guest loses 5min
> >> /hour !)
> >
> > I vaguely remember a long time ago doing some rtc pokery to get thi
On Wednesday 18 March 2009 21:19:08 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > Well XenServer 5 would do it, but it's not FOSS.
> > Virtualbox *might* if it's Solaris 10 (I haven't gotten 9 working yet),
> > pretty sure the others will work - Windows will and I find it faster on
> > my laptop than on bare
On Saturday 21 February 2009 02:31:08 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> I'm running a brand new Zalman CNPS7700 CPU fan
> along with a brand new Seasonic S12II 430W PSU
> with a 120mm fan in the machine.
>
> I checked the box when it keeled over while my
> wife was watching the telly and it was rat
On Saturday 14 February 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> Thanks for replying so quickly, Jake.
>
> After posting, I kept looking. I found a document on the web called
> "Accessing a Fedora Logical Volume from Ubuntu".
>
> You were right about the need to install software. I did.
>
>
On Saturday 14 February 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> Computer A, an old computer, was running Fedora 9. It had two hard
> drives. Unawares, when I installed Fedora 9, I set things up using
> Logical Volume Management.
>
> Computer A will no longer boot up. I suspect it has someth
On Monday 09 February 2009 10:00:09 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > > It's been a while since there's been a thread like this, so I thought
> > > it would be fun :)
> > >
> > > so, have you got any?
> > >
> > > I've got 2 to share today:
> > >
> > > alt >and then
> > > alt <
> > >
> > > for int
On Saturday 07 February 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> It's been a while since there's been a thread like this, so I thought it
> would be fun :)
>
> so, have you got any?
>
> I've got 2 to share today:
>
> alt >and then
> alt <
>
> for interactive shells, works kinda like ctrl r o
On Thursday 29 January 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> >> I'm looking for some ideas to help me complete my
> >> installation set-up.
> >>
> >> I've just installed Myth on top of Ubuntu 8.04.1.
>
> Out of curiosity, how does the price of an SD or HD
> do it yourself pvr-style setup,
On Friday 23 January 2009 10:00:03 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> I'm using Subversion for the first time (for a website). I would really
> like to preserve the original (pre-svn), but svn import doesn't seem to do
> this. Have I missed something?
>
> use-commit-times option only applies to new
On Thursday 22 January 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> > On Wed, 2009-01-21 at 11:15 +1100, david wrote:
> >> I have a directory tree, plus an approximate copy of the same tree.
> >> du reports 35mb for one and 36 for the other. They are quite complex
> >> trees.
> >>
> >> My task
On Wednesday 14 January 2009 00:08:10 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> Actually, temperature has very little relationship with disk life, at
>
> > least when Google studied their consumer grade disk failure metrics.
> >
> > The details: http://research.google.com/archive/disk_failures.pdf
> >
> >
On Monday 12 January 2009 20:18:39 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> A quick set of three basic guidelines for comments. I find these get
> my through most situations.
>
> 1. The code says what you are doing, the comments say WHY you are doing it.
>
> 2. The code is there to teach people who aren't
On Friday 09 January 2009 10:00:08 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> >> I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to
> >> play video files. Sort of like home theatre.
> >>
> >> or video files over a lan connection from a server.
> >>
> >> recording tv is not necessary but ma
On Thursday 08 January 2009 10:00:05 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> I'm looking to setup a pc with an output to a tv (big flatscreen) to
> play video files. Sort of like home theatre.
>
> or video files over a lan connection from a server.
>
> recording tv is not necessary but may be good.
>
> I
On Wednesday 07 January 2009 10:00:06 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> I don't know if it's just because I'm running Gnome with amarok, but
> the OSD has some serious issues.
>
> I run a dual monitor setup using nVidia binary drivers and twinview
> with compiz enabled.
I run amarok on AMD-X2 with
and Media Card
> Reader". The CD-ROM is SATA too (from visual inspection).
>
> Is anyone else here feels the same as Jam that it's unlikely that I
> have a mobo without an old-style parallel ATA controller?
My humble apologies for questioning your skill and judgement.
Dell
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> just opened my desktop and indeed there are no PATA controllers
> there. That's why I mentioned that it is 18 months old.
>
> I use the term "PATA" for exactly the reason you mentioned - to
> distinguish from "SATA".
>
> Thanks,
On Tuesday 30 December 2008 10:00:04 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> My own desktop is about 18 months old and I don't see mention of PATA
> controllers in its lshw or lspci output.
>
> Does anyone know where can I borrow (or maybe rent?) a PATA->usb box
> to allow me to access the disks and salv
On Thursday 18 December 2008 09:41:48 slug-requ...@slug.org.au wrote:
> I'm running Xubuntu on an Eeepc. I don't run a web server or an ssh server
> or telnet or ftp or rsync or anything like that. Am I correct in assuming
> that I don't need a firewall, or should I install Firestarter just in case
On Saturday 29 November 2008 10:00:05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > the
> > partial inspiration for the talk), although rsync doesn't save older
> > data, which I definitely recommend.
>
> Very minor nitpick, rsync can save older data, and put them in
> whatever dir
> you want.
>
> before rdiff-ba
On Friday 28 November 2008 21:58:01 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My two-week-old sole hard drive has failed.
>
> I know this is more than a software thing, because the drive's not found
> either during boot-up or by fdisk. The clincher is that it keeps making a
> sound like the sound that you hear fr
On Monday 24 November 2008 10:00:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've recently upgraded from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 (Ibex).
>
> I've noticed that Firefox now has this annoying habit of automagically
> going into a semi-fullscreen mode, that causes Alt-Tab to flash nastily
> whenever Firefox is selected
On Monday 24 November 2008 10:00:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 (from 8.04) and now I'm losing my search
> domain on reboot. I'm using a static address.
>
> If I edit resolv.conf everything is good until I reboot, then resolv.conf
> is re-created without the search domai
On Tuesday 18 November 2008 10:00:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Monday 17 November 2008 10:00:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > am <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [snip]
>
> > Not a trivial question :-) and not as simple as -X
> >
> > I'm sitting in front of THIS machine, and logged in
>
On Monday 17 November 2008 10:00:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> am <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > On Monday 17 November 2008 06:10:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> ask SLUG and you end up with 5 different ways of doing it. :-)
> >>
> >> Thanks all. I should be able to get at least one of those
On Monday 17 November 2008 06:10:16 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> ask SLUG and you end up with 5 different ways of doing it. :-)
>
> Thanks all. I should be able to get at least one of those working.
>
> Daniel,
>
> most common problem I come across doing it the remote X11 way is no
> display set
On Wednesday 12 November 2008 10:00:07 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > Regardless of which distro or distro version you are using, replacing
> > > the distro installed package with something you compile yourself is
> > > almost always a bad idea, especially when you are downgrading
> >
> > Do qualif
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