Re: [SLUG] Weird nslookup problem - Apologies

2014-10-29 Thread Ken Foskey
Your mail provider might be locking on ip address. One 'client' i have if they mistype a password 3 times it locks the ip address. Easy to do when a phone polls every 5 minutes. Contact your mail provider and ask if your ip address is blocked On 30 October 2014 7:15:12 AM AEDT, Ben

Re: [SLUG] Weird traceroute problem.

2014-10-28 Thread Ken Foskey
I use server that locks by ip address after 3 failed password attempts. Does not time out really anoying when you set up a new device and cannot remember password. Contact you email provider On 29 October 2014 7:54:48 AM AEDT, Ben donoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Hi all, last week one of my

Re: [SLUG] Internet at 500m

2014-05-22 Thread Ken Foskey
There is a reflector that uses tin foil and catdboard to focus the signal. Uses a hyperbola like head lights First thing is to get a good wireless first. I had a wrt54g and it was excellent everything since has been rubbish and I did my research. Sydney wireless was getting up to 2 klm for

Re: [SLUG] Recycling/Disposing of old PC's - Send to kids in Africa for their schools

2012-08-15 Thread Ken Wilson
Hi David 3 laptops Newtown email if interested cheers Ken On 14/08/12 07:30, David Lyon wrote: If anybody has PC's to throw out, let me know. I can come pick them up. It turns out my friend is looking for such things and will send them to Sierra-Leone in Africa to teach kids about computers

Re: [SLUG] Linux and Apache limits on number of files in a directory

2012-04-03 Thread Ken Foskey
/214759. When I downloaded the players in a single directory on my computer after download the directory management took it toll on my application, following the same directory structure had a massive improvement on performance, a simple divide gave me the directory. Thanks Ken -- SLUG - Sydney

[SLUG] Raspberry power supply

2012-03-01 Thread Ken Foskey
Does anyone know about the power supply requirements of this thing. I am thinking of putting one in as a thin client. A cheap TV and one of these, no fans. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

[SLUG] Talk on programming principles

2012-02-23 Thread Ken Foskey
This is a 54 minute talk on principles of programming.An interesting insight and some really cool toys that the presenter shows you along the way. Well worth a watch. http://vimeo.com/36579366 Thanks Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Traffic control

2012-02-23 Thread Ken Foskey
Simple approach is to add youtube.com into the hosts file at 8:00 at night and remove it at 9:00am not shaping but easy to do. I have also implemented squid and this has some real shaping potential. Slowing him down on youtube will reduce his consumption. -Original Message-

Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

2012-02-03 Thread Ken Wilson
are not into software freedom as something that would influence their purchasing decision. This has changed in the last 6 months. Optus network is slow and geographically limited. cheers Ken On 03/02/12 14:20, simran wrote: Hey Jeremy, You don't sound like a troll... just someone who has been around

Re: [SLUG] Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

2012-02-02 Thread Ken Foskey
, not bothered yet. Mail purges off when you pull all your mail on your desktop, so it is harder to keep those notes for later. Still have not figured out cut and paste. Overall I am very happy to have switched and I love the big screen and can put up with the bad battery life. Ken

Re: [SLUG] Time to close down the coder's list?

2012-01-31 Thread Ken Foskey
I agree not all grear ideas work.  i asked for it On the move Original message Subject: [SLUG] Time to close down the coder's list? From: Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com To: commit...@slug.org.au,slug@slug.org.au CC: Hi all, I was one of the people who

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-19 Thread Ken Foskey
Can someone run through Unity at Slug in detail as a talk. This new interface certainly needs a sales pitch for me. I switched without problems from KDE to Gnome, Windows XP to Windows 7 so why do I need help to work with Unity yet it is 'better'. Ken Jeremy said... That’s because

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Ken Foskey
far. I did this by installing xubuntu and then using the gear wheel to select xfce. Thanks Ken -- 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] Cheap Linux/Windows wireless home networking options ?

2011-10-12 Thread Ken Wilson
I have seen them at Reverse Garbage in Addison Rd Marrickville, where whole computing setups have been discarded including routers, their price is always not much. Ken On 12/10/11 22:17, Heracles wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/10/11 21:29, Rod Butcher wrote

Re: [SLUG] X11 forwarding

2011-10-03 Thread Ken Foskey
Not an answer but... One thing to remember is that server and client in X11 is the reverse of what you think. The server is the screen and the client is the application. ssh forward the X11 across the link then it comes out on the other side. ssh generates a dummy 'x11 server' on the

Re: [SLUG] Multifunction printers vs dedicated sheet-feed scanners?

2011-09-05 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2011-09-06 at 10:45 +1000, Chris Barnes wrote: i worked at a mortgage lender years back and one of the departments had these expensive scanners because they would scan piles of 20+ page contracts all day with lightening speed. Expensive scanners tend not to skew the pages when feeding

Re: [SLUG] KDE gui package manger in Debian

2011-08-29 Thread Ken Foskey
do for different reasons. (Ubuntu with Unity switched OFF!!!) The package management of today is nothing like before Debian got it right. The other distributions have followed suite and cleaned up their package managers I am sure that the problems of old are now just history. Ken -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Text to HTML?

2011-08-28 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2011-08-29 at 10:04 +1000, DaZZa wrote: Hi. I'm looking for something that can take a text file and convert it into HTML, possible with some highlighting. I've got some routers reporting to my syslog server on a Linux box, but I want to be able to do a quick scan for bad things

[SLUG] IBM thinkpad R30

2011-06-05 Thread Ken Wilson
in Newtown. cheers Ken -- 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 9.04 to 10.04 upgrade

2011-06-01 Thread Ken Wilson
On 30/05/11 13:51, david wrote: I've been putting it off, but now the 9.04 repo has vanished, along with the upgrade-to-new-distribution button in synaptic. Are there any gotchas if I just change my sources list and do a dist-upgrade? This is a complicated desktop which would be a horror to

Re: [SLUG] Re: ADSL download speed/settings

2011-05-11 Thread Ken Foskey
So I can totally remove the filter if only adsl connected? Phone is on another socket on same line Ken Foskey-- 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 download speed/settings.

2011-05-10 Thread Ken Foskey
Yes your lead from socket to Adam is a huge problem. Removing a lead like that made a huge difference for me Ken Foskey On 11/05/2011, at 7:13 AM, Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Wed, May 11, 2011 2:00 am, Jeremy Visser wrote: gonzo01 said: Line Attentuation Upstream 31.5 Line

Re: [SLUG] script permissions, etc

2011-05-09 Thread Ken Foskey
/var/tmp; rm -rf $TMP' 0 to create a place where you can work, that'll get cleaned up afterwards. Peter, Ken, Chris, many thanks this works good from terminal! I'm trying to run this from 'ostiaryd' what uid/gid to use, I'm '500' # Format is: # ACTION=secret,command (with path),[uid[,gid

Re: [SLUG] script permissions, etc

2011-05-08 Thread Ken Foskey
Tmp has special permissions only the person that created it can delete it and generally global write is not enabled Clan up the tmp file reliably and you should have no problems. The is also a make temp call that gives you a reliably unique filename Ken Foskey On 09/05/2011, at 9:59 AM

Re: [SLUG] Testing live streaming for tonight's SLUG

2011-04-29 Thread Ken Wilson
Video stream is very choppy. On Optus cable with 5-8 viewers indicated it streams for 5 seconds then cuts out. So a start but could be better. ?where the bottleneck is cheers Ken On 29/04/11 13:18, Tim Ansell wrote: Hello everyone, Tonight we are going to experiment with live streaming SLUG

Re: [SLUG] perl modules ubuntu probs

2011-04-15 Thread Ken Foskey
The apt version will overwrite the cpan version. (not always). Cpan will report one version and and apt another which can get confusing. I have mixed apt and cpan to correct versions of software and when I update it is generally to the version that works for me anyway Ken Foskey On 15/04

Re: [SLUG] perl modules ubuntu probs

2011-04-14 Thread Ken Foskey
Force it then use clan to upgrade it. When it updates through the pm next it will overwrite because the pm does not know about your manual update Ken Foskey On 14/04/2011, at 1:41 PM, Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au wrote: On Thu, April 14, 2011 9:31 am, John Clarke wrote: On Wed, Apr 13

Re: [SLUG] If we 'delete' SLUG as it stands:

2011-03-02 Thread Ken Foskey
So you are saying that slug.org.au continues. It is just the 'owner' swaps to LCA. -- 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] solr jetty on ubuntu

2011-03-02 Thread Ken Foskey
For the record. I upgraded to ubuntu 10.10 and solr worked correctly Ken Foskey On 24/02/2011, at 1:34 PM, Matthew Hannigan m...@zip.com.au wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 11:44:02AM +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 10:16:35PM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: I have installed

[SLUG] HTML 5 talk tonight

2011-02-25 Thread Ken Foskey
As always worth the trip to listen to Silvia. Great talk. Best hint of night is caniuse.com. Talks about compatabilty Ken Foskey -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] solr jetty on ubuntu

2011-02-23 Thread Ken Foskey
@7d5dc37d{/solr,file:/var/lib/jetty/webapps/solr/} 260950 [Shutdown] INFO org.mortbay.log - Shutdown hook complete /usr/share/jetty/webapps/solr - /usr/share/solr/ so I think the config is basically right. Help Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 10.4 desktop freezes

2011-02-18 Thread Ken Wilson
Replacing drives with smart errors and reinstalling seems to have fixed things, and the machine boots much faster now. Thanks all Ken On 14/02/11 08:15, Jon and Hannah wrote: Hi, Have you: Run a disk check (fsck?) and checked the SMART status of your drives? Run a RAM check - using the ful

[SLUG] Ubuntu 10.4 desktop freezes

2011-02-12 Thread Ken Wilson
I have a problem with an Ubuntu 10.4 desktop. It regularly ends up unresposive, with a blank screen, often after being left alone for a while, a few hours or overnight. But can happen while using machine, where it just stops being able to respond to mouse or keyboard with no recovery. No

Re: [SLUG] linked in - please block

2010-12-23 Thread Ken Foskey
I was there for that discussion. That does not cover what is in my opinion spam. Facebook and linkedin have their place but not in the context of this list. Ken Foskey Ps: I use facebook and linkedin regularly. On 23/12/2010, at 12:54 PM, James Polley jamezpol...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue

RE: [SLUG] watching Channel Ten videos on Linux?

2010-09-19 Thread Ken Foskey
This is a guess... Have you tried vlc with the Mozilla plugin option? -Original Message- From: slug-boun...@slug.org.au [mailto:slug-boun...@slug.org.au] On Behalf Of Amos Shapira Sent: Sunday, 19 September 2010 4:58 PM To: slug Subject: [SLUG] watching Channel Ten videos on Linux?

Re: [SLUG] MySQL Mono

2010-08-25 Thread Ken Foskey
I can give you some hints on what to look at. Ta Ken -- 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 distro which recognises Wi-fi on Asus eee 1005p? -- thanks for suggestions

2010-08-10 Thread Ken Foskey
and the need to get new stuff out there all the time. Installed windows on non-mainstream machines lately. You have to find drivers, have conflicts of dlls and other things. I am not saying that it is not a problem, just not doom and gloom. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] Re: Discussion about SLUG meetings and format

2010-07-31 Thread Ken Foskey
then it is probably hard for the committee to see what your are proposing. What I have seen work is a mock up of something that everyone could comment on. Regardless whether this is accepted it is a good exercise for you. Thanks Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] middle button copy/paste fails

2010-07-17 Thread Ken Foskey
annoying. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 Does anyone have any suggestions why this happens and what to do about it apart from logging out/in? I have found middle button emulation really bad to actually use. I would rather buy a cheap usb mouse than rely on it. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

RE: [SLUG] Perl Regular expression help

2010-07-13 Thread Ken Foskey
=.*/\/ As pointed out the solution is not optimal, if there is more than two parameters it will consume them all. It will also NOT remove a trailing parameter because the second is not there. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] Oh I hate Shredder

2010-06-05 Thread Ken Wilson
3 panel view with folders, message list and highlighted message. Panel between message list and highlighted message display has small - sign at extreme left which toggles 1 line display or 3-4 line display. Ken On 04/06/10 09:27, Kyle wrote: Really? That's interesting. It's no longer

Re: [SLUG] Oh I hate Shredder

2010-06-03 Thread Ken Wilson
the (-) sign is there on my 3.0.4 Ken On 03/06/10 17:05, Kyle wrote: The minus sign won't be there if you're using T'Bird 3.x. It's gone. The '-' sign is a relic of T-Bird 2.x. Kind Regards Kyle On 03/06/10 2:05 PM

Re: [SLUG] Suggestions for a monochrome printer.

2010-05-24 Thread Ken Wilson
/7 with no one to look after it using a rheem of paper per day at least. It was taken away after about 3 years, but I dont know what the problem was when the work one died, or whether it was fixable and returned to service elsewhere. Ken On 23/05/10 20:12, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote

Re: [SLUG] Error in Time() command

2010-05-23 Thread Ken Foskey
no idea the actual problem you are having. Can you please explain what the issue is? Subtracting two times or something else, reset on ntpdate. Ta Ken -- 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] MYOB/POS etc

2010-05-17 Thread Ken Foskey
a windows client and is very extensible for reporting purposes. It comes up complicated but has nice OFX import features which makes book keeping really easy. It also has fuzzy matching same as spam which means that it will do the right thing more easily once set up. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] web dav setup

2010-05-13 Thread Ken Foskey
I need to set up a simple read only webdav. No security. I installed the dav_fs and it starts but I cannot browse to the machine. Location /books DAV On Order allow,deny Allow from All /Location Anyone got any hints. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Membership decline -info

2010-04-05 Thread Ken Wilson
Group Incorporated. webpage http://slug.org.au/ next meeting http://slug.org.au/ regards Ken exSLUG treasurer Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On 2 April 2010 19:16, jon jonjer...@optusnet.com.au wrote: I'm happy to give a talk on Inkscape or OpenOffice. There's a couple of other neat applications I'm

Re: [SLUG] Karmic: synaptic v apt-get

2010-03-22 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 12:55 +1100, david wrote: I want to install kdenlive. The repository version is deprecated and the latest is available from ppa.launchpad.net synaptic and apt-get operate off the same data. It may be that you have not done an update after updating the repository list.

Re: [SLUG] Fedora KDE audio capture problem

2010-03-09 Thread Ken Foskey
suggestions how to trace down the problem? You would have to research the correct driver for your particular sound card first. Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

[SLUG] System admin graphing tools

2010-02-25 Thread Ken Foskey
(2004) Based on a quick read, munin looks pretty good. Ta Ken -- 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] removing samba

2010-02-18 Thread Ken Foskey
-common - one of them being ubuntu-desktop. ubuntu provides a method for connecting to Windows shares as a client, this is part of desktop. I would not recommend removing it because upgrades become harder. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Problems with DVD creation

2010-02-18 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 08:49 +1100, Alan L Tyree wrote: I'm back on Debian Lenny now, so can't confirm any of this. Anyway, it seems funny that it would work on your computer but not the DVD player. Brings to mind. Check the quality of the DVD media. Sometimes crappy DVD's will not read

Re: [SLUG] Tutorial Friday week

2010-02-18 Thread Ken Foskey
tutorials on a much worse system than that running adobe acrobat and it ran fine. I don't recommend acrobat, bet evince is faster so test it! If you are doing some intensive processing to highlight a feature or monitoring network traffic realtime on a heavy network then it will not hold up. Ta Ken

Re: [SLUG] Adjusting volume on bluetooth headset

2010-02-17 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 09:54 +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote: Thats because ALSA bluetooth support is via an alsa plugin provided by the bluez package, as all audio goes via the bluez stack. This question springs to mind. Is there a bluez management tool? (I don't have bluetooth...) -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] Mentoring

2010-02-16 Thread Ken Foskey
to that and the Java. Who among you would be willing to mentor me and be willing to answer questions that I may have? If you post the questions showing what you have done to solve the problem on slug chat then you will probably get a direction to an answer. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Fosdem

2010-02-15 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 11:08 +, Richard Ibbotson wrote: Probably the best of the whole bunch was Andrew Tanenbaum talking about Minix 3 Wasn't he the one that did the talk in LinuxConf 2006? I remember a rant about kernel programming that pretty much fell flat to a linux audience. --

Re: [SLUG] Replicate Production to DR file system with rsync

2010-02-14 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 20:04 +1100, James Gray wrote: On 13/02/2010, at 11:42 AM, Ken Foskey wrote: I use a simpler approach and to some extent more flexible. I create a script in a known directory, for example /usr/sbin/run_copy.sh. I then only authorise the admin group to run only

Re: [SLUG] Earliest open source?

2010-02-14 Thread Ken Foskey
. As a sideline the source was effectively stolen by another vendor who created a competing system. There was a lot of politics and there was a really strange settlement. IBM was forced to share the source with the other vendor by the US government. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

[SLUG] Hot computer

2010-02-14 Thread Ken Foskey
is a hot box, I am planning renovations so it is here to stay for 12 months at least. My GPU is HOT, 50 degrees. That would contribute. Should have gone with a simpler passive one in hindsight. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Replicate Production to DR file system with rsync

2010-02-13 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 16:22 +1100, Jeremy Visser wrote: On Fri, 2010-02-12 at 15:37 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: I have done this using sudo. I write a script on the called machine, sign on as my user and run the script using sudo which I authorise (very specifically) to root without password

Re: [SLUG] Overheating

2010-02-13 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 20:31 +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: - I will try and clean the heatsink on the Nvidia without removing it and no worry too much. Cleaning the Nvidia 8800GT was easier than I thought. I needed those small screwdrivers you use for glasses. The plastic cowling is secured by 7

Re: [SLUG] Replicate Production to DR file system with rsync

2010-02-11 Thread Ken Foskey
this using sudo. I write a script on the called machine, sign on as my user and run the script using sudo which I authorise (very specifically) to root without password. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit.

2010-02-08 Thread Ken Foskey
though. Wrapper version is 'mostly' OK. Ta Ken -- 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] no speaker sound

2010-02-03 Thread Ken Foskey
. I would like to use the internal speakers. Can any one help me please, the Google searches all relate to ubuntu and not much help on Fedora Check your access to the sound group (audio and maybe pulse). Make sure you are not signed on twice. When I stack sign on (eg Ken then chris) the sound

Re: [SLUG] Overheating

2010-02-02 Thread Ken Foskey
. In summary: - I will try and clean the heatsink on the Nvidia without removing it and no worry too much. - I will clean off grey goo on CPU and replace it with a thermal paste. Thanks Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] IE on Ubunto

2010-02-02 Thread Ken Foskey
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 22:17 +0800, james wrote: Wunz upon a tyme ANZ would accept IE for internet banking and they told me that their app worked with IE only. Fiddling with about:config I had firefox (or whatever it used to be) ID as IE on Winders. And the app worked. When confronted by

[SLUG] Overheating

2010-02-01 Thread Ken Foskey
. Will this make a lot of difference? Thanks Ken -- 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] Copying HDD

2010-01-21 Thread Ken Foskey
Simply create a new partition and copy the contents. Use cp -r / path /mounted/new/path/ If you have to use dd then create a partition exactly the same size then gparted can grow it afterwards Ken Foskey On the move On 20/01/2010, at 2:00 PM, Mike Andy beatbreake...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [SLUG] Send EOF to Browser from LAMP stack.

2010-01-20 Thread Ken Foskey
that your script has stopped output. In perl I executed a background task with an system( command ); to perform the background tasks. I then emailed a reponse to the client to tell them the job was done. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] NTP Issues

2010-01-20 Thread Ken Foskey
to support the command. You can run this command manually to kick start the adjustments. ntpdate server ta Ken -- 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] Text/Html decoder plugin for Fedora 11

2010-01-18 Thread Ken Foskey
new to Linux!!. I think you need to look for apple quicktime video format. I don't know fedora however you might want to look for restricted packages as this is a proprietary format there might be a special way to install it. ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] sound always zero on sign on karmic

2009-12-03 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2009-12-03 at 15:33 +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: Do you run Skype? If so - turn off its Allow Skype to automatically adjust my mixer level. Not that it's the only issue but maybe. Skype did have that option but it was not started anyway. Resetting it did not solve the problem.

[SLUG] sound always zero on sign on karmic

2009-12-03 Thread Ken Foskey
100% and unmute worked around the problem. Don't know what the source is though. Ta Ken -- 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] sound always zero on sign on karmic

2009-12-03 Thread Ken Foskey
up script). This is the solution I put into place. Interesting in ubuntu, 'System - Preferences - Startup Applications' will not allow a command line. I created a simple script then put only the script name in the menu and it works then. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

[SLUG] sound always zero on sign on karmic

2009-12-02 Thread Ken Foskey
. Ta Ken -- 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] Weird Word docs

2009-11-30 Thread Ken Foskey
forms because of their tables cleanly and they keep changing them every 3 months lately, total pain. OOo is your only real choice. Ken (Ex OOo 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] Data Redundancy, RAID5/LVM backup decisions

2009-11-11 Thread Ken Wilson
run linux, but hard to do anything on them, I wanted to do rsync, but it only accepts ftp. Ken OTOH, my preference would be to purchase external bulk storage in some sort of NAS that did NFS[1], or perhaps that offered eSATA, and run it through the central server *if* I needed a fancy set

Re: [SLUG] Data Redundancy, RAID5/LVM backup decisions

2009-11-11 Thread Ken Wilson
Daniel Pittman wrote: Ken Wilson kenwi...@ozemail.com.au writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan srid...@dhanapalan.com writes: 2009/11/8 Kevin Shackleton kev...@reachnet.com.au: [...] Otherwise, the DLINK DNS-[24]32 devices can also run Linux, or... D Link do run linux

Re: [SLUG] Need to implement a Net Nanny on Ubuntu PDQ

2009-11-04 Thread Ken Wilson
aquick google http://www.google.com.au/search?q=Net+Nanny+on+Ubuntu+PDQie=utf-8oe=utf-8aq=trls=com.ubuntu:en-US:unofficialclient=firefox-a found this forum thread http://fixunix.com/ubuntu/126505-net-nanny.html which may give you a solution cheers Ken Kyle wrote: Hi Sluggers, well, tonight

Re: [SLUG] CentOS 5.4 release, in stock

2009-10-26 Thread Ken Wilson
Del you are pushing the limits, construct your mailing list. Ken Del wrote: Hi, I realise this list isn't the correct place for sales talk, but our own products mailing list is still under construction, so I'll keep it short. CentOS 5.4 is released, and Everything Linux have it in stock

Re: [SLUG] Wanted : Cisco Router for CCNA

2009-10-22 Thread Ken Wilson
Try Reverse garbage and The Bower in Addison Rd Marrickvillle. They have had numerous routers there for a few dollars Ken Tony H.G Candito wrote: Hello SLUG! I'm after a Cisco (1600/2500?) etc model for my recent Cisco study undertakings. Happy to fork out max 100$ You could also take my

[SLUG] quiet computer

2009-10-06 Thread Ken Foskey
I get a powerful 24 hour home system that will run quietly? Thanks Ken -- 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: 40 Years of Unix

2009-08-26 Thread Ken Wilson
not shells. Thanks for lively criticism :-) James Both GUIs and shells are just human interfaces for people to talk to computers, instructions are then translated to machine language for the computer. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Re: SSEM 2009]

2009-08-01 Thread Ken Wilson
in thunderbird? I am unable to reproduce it, so maybe the exact sequence is different to memory. More definitely its a bug in me. cheers Ken This doesn't look SLUG related. Perhaps a mistake? 2009/8/1 Ken Wilson kenwi...@ozemail.com.au: 2008-12-07 SSEM 2008 sponsorship $750 Yes we have paid

Re: [SLUG] draft intro/outros for SLUG monthly meeting videos

2009-06-27 Thread Ken Wilson
Good work Patrick I like the SLUG logo as it is our brand Ken elliott-brennan wrote: Hi All, I've decided to make myself useful. In the words of Agent 86, If only he had used his video skills for good instead of evil. :)) I've offered Ken to assist in editing the videos from the monthly

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly 12' netbook

2009-06-08 Thread Ken Foskey
not want to compile a kernel on it. Pentium 100 it was an overnight job, ah the good old days. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] USB ports

2009-06-04 Thread Ken Foskey
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Re: [SLUG] USB ports

2009-06-04 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2009-06-05 at 11:33 +1000, David Gillies wrote: Ken Foskey wrote: I bought a huge backup drive and went to plug it in today and it kept mounting and unmounting it spawning windows along the way. Strange thing is I plugged the same drive into the rear of the computer and it now

Re: Fwd: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides? SYSADMINS:- LOOK AT VIDEO STORAGE

2009-06-01 Thread Ken Wilson
ffmpeg2theora script from SLUG website that is a derivative of the script from LCA Sydney i think. Ken Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Michael Chesterton This time to the list :( Looks like there's an ugly encoding issue going on... the audio seems fine, but the video goes nuts in mplayer

Re: Fwd: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides?

2009-05-31 Thread Ken Wilson
Michael Chesterton wrote: The videos are up, (thank you very much) they're in the 2008 directory. http://mirror.linux.org.au/lug/slug/2008/ looks like the LA server script that transports the videos to folders is not dealing with a new year. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides? SYSADMINS:- LOOK AT VIDEO STORAGE

2009-05-30 Thread Ken Wilson
them together in the right sequence, but if it is wrong email me and I will redo. SLUG server seems to be missing storage at /home/slug/slug.org.au/root/videos/ ***could the sysadmins look at where the 200G disc has gone. because it was not visible today. Marghanita da Cruz wrote: Ken

Re: [SLUG] Indexing under Linux

2009-05-29 Thread Ken Wilson
. Automatic generation would be hard to give good results. ken Jon wrote: I have been asked by the editor of The Indexer -- the academic journal of indexers worldwide -- to write a brief non-technical piece about indexing under Linux; and by 'indexing' here I mean creating the A-Z indexes found

Re: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides?

2009-05-29 Thread Ken Wilson
am doing it as no one else is, I know zip about video, and am learning in the dark on SLUG meetings. Ken Martin Visser wrote: I know that this question comes up from time to time, but I think it is the first time that I have asked, so I thought I would kick it out there again ;-) I try to get

Re: [SLUG] Indexing under Linux

2009-05-29 Thread Ken Wilson
, often over many editions. Ken -- 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] security monitor with webcam

2009-05-25 Thread Ken Foskey
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 16:44 +1000, elliott-brennan wrote: I was racking my brain trying to remember the applications name when what should come up on lxer.com?: ZoneMinder http://www.zoneminder.com/ I'd read about this a while ago. It seemed quite good. I haven't used it though.

[SLUG] webcam woes Jaunty

2009-05-21 Thread Ken Foskey
There is a problem with Jaunty and webcams that I have: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libv4l/+bug/359045 Webcams will occasionally work. There is also a Kernel bug that crops up because of something with cheese: cheese: page allocation failure. order:5, mode:0x8004 Googling led

[SLUG] Re: Colin McCormack contact details

2009-05-18 Thread Ken Wilson
on anything. Cheers Ken Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Hi Ken, Do we have the contact details for Colin McCormack? -- Forwarded message -- From: Stephen Ode st...@lcmtechnologies.com Date: 2009/5/18 Subject: To: presid...@slug.org.au Hi Sridhar Im trying to contact Colin McCormack who

[SLUG] security monitor with webcam

2009-05-18 Thread Ken Foskey
also need to be watermarked with the time. I then want to be able to replay a section of time that is the best estimate of when the fire was set. I may not be home / awake. From a hardware point of view, can I extend the USB wire as I need about 3m extra. Would it still work. Ta Ken -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] XBitHack

2009-05-13 Thread Ken Wilson
There is an add-on that allows a reply to list button to appear on the toolbar. I have just found it. Ken david wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Hi Irma, Think about this for a second: if you can do that to other people, can't other people do that to you? Wouldn't it be annoying if everyone

[SLUG] recovering xfs

2009-05-13 Thread Ken Foskey
correctly. Is the above basically correct? Is there any hints that I might need. Ta Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

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