Re: [SLUG] Backup from Windows files to Linux

2008-01-10 Thread david . lyon
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi there, I am not sure if this is possible. Is there away for a Linux PC to be able to back up files from a Windows 2003 Small Business Server. I would prefer to use Ubuntu as it is quick to install but the backup application would need to have a gui and be able to

Re: [SLUG] Windows Home Servers - the book for children AND the website

2008-01-16 Thread david . lyon
Here is the book, teaching children about Windows home servers: http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/microserveces08/1000446153 And here is the website it comes from: http://www.stayathomeserver.com Watch the videos. They're brilliant! Yeah - the presentations are very effective. Since I am

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 24, Issue 35

2008-01-21 Thread david . lyon
I have seen those problems also. If you are certain that you have the correct driver (this must be right) then try supplying a username and password. It is quite possible that 'nobody' doesn't have the correct access with samba for the printer share to be able to print. Within Samba, it

[SLUG] Call for the likeminded.. Assistance with Local Linux Distro

2008-01-22 Thread david . lyon
Hello everybody.. I have stumbled into something which I think is too big for me and I am looking to reach out to people who might find some value. By Trade, I am a Programmer/Project Manager. Last year I worked at the Department of Commerce and they were talking about this and that with Open

Re: [SLUG] Call for the likeminded.. Assistance with Local Linux Distro

2008-01-23 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED]: why not go the debian/ubuntu method. Start with a base debian build, create a custom deb package (sort of a meta package) that pulls in all the relevant other debs and does a config. You could setup you own repo and your done. Well another deb for each

Re: [SLUG] Call for the likeminded.. Assistance with Local Linux Distro

2008-01-23 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You haven't explained why Australia in particular needs a Linux distro. Well, we haven't got a single one that I know of for a start... :-( That is a little dissappointing... beyond that.. there appears to be a niche within small IT companies for a

Re: [SLUG] Call for the likeminded.. Assistance with Local Linux Distro

2008-01-23 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I simply use the server version of ubuntu and apt-get any other extras I may or may not need depending on the function of the server. Yes.. but it takes some time to do all that... I guess you are talking about not having to do the extra install the

Re: [SLUG] Call for the likeminded.. Assistance with Local Linux Distro

2008-01-23 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks everyone... Nice to get some responses... I'll just answer offlist.. Take care David -- 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

2008-01-24 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Quoting Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You haven't explained why Australia in particular needs a Linux distro. Well, we haven't got a single one that I know of for a start... :-( That is a little dissappointing... No, but Canonical/Ubuntu

Re: [SLUG] report from last nights meeting?

2008-01-26 Thread david . lyon
anyone got any reports from last nights slug meet Here's one unofficial report... maybe others can give the correct version It was very nice that the people from Microsoft turned up and presented. I think that they put a lot of effort preparing the presentations and they all turned up on

Re: [SLUG] Restricting access to certain IP addresses with OpenVPN

2008-01-29 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Andre Kolodochka [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi sluggers, We have OpenVPN server running internally for employees to access our network from home. We have a request from a potential client to access some internal demo systems. They are happy to install and use OpenVPN client, however I won't be

Re: [SLUG] image content management

2008-02-24 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Ben Donohue [EMAIL PROTECTED]: anyone have experience with an OS CMS primarily for images? I know there are heaps of CMS packages for docs. Something that can be searched for images with metadata, possibly scan images from various file server sources and give thumbnail images or

Re: [SLUG] Seeing 2020

2008-03-02 Thread david . lyon
Quoting David Guest [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does slug have a view on what, if any, should be the open source input to 2020 (http://www.australia2020.gov.au/topics/infrastructure.cfm)? lol... 2020 is a long way away. I mean come on we have a brain drain going on here Australia is

Re: [SLUG] Seeing 2020

2008-03-02 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Australian Government officials have been on the foreign take for a long time If you have real concrete evidence of this corruption why are you emailing the SLUG mailing list instead of contacting ICAC (Independant Commisson Against Corruption)

Re: [SLUG] open source management...

2008-03-04 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The often touted response to this observation is that I should get into management. As if that is natural career growth path for someone talented in software design and development. Nothing of course could be further from reality. A good geek != a good

[SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...

2008-03-13 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:13 +1100, Martin Visser wrote: Just a reminder if you want to help out at the 'Gong Uni installfest we could still do with a 2 or 3 more volunteers to help assist tomorrow I am told that XP now has some additional checks

Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...

2008-03-13 Thread david . lyon
Are there any viable alternatives within FOSS ? My friends in germany all say go buy the windows tool.. are they right ? or is there another way ? Pretty much buncome. It JustWorks right up to a few day old purchase of Xp SP2 ok - no problem... so which tool reliably does it ? ie

Re: [SLUG] Repartitioning XP to support dual booting...

2008-03-16 Thread david . lyon
Quoting jam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Insert ubuntu CD, boot live, choose install, manual partition, shrink partition ... Ok thanks for that... (everyone) I haven't installed it that way for a long time and didn't know it worked. David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] whack MBR

2008-03-31 Thread david . lyon
Hi Peter, have you tried install-mbr ? eg: install-mbr -i n -p D -t 0 /dev/hda Quoting Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Dear Lazy Web, I am presently debugging PXE installs for our product. This involves a lot of round trips like this: 1. enter bios setup, disable disk boot 2. netboot

Re: Open2020 and Strawpoll on Roles in the Governance of ICT was Re: [SLUG] Looking for speakers

2008-04-13 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Marghanita da Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi Sridhar and SLUGers, Video of the Open 2020 talks is now available at http://tomw.net.au/moodle/course/view.php?id=9 Sitting around watching Videos at a SLUG meeting might not be what you are after... and the files are pretty big MPEG4 but the

Re: [SLUG] Sending mail from within a highly locked down network

2008-04-20 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Mick Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:06:54 +1000 Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Background: my normal mail setup uses Postfix on my laptop to send outgoing mail. My university has blocked all outgoing ports except 80 (and they may have a transparent proxy in

Re: [SLUG] Re: Sending mail from within a highly locked down network

2008-04-20 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I wasn't clear in my original mail: I'm more interested in how people get their laptop to switch mail settings between inside horrible network and normal operation than I am in specifically what their inside-horrible-network settings are, because in this

Re: [SLUG] Re: Strawpoll on Roles in the Governance of ICT

2008-04-24 Thread david . lyon
Yes hi Marghanita, Well the 2020 conference was a big surprise to me... actually asking australian young people what they want. jeeze ... did that catch me off guard... :-) If I am not mistaken we've never had this level of democracy in this country ever ... My reading of your

Re: [SLUG] search engine for company network (OT)

2008-05-19 Thread david . lyon
Hi Sebastian, One option worth looking at if you have some time is transferring your content across to a Content Management System (CMS). I had never used a CMS until I was asked to revue several of them for a Government Department. After seeing them in operation I was really impressed.

Re: [SLUG] Re: Strawpoll on Roles in the Governance of ICT

2008-05-20 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Marghanita da Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: You probably need to trawl through the ALP policy to figure out what the new federal government is planning but they seem to share your thoughts on efficencies if not industry development.

Re: [SLUG] simple text formatting language

2008-05-28 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 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 you'd usually do in

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 29, Issue 5

2008-06-02 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Darryl Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I had the pleasure some years ago of a cracker gaining access to a Linux box on my work Network running SME Server. I still do not know how the attacker located the machine. I presume it was probably through a port scan . I have seen the same

Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)

2008-06-02 Thread david . lyon
Adrian Chadd wrote: The trouble is that the entry barrier for coding is so low, you can code without any clue. This very issue gave rise to some heated debate over on the LINK mailing list, which some of you attend. Many of us computer professionals were peeved by this low barrier to entry

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 29, Issue 5

2008-06-02 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Which release of SME Server was this? Having done some auditing, and worked with customers who ran SME Server systems for some years without incident -- but only on older versions -- I am surprised at this claim. It is some years ago now... As I

Re: [SLUG] Wine needs your help

2008-06-05 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: A later comment further down the thread says they have enough data for Windows XP but need more data about other Windows platforms (2000, 2003, Vista, Me 95) and would like to see re-runs when rc3 comes out.

Re: [SLUG] Sydney Python 5th June meetup postponed... ended up being interesting

2008-06-09 Thread david . lyon
Hi All, I've never been to a python user group.. I thought I would go... It turned out to be quite interesting... had enough linux to keep me interested the whole time. They were showing off Amazon Web Services. What it appeared to be was that what they offer access to rack mounted

Re: [SLUG] composite multiple images command in imagemagick

2008-06-11 Thread david . lyon
Elliott, What you are after is actually a programmer... who can write that sort of thing.. Usually there are two ways - pay with beer or cheques or other sort of favours... :-) I can't see any way past it... you are in industrial-land... plenty of people out there who might want to

Re: [SLUG] composite multiple images command in imagemagick

2008-06-12 Thread david . lyon
Hi Rick, Quoting Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've always pondered where to draw the line between sys admin and programmer /analyst. Well there's definitely a difference... but there are true sys-admins, true programmers and some who seem to be able to do both. Which raises the

[SLUG] Re: composite multiple images command in imagemagick

2008-06-12 Thread david . lyon
Well that's the spirit... Quoting elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All Hail Amos :)) Looks like I owe you at least *a* beer! (note inference of more than singular :)) Nice to hear that something good came out of the whole thing.. David -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] evolution attachments

2008-06-17 Thread david . lyon
Quoting jam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi my query to the forums was just closed after too long inactive. I would use evolution if I could enable 'display images inline' by default. Anybody know of a config setting ? Forgive me for this... but if it isn't in the config dialog box have you

[SLUG] problem with Displaying German characters under mozilla in Linux

2008-06-17 Thread david . lyon
Hi all, I am having a problem under linux.. with my html... with german characters.. Nothing is wrong with the system, every other german web page displays properly. Problem is the word höchsten in the following page. When it gets displayed in the browser it gets shown as höchsten. I

Re: [SLUG] problem with Displaying German characters under mozilla in Linux

2008-06-17 Thread david . lyon
Hi Masood, Thank you very much for that... perfect... such a simple thing but you have saved me many hours of work. :-) Quoting Masood [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The problem is the meta tag sets a wrong encoding for the xhtml documents. in meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html;

Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?

2008-06-18 Thread david . lyon
Looks like it is going to be a boring day on slug from now on cos this one was really great... does kindof makes you think about all sorts of bizzarre possibilities... I've been working with regexes and search and replace... mixing that in with the http streaming (changing words in web

Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?

2008-06-23 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Cibby Pulikkaseril [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'd just like to add an anecdote on pseudo-random number generation: several years ago, a group of Canadian comp. sci. students were arrested for fraud. . ... Good story.. I can't seem to find a link to this story, though. Is it bogus?

[SLUG] Gumstix - do they work ?

2008-06-23 Thread david . lyon
Are these things any good ? do they run python ? and have net access ? can somebody demo them at a meeting ? -- 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: slug Digest, Vol 29, Issue 44

2008-06-24 Thread david . lyon
Quoting jam [EMAIL PROTECTED]: David I'm about to get one, so this is all hearsay, but Full Distro, including WiFi or CAT5 and all the bits. And the big draw card is low power. WA is somewhat shell shocked about power at the mo. Bluddy idjits, but I digress James Only thing I noticed is no

Re: [SLUG] Recommendation for PC dealer/parts supplier

2008-06-24 Thread david . lyon
Quoting elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Has anyone any recommendations for parts suppliers? I live in the around the Inner West and am looking for somewhere to purchase a motherboard, CPU and some RAM. I have a car and am willing to travel a reasonable distance. Places like Campbelltown are

Re: [SLUG] perl comm port data reading/parsing

2008-06-25 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED]: on first read, I get only 'half' of output, followed my 'wrong offset', see below: Right, You must wait till the end of line character is received, and not when data is available. Set up a variable called 'linebuffer' or something... keep adding

Re: [SLUG] perl comm port data reading/parsing

2008-06-25 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED]: yes, I thought it was something like that, I recall some REXX script we had for SMSsing, it had stuff like that to process comm port; there must be some ready made perl code like that, any thoughts where to look for such ? (I'm just a water tank gauge

Re: [SLUG] perl comm port data reading/parsing

2008-06-25 Thread david . lyon
apologies... there was a fatal flaw... so this is the update.. my $MAXVAR = 20;# Maximum data variation (%) my $port=Device::SerialPort-new(/dev/ttyS0); my $tmpfile = /var/tmp/aqualogger; my $linebuffer = $port-baudrate(2400); $port-databits(8); $port-parity(none);

[SLUG] How to load locale in ubuntu for German test environment..

2008-06-25 Thread david . lyon
Hi all, I want to do testing of some python programs on Ubuntu (hardy i think) for a German client. Everything works fine for Australia, but I don't seem to have a locale for Germany loaded. I have no idea where to load it. Can anybody help ? import locale

Re: [SLUG] perl comm port data reading/parsing

2008-06-26 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED]: you need to fix this line, so it does the read. $linebuffer =. $port-read; # poll until data ready I don't have any of the earlier emails but your first version must have been correct. --- #!/usr/bin/perl

Re: [SLUG] Re: BBC iPlayer beta

2008-06-29 Thread david . lyon
Quoting James Purser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No, the BBC actively blocks non UK ip addresses for a lot of stuff. -- James Purser [EMAIL PROTECTED] probably cos they (we) don't pay the uk telly tax. which is what keeps the bbc going With everybody having broadband these days.. and the

Re: [SLUG] Re: BBC iPlayer beta

2008-06-29 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/6/30 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: All you need is a friend in the uk who doesn't mind you setting up a squid server on their linux box. Then vpn to their box and point your browser to their squid server which will drag down the programs. Why do you need a

Re: [SLUG] more RS232: USB-RS232, PCI ?

2008-07-07 Thread david . lyon
I came across this - seams very simple... and cheap too... It's just a cable with all the chips built in http://www.antonline.com/p_SBT-USC1M-NX_471223.htm Quoting Jobst Schmalenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ahh! data logging the old fashion way ... but still good.

Re: [SLUG] usb automount problem with multiple logons

2008-07-09 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Perhaps I didn't use the right words in a Google search to seek a solution to this problem - under Debian Etch when I put in a thumbdrive in my PC while I have an active session but my daughter has another session in the background, the thumbdrive

Re: [SLUG] wireless broadband?

2008-07-10 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Del [EMAIL PROTECTED]: So, who uses wireless broadband here? I'm currently researching the available alternatives and although Virgin appears the cheapest they also appear to have limited coverage and none of the vendors provide (a) Linux support or (b) an offer of your money back if

Re: [SLUG] Re: eee pc 900 (20080709)

2008-07-10 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Richard Ibbotson wrote: It's true enough in England. For example in a country where hardly anyone is properly trained on IT Are there any countries that fit the bill of trained in IT? India ? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

[SLUG] Linux and other software made in India... and lessons we can't understand...

2008-07-11 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Richard Ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Also, my mobile phone runs on the Three network - www.three.co.uk - this is the worst mobile phone network that I have ever come across. Believe me, I've seen some bad networks and mostly in the United States. You call the three call centre and

Re: [SLUG] Linux and other software made in India... and lessons we can't understand...

2008-07-11 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Richard Ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: but you gotta give it to them, they have done wonders with software and computers... Okay .. fine :) such a pity our political leaders aren't actually smart enough to figure out how they have done it but they don't mind spending our hard

Re: [SLUG] Multiple Offices with redundant DSL Connection

2008-07-15 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Sven Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]: VPNwise I was thinking about OpenVPN but still open to any other products which are open source. OpenVPN is pretty good in my opinion. Most of the other designs (poptop) are implementations/copies of PPTP which is a proprietory format. I've used

Re: [SLUG] Linux and other software made in India... and lessons we can't understand...

2008-07-17 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, --- On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Industry and Government work very hand in hand... | | in India it is even more so and what I was saying was that it has got | them somewhere... \-- The grass is always greener on

Re: [SLUG] submissions to National Innovation System Review

2008-07-21 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Silvia Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, If any of you have made a submission to the National Innovation System Review http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Pages/home.aspx , I'm on a panel discussing this topic and I'd like to find out what people's concerns were. Well

Re: [SLUG] submissions to National Innovation System Review

2008-07-22 Thread david . lyon
Silvia, You know, actually, when I opened the innovation.gov.au link and navigated to the cartoons section... it did make me extremely angry... because it contains a lot of insults that get thrown at us by government... ie australian industry being mediocre and so forth... it is rather

Re: [SLUG] Re: submissions to National Innovation System Review

2008-07-22 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Marghanita da Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I share David's skepticism and would even venture he is being extremely polite given the reality. I don't know if I am skeptical.. and reality is usually the result of what you did yesterday... Perhaps a change of government could improve

Re: [SLUG] Re: submissions to National Innovation System Review

2008-07-22 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Silvia Pfeiffer wrote: Just for your information: I do not work for the government nor is it any of the stuff on www.innovation.gov.au my website. David, please note the above. I stand corrected... my apologies.. I'm not a very good people

[SLUG] Looking for tiny little (old?) linux box as shown at meetings..

2008-07-23 Thread david . lyon
Hi, I want to buy a tiny (and perphaps older) linux box if anybody has one lying around. What I am talking about is the industrial type super compact models that are fanless. Can't be bothered getting one from offshore since I'm going anyway soon but if somebody has one I'd like to know

[SLUG] How to do a Custom Print Processor in Linux ?

2011-05-10 Thread David Lyon
Hi all, Background for this is that a client has a dBaseIV DOS accounting system that they will upgrade after the Senior Partner retires. Which is a decade or more away. Printing from DOS is the not negotiable part. For a few years, I've run a server on a Windows machine that intercepts LPT1:

Re: [SLUG] How to do a Custom Print Processor in Linux ?

2011-05-10 Thread David Lyon
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net wrote: then the network goes, and it all breaks and users complain. It doesn't sound like a software problem. In a sense you are right. But the subtlety of who's fault it is never goes to the person who kicked the wire out,

[SLUG] Linux in Australia in 2012 - trends..

2011-05-24 Thread David Lyon
Opinions sought... What will happen in Linux in Australia in 2012? Yes Ubuntu is nice, but Android is surely set to be a competitor ? Is anyone going to retrofit Linux for sensors and A/D ports? Accelerometers? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-22 Thread David Lyon
It's not so much that Linux is dead, but rather it is perhaps finished. The computers 'to-die-for' now, are no longer the Windows machines but the Android and Apple computers. Clearly, they both are Linux derivates. So in a way, commercial Linux won out. There's little that really can be done

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-22 Thread David Lyon
Of course. gnu tool chain, has a command shell... if it has a shell where you can enter linux commands.. it's a linux derivative.. just a very beautiful one.. On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Adrian Chadd adr...@creative.net.auwrote: On Thu, Jun 23, 2011, David Lyon wrote: It's not so

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-22 Thread David Lyon
So clearly, the main market forces are: Android (Linux), Apple (BSD), Microsoft (Windows).. -- 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] Is Linux Dead a worthy Debate for a SLUG meeting?

2011-06-23 Thread David Lyon
Hi Patrick, You know if everybody brought their teenage children (with their android phones) they'd all be sitting there in silence (apart from the sound of electronic bing and ding) and the whole thing could be done as a facebook chat.. Occassionaly you'd see changes in face expression.. David

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

2011-06-23 Thread David Lyon
on the responsibility for that. On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Kevin Shackleton krshackle...@gmail.comwrote: But they do - employers do pay you to use MS, otherwise their IT manager might have to shoulder some responsibility. Kevin On 24/06/2011 6:24 AM, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh

Re: [SLUG] The 'nanny state' and freedom of choice

2011-06-28 Thread David Lyon
Yes, Australia is definitely a Nanny state... So many examples - particularly in technology. High Speed Trains - we have 200kmh capable XPT trains. Not allowed to run them at their designed speed. Only run at 80-90kmh Uranium. Allowed to dig it up. Not allowed to use it in a pressure cooker or

Re: [SLUG] The 'nanny state' and freedom of choice

2011-06-28 Thread David Lyon
? On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:31 AM, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: David == David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com writes: David Last technology example... David Try find any of the great Australian Technology developed by David Australians in an Australian Museum in Canberra or Sydney

Re: [SLUG] The 'nanny state' and freedom of choice

2011-06-28 Thread David Lyon
In Japan in the 1960's they were running standard trains on standard tracks on the the Shenkazen line at 160kmh - 200kmh. When they wanted to go faster than 200kmh they built special tracks. The XPT trains will run on standard tracks at 160-180kmh. But it isn't allowed. Australian Trains still

[SLUG] Which Linux for Autonomous driving platform ?

2011-06-29 Thread David Lyon
Hi people, I'm trying to choose the best platform for an open source autonomous driving project that I've been working on for a while. - https://bitbucket.org/djlyon/smp-driverless-car-robot/overview I'm considering Debian Live, DSL, Puppy-Linux but can't make up my mind. Target hardware is

Re: [SLUG] KDE gui package manger in Debian

2011-06-30 Thread David Lyon
I sort of sympathise. Maybe you need to teach him apt-get install . . in the command shell... Six years is very young.. but today I saw a boy in a pram playing with some sort of game device.. he's a boy.. apt-get is a boys toy really.. On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Steven Tucker

Re: [SLUG] KDE gui package manger in Debian

2011-06-30 Thread David Lyon
Patrick, When you say GUI ? do you mean something like this ? - http://lcdproc.org/ :-) a bit of hacking and perhaps you can get a graphics lcd working.. then he can have pixels.. On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:49 PM, elliott-brennan elliottbren...@gmail.comwrote: Steven wrote: Maybe I am

Re: [SLUG] Hacked email

2011-07-02 Thread David Lyon
I'm not scamproof myself.. I've been scammed in europe a few times.. I too got the email.. I was ready to send the cash.. being stuck in europe with no cash and no cards (doubly bad if you're in a country where they don't/can't speak english). Anyway, there were some funny logic problems in the

Re: [SLUG] Huawei E585 pocket-wifi on vodafone network?

2011-08-26 Thread David Lyon
was 'usb-dev' tried? on ubuntu I had a 3 modem, and once you do a apt-get install usb-dev it suddenly was recognised and came to life.. On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo mle+s...@mega-nerd.com wrote: Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: I'm trying to set up a Huawei E585 pocket

Re: [SLUG] Text to HTML?

2011-08-28 Thread David Lyon
Have you tried a template engine such as: - http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/ On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:04 AM, DaZZa dazzagi...@gmail.com 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

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

2011-09-05 Thread David Lyon
I have a client that runs really old printers. HP1300's, HP1100's and even older. Keep in mind that these things are just (electro)-mechanical devices. Lubrication gets dry after a while. Most of the materials in these devices are usually excellent quality. The metal or nylon doesn't usually

Re: [SLUG] tracking incoming connections by IP /or hostname?

2011-09-22 Thread David Lyon
do you mean netstat -a ? -- 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] Tutorial for a LaTeX package.

2011-09-26 Thread David Lyon
why Latex in this modern age? On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:28 PM, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote: Can anyone point me towards a tutorial for the geometric package in LaTeX? Regards, William Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Using a Dual SIM Android Smart Phone

2011-09-28 Thread David Lyon
They're definitely not so common in Australia, but in the middle east such as Turkey (well half europe/half middle east) most people have phones like that. Basically, if half of your friends are on one network, the other half are on another. So they enable people to get cheap calls by allowing

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Meeting November 2011: GPS Time Sync Talk.

2011-11-23 Thread David Lyon
I wish I had something ready. At the moment I'm trying to get Navit working on an STM32 based board. There's a whole changeover to Android and some very interesting things to work on. I'm sure we could fill 2012 with talks from people. I'm surprised how much linux there actually is inside

Re: [SLUG] Re: Alternatives to Gnome3

2011-11-23 Thread David Lyon
Everybody wants slippery slidy finger driven desktops these days. If it's not like that then it's not cool. -- 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: Alternatives to Gnome3

2011-11-23 Thread David Lyon
I've given up trying to find any job. Not employable. Rather, I'm trying to build a pad computer based on Android to take back to Japan and sell. The whole android hardware thing is going through a massive transformation and there's just a whole lot of things 'not-right' about android that

[SLUG] New ARM tools for Native apps on Android

2011-11-30 Thread David Lyon
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/news/2011/11/arms-new-tools-make-it-easier-for-android-devs-to-use-native-code.ars -- 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] advice for new laptop...

2011-12-02 Thread David Lyon
HP-Envy with 8 cores are pretty nice for Ubuntu.. The hard-drives inside have a design flaw which causes them to overheat and die. SSD would fix that. I repaired one for a friend, just booted ubuntu from usb. Great! On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 10:44 AM, simran sim...@dn.gs wrote: hi all, wanted

Re: [SLUG] advice for new laptop...

2011-12-04 Thread David Lyon
Simran, I understand... you are after true beauty.. maybe you need a fignition system: - http://hackaday.com/2011/12/04/a-keyboard-for-your-fignition/ -- 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] advice for new laptop...

2011-12-04 Thread David Lyon
umm... yeah... but doesn't run linux afaik On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:07 AM, simran sim...@dn.gs wrote: haha... indeed... would be good... although i think i'd still prefer my zx spectrum :) On Mon, Dec 5, 2011 at 11:04 AM, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: Simran, I

Re: [SLUG] Lightweight distribution

2011-12-06 Thread David Lyon
Depends what you are looking to do. Have you tried Puppy Linux? DSL - Damned Small Linux I agree wireless is harder on lighter distro's. Maybe that is the area that you need to Master. Then load that as a custom script. On 11/30/11, Edwin Humphries edw...@netsensecomputers.com.au wrote:

[SLUG] Android for work

2011-12-14 Thread David Lyon
I have been using Ubuntu 10.10 for work - just fine. At home I tried Ubuntu 11 and one my one or two year old hardware it just has unacceptable performance ie 10 - 20 seconds to respond to menu clicks etc. So, there is Android 3.2 from: http://www.android-x86.org/ Any good for tech work? ie

Re: [SLUG] Android for work

2011-12-14 Thread David Lyon
maybe 2 years is really 5 or 6.. Actually, I just jumped over to learn Puppy Linux. Pretty hardcore but everything is quite good. Ubuntu has nice graphical effects but I have work to do and willing to lose them in an effort to get some stuff done.. still curious about Android.. -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Android for work

2011-12-14 Thread David Lyon
On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:45 AM, James Linder j...@tigger.ws wrote: When an elderly and distinguished scientist say something is not possible he is nearly always wrong smile I know I could buy more memory or get multicores.. involves money and time.. The memory footprint of ubuntu 11 is

Re: [SLUG] Android for work

2011-12-15 Thread David Lyon
/12/11 13:02, David Lyon wrote: On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 9:45 AM, James Linderj...@tigger.ws wrote: When an elderly and distinguished scientist say something is not possible he is nearly always wrongsmile I know I could buy more memory or get multicores.. involves money and time.. The memory

Re: [SLUG] Re: Android for work

2011-12-15 Thread David Lyon
Well I noticed that it has gftp, some text-editors, maybe geany, a command line. It can run python and compile java. Subversion it can also run I think. So I'd say its got the potential not to be a toy. On 12/16/11, elliott-brennan elliottbren...@gmail.com wrote: Is anyone on the list using

[SLUG] Building Java for embedded Linux

2011-12-21 Thread David Lyon
I'm wondering how to get Java running on an embedded linux ARM board. Anybody know how to do it? -- 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] Building Java for embedded Linux

2011-12-21 Thread David Lyon
an interpreter. J. On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:19 AM, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering how to get Java running on an embedded linux ARM board. Anybody know how to do it? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] Building Java for embedded Linux

2011-12-22 Thread David Lyon
Thanks Steve, Very helpful. I will try some of the downloads from: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/embedded/resources/se-embeddocs/index.html -- 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: Android-based smartphones - any drawbacks ?

2012-02-04 Thread David Lyon
well, another viewpoint. I bought a new notebook and it came with windows 7. For years I've not felt so dissappointed with a computer. I just couldn't find anything fun to do with it. They've even removed 'debug'.. Shish-ka-bobs. Then After I got Ubuntu 11 on, the machine is my sense of

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