[SLUG] Re: mencode question

2005-03-15 Thread Ben Buxton
Kevin Saenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: > I would like to shrink some movie files down to something more manageable. > do I use mencode or transcode? This will read almost any video format for input: transcode -y divx5 -w -b -i \ -o It's a good idea to tweak t

[SLUG] gd version ?

2005-03-15 Thread Voytek
how can I determine what version of gd do I have installed ? as far as I recall, I've installed 'gd-2.0.21-5.20.1.i686.rpm', but what will tell me actuall installed version ? -- Voytek -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slu

[SLUG] fax2png make error

2005-03-15 Thread Voytek
Im trying to install fax2png from http://www.boutell.com/fax2png/ but I get this error: $ ls -l total 24 -rw-r--r--1 voytek voytek 3745 Jan 28 2004 fax2png.1 -rw-r--r--1 voytek voytek 5910 Jan 28 2004 fax2png.c -rwx--1 voytek voytek 1748 Jan 28 2004 fax2p

[SLUG] Press Release

2005-03-15 Thread Cabadian Business Database
Press Release for slug@slug.org.au Canadian Business Publications is pleased to announce the introduction of the Canadian Business Database a high-performance database application containing more than 900,000 canadian businesses on cd-rom. This fully exportable B2B list allow every entrepreneur a

Re: [SLUG] Re: mencode question

2005-03-15 Thread Kevin Saenz
Thanks I am testing transcode . Kevin Kevin Saenz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered the following thing: I would like to shrink some movie files down to something more manageable. do I use mencode or transcode? This will read almost any video format for input: transcode -y divx5 -w -b -i \

Re: [SLUG] Latex question: fi --> theta

2005-03-15 Thread Angus Lees
At Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:06:26 +1100, Nick Croft wrote: > Recently any occurrence of `fi' is rendered by a greek letter. So a word > like Office become OfØce. I'm not sure what to switch off or what kind of > package I'm using which does this. > > Typical preamble: > \documentclass[12pt]{article} >

[SLUG] Suit, Counter-suit and legally selling your M$ OS

2005-03-15 Thread Elliott-Brennan
For those who are interested and haven't heard about this. Thought some people may be interested in this. David Zamos, a student in the US was being sued by M$ for selling an unopened, unused packet containing their OS, after trying to get his money back from them - his letter on this site clearl

Re: [SLUG] Latex question: fi --> theta

2005-03-15 Thread Nick Croft
* Angus Lees ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > If you add \useencoding[T1] to your preamble, you'll end up using some > different font files that may bypass the problem. Thanks Gus, the encoding maybe influenced by me installing the ucs package, although it's hard to see how if I don't call it spe

Re: [SLUG] Suit, Counter-suit and legally selling your M$ OS

2005-03-15 Thread Voytek
> For those who are interested and haven't heard about this. > David Zamos, a student in the US was being sued by M$ for selling an > unopened, unused packet containing their OS, after trying to get his > money back from them - his letter on this site clearly explains what > happened. They've dr

Re: [SLUG] gd version ?

2005-03-15 Thread James Gray
On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 10:03 pm, Voytek wrote: > how can I determine what version of gd do I have installed ? > > as far as I recall, I've installed 'gd-2.0.21-5.20.1.i686.rpm', but what > will tell me actuall installed version ? If you have PHP >=4.3.0 installed and compiled with GD support dump the

Re: [SLUG] gd version ?

2005-03-15 Thread Voytek
> > > That do the trick? thanks, James, yes Array ( [GD Version] => bundled (2.0.15 compatible) [FreeType Support] => 1 [FreeType Linkage] => with freetype [T1Lib Support] => [GIF Read Support] => 1 [GIF Create Support] => [JPG Support] => 1 [PNG Support] => 1 [WBMP Support] => 1 [XBM Support

[SLUG] Antigen found VIRUS= Win32/Netsky.P!Worm (CA(InoculateIT), Sophos) worm

2005-03-15 Thread Antigen_BARSBS1
Antigen for Exchange found document.zip->data.rtf .scr infected with VIRUS= Win32/Netsky.P!Worm (CA(InoculateIT),Sophos) worm. The message is currently Purged. The message, "Re: your document", was sent from slug@slug.org.

[SLUG] OO.org export issues - printer driver

2005-03-15 Thread Julio Cesar Ody
Hi list, I'm using OpenOffice 1.1.4 Linux (Slackware 10.0) for converting powerpoint presentations into Flash through a software using OO as backend. However, the fonts in the output file get VERY small every time, and a little bit screwed (bad appearance, incorrect spacing between chars, etc). I

[SLUG] proftpd

2005-03-15 Thread Luke Skywalker
Hi, I have installed proftpd, and as far as i know its setup porperly. but every time i log in with this user/pass i get $ftp localhost Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1). 220 PRIVATE NETWORK. NO EXCEPTIONS Name (localhost:skywalker): exangel 500 AUTH not understood SSL not available 331 Password r

[SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping

2005-03-15 Thread Edwin Humphries
G'day all, Is anyone aware of a Linux-based bookkeeping or accouynting package - one that can conform to Australian accounting and tax rules? We're contemplating an upgrade to our Quickbooks Pro ($599 - $1,494), or cross-grade to MYOB ($596 - $1,494), but we're a Linux company, so a Linux solu

Re: [SLUG] proftpd

2005-03-15 Thread QuantumG
Luke Skywalker wrote: drw-r--r--4 exangel ftp 128 Mar 16 09:43 ftp_private Well I don't know about the rest of it but presumably you want +x on that dir, otherwise no-one will be allowed to cd into it. Trent -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscrip

Re: [SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Lake
Edwin Humphries wrote: Is anyone aware of a Linux-based bookkeeping or accouynting package - one that can conform to Australian accounting and tax rules? We're contemplating an upgrade to our Quickbooks Pro ($599 - $1,494), or cross-grade to MYOB ($596 - $1,494), but we're a Linux company, so a

Re: [SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping

2005-03-15 Thread john
You could look at www.muli.com.au John "Edwin Humphries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 16/03/2005 11:37 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To slug@slug.org.au cc Subject [SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping G'day all, Is anyone aware of a Linux-based boo

Re: [SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping

2005-03-15 Thread Phil Scarratt
Edwin Humphries wrote: G'day all, Is anyone aware of a Linux-based bookkeeping or accouynting package - one that can conform to Australian accounting and tax rules? We're contemplating an upgrade to our Quickbooks Pro ($599 - $1,494), or cross-grade to MYOB ($596 - $1,494), but we're a Linux com

Re: [SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping

2005-03-15 Thread David
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:37:40AM +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote: > G'day all, > > Is anyone aware of a Linux-based bookkeeping or accouynting package - > one that can conform to Australian accounting and tax rules? > > We're contemplating an upgrade to our Quickbooks Pro ($599 - $1,494), > or c

Re: [SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping

2005-03-15 Thread Howard Lowndes
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:53, David wrote: > On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:37:40AM +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote: > > G'day all, > > > > Is anyone aware of a Linux-based bookkeeping or accouynting package - > > one that can conform to Australian accounting and tax rules? > > > > We're contemplating a

Re: [SLUG] Accounting/Bookkeeping

2005-03-15 Thread O Plameras
David wrote: On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 11:37:40AM +1100, Edwin Humphries wrote: G'day all, Is anyone aware of a Linux-based bookkeeping or accouynting package - one that can conform to Australian accounting and tax rules? We're contemplating an upgrade to our Quickbooks Pro ($599 - $1,494), or

[SLUG] 2 questions - mail smarthost network changes

2005-03-15 Thread Denis Crowdy
Hi All, Two problems/questions I have at the moment: 1. I use a laptop between home and work. Static IP at home and a dhcp connection to an ipcop firewall at home. I'd like to be able to type something like "ifup eth0-home" or "if-up eth0-work" rather than what I do at the moment, which is to e

[SLUG] PCI dial-up modem

2005-03-15 Thread Leslie Katz
I would very much welcome some guidance about the above subject. I set out the circumstances below. I bought a used computer with a view to getting it running under Linux and then giving it as a gift to a person who hasn't got one. For economic reasons, I am aware that she would want to use onl

Re: [SLUG] PCI dial-up modem

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Fox
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:04:01 +1100, Leslie Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would very much welcome some guidance about the above subject. I set out > the circumstances below. I had good success with the netcom winmodems that used the lucent chipset. and the LT-modem module which you could comp

Re: [SLUG] 2 questions - mail smarthost network changes

2005-03-15 Thread Jeff Waugh
> 2. When I do change networks, I need to change my smarthost, otherwise the > uni mail server rejects stuff from my ISP. I can change the config files > in /etc/exim4 and run the update-exim4.conf script, but is there an easier > way? It's very easy with Postfix, if that is helpful to you. Whe

Re: [SLUG] PCI dial-up modem

2005-03-15 Thread Michael Fox
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:32:06 +1100, Leslie Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, Michael. > > The post to which you replied was the first I made on SLUG. Please excuse > my ignorance, but I thought that any reply to my post would go to the > mailing list, not directly to me. I guess I had that wro

[SLUG] Nominations

2005-03-15 Thread Ken Wilson
committee treasurer nomination accepted Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html