Hi
https://www.writelatex.com/
Don't know if this helps but here it is anyway.
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http://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org/journalism/?p=191
Might interest someone out there. I've re-written some of the
magazine features that I've produced over the years.
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On Friday 07 Feb 2014 21:06:21 Johannes Nielsen wrote:
I have a Lenovo thinkpad with an Intel Core 2 Duo T5870 2.00 Ghz
with a GM 45 Chipset with 8 Gig of DDR III Ram
Since I installed 12.04 LTR my lappy has slowed down and there
appears to be memory issues, I am not able to open as many
On Saturday 01 Feb 2014 12:16:13 Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote:
Nice one, Richard.
I like the layout and the text that appears on the images when you
select one.
:)
You don't get a lot of choice if you are a photographer and want to
show your pictures on the net. Due to either theft of
Hi
http://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org/photographs/
http://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org/blog/?p=296
After some long weeks of some system administration it looks like I've
been able to sort out my web server at last. If you are interested
have a browse. Might entertain you for a few minutes.
On Monday 02 December 2013 09:48:25 Heracles wrote:
I recently had a problem and had to replace my motherboard and cpu.
After the replacement the system would not boot. It came up with a
console and the following:
No such device:3c7c2249-34ed-484d-9e36-bd40223e1c34
grub
I thought that
Hi
http://youtu.be/o774LMtfeJY
Might interest someone out there. Interview I did with the Raspberry
Pi team.
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http://www.mixcloud.com/Johno395/
We'll try that again shall we. SoundCloud just closed me down. I
have to pay for extra space. Try this instead.
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https://soundcloud.com/richard-ibbotson/james-vasile-came-to-sheffield
I did this so that everyone could listen to it. Not for me to prevent
it's distribution. With that in mind I thought I should put it on
SoundCloud.
This is a presentation that we did back in April 2008. This is a talk
Hi
http://www.sheflug.org.uk/news/
I don't claim that this is anything amazing but if you are having one
of those days when you are bored out of your mind this might help for
a few minutes. Some of it is worth reading.
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Well today pretty much marks 20 years since I've used Linux at
home.
I started using Debian and RedHat Linux when I was at www.shef.ac.uk
back in 1993. Then I got into e-mail discussions with Richard
Stevenson at Pegasus Mail in New Zealand. By 95/96 I was helping to
start the first UK
On Tuesday 14 August 2012 21:59:00 Steven Tucker wrote:
I have just rolled out a Scientific Linux (Redhat clone) cluster of
20 nodes plus controller that runs torque for batching and uses a
lot of MPI. My problem is that I periodically get asked to include
some library or program to help out
Hi
One of the things I do after an upgrade is ... 'sudo apt-get install
smartpm'. Then 'sudo smart update' and 'sudo smart upgrade' finds
various things that apt-get might not find. After that I keep going
around apt-get and smart commands to install everything. I don't know
if this is a
On Monday 28 May 2012 22:29:53 Ben Donohue wrote:
Anyone out there with Android able to sync with a Linux desktop?
Works for me. See also
http://www.ubuntu.com/devices/android
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJMdTYek8Cs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnLqjvlfUWE
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On Thursday 01 March 2012 02:06:24 Patrick Elliott-Brennan wrote:
More information:
http://www.rasberrypi.org/
These seem to selling at a greater rate than the original Asus EeePC
701. Thought I was imagining something until I saw this e-mail.
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On Thursday 01 March 2012 16:20:15 Geoffrey Cowling wrote:
Will Microsoft be able to lock this down?
In some ways this is a good question. As far I understand it M$
attempts to lock down the Arm platform in Europe will fail due to EU
law. Not allowed to do what they want to do. Might be
On Saturday 12 Nov 2011 21:21:56 Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Can anyone recommend an alternative? Something simple and minimal
without too much ugly. Sorry I can't stand tiling WMs either.
Before Gnome 3 came along I didn't like LXDE but I've started to use
it. I find that the Avant or Cairo
On Tuesday 18 Oct 2011 13:31:59 Ken Foskey wrote:
A gear will appear near your name, you can then select classic
Gnome from the start up.
Personally I have moved to XUbuntu and xfce. Seems to work OK for
me so far. I did this by installing xubuntu and then using the
gear wheel to select
On Friday 07 October 2011 08:47:49 james o'regan wrote:
I have a netbook with mint fodera, great.
Just bought a new laptop that was configured with open suse,
kubuntu pardus; the shop couldn't enable mobile broadband.
I live in the bush, i unfortunately have to be with telstra next
g,
On Friday 07 October 2011 12:25:34 Jeremy Visser wrote:
On 07/10/2011, at 19:11, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
On Friday 07 October 2011 08:47:49 james o'regan wrote:
I live in the bush, i unfortunately have to be with telstra next
g, phone mobile broadband usb.
for Mint and Kubuntu you can
Stewart
Most of it is on the openSuSE site
http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Software_Repositories
http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Software_Repositories
Search this site for further info.
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Lyx - http://www.lyx.org/
Abiword - http://www.abisource.com/
LibreOffice - http://www.libreoffice.org
txt2html - http://txt2html.sourceforge.net/
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On Thursday 16 June 2011 00:04:25 Heracles wrote:
It is an HP P1005 Laserjet.
As it worked in 11.04 loses the settings etc. each time it is
restarted whereas 10.10 did not, I believe it is a problem in
11.04.
I'm considering going back to 10.10.
On Thursday 16 June 2011 11:03:27 Heracles wrote:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=644041
http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-LaserJet_1005
Thanks for the info. I have discovered that just downloading the
required plugin each time I start the computer solves the problem
On Wednesday 15 June 2011 08:20:32 Heracles wrote:
I have this printer attached to my computer via USB. Using Ubuntu
10.10 it worked fine.
I have now installed 11.04 and the only way I can get it to work is
to completely remove it each time I start my PC and reinstall it
(including
Jam wrote:
, how do you disable muk? I've tried everything including
*removing* all trace (which means kmail won't run) and all the disable
switches I can find, but using these one has to start kmail twice, first
time fails with nep-errors :-(
Open up settings from the KDE menu and find
On Monday 13 June 2011 09:57:38 Jam 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 show stoppers eg nepomuk
(some utterley
Richard == Richard Ibbotson
richard.ibbot...@googlemail.com writes:
Richard Hi Any one give me a clue what I'm doing wrong ? I've
done a Richard two day web search on this and nothing is
working... Debian Richard Squeeze Apache server
Peter Chubb wrote:
Have you verified with CaCERT
Peter
Peter Chubb wrote:
Do you mean you see http://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org in your
domain list, or just sleepypenguin.homelinux.org ??? If you see
the former there's something wrong.
It's definitely sleepypenguin.homelinux.org. I've just opened up my
CaCERT page and checked it.
to be
removed as well ? So, far I've tried .
sleepypenguin
sleepypenguin.homelinux.org
richard
Richard
Ibbotson
as the common names. None of these work. Tried to have a chat to
Marc Balmer (OpenBSD consultant) about this who said that the
documentation might provide an answer. Nothing
On Sunday 03 April 2011 11:41:34 Chris Allen wrote:
What is the current consensus on using a virus scanner for Linux
(specifically Ubuntu 10.10)?
When I last asked this (about 2 years ago) the general opinion was,
waste of time, Linux did' need it
If scanners are recommended now, which is the
On Sunday 20 March 2011 06:53:01 Heracles wrote:
lspci shows the nic and so does iwconfig but ifconfig only shows
the loopback interface. It does not even show the (100/1000Mb)
ethernet interface.
Ubuntu, SuSE and Fedora all show both.
Am I missing something?
This is only speculation
On Wednesday 29 December 2010 04:16:51 wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au
wrote:
[I'm surprised at the reaction of some people on learning of my
intentions. Some regard me as a mindless iconoclast (don't mind
that), others give me a penny lecture on the superiority of
Microsoft over everything (do
On Wednesday 24 November 2010 12:37:13 ma...@idl.net.au wrote:
Hello fellow users, I recently did an upgrade from Ubuntu 10.4 to
10.10 The computer will not start. I get a flashing cursor in the
top left corner. Can I recover the computer, or what is the best
option ?
On Friday 12 November 2010 04:45:17 Voytek Eymont wrote:
this is a rolling storage for cameras, so we lost data that would
soon be overwritten, anyhow
but, what can I use to be notified should such a failure occur
again ?
Can't think of anything other than occasional checks with the disks
Can you use SMART?
Thinking was a bit fuzzy this morning. I was thinking that you might
be able to write a bash script using smartmon. Any bash script would
have to have something like this in it...
smartctl -d ata -H /dev/sdb
or whatever would be relevant. Also some part of the script
- what sort of tests or whatever can I run before I pull the
unit down ?
- what sort of utility can I run to 'detect and notify' should
such failure occurs again ?
You might try these... one of more of these should tell you
something
- what sort of tests or whatever can I run before I pull the unit
down ?
- what sort of utility can I run to 'detect and notify' should
such failure occurs again ?
You might try these... one of more of these should tell you
something
RescueCD...
On Sunday 24 October 2010 13:45:29 wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote:
If I have an application that I wish to install --- a crossword
compiler in this case and I have the download on the desktop ---
it's a .tgz file --- is there an apt-get command 9or variation)
that will install it?
apt-get
Hi
I'm afraid I gave up on filling public rubbish dumps. If you can
excuse me for putting it that way. If I do need a laptop I go to Ebay
and get hold of something like an IBM T40 or X40. As long as it has
2Gb of RAM. Cost about $160. Ebay also do a CD based manual for
about $10. How to
On Wednesday 22 September 2010 07:53:01 Lee Isaacson wrote:
Oh... just about any...
http://distrowatch.com/
But, just about any version of Ubuntu or Kubuntu or Fedora or openSuSE
is easy to install and use. Easier than winduhs. You just need to
make sure you have enough RAM in your machine.
On Sunday 19 September 2010 14:59:11 elliott-brennan wrote:
I'm looking for some recommendations in relation
to accounts and client management software.
http://www.aaxnet.com/design/linuxacct.html
Also... apt-get install gnumed-client .
Hi
http://www.sheflug.org.uk/clayton.html
A meeting we had last week. Might interest someone out there. This
is a short summary with a YouTube video.
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Are USB 3G modems a reasonable alternative? If so, what would
members recommend?
Plenty of pay for Wi-Fi out there. Such as British Telecom, Belgacom
in Belgium, Deutsch Telecom in Germany and so on. For a USB based
broadband service you
Hi
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Is_the_Internet_Filter_Australia%27s_Berlin_Wall
I'm not sure if you should take anything too seriously on this site
but there are times when it makes for interesting reading. The above
seems to be a good read.
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Hi
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/ucgi/~cjwatson/blosxom/2010/08/28
Colin Watson would like to hear from you. ...
If you find that running Windows makes a GRUB 2-based system
unbootable (Debian bug, Ubuntu bug), then I'd like to hear from you.
This is a bug in which some proprietary
On Sunday 29 August 2010 15:03:25 Nick Andrew wrote:
For public servers there are plenty of reasonably priced services
including virtual server, web hosting, Amazon EC2, dedicated
server, colocation etc etc. And those are only some of the
self-managed infrastructure options. You can get free
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 22:57:20 Jon Jermey wrote:
I'm trying to get Linux running from an SD card boot on an Asus eee
1005p but every distro I have tried so far fails to recognise the
Wi-Fi (Atheros). Wired connections are working. Does anyone know
of a distro which recognises wireless
On Thursday 05 August 2010 00:54:07 Adrian Chadd wrote:
I have one of these very-recent atheros chipset Eeepc laptops and
it works fine. Just need to remember to recompile it every time
the kernel is updated.
Been through that a few times with my EeePC 701 and 1005HA. More
recently with
On Sunday 18 July 2010 12:01:28 Daryl Thompson wrote:
i am looking at Android powered mobiles and was wondering has any
one synchronised the Samsung Galaxy S i9000 with Linux ubuntu as
yet and if there was any problems
My Samsung GT-I5700 works fine with this. Just have to remember to
click
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 06:08:42 justin randell wrote:
this looks like a wordpress code/mysql issue to me:
some basic things - do you have APC enabled for php? if you don't,
apt-get install php5-apc, restart apache, and you'll get immediate
performance gains.
Hmmm Google search...
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 13:50:01 Jeff Waugh wrote:
I hope you mean the 'php-apc' package, rather than php-fpm.
Yes.
wp-cache is unmaintained, wp-super-cache was forked from it and is
kept up to date by the creator of WordPress MU. There's no point
using wp-cache, and it is highly unlikely
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 14:27:34 Richard Ibbotson wrote:
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 13:50:01 Jeff Waugh wrote:
I hope you mean the 'php-apc' package, rather than php-fpm.
Yes.
wp-cache is unmaintained, wp-super-cache was forked from it and
is kept up to date by the creator
Hi
I think this one died a while ago but after some months I have finally
been able to get my Wordpress blog running again
http://sleepypenguin.homelinux.org/blog/
Finally sorted it out with 'apt-get install wordpress' which most
likely installed a configuration file that I didn't know
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 22:31:03 Michael Chesterton wrote:
Both google and yahoo have firefox plugins that might help diagnose
the problem. One is called yslow (I think that's yahoo's) and
googles is speed test toolbar or something obscure like that.
Does the page wait for a few seconds on a
On Wednesday 30 June 2010 00:25:24 Mike Lampard wrote:
I'd suggest the WP-Cache or WP-Super-Cache plugins, which
precompile the php to html so the server doesn't have to recompile
the pages on each access. The GZIP-Output wordpress plugin is also
recommended.
I'll try those. Meanwhile I've
This usually leads to client-server style databases or things
like memcachedb in redundant configuration.
This is the exact problem I came across recently when developing a
Wordpress extension. Coming from Drupal land I thought sessions
would be stored in the DB out of the box. But alas
That is not the case, however, certainly not with WordPress 2.9
(and I'm pretty sure, all the way back to 2.7 and earlier)... in
normal operation, there should be *no* warnings whatsoever running
WordPress core.
Oh...
The second last log line, and inaccuracy of line 27 (given that
call
Most likely both... on top of that, consider WordPress's relative
age, ease of installation / configuration (particularly on shared
hosting platforms where the user has no control over the system),
and desire to support older system components.
An interesting question though, for which I'm
Hmmm... Wordpress 3 beta 2 upgrade looks like a re-install to me
:) ..
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PHP 5.3 includes a lot of fairly forward-looking changes that were
originally slated for PHP 6. The justification for doing that's
been argued about quite a bit in the PHP community.
Oh.. that's what's going on. I know Derick Rethans reasonably well.
I should have asked him a
Justin Randell wrote
given that the current stable ubuntu, the coming stable debian and
redhat, and stable just about everyting-else in linux land
will/does ship php 5.3, maybe a patch set will develop?
I was thinking that this might happen. Given that things move along
quickly in the
Jeff Waugh wrote...
WordPress 3.0 is going to rock (and indeed, already is, if you're
comfy running pre-release).
Yes. Looks like it should be good.
Shame the PHP stuff in Lurid Lynx 10.04 isn't quite there just
yet. Maybe an update in a few weeks for Ubuntu.
Seems fine here. I've
Jeff
WordPress 3.0 is going to rock (and indeed, already is, if you're
comfy running pre-release).
Right, following your helpful words I have upgraded to 3.0 beta 1.
Seems to work fine. Wordpress database upgrade went fine. However,
looking in to my.cnf and php.ini I can't see anything
Jeff
Probably a theme issue. Make sure that you have the freshest
version of your theme, and then start looking at your error.log -
you're very likely to find indicative errors in there.
Checked the Flora Relief theme. Seems to be up to date. Tried to use
some other themes. Same result.
Justin
i guess the wordpress devs would have read this:
http://au.php.net/manual/en/migration53.deprecated.php
and just decided that people using 5.3 can just deal with those
warnings in their logs on every, single, request.
Was hoping someone was going to give me a simple answer. I've
Hi
Josh Smith wrote:
It was released this morning. First to update or install, please
report results :)
My Ubuntu server seems to be working fine after the upgrade. Also, my
Ubuntu desktop in my kitchen. However, I now find that my Wordpress
2.9.2 blog postings have disappeared.
any suggestions about how to fix this greatly appreciated. Can't
find an answer with a Google search.
i don't mess with wordpress much, but lucid ships php 5.3 by
default, and a lot of php webapps (and plugins for those) haven't
bee thoroughly vetted to run smoothly on php 5.3.
I
Jeff
A quick tidbit for anyone who has acquired one of these delightful
netbooks: Asus has shipped a few BIOS updates, the most recent of
which has improved my wifi performance/reliability considerably.
Recommended update.
How did you get your machine to install the BIOS update. I've
Hi
How do I get a copy of Joomla installed on Ubuntu 9.10? I have
downloaded the file package ffom their site, but it is in zip
format and gunzip says unknown suffix --ignored and does nothing
You need to install unzip and p7zip
sudo apt-get install p7zip-full rar arj lha unzip
Should
Jeff Waugh wrote:
2. Are you still happy
Very much so.
+1 on that :)
3. How has the battery life stood up over the 6m.
4. What sort of battery life are you getting (esp. now after 6
months)
Early days yet, but the battery life on this thing is INSANE. I loved
not having to cart around a
Peter Chubb wrote:
I bought an Acer Aspire One a year ago, and am still happy. In fact
I'm typing this on it now! Main problems are:
-- slow SSD
-- when the laptop is clsoed you can't see the power LED, so
can't tell if it's suspended, on, or off.
-- cover is a fingerprint magnet.
Peter Chubb wrote:
I bought an Acer Aspire One a year ago, and am still happy. In fact
I'm typing this on it now! Main problems are:
-- slow SSD
-- when the laptop is clsoed you can't see the power LED, so
can't tell if it's suspended, on, or off.
-- cover is a fingerprint magnet.
Hi
In the past we have had visits to Fosdem by some people from
Australia. This year the streets of Brussels were empty of our
Australian friends. With this in mind you might like to have a look
here...
http://video.fosdem.org/2010/
Probably the best of the whole bunch was Andrew
On Monday 15 February 2010 12:44:20 Ken Foskey wrote:
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
Peter
What's the earliest reference to open source anyone knows? I found
this in a 1965 paper:
The Multics system will be published when it is operating
substantially, and will therefore be available for
implementation on any equipment with suitable characteristics.
Yes. This
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 10:13:01 Chris Allen wrote:
Is there a simple solution (cheap) to this dilemma?
http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page
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On Tuesday 02 February 2010 10:46:18 James Polley wrote:
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 11:25 PM, Richard Ibbotson
richard.ibbot...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tuesday 02 February 2010 10:13:01 Chris Allen wrote:
Is there a simple solution (cheap) to this dilemma?
http://www.tatanka.com.br
On Sunday 06 Dec 2009 03:45:08 Jake Anderson wrote:
Meijer, Luke wrote:
Hello
I want to build a mini-itx box for smoothwall 3.0
If your not absolutely set on smoothwall take a look at pfsense,
same roots and, any itx machine should have enough juice to run it
well and its based on
On Thursday 19 Nov 2009 05:23:33 Amos Shapira wrote:
I'm going to get a new desktop at work and was wondering whether
it's worth moving to 64-bit.
What's the collective wisdom/experience on the list? Is it worth
moving to 64-bit or should I stay away?
Works for me for the past two years with
On Thursday 19 Nov 2009 11:21:28 Amos Shapira wrote:
The work desktop will come with an on-board Intel chip, which as
far as I followed should be supported using open-source drivers.
Do you use Skype and Flash? Any issues with them?
No. On Ubuntu which is the easiest to use with Flash and
On Friday 20 Nov 2009 01:06:44 Jake Anderson wrote:
Watch out running a vacuum cleaner around inside a PC, they can
make *loads* of static.
After ten years without a hitch there shouldn't be a problem. Depends
what you are standing on :) I did most of a degree in physics. For
that I had
Hi
Some interesting news for people who spend a lot of time making long
distance phone calls...
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Mysterous-Mail-Will-Skype-
Become-Open-Source
http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/News/Skype-Plugin-for-Asterisk
Digium, makers of Asterisk telephony
Havent used my Netbook for a few weeks. Booted up last night and
installed 94 updates. Now whenever I use streaming media (
shoutcast in Exaile or Youtube in Firefox) The HD clicks like
crazy.
There was something like EXT3 daemon issues or many versions of the
same desktop search software
Hmmm...
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1556944/linux-saves-aussie-
electricity
QUICK THINKING open sourcerers might have saved an Australian power
supply system after its electrical grid control room network got
infected with a virus.
Winduhs ... my friend for life
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Had they kept their OS and anti-virus up to date, they would have
had some protection against what felled their systems.
Yes.
However, considering that they were using Windows as X terminals
for Solaris servers, one wonders why they weren't using Linux.
I was wondering the same thing :)
At the time Drupal had a vague plan to move to a decent database
layer to reduce SQL injection attacks, but nothing more.
Just got back from Drupalcon in Paris. Have a look at
http://www.archive.org/details/Drupal7StatusUpdateandNextSteps
the sound is a bit rough but you should get
Are people running versions of Linux on this or similar computers
that they've been able to install easily while keeping Windows?
I do not know that because I don't have Eeepc. Having said that
though, why not give Eeebuntu (http://www.eeebuntu.org) a go? It's
specifically designed for
The one that I've been using for writing for magazines and travelling
with my 701 is...
http://www.eeebuntu.org/
Netbook remix or the standard version is just great. See also Crunch
Bang Linux - http://crunchbanglinux.org/ - great for netbooks.
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I don't know if this is true but here it is
http://tiny.cc/PGil5
I think this means that although some of this is the XP desktop a lot
of it is GNU/Linux based ?
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On Wednesday 26 Aug 2009 12:36:03 Morgan Storey wrote:
Unfortunately from what I have read a lot of the manufacturers
moved to XP on the slightly higher models, and models with larger
disks, and a lot of those sales where XP machines. So much so that
MS continued shipping XP and supporting it.
On Sunday 31 May 2009 10:45:52 Ken Wilson wrote:
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/
Thanks for that. Was hoping I might be able to watch Jeff give his
talk :)
Richard
On Sunday 31 May 2009 14:04:42 Jeff Waugh wrote:
Looks like there's an ugly encoding issue going on... the audio
seems fine, but the video goes nuts in mplayer (and gstreamer just
seems to ignore the intermediate frames -- mplayer is valiantly
trying to do something useful with them).
What
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 00:55:18 Jeff Waugh wrote:
The sluggishness is almost certainly related to the video driver
performance regression in Ubuntu 9.04. There are some half-fixes
which introduce new problems, but for most users I recommend going
back to 8.10 for now. Easiest way around it,
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 00:21:41 Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
With regard to Technical/Architectural drawing - I suspect there
would be lots of shortcomings in the gimp apart from its printing
capabilitybut my tech drawing and
photography classes were too long ago, for me to comment on how the
On Tuesday 19 May 2009 08:32:33 Andrew Cowie wrote:
As long as the graphics arts industry continue to use those names
to identify, and the printing industry uses such names to
distinguish the pile of coloured bottles on the shelf, then
apparently there's nothing we can do. ie, we are free to
It's driving me nuts; i've spent the last couple of hours
twiddling knobs like crazy and making repeated calls to the test
service.
What I do after checking the sound levels with a gui based application
is install another sound level controller. Let's see..
sudo apt-cache search sound
On Monday 18 May 2009 12:54:34 elliott-brennan wrote:
I've never been shown the difference (as in, here
are examples of a photograph) and I don't know if
most (the majority of) people would notice or care
either way.
Due to the fact that most people are taught only simple concepts to do
with
On Monday 18 May 2009 14:56:54 elliott-brennan wrote:
I agree about colour perception and the range of
abilities people have. Similarly a (then)
girlfriend's aunt insisted she could not tell the
difference between stereo and mono. I ran a few
tests for her. Despite the fact she could hear
On Monday 18 May 2009 13:45:48 Glen Turner wrote:
Also lacking in GIMP and Inkscape is support for spot
printing and multi-colour processes. PANTONE is the most
common of those process -- it is commonly used to print
logos onto things.
Yes. I've done a lot of work with old fashioned
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