[SLUG] Optusnet and `The Wiggles'
Hi Folks,
As part of their service to customers, Optus now stream `The
Wiggles' and Teletubbies. My five-year old wants to watch them.
Unfortunately, the firefox plus vlc plugin that's in Debian Unstable
doesn't work -- you just see a small black square saing '(no picture)'
Looks like it's windows media format, so I read the javascript page
source: for others who don't want to, if you'reusing Linux on the
Optusnet cable network, you can get the wiggles, etc., by
Teletubbies:
mplayer `for i in 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19; do echo mms://198.142.76.115/teletubbies/TT/TT${i}.wmv; done`
Wiggles:
mplayer -fs ` for i in 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20; do echo mms://198.142.76.115/wiggles/wig_vid_${i}_hi.wmv; done`
Our Animals:
mplayer -fs ` for i in 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20; do echo mms://198.142.76.115/our_animals/oa_vid_${i}_hi.wmv; done`
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Re: [SLUG] libgd dependencies prob
On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 15:20 +1100, Voytek wrote: where should I go from here ? - leave the current mrtg ? - force install ? - go and have a cup of tea instead ? I'd suggest letting the computer work through the dependencies for you. Which distribution is this? If it's RedHat, I'd suggest looking into yum or apt-rpm. Happy to help out if you hit issues with either of them. James. -- being bad ass is encouraged. being a black hat hacker that can take shit down and f shit up is cool and hot and sexy. being a grey hat and pointing out the flaws is hot too...white hats are even hot if they do it up right. the more you learn, the more bad ass you are at what you can do... and just maybe girls will think it's hot and want to hook up with you. -- http://www.catschwartz.com/archives/2004_10.html signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- 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] Red Hat Disks
Hi Luke, A few comments: a) RH 9 is now about 2 years old, and is definitely unsupported by now (by RH). Those patches you are referring to are probably a year old... I think that even the Fedora Legacy project may have given up on RH9. I will leave it to you to check... many people have moved on. b) The patches you are downloading are binary, not source, so the comments are already removed :-) (This begs the question, why don´t they distribute binary patches instead of making you download the whole program again. I don´t have an answer to this... every now and then I hear that someone is working on it.) c) not many people use up2date any more. Check out yum or apt instead (see http://www.atrpms.net/install.html for an overview of why this is better). Regarding where you can get CDs for updates, I´ve bought CDs from www.linuxcd.org (really cheap). I have also bought CDs from Netcraft Australia in the past (http://www.netcraft.com.au/linux/ordering.php ), which came with the updates already included in the base install. However, I don´t know if they still do this. Also, their latest offerings seem to be a bit old. Linux updates is one of the reasons that tipped me to go to ADSL... see www.exetel.com.au for lowest prices I found. Now I can just update without worrying about it. Ben. On Thu, 2005-01-13 at 18:38, Luke G. Evans wrote: Hi. I recently installed Red Hat 9 and am intending to burn my MS disks in unholy ritual. However the up2date feature of RHN requires me to download 434MB of source code to be current - this is just absurd over 56k. Do you know of a service where this disk can be purchased regularly in Aus? Also - why don't they have a feature whereby the source can be parsed into 'code only' format - devoid of comments (assuming Linux software guys are using comments) and long variable names (export/extern variables of course would remain consistent) which would undoubtedly shrink these update massively. Thanks for your guidance. Luke -- 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: Slow Wireless Speed (Peter Rundle)
Seriously? with .11b it was only slightly more than plugging the card in, compiling the module into the kernel and a little config in /etc/network/interfaces Ok it's not .11g but it all just works, Linux, Mac and Windows all happily residing on the network. On Friday 14 January 2005 11:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please give list, or me, a two-liner to say what you have done. I have spent months, and $1000s to get two linux boxes to talk to one-another wirelessly. This list offered 'go to Dick Smith and get a pile of cards' to try. I eventally got two ciso aironet 350 cards working beatifully, the only down side is that I need to do it 30 times, and the ciso cost $500 EACH. Thanks James -- Brett Fenton NetRegistry Pty Ltd ___ http://www.netregistry.com.au/ Tel: +61 2 96996099 | Fax: +61 2 96996088 PO Box 270 Broadway | NSW 2007, Australia Your Total Internet Business Services Provider Trusted by 10,000s of Oz Businesses Since 1997 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] January DebSIG
When: Wednesday, January 19, 7:00pm - 8:00pm Where: James Squire Brewery Craige McWhirter will be facilitating a discussion on activism in the Australian Free Software community with a view to forming the start of a campaign team to develop ongoing strategies and actions to ensure the interests of the Free Software community are defended in the up-coming FTA legislation set to be passed in the new session of parliament that sits in July. He is concerned that while the Free Software community have been effective campaigners in the technical arena, we aren't particularly skilled for the kind of campaign we need to have in order to combat new threats to our community. This will be a preliminary meeting that will cover some of the strategic tools that we'll be required to use along with outlining some of the work that will need to be covered in the immediate future so that we can begin outlining our campaign strategies. We will be laying the foundations for future campaign meetings. Craige will be basing his talk heavily upon the skills picked up at recent Public Interest Advocacy seminars run in Queensland by successful campaigners linked closely to NEFA. Craige's goal is to not only use these skills to guide this campaign but also to share the core skills amongst as many Free Software activists as possible. If you are concerned about the potential for harm to the Free Software environment that we currently enjoy then getting involved in this campaign team will provide an outlet for that concern and an opportunity to shape and take part in the strategies that are developed. Along with the usual free-form discussions / debates that will precede and follow his talk, food, drink and internet access are available and people generally start wandering in from 18:30 for a good 'ol chin wag. More Info: http://debian.slug.org.au/ Maps: http://debian.slug.org.au/events/jsb.html -- GPG key available at: http://www.robertcollins.net/keys.txt. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- 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] Visual Basic port
For my 2c have you looked at Gambas.. Its very VB like in nature and and open source and free and has a nice IDE. As of last week Gambas went 1.01 stable so its worht a look. http://gambas.sourceforge.net There is also Monobasic the Ximian open source version of VB.NET.. Still not quite finished but worth a mention.. http://www.go-mono.com/mbas.html On Fri, 2005-01-14 at 14:46, Peter Tyler wrote: Hi there, I have recently been asked to organise the porting of a Visual Basic app to Linux.. The suggestion so far has been to use QT Designer, but I'm not sure I'm up to the C++ learning curve. The program has to be compiled and creates some charts for an accounting application. Could anyone offer some suggestions or any alternative development applications that may ease any pain in this process. I'm thinking maybe Perl, but not sure if there any compilers available. Thanks in advance. Peter. Regards Richard Neal Kryten Cat: Hey, I got it! We laser our way through!? Kryten: Ah, an excellent suggestion, Sir, with just two minor drawbacks. One, we don't have a power source for the lasers, and two, we don't have any lasers. - Cat and Kryten, White Hole ( Red Dwarf ) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- 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: Slow Wireless Speed (Peter Rundle)
Hi Seriously? with .11b it was only slightly more than plugging the card in, compiling the module into the kernel and a little config in /etc/network/interfaces Ok it's not .11g but it all just works, Linux, Mac and Windows all happily residing on the network. On Friday 14 January 2005 11:35, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please give list, or me, a two-liner to say what you have done. I have spent months, and $1000s to get two linux boxes to talk to one-another wirelessly. This list offered 'go to Dick Smith and get a pile of cards' to try. I eventally got two ciso aironet 350 cards working beatifully, the only down side is that I need to do it 30 times, and the ciso cost $500 EACH. I must be really stupid I guess: 10 cards later the cisco airnet 350s ONLY work. eg orinoco gold: 3 flavours! 1 wont work (except under winders, where its perfect), I worked for 10 sec, then crashed the machine (stopped solid, no mouse, no network (ping etc) no keyboard 1 says its working, but will not talk to, ack the other cards. Signal level -90db cf one of the cisco cards -45db freq the same! eg centrino - can't turn on the RF switch. etc This is an adhoc network of two machines, no security, no internet, just A-B tcp/ip. Kernel is 2.6.7, distros are mine (the embedded machines), SuSE 9.2, FC2, FC3, RH9 (and 2.4.26-ish) So in desperation I look at router-to-router and would like to know how people have done it. I'm in Perth, my shipping-bill for cards to try is over $300. sigh I told the customer: Easy, Linux, well supported by the community, James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
