[SLUG] Re: [chat] recommend a PC repair shop?
first of all check the cmos batery. if that's flat that might explain some of your problem but I'd say from what you've said here it's more than that. have you tried pulling various components to see if any of them are flakey? give that a go first and see how you get on. -- Shaun Oliver I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WEB: http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/ IRC: irc.awesomechat.net: IRCNICK: blindman -- 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 pvr
On Sat, 17 Apr 2004, Kevin Saenz wrote: Hi all, I am planning on building a PVR, and wondering what type of tv capture card people would recommend? At the moment I am using Mandrake, I am willing to use Debian or any other distro. Currently I am looking at the hauppauge WinTV 350 Go Digital - less CPU overhead (basically comes down as an MPEG-2 stream in the first place). Plus you get all the other bits... teletext, other audio tracks, high definition etc. http://www.dpanda.com.au/dpanda/dvbtpci.html Says on the page supported by Linux Mac - of course the danger is that you'll just go for one of their ready made DVR's as well. The question is do you want to tinker or not. Of course the other option is to buy a second hand TiVo - just been through the process and am very happy with mine ... that is apart from turning into a lounge lizard lately. I paid $180 + staff discount on a Maxtor 120GB drive. Plus spent a few hours doing the PAL Tuner mod. Essentially runs linux and has a PPC processor. Well supported by OzTivo community... http://minnie.tuhs.org/twiki/bin/view/Main/WebHome I was very close to going the digital card route until a few friends decided to band together and get some tivo's shipped in. I still might to the digital card one day. -- ---GRiP--- Electronic Hobbyist, Former Arcadia BBS nut, Occasional nudist, Linux Guru, SLUG Secretary, AUUG and Linux Australia member, Sydney Flashmobber, BMX rider, Walker, Raver rave music lover, Big kid that refuses to grow up. I'd make a good family pet, take me home today! Do people actually read these things? -- 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: building pvr
I'd actually recommend going with a DVB-T card. All TV stations now broadcast as an MPEG-2 stream as well as analogue, and the picture quality far exceeds that of any analogue card I've seen. There is zero interference from the internals of the PC. Most cards work well under linux. I've been using the hauppauge nova-t card for a while in a remote ( 10,000km) box, and have never had a fault with it, even though i record shows almost daily. I am either going to get the nova-t or the visionplus, but still very undecided. I guess I will have to do more research. What distribution do you run on your linux machine acting as the PVR? Can those who have a working unit point me to some docs to read up on it and also maybe lead me to several applications used on the machine acting as the PVR etc. I've got a spare Celeron 2.4Ghz machine here and hey if I get either pci card, might put the card in the machine and install linux to experiment myself. Any links and feedback appreciated. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Destroyed hard drive
Evening all, I've got a machine which has been vandalised, it looks like someone has copied/dd'ed /dev/random over the hard drive(s). Obviously, they're not mountable, the paritions are borked (rebulit but still not usable) and some of the data's going to be useless. From some digging, I can see some data towards the mid-end of the disk, so it didn't finish. Anyone know any ways of automating part of the recovery? greeno -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Destroyed hard drive
On 18/04/2004, at 19:58, Tony Green wrote: Evening all, Oh yeah, don't mention backups. If they'd had them, I wouldn't be going through this. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Destroyed hard drive
Tony Green wrote:
...snip.
Anyone know any ways of automating part of the recovery?
Don't most distros allow you to automate installation.
If there is no backup, then it wasn't important.
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Re: [SLUG] Destroyed hard drive
On 18/04/2004, at 20:32, Terry Collins wrote: Don't most distros allow you to automate installation. Yes, which would be useful if I was looking to do an install. I'm looking to do a sector by sector scan of the drive and recover whatever I can. I'm trying to find tools which may make this easier. If there is no backup, then it wasn't important. I won't bother responding to that.. -- Tony Green [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] Destroyed hard drive
On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 07:58:10PM +1000, Tony Green wrote: Evening all, I've got a machine which has been vandalised, it looks like someone has copied/dd'ed /dev/random over the hard drive(s). Obviously, they're not mountable, the paritions are borked (rebulit but still not usable) and some of the data's going to be useless. From some digging, I can see some data towards the mid-end of the disk, so it didn't finish. Anyone know any ways of automating part of the recovery? Have a look at http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/03/msg00204.html http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2004/03/msg00211.html and that thread generally. There have been quite a few similar queries/threads in the past. Try googling for recovery site:lists.slug.org.au Of course if you're willing to pay, there are a bunch of professional recovery companies around. -- Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Multi-function laser printer/copier recommendations?
Evening all! I'm looking into purchasing a multi-function device for home office use that is a laser printer. It should also be able to copy without PC intervention and optionally be able to scan in documents. Printing resolution of 600dpi is adequate and obviously black and white is OK. Being able to send/receive faxes would be useful but not essential as I can use efax to do that. I've been looking on linuxprinting.org and the HPOJ driver site for some info. Does anyone have any recommendations and experiences that they'd like to share? -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] ACT/CRM Alernative?
At work, the sales guys are pushing to replace ACT! with MS CRM. It relies very much on an MS infrastructure requiring MS-SQL2000, Exchange2000/2003 and it's own Win2000/2003 server running IIS, all in the same AD. We where planning an SQL server for our AD anyway, but we would still have to purchase another pretty highly spec'd server. Plus I just don't like how heavily it relies on this MS infrastructure, especially since I was hoping to one day suggest a Linux replacement for Exchange. Has anyone had any experience with open source alternatives to ACT! and MS CRM? Eddie F. _ SEEK: Now with over 50,000 dream jobs! Click here: http://ninemsn.seek.com.au?hotmail -- 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] ACT/CRM Alernative?
Check out Compiere [http://www.compiere.org]. It's supposed to be good. Open Source, written in Java. Performance wise, the word is it's supposed to run rings around the likes of PeopleSoft. But I don't have the time to play around in the ERP/CRM space anymore, so I haven't loaded it. I had heard of least one ERP consultant implementing/extending it in Australia, based in Melbourne. The biggest problem with it is the requirement of an Oracle backend. This is supposed to be rectified through some database independence work, but I'm not sure how that's progressing. The site's forums look the best place to get good information. See also: http://www.compiere.org/technology/independence.html Cheers, Matt Eddie F wrote: At work, the sales guys are pushing to replace ACT! with MS CRM. It relies very much on an MS infrastructure requiring MS-SQL2000, Exchange2000/2003 and it's own Win2000/2003 server running IIS, all in the same AD. We where planning an SQL server for our AD anyway, but we would still have to purchase another pretty highly spec'd server. Plus I just don't like how heavily it relies on this MS infrastructure, especially since I was hoping to one day suggest a Linux replacement for Exchange. Has anyone had any experience with open source alternatives to ACT! and MS CRM? Eddie F. _ SEEK: Now with over 50,000 dream jobs! Click here: http://ninemsn.seek.com.au?hotmail -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Virus Alert
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[SLUG] bogofilter cut-off
I'm experimenting with bogofilter. I've noticed that all the spam's I've getting have spamicity of .5+ and all the ham is .1- What cut-off level seems to be the most effective? The default seems to be far too high. Thanks.. 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] Re: building pvr
I've got a nova-t on a via 10K. It's a good card, no lockups so far but I still haven't got mythtv going. More a time issue than anything else. You need linuxtv-dvb. I've heard it's built into 2.6 kernel but the media box is a 2.4 kernel - works OK anyway. The nova-t is around $200 with no MPEG decode it that helps. The Via 10K boards have mpeg decoding built in but its a bitch to get going. There is a binary version on Xine that does it. PVRs from my experience suck up a long of time. HTH Stu Michael F wrote: I'd actually recommend going with a DVB-T card. All TV stations now broadcast as an MPEG-2 stream as well as analogue, and the picture quality far exceeds that of any analogue card I've seen. There is zero interference from the internals of the PC. Most cards work well under linux. I've been using the hauppauge nova-t card for a while in a remote ( 10,000km) box, and have never had a fault with it, even though i record shows almost daily. I am either going to get the nova-t or the visionplus, but still very undecided. I guess I will have to do more research. What distribution do you run on your linux machine acting as the PVR? Can those who have a working unit point me to some docs to read up on it and also maybe lead me to several applications used on the machine acting as the PVR etc. I've got a spare Celeron 2.4Ghz machine here and hey if I get either pci card, might put the card in the machine and install linux to experiment myself. Any links and feedback appreciated. -- 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: building pvr
I think maybe we could have a slug talk about them? I know most of the time I spent getting mine going was lost looking for documentation. I have just purchased a dvb card and am hoping to set it up some time today! :) On 19/04/2004, at 8:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a nova-t on a via 10K. It's a good card, no lockups so far but I still haven't got mythtv going. More a time issue than anything else. You need linuxtv-dvb. I've heard it's built into 2.6 kernel but the media box is a 2.4 kernel - works OK anyway. The nova-t is around $200 with no MPEG decode it that helps. The Via 10K boards have mpeg decoding built in but its a bitch to get going. There is a binary version on Xine that does it. PVRs from my experience suck up a long of time. HTH Stu Michael F wrote: I'd actually recommend going with a DVB-T card. All TV stations now broadcast as an MPEG-2 stream as well as analogue, and the picture quality far exceeds that of any analogue card I've seen. There is zero interference from the internals of the PC. Most cards work well under linux. I've been using the hauppauge nova-t card for a while in a remote ( 10,000km) box, and have never had a fault with it, even though i record shows almost daily. I am either going to get the nova-t or the visionplus, but still very undecided. I guess I will have to do more research. What distribution do you run on your linux machine acting as the PVR? Can those who have a working unit point me to some docs to read up on it and also maybe lead me to several applications used on the machine acting as the PVR etc. I've got a spare Celeron 2.4Ghz machine here and hey if I get either pci card, might put the card in the machine and install linux to experiment myself. Any links and feedback appreciated. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.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] Multi-function laser printer/copier recommendations?
Does anyone have any recommendations and experiences that they'd like to share? I have a couple of HP 3330 MFPs which are laser printer / copier / fax / scanner, etc. Work well with the HPOJ software and sane / xsane etc. You can even do kooky things like set the clock on them via USB, etc. -- Del -- 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: building pvr
I think maybe we could have a slug talk about them? I know most of the time I spent getting mine going was lost looking for documentation. I have just purchased a dvb card and am hoping to set it up some time today! :) I'll be getting one sometime between now and Xmas. Just depends on alot of other things. Certainly on the plan of things to do. In the meantime, guess its back to work. Thanks for those replies.. -- 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 pvr
I have been using the Hauppauge pvr350 and mythtv for the last few months with mixed results. My system is debian unstable with a 2.6.3 kernel. The pvr350 uses the ivtv driver which is not as mature as the bttv driver and currently needs to be patched to run on 2.6.x. I often have to restart mythtv-backend or reload the ivtv driver after recording due to video error, or more frequently, because the sound stops working (after the recording). But the stability is definitly getting better. The hardware mpeg card is certainly worth persisting with if your computer does more than video recording and you want DVD quality. Mark Hi all, I am planning on building a PVR, and wondering what type of tv capture card people would recommend? At the moment I am using Mandrake, I am willing to use Debian or any other distro. Currently I am looking at the hauppauge WinTV 350 Thanks Kevin -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
WAS: [SLUG] now: Work experience.
Hello, I was just wondering whether you have any advice on how to find work experience in the IT field. I am a great worker, with excellent marks who wants to work in IT Is this work experience part of an existing course? If so let your fingers do the walking and call some big companies. Surely getting some work experience shouldnt be hard. And if this isn't part of some course, call some companies anyway. It can't hurt to try. Thanks -- 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] work experience (was: no subject)
On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 11:02:16AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was just wondering whether you have any advice on how to find work experience in the IT field. I am a great worker, with excellent marks who wants to work in IT Get your name out there, and meet lots of people. Good jobs come from the people you know. Cold-calling *might* get you somewhere if you're lucky, but it's a fairly disheartening experience going from place to place getting knocked back. Getting a job from an ad isn't likely without a nice buzzword compliant resume. If you're after something in a software development line, there are plenty of OSS projects out there you can work on to get some experience. Some people mightn't think that OSS development on a volunteer basis is worth much, but when I'm looking to put someone on, it's one of the things I ask about. If you want to do more on a hardware / analysis line, you'll probably just have to network until you find someone willing to take you on. It might even be unpaid, but previous work experience is *gold* for getting other jobs. The only thing better is knowing people who can throw work your way. For that, coming along to SLUG meetings and really talking yourself up isn't a bad way to do it... - Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was just wondering whether you have any advice on how to find work experience in the IT field. I am a great worker, with excellent marks who wants to work in IT THank you, Tim call me on 0413 022 143 dave -- 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] Multi-function laser printer/copier recommendations?
On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 08:55, Del wrote: I have a couple of HP 3330 MFPs which are laser printer / copier / fax / scanner, etc. Work well with the HPOJ software and sane / xsane etc. You can even do kooky things like set the clock on them via USB, etc. My further searching has led me towards the HP3300mfp. I'll see how much the 3330 costs. Is the copying stand-alone i.e. no PC? Can you receive faxes to PC or even just direct print? -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wongy.org -- 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] Multi-function laser printer/copier recommendations?
My further searching has led me towards the HP3300mfp. I'll see how much the 3330 costs. Is the copying stand-alone i.e. no PC? Yes. Can you receive faxes to PC or even just direct print? Not on the 3300, it has no fax capability. Yes on the 3330. -- Del -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
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Volunteer with ComputerBank. They need help creating distros, figuring out hardware settings, setting up networks, coordinating people, liasing with Council, etc On Mon, 2004-04-19 at 11:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I was just wondering whether you have any advice on how to find work experience in the IT field. I am a great worker, with excellent marks who wants to work in IT THank you, Tim -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
