[SLUG] CAD software for architecture?
Hi folks. I'm planning some building alterations and was wondering if anyone could recommend any free CAD-type software for architectural drawings or 3D models of houses? Something that doesn't take a lifetime to master would be good, as I want to keep it simple. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. - Harry S. Truman -- 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] unable to delete ftp files after upload?
On Fri, October 5, 2007 11:37 am, Tony Sceats wrote: > Depends upon your client, but it looks like you want "mdelete *.zip" > instead of delete - your wildcards are being taken literally thanks, Tony, 'mdel *.zip' done the trick (I'm sure I have used 'del' before, as you say, must be a different client) -- Voytek -- 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] cartoon/stick figure packages?
On Friday 05 October 2007 09:21:09 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My mum (bless her cotton socks) has been using Ubuntu for a couple of > years now. > > She wants some software for drawing cartoons and stick figures for some > birthday cards, but I haven't been able to find much (The Gimp would be > too hard). I'm going to start her off on TuxPaint; can anyone suggest > anything else? > > Thanks for any suggestions, Sonia I recently went to the local camera club as a guest of my wife :-) and was stunned to find all the old-farts doing *really serious* photo-shop making out. In 1 evening I learned more about gimp that I already knew! It was a lecture on photo-shop but still!! Since I was sentient when Sputnik was launched, don't under estimate what the OLD-farts can achieve. Gimp *may not* be the right solution, but it's certainly a good one. James -- 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] unable to delete ftp files after upload?
>> any thoughts ? > > > There was a question about FTP servers here not long ago - some of the > advanced ones can be configured to allow/deny certain operations (e.g. > upload/download/list/delete/move each can be allowed or denied per user). > Which FTP server is this? Amos, # proftpd --version - ProFTPD Version 1.2.9 in use for a long time, going by date of proftpd.conf, not altered since 2004 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] etc]# cat proftpd.conf ServerType standalone DefaultServer on ServerIdent on "FTP Server ready." ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] AccessGrantMsg "User %u logged in." DeferWelcomeoff # Umask 022 is a good standard umask to prevent new dirs and files # from being group and world writable. Umask 022 MaxInstances30 Usernobody Group nobody TimeoutIdle 1800 TimeoutNoTransfer 1800 # To cause every FTP user to be "jailed" (chrooted) into their home # directory, uncomment this line. DefaultRoot ~ # Normally, we want files to be overwriteable. AllowOverwriteon # A basic anonymous configuration, no upload directories. If you do not # want anonymous users, simply delete this entire section. -- -- Voytek -- 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] unable to delete ftp files after upload?
Depends upon your client, but it looks like you want "mdelete *.zip" instead of delete - your wildcards are being taken literally On 10/5/07, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having some ftp probs: > > I've logged on to ftp with xp CLI ftp as user '.com.au' > > I've made a dir 've', and, cd to the new dir > I upload some files OK; > they list OK, the won't delete with 'no such file' > > any thoughts ? > as far I can see, logs report successful logon and I haven't found anyt > erorrs in logs (or searching wrongly) > > --- > ftp> del *.zip > 550 *.zip: No such file or directory > ftp> del *.ZIP > 550 *.ZIP: No such file or directory > ftp> ls *.zip > 200 PORT command successful > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list > accounts_sbt_myob_dec06.zip > eymont.zip > ve.zip > 226 Transfer complete. > ftp: 49 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 49000.00Kbytes/sec. > ftp> > -- > > 226 Transfer complete. > ftp: 5674 bytes received in 0.17Seconds 33.18Kbytes/sec. > ftp> del * > 550 *: No such file or directory > ftp> del *.zip > 550 *.zip: No such file or directory > ftp> ls *.zip > 200 PORT command successful > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list > accounts_sbt_myob_dec06.zip > eymont.zip > ve.zip > 226 Transfer complete. > ftp: 49 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 49000.00Kbytes/sec. > ftp> dir *.zip > 200 PORT command successful > 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list > -rw-r--r-- 1 .com.au .com.au 6893 Oct 5 01:05 > accounts_sbt_myob_d > ec06.zip > -rw-r--r-- 1 .com.au .com.au 8853 Oct 5 01:05 eymont.zip > -rw-r--r-- 1 .com.au .com.au20591 Oct 5 01:05 ve.zip > 226 Transfer complete. > ftp: 232 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 232000.00Kbytes/sec. > ftp> > > > -- > Voytek > > -- > 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] unable to delete ftp files after upload?
On 05/10/2007, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm having some ftp probs: > > I've logged on to ftp with xp CLI ftp as user '.com.au' > > I've made a dir 've', and, cd to the new dir > I upload some files OK; > they list OK, the won't delete with 'no such file' > > any thoughts ? There was a question about FTP servers here not long ago - some of the advanced ones can be configured to allow/deny certain operations (e.g. upload/download/list/delete/move each can be allowed or denied per user). Which FTP server is this? --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] unable to delete ftp files after upload?
I'm having some ftp probs: I've logged on to ftp with xp CLI ftp as user '.com.au' I've made a dir 've', and, cd to the new dir I upload some files OK; they list OK, the won't delete with 'no such file' any thoughts ? as far I can see, logs report successful logon and I haven't found anyt erorrs in logs (or searching wrongly) --- ftp> del *.zip 550 *.zip: No such file or directory ftp> del *.ZIP 550 *.ZIP: No such file or directory ftp> ls *.zip 200 PORT command successful 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list accounts_sbt_myob_dec06.zip eymont.zip ve.zip 226 Transfer complete. ftp: 49 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 49000.00Kbytes/sec. ftp> -- 226 Transfer complete. ftp: 5674 bytes received in 0.17Seconds 33.18Kbytes/sec. ftp> del * 550 *: No such file or directory ftp> del *.zip 550 *.zip: No such file or directory ftp> ls *.zip 200 PORT command successful 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list accounts_sbt_myob_dec06.zip eymont.zip ve.zip 226 Transfer complete. ftp: 49 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 49000.00Kbytes/sec. ftp> dir *.zip 200 PORT command successful 150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list -rw-r--r-- 1 .com.au .com.au 6893 Oct 5 01:05 accounts_sbt_myob_d ec06.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 .com.au .com.au 8853 Oct 5 01:05 eymont.zip -rw-r--r-- 1 .com.au .com.au20591 Oct 5 01:05 ve.zip 226 Transfer complete. ftp: 232 bytes received in 0.00Seconds 232000.00Kbytes/sec. ftp> -- Voytek -- 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] cartoon/stick figure packages?
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007, "Sonia Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My mum (bless her cotton socks) has been using Ubuntu for a couple of > years now. > > She wants some software for drawing cartoons and stick figures for some > birthday cards, but I haven't been able to find much (The Gimp would be > too hard). I'm going to start her off on TuxPaint; can anyone suggest > anything else? Xara or Inkscape for static images. Synfig for animations. -- "If you have any access to a [Windows] system, you can likely gain administrative access." - Mark Burnett, SecurityFocus, 2005-02-23 pgpUqfbPexYNO.pgp Description: PGP signature -- 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] Lost directory
can you reproduce it? It may have been a case where your kid tried to save something, selected Desktop instead of going into the directory, a dialog popped up asking if you want to replace the file, which was answered "yes" That's a wild stab in the dark, but as always steps on how to reproduce bugs are invaluable for bug reports On 10/4/07, Kevin Shackleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good point Tony! > > $ file dt0 [that's what I named the file as] > dt0: PNG image data, 1024 x 768, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced > > And I find . . that the file is an image from playing Club Penguin > under Iceweasel. It's overwritten the directory "Desktop". Rather > naughty - is that something that should be reported to their bugzilla? > > Kevin. > > On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 10:20 +1000, Tony Sceats wrote: > > what sort of file does 'file' say it is? > > > > -- 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] cartoon/stick figure packages?
> My mum (bless her cotton socks) has been using Ubuntu for a couple of > years now. > > She wants some software for drawing cartoons and stick figures for some > birthday cards, but I haven't been able to find much (The Gimp would be > too hard). I'm going to start her off on TuxPaint; can anyone suggest > anything else? Perhaps Inkscape? - Jeff -- GNOME Boston Summit 2007http://live.gnome.org/Boston2007 "It's weird being without white noise." - Catie Flick -- 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] cartoon/stick figure packages?
On Fri, 5 Oct 2007 07:16:37 +0800, "Jeff Waugh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > > My mum (bless her cotton socks) has been using Ubuntu for a couple of > > years now. > > > > She wants some software for drawing cartoons and stick figures for some > > birthday cards, but I haven't been able to find much (The Gimp would be > > too hard). I'm going to start her off on TuxPaint; can anyone suggest > > anything else? > > Perhaps Inkscape? H, thanks for the suggestion! I'll give that a go too. -- Sonia Hamilton -- 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] (no subject)
On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 10:23:39 +0200 (SAST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Hi All, > > How does one install google earth on Fedora 7 as the download does not > start on the google site and on the prefect desktop site the file does > not > exist. Lee, I don't know much about Fedora 7 or Google Earth, but I know that the Sabayon Linux live CD/distro comes with it pre installed - if you're really stuck you could try that. http://www.sabayonlinux.org/ -- Sonia Hamilton -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] cartoon/stick figure packages?
My mum (bless her cotton socks) has been using Ubuntu for a couple of years now. She wants some software for drawing cartoons and stick figures for some birthday cards, but I haven't been able to find much (The Gimp would be too hard). I'm going to start her off on TuxPaint; can anyone suggest anything else? Thanks for any suggestions, -- Sonia Hamilton -- 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] Reading File Maker Pro 5.0 files
Ken Foskey wrote: If it is one off use odbc onto the PC and then create a real database. I have had a kind offer from a Slugger to extract the data in CSV format using his FP5 software. I have since been told that FP5 has been found on a PC at my client's office, so we will simply export the whole thing in CSV format from that. An examination of the FP5 files shows that they could be reversed engineered if the need arose. They contain plain text and some delimiters. Once the schema is discovered, I don't think it would be too difficult. But, as in so many cases like this, CSV to the rescue. thanks, rickw -- _ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing ... after they have exhausted all other possibilities. -- Winston Churchill -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] [ot] New Opencoffee / Beer 2.0 group @ Parramatta Mon 8th Oct 6.30pm
Dear List, To help tech startups and hacking generally a new OpenCoffee / Beer 2.0 group has been formed for the west. Meet other tech entrepreneurs, hackers and other people interested in the startup space. Location : Albion Hotel, Parramatta 135 George St Parramatta NSW 2150 Tel: 98913288 6.30pm - 7.30pm If you are planning to come please phone Richard 0414 618 425 regards, Richard Hayes begin:vcard fn:Richard Hayes n:Hayes;Richard org:Nada Marketing adr:;;PO Box 12 ;Gordon;NSW;2072;Australia email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:+(61) 2 8669 9835 tel;fax:+(61) 2 9327 4908 tel;home:+(61) 2 9436 0121 tel;cell:0414 618 425 x-mozilla-html:FALSE url:http://www.nada.com.au version:2.1 end:vcard -- 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] Lost directory
Good point Tony! $ file dt0 [that's what I named the file as] dt0: PNG image data, 1024 x 768, 8-bit/color RGB, non-interlaced And I find . . that the file is an image from playing Club Penguin under Iceweasel. It's overwritten the directory "Desktop". Rather naughty - is that something that should be reported to their bugzilla? Kevin. On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 10:20 +1000, Tony Sceats wrote: > what sort of file does 'file' say it is? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Türk Patent Enstitüsü ve Moğolis tan Fikri Mülkiyet Ofisi Dayanışması
Türk Patent Enstitüsü ve Moğolistan Fikri Mülkiyet Ofisi Dayanışması Türk Patent Enstitüsü (TPE) ve Moğolistan Fikri Mülkiyet Ofisi (IPOM) arasındaki teknik işbirliği görüşmeleri 21-23 Ağustos 2007 tarihlerinde Moğolistan'ın Ulan Batur şehrinde gerçekleştirildi. IPOM personelinin coğrafi işaretler ve enformasyon faaliyetleri eğitimi, TPE eş-başkanlığında yürütülmekte olan İslam Konferansı Teşkilatı Projesi ve Ekonomik İşbirliği Örgütü altında düzenlenebilecek eğitimlere Moğolistan'ın da katılımını öngören bir faaliyet planı oluşturuldu.Kaynak: TPE Time'ın Değerlendirdiği 2006 Yılının En İyi Cihazları Time'ın değerlendirmelerine göre, 2006 yılının en iyi 8 cihazı; Logitech VX, Sanyo HDI Digital Media, Apple Macbook Pro, Nintendo DS Lite, Logitech Wireless DJ, Nike + ipod sport kid, Garmin Street Pilot c550 ve Palm Treo 700W yer almakta. Kaynak: time.com İstanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi, Kentin Elektronik Haritasını Çıkarttı! İstanbulluların www.sehirrehberi.ibb.gov.tr internet adresinden ulaşabilecekleri rehberde turistik ve tarihi mekanlar, adres bilgileri, nöbetçi eczaneler, yol durumu gibi çok sayıda merak edilen konuya ulaşılabiliyor. Ayrıca İstanbul'un uydu ve hava fotoğraflarıda bulunmakta. İstanbullular bu sanal rehberden trafik kazası, yangın, sel, kapalı yol ve yol daraltması gibi son gelişmeleride sıcağı sıcağına takip edebilecekler. Bu bültenleri almak istemiyorsan1z [EMAIL PROTECTED] adresine bo_ bir mail göndermenizi rica ederiz. Böyle bir talebiniz olmad1 1 sürece düzenli olarak bültenlerimizi alabilirsiniz. NETMARK PATENT T:0212 220 31 20 F:0212 220 74 21 -- 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] Backing up over a WAN connection
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Sorry to bother you all again. How does one do a backup over a WAN connection with latency for servers across the world and create an image of the entire system including SQL. What Linux free software will do the above for us. We have tried rdiff and that does not work. what didn't work about rdiff-backup? perhaps if you dont have enough bandwidth, you could rsync first then use rdiff over the top of the mirror to get the best of both worlds dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
forcing reinstall of packages on CentOS (was: Re: [SLUG] removing source installed after rpm install ?)
On 03/10/2007, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > or is there a safe to use option to re-install ? That's something I'd like to find about too. A brain-dead script have erased the /etc/rc.d/init.d directory on one of our CentOS 5 and I couldn't find the equivalent to Debian's "apt-get --reinstall". Does such a thing exist? Thanks, --Amos -- 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] Backing up over a WAN connection
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi all, > >Sorry to bother you all again. > >How does one do a backup over a WAN connection with latency for servers >across the world and create an image of the entire system including SQL. >What Linux free software will do the above for us. We have tried rdiff and >that does not work. You should break your problem up into smaller problems and then glue them together. First, try tar, star, or rsync for the filesystem. Your SQL database should also have a tool for taking backups of the database. rsync over ssh, or scp, or curl over FTP, or piping directly over a stunnel might work for getting that data over the WAN to another site. -- 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] Lock failure on "/var/mail/adam.lock"
On 03/10/2007, Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, I've had Mutt working for some time but all of a sudden I get the > following (below). > > Trying to change permissions gives me > > > chmod: changing permissions of `/var/mail/adam.lock': Read-only file > > system > > Can anyone suggest a fix ? Shut down your system immediately and boot sysrescuecd ( http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page) My first suspicion (i.e. the only times I saw that filesystems became read-only) is when the system decides that there are problems reading the disk (e.g. bad blocks) and remounts the file systems read-only. sysrescuecd (or maybe your distro's installation disks) should allow you to analyse the disk, check logs etc with minimal further damage to your FS. --Amos -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Backing up over a WAN connection
Hi all, Sorry to bother you all again. How does one do a backup over a WAN connection with latency for servers across the world and create an image of the entire system including SQL. What Linux free software will do the above for us. We have tried rdiff and that does not work. Thanks, Lee --- South Africas premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za -- For super low premiums, click here http://www.webmail.co.za/dd.pwm -- 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] (no subject)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Download the GoogleEarthLinux.bin file. Become root and make it executable. Run it. It will install. Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All, > > How does one install google earth on Fedora 7 as the download does not > start on the google site and on the prefect desktop site the file does not > exist. > > Hope someone can help me. > > Thanks, > Lee > > > --- > South Africas premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za > -- > For super low premiums, click here http://www.webmail.co.za/dd.pwm > -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHBKxIybPcBAs9CE8RAj3iAJ9emnp6GJADsjwpzhUocmF5IsxZwgCfVEAu y3+d6uhXwa+CXfaCOaELLYU= =0spN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] (no subject)
Hi All, How does one install google earth on Fedora 7 as the download does not start on the google site and on the prefect desktop site the file does not exist. Hope someone can help me. Thanks, Lee --- South Africas premier free email service - www.webmail.co.za -- For super low premiums, click here http://www.webmail.co.za/dd.pwm -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Reading File Maker Pro 5.0 files
At the risk of facing the guillotine, I will ask this before I begin searching with Google. Might save me some time :) Has anyone run into a FOSS utility that can read File Maker Pro 5.0 files, and at perhaps dump their contents in CSV (text) or some database format? Any hints most welcome, on or off list. cheers rickw -- _ Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services Once a new technology starts rolling, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road. -- Stewart Brand -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
