Re: [SLUG] Printer
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 14:48 +1000, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > You know, in the days of parallel printers it always used to seem really > silly to me that printers never came with interface cables, and they > claimed it was because there were different types of parallel > interfaces, even well after DB25 parallel connectors became fully > standardized. I can't believe they're still pulling this ruse when > EVERY computer in the last 4-5 (6-8?) years has USB. Apparently the reason they get away with this is because these multifunction devices are considered 'standalone' machines. They don't need to be connected to a PC to be useful. Just shop around for the usb cable and chances are you will find one cheaper than the one offered at printer sale time. Cheers, Andrew S -- 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] Linux analogue for Smartboard software.
William Bennett wrote: Could anyone tell me whether there is software to drive a Smartboard (or any interactive whiteboard, for that matter)? At present, the Smartboard software in my school runs only on Windows and, whilst it works, it still grates to use Windows. Any help, etc. Smartboard have a Linux version of their software available too. http://www2.smarttech.com/st/en-US/Support/SBS/ Andrew begin:vcard fn:Andrew Swinn n:Swinn;Andrew email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:0402 426 490 x-mozilla-html:FALSE 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] Graphics Card
Gav wrote: Hi all, Could anyone recommend a low to midrange graphics card for box running Ubuntu Feisty. Want to run applications like 3d Desktop, 3d chess, virtualbox etc. Not really for high end games. Present 32mb matrox card is really struggling. Thanks, Gav I purchased a Chaintech Nvidia GeForce FX5200 AGP card for one of my machines not long ago. 128MB ram and runs perfectly fine under Ubuntu/Debian/other Linux. Only $80 at the time. It has an s-video out so it is currently being used in my media PC with Debian installed. As such I have been using an older 32MB Asus card in my workstation and have been looking at getting another of these geforce cards to replace it. I feel your 32MB graphics card limit pain. There are probably different models floating around now but it might give you a pricepoint to work with. Andrew S. begin:vcard fn:Andrew Swinn n:Swinn;Andrew email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] tel;work:0402 426 490 x-mozilla-html:FALSE 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] BoM coastal rain radar mashup
Peter Miller wrote: Hi Sluggers, On a slightly topical note, here is another of my Google Maps mashups, this time BoM rain radar images over google maps (these are rain maps, not cloud maps). Feedback, suggestions, etc, welcome as always. http://miller.emu.id.au/cgi-bin/cgi-map-bom-radar I still need to get it to automagically refresh every 10 minutes. I must say I am very impressed :) Very cool indeed. Good work. Andrew S -- 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: photo/graphics processing SIG anyone?
David wrote: Dear Slug, Exactly the same position I'm in. Let's keep the conversation going please. There MUST be a need for this sort of thing. If SLUG don't want to do a mailing list I'm quite happy to do one. I'm sick of "shock horror" reaction I get when I say that I refuse to use Photoshop, and I want to demostrate that I can do without it, or prove that I can't do without it - one or the other! I'd be interested in something like this as well. I have been spending quite a bit of time using tools such as The Gimp and Inkscape and I would be very interested to see a network of other people following a similar path. I too also refuse to use Photoshop these days, always good to see others doing the same. ;) Andrew S -- 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] Awesome : Eben Moglen : "the be very afraid tour"
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Its youtube, but highly recommended: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YExl9ojclo Erik Nice. The dodgy camera action is a bit annoying but worth putting up with. Go Eben! Andrew S -- 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] CUPS Dying
Trent Murray wrote: Hi all, I'm currently running Ubuntu Feisty and am sharing a HP LaserJet over SAMBA/CUPS to two windows hosts at home. The issue is CUPS dies if the server is left on for several days and I need to reboot before all the jobs that have been sent to the spool actually get sent to the printer. Anyone know what might be going on here? This is probably not that helpful in fixing your problem, but I have been having a terrible time with Feisty in general. I am running Kubuntu and general stability for me has been woeful. I am having problems with applications locking up and disappearing, sometimes taking a couple of times to get them (re)started. I am persevering to try and nut out my specific problems. So far I have found that a newer version of K3B (compiled from source) runs a lot more stable than the current Feisty version. Andrew -- 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] Bigpond NextG on Linux (Ubuntu)?
Robert Thorsby wrote: On 2007.04.19 10:39 Sonia Hamilton wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 06:52:40AM +1000, > Robert Thorsby wrote: > Up our way (Mid North Coast) the response has > been universal -- NextG is crap. Most who were > coerced by Telstra into "converting" their mobiles > are trying to convert back to CDMA. But, since > Telstra hasn't listened to customers for three-quarters > of a century, they are getting nowhere. Robert, does this comment apply to data (ie internet) or voice/mobile phones? Data over mobile in the bush -- you must be joking!! :-) > The word has got out -- no one in the bush is changing over to NextG, except those conned by Telstra. Robert Thorsby Out here in Dubbo they are trying to flog their NextG stuff pretty hard, but it does seem to be falling on deaf ears. I am due for a phone upgrade but I don't see anything of better value (service or phones) than my current old Nokia. My mother-in-law received the production line 'you need to upgrade' marketing phone call, to which I advised her to wait until the CDMA service actually does end. I wonder how many people are going to be stuck between a rock and a hard place when it comes time to pull the plug? Andrew S -- 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] ubuntu server
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi The only way that I've been able to install ubuntu on my pentium-m laptop is this bizare sequence: This lappy installs SuSE 10.2 without any fuss, and as a server seems to run perfectly (with the hand-crafted generic kernel, the server kernel gives a register dump) Have you tried booting with some of the various 'cheat codes' at boot time. Some of the options can be found at the following page: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions I had an older system that I had to disable acpi on to get to boot. There may be some other options that get around whatever peculiar issue is present. Andrew S. -- 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] Microsoft's tool to assess Linux Persona
Alan L Tyree wrote: On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:49:39 +1100 Howard Lowndes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: http://www.linuxpersonas.com/ It is off line this morning (Wed 7:30) with a message "This material is being updated and will be made available to Microsoft partners shortly." It has been up on the web for quite a while. There is a Digg post linking to it from over 300 days ago. I was curious as to whether it was an officially released website or not. The domain is owned by a contractor to MS and not MS itself. I also thought anything like this would be done in house and not contracted out. Andrew Swinn --- What you say will be forgotten someday, What you do will be remembered. -- 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: [LINK] Close encounters of a Vista type
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:11:05 pm Adam Todd wrote: > >Under XP, fire it up and look at the properties of the wireless connection > >- simple > > > >Not so with Vista. Does Vista still have a command prompt to get to? In XP a quick 'ipconfig /all' will show the MAC address. Regards, Andrew Swinn -- 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] Vista preview on Seven Sunrise
On Monday 29 January 2007 08:00, Michael Fox wrote: > I just saw that too, take anything that fool says with a grain of salt ;) > > Just look what the say guy said about the Parallels on OSX sometime > ago, absolutely an idiot. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMaCvfNbKJo > Hadn't seen it before, but now I feel dumber for having watched it. Regards, Andrew Swinn -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Dubbo LUG
Howdy all, This is just a message to try and get in contact with someone who posted a message on the list back in 2005. I was just random googling and came across a message from someone who was looking at setting up a LUG out here in Dubbo. I have been thinking along similar lines of late. Simon Sutton, if you are still on this list and still located in Dubbo can you drop me a message at andrew 'at' swinndesign.com. Regards, Andrew Swinn -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
