Re: Perth Release party

2011-03-09 Thread Senectus .
there are more of us... it's just that we're quiet :-) What Date/Time did you have in mind? On 9 March 2011 16:04, Nathaniel nathanie...@gmail.com wrote: I'm interested in having a release party her in Perth but as yet I only know 1 other person in Perth who uses Ubuntu are there any Perth

Re: Australian Digital Education Revolutionbeing a BIG blow for Linux.

2010-05-24 Thread Senectus .
On 25 May 2010 07:35, ha...@ipunix.com ha...@ipunix.com wrote: Ubuntu-AU'ers I see a lot of time being spent on the Australian Ubuntu LoCo structure and now the wiki. But what is happening around us and in particular in my area (Strathpine Queensland). I now see year nine through 12 student

Re: Replacement computers for bushfire victims

2009-02-10 Thread Senectus .
2009/2/11 Stewart Johnston s...@stooj.co.uk Just heard a lady on the abc talking all the computers that will have been lost in the bushfires (and all the kids wanting to check facebook for support). While it's not the top priority for people just now, I imagine that it may become so in the

Re: re ubuntu in western Australia

2008-11-01 Thread Senectus .
2008/10/31 phils linux box [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any one over in this part of the world ? Australia seems teh poorer relation as not much I can find since May 2007 regards Phil WA -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Mount CDROM to /mnt/cdrom ??

2008-08-31 Thread Senectus .
how can I force the cdrom to mount to /media/cdrom ?? It keeps naming the mount point whatever the CD is named... and the app I'm using doesn't like that... -- Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 The ancients who wished to demonstrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire first ordered well their own states.

Re: What VM technology to use?

2008-08-13 Thread Senectus .
2008/8/13 Daniel Mons [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Gear wrote: | If you want to virtualise Windows, nothing comes close to VMware in | terms of functionality. Paul, Could you please expand on this? I'm currently running 4x HP BL680c (16 cores,

Re: Ubuntu and PVR / Digital Television

2008-08-13 Thread Senectus .
2008/8/13 Owen Townend [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/8/13 James Purser [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 19:36 +1000, Nick wrote: [snip] Was wondering if anyone has had success in using linux/ubuntu for this purpose? Is there a guide or kit list online that anyone can endorse? I

Re: ABC Shop DRM and Silverlight

2008-08-11 Thread Senectus .
2008/8/8 Christopher Lees [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just a heads-up in case you didn't see the memo from DefectiveByDesign.org. The ABC Shop Online now has a section where you can buy DRM'ed downloads of their shows. Apart from the ethical considerations with DRM, the software relies on Silverlight

Re: broadband with linux mirror

2008-06-30 Thread Senectus .
yeah another vote for the node... -- Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 The ancients who wished to demonstrate illustrious virtue throughout the empire first ordered well their own states. Wishing to order their own states, they first regulated their families. Wishing to regulate their families, they first

Re: Smartphone

2008-05-20 Thread Senectus .
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:28 PM, Dave Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 12:51 +1000, Scott McKean wrote: Hi All, I need to purchase a new smartphone as my previous one was stolen. I was using a Palm Treo 650 and it was syncing contacts, tasks, calendar nicely to my

Re: newbie

2008-04-22 Thread Senectus .
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:07 PM, Lyneham Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am an ozzie in Germany. Recently met someone who offered to install ubuntu on my laptop, amid my plaint over Vista. But I would rather do it myself, so that I can't blame anyone else if it gets a bit pear

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-13 Thread Senectus .
On 11/04/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running a Yuan PG300 PCI DVB-T card (also called a Stratford PG300). It cost me $55, and happily decodes all Australian free-to-air DVB-T channels (including hi-def channels, although you will need a fairly beefy PC to view

Re: Internode UBU users?

2008-02-07 Thread Senectus .
On 07/02/2008, Liam Higgins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yep using their mirror for repositories also. Doh, Why didn't I think of that? *sigh* Work keeps me using windows too much, I'm losing my marbles. -- Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10 The less you know, the more you believe. - Bono The more you know the