Re: Mid-Cycle Events

2012-05-24 Thread George Patterson
should be under attack.  One single word.  This is a forum for exchanging ideas.  What ever happened to signing the Code of Conduct.  I have signed it and abide by it, George.  Have you? Andre . On 24 May 2012 11:58, George Patterson george.patter...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 May 2012 10:07

Re: Precise Pangolin Release Party planning

2012-01-07 Thread George Patterson
On 7 January 2012 20:28, Boden Matthews boden.matth...@gmail.com wrote: As per today's mini-discussion at the installfest, we're going to have our release party in April, but we need to decide a venue and an exact date. Post up your suggestions :) Regards, Boden Matthews,

Release Party/social event for Melbourne?

2011-09-27 Thread George Patterson
Hi All, For those that are are in Melbourne, who would be interested in having an small event to acknowledge the release of 11.10? I'm thinking of returning to Horse Bazaar in the city. Due to work commitments, I don't have the time to organise something huge but booking a table somewhere is do

Gmail and Reporting phising (WAS: Re: saying hi)

2011-07-25 Thread George Patterson
Hi Nathaniel, You are also involved. :-P Seriously I think what is occurring is that the the mailing list sends the email with f...@gmail.com in the from address. This is standard behaviour so far. The problem occurs when Google's Gmail servers receive these emails and look at the From: header

Re: 10.04 LTS kernel security problem?

2011-05-12 Thread George Patterson
A security guard might be more appropriate. If an intruder is standing in front of the machine, then it could be game over. DOS is as simple as pulling a plug, power or network will do. Or pick up the machine and walk out the door. Key loggers? It is easy to get caught up the electronic attacks

Unity hijack (Was: Re: natty release party melbourne)

2011-04-13 Thread George Patterson
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 5:46 PM, Basil Chupin blchu...@iinet.net.au wrote: Just a question aimed at all such proposed Whoopee Parties in Australia: are you also going to inform everyone that the gnome DE is to be replaced by Unity in 6 months time (and with a question mark about KDE for the

Re: natty release party melbourne

2011-04-12 Thread George Patterson
Hi Peter, On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:22 AM, peter baker jellyw...@gmail.com wrote: hey guys here is my suggestion for a natty release party here in melbourne (sorry if someone has already suggested a time/place) I prefer Hudsons :-P if there are no objections I will update

Re: Bug 1

2011-04-10 Thread George Patterson
On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 4:00 PM, danyJ danyj...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Ideally, what you really want is a much easier way to add (and remove) ppa and 3rd party repositories to your system without having to do any of following: add repositories manually in your sources.list add repositories

Re: Website Renewal

2011-03-17 Thread George Patterson
I'm of the opinion that the RSS calendar feeds should have their events in UTC and the clients should adjust to the user preferences. Mainly because the concept of local time breaks when you try and bridge it over different timezones. You may not know what time offset you are from another location

Re: Left over CDs from the LCA 2011 Open Day

2011-02-20 Thread George Patterson
Hi Jared, On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Jared Norris jrnor...@gmail.com wrote: Good afternoon all, In the interests of transparency I thought I would let you all know that the all of the spare CDs have been now been distributed amongst the community. Over the past few weeks the Ubuntu-AU

Re: Followup from last week's meeting: Jared Norris nominated as contact.

2011-02-18 Thread George Patterson
On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 2:57 PM, Mitch Towner mitch.towner.ubu...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/02/11 23:19, Melissa Draper wrote: Greetings, At last week's meeting [0] held on IRC, 12 of the 18 listed attendees voted for Jared Norris [1], aka

Re: LCA 2011 Open Day - THIS SATURDAY!

2011-01-29 Thread George Patterson
At the risk of becoming a +1... Well done Jared. While I had put my name down for helping to set up, I was whisked away by Pia Waugh's flood clean up work party. (which was very productive). For those that didn't/couldn't make it, I'll paint a word snippet picture. After the conference desk, you

Fwd: [LCA2011-Chat] Change of venue for the Open Day

2011-01-20 Thread George Patterson
For that that will be in Brisbane on Saturday week! Regards George -- Forwarded message -- From: Clinton Roy clinton@gmail.com Date: Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 4:18 PM Subject: [LCA2011-Chat] Change of venue for the Open Day To: LCA2011 Delegates Chat c...@lca2011.linux.org.au,

Re: Socialising at LCA2011

2011-01-19 Thread George Patterson
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Jared Norris jrnor...@gmail.com wrote: Good to hear I won't be sitting there by myself. I've done a brief write up on the team website as well - http://ubuntu.com.au/node/81 Joel and myself could arrange that if you like :-D /me flips his excuse calendar to

Re: Socialising

2011-01-07 Thread George Patterson
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:20 PM, Jared Norris jrnor...@gmail.com wrote: Good evening Ubuntu-AU'ers, It has been brought to my attention that the Saturday and Sunday are Drupal conf days and that there will be a lot of people not getting in until after lunch on Sunday. To this end what would

Re: Post-meeting Mail

2010-12-18 Thread George Patterson
On a different but related note, Melissa Elky Draper has granted me edit rights to the Ubuntu Australia page on Facebook. Thanks Melissa. I have added the LCA2001 Open Day as Ubuntu-au is organising table http://lca2011.linux.org.au/programme/open_day I guess if anyone has any Ubuntu Australia

Re: Tech Support (Anthony Edmistone)

2010-09-20 Thread George Patterson
On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 2:06 AM, Anthony i.lurve.li...@gmail.com wrote: I'm not entirely sure what Ian Fleming is trying to do.  However I do Who is Ian Fleming? understand the issue with trying to wade through the mailing list submissions from Ubuntu-au and I'm wondering why this mail list

[Bug 580885] Re: In power management the is no option that enables you to close the lid without effect

2010-07-24 Thread George Patterson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 609343 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/609343 Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 609343, so it is being marked as such. Please look

[Bug 604838] Re: Logitech USB Headphones 350 don't work

2010-07-24 Thread George Patterson
Thank you for taking the time to report this issue and helping to make Ubuntu better. Examining the information you have given us, this does not appear to be a bug report so we are closing it and converting it to a question in the support tracker. We appreciate the difficulties you are facing, but

[Bug 609475] Re: twinkle crashes when ip address changes

2010-07-24 Thread George Patterson
** Summary changed: - ip address changes + twinkle crashes when ip address changes -- twinkle crashes when ip address changes https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/609475 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs

[Bug 609487] Re: etracer error: Couldn't chdir to /usr/share/games/extremetuxracer/courses/events/a-tux_racer/challenge_one (No such file or directory)

2010-07-24 Thread George Patterson
** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #543618 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543618 ** Also affects: extremetuxracer (Debian) via http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543618 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- etracer error: Couldn't chdir to

[Bug 609487] Re: etracer error: Couldn't chdir to /usr/share/games/extremetuxracer/courses/events/a-tux_racer/challenge_one (No such file or directory)

2010-07-24 Thread George Patterson
** Changed in: extremetuxracer (Ubuntu) Status: New = Confirmed -- etracer error: Couldn't chdir to /usr/share/games/extremetuxracer/courses/events/a-tux_racer/challenge_one (No such file or directory) https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/609487 You received this bug notification because you

[Bug 609507] Re: 10.04 crashes during boot with magic jack connected

2010-07-24 Thread George Patterson
Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. Unfortunately, we can't fix it without more information. Please run the following command which will attach necessary information: apport-collect 609507 if you are using Karmic Koala (9.10) or newer, or

Re: AU BugJam - Poll to agree on suitable time for an online how to triage class

2010-07-17 Thread George Patterson
On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 8:32 PM, Mitch Towner mitch.towner.ubu...@gmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I mentioned in the last meeting [1] that I have finished preparing the notes for the BugJams Project [2] online class. This class will be a basic introduction on

Re: Local Ubuntu conference [Was: Metrocracy vs democracy]

2010-06-09 Thread George Patterson
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 11:04 AM, Jeff Waugh j...@bethesignal.org wrote: quote who=colin mcdermott Personally, I think that we need a Ubuntu Confrence in Australia. This confrence should be conducted on a yearly/bi-yearly basis (perhaps inpart online/through a web hookup), we talk all things

Re: Do you want to see an official Australian Ubuntu LoCo?

2010-05-14 Thread George Patterson
Another Yes from me. Regards George -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: ComputerBank (NSW or otherwise)

2010-03-20 Thread George Patterson
On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:27 PM, Michael keltoi...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks gentlemen. I'll check the links and number. Michael (k3lt01) Hi Michael, You could also try Computerbank Victoria. See http://computerbank.org.au/ for details. Regards George -- ubuntu-au mailing list

OS differences (Was: Re: My experience with Ubuntu...not great)

2009-11-08 Thread George Patterson
2009/11/9 Daniel Mons daniel.m...@iinet.net.au: Microbe wrote: I have no problem with Ubuntu or Linux as such, my issue was that Ubuntu in particular is being touted as a windows replacement. By whom? Good question... Ubuntu is not designed to replace Windows.  No Linux distribution is.  

Re: Brisbane Release party Reminder

2009-10-29 Thread George Patterson
To those that are attending the Brisbane Release party, please email Andrew direct as these I'll be there is starting to annoy those that are not attending. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: Ubuntu-Au Forum

2009-10-11 Thread George Patterson
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Paul Gear p...@libertysys.com.au wrote: Dave Hall wrote: ... I personally will never use the forum, I find mailing lists far more convenient.  I can read my mail anywhere anytime, a forum requires an active internet connection.  Also my email client

Re: Ubuntu-au Obsolete? or needing a revamp?

2009-09-03 Thread George Patterson
(Ryan, best of luck with the exams) At least in Melbourne, I think the problem is that there are a lot of groups for someone time competing. Eg. I have a Hackerspace meeting on Tuesdays which is the same evening as Linux Users of Victoria meetings. However, as we have software freedom day (the

Re: LPI101/102 course

2009-08-26 Thread George Patterson
2009/8/26 Tom Sparks tom_a_spa...@yahoo.com.au: I am looking at doing the LPI101 and LPI102 courses, but I am interested in how well it can be used to get employment in Australia? tom_a_sparks Hi Tom, If you look at job ads for linux system administration, the ad will more likely mention

Re: Fox crash using .jsp pages on Jaunty

2009-05-23 Thread George Patterson
On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 9:08 AM, opm595 opm595(at)yahoo.dot.com.dot.au wrote: Hi Guys, I have just signed-up with the VoIP mob, Pennytel. However, every couple of times I login and access the user control panel, Fire Fox seems to take a dive, goes grey and gives me that Not Responding message.

Re: [Bug 72667] Re: Explosions aren't showing

2007-09-06 Thread George Patterson
On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 13:00 +, Lionel Le Folgoc wrote: Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in

[Bug 35385] Re: Some portions of Smarty are broken in PHP = 5.1.2

2006-09-05 Thread George Patterson
No, the version of Smarty in Edgy is the latest stable release, any newer and you would need to fetch from cvs (see http://smarty.php.net/download.php for details) -- Some portions of Smarty are broken in PHP = 5.1.2 https://launchpad.net/bugs/35385 -- ubuntu-backports mailing list

[Bug 55385] Backport(sync??): Flightgear 0.9.10 from Edgy to dapper

2006-08-06 Thread George Patterson
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: flightgear The multiplayer network protocol has changed substantially from 0.9.9 meaning that users on 0.9.9 can not participate fully. This would involve having to update Simgear also. The base package containing the data does not need to be updated.

[Bug 55385] Re: Backport(sync??): Flightgear 0.9.10 from Edgy to dapper

2006-08-06 Thread George Patterson
** Description changed: Binary package hint: flightgear The multiplayer network protocol has changed substantially from 0.9.9 meaning that users on 0.9.9 can not participate fully. This would involve having to update Simgear also. - The base package containing the data does not

[Bug 55385] Backport(sync??): Flightgear 0.9.10 from Edgy to dapper

2006-08-06 Thread George Patterson
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: flightgear The multiplayer network protocol has changed substantially from 0.9.9 meaning that users on 0.9.9 can not participate fully. This would involve having to update Simgear also. The base package containing the data does not need to be updated.