[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 55, Issue 10
The National Press Club addresses are also on ABC24 news channel at the same time, 1pm today. Brett. > The Australian Computer Society has organised an 2010 Federal Election > Forum at the National Press Club in Canberra, from 1 to 2pm AEST, 10 > August 2010. This will be live on Sky News and YouTube. You can comment > via the ACS Blog, or Twitter using the tag #ITElectionForum. > > The forum will feature Senator Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, > Communications and the Digital Economy (Labour Party), Tony Smith MP, > Shadow Minister (Liberal Party) and Senator Scott Ludlam (Greens ICT > spokesperson). Issues to be discussed include the Digital Economy, High > Speed Broadband, Professional certification, ICT Skills, and no doubt > Internet censorship. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] fedora 13 qemu guest (Peter Miller)
> > I'm trying to use qemu to host a Fedora 13 guest. > On that note, be aware there are vast differences in the speed of applications running on qemu virtual machines, depending on the host system. Eg, BOINC on Debian or Suse running inside a virtual machine, with an Ubuntu 10.04 host is about 10 times faster than on Slackware 13 host (MIPS measured by BOINC software). I am guessing this is due to Ubuntu kernel being built with kernel same page merging, and Slackware without, but am not sure. Also inexplicably, having the host OS boot from an external usb hard drive causes major drop in the speed of the virtual machine, far beyond what would be caused by disk access times. I am not sure why this happens. Brett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: fedora 13 qemu guest (Peter Miller) (Daniel Pittman)
> That sounds suspiciously like you are either running fully emulated (eg: no > KVM support) on Slackware, or that you don't have virtio on that platform. > > It would be interesting, to me, to know if either of those guesses were true, > because I have a current need to improve my skills diagnosing KVM performance > issues and feedback helps with that. :) > I only thought it was that because I could not think what else it could be. In the next few weeks I hope to have some time to investigate further, and will let you know. > Is the backing store for the virtual machine also on the USB disk? If so it > would point a finger toward guest I/O performance is the pain point, and the > introduction of USB would just be making a painful service slower. > In all cases the virtual hard drive was on an (real) external usb drive (not the same one as the host OS was sometimes on). So I don't think the guest I/O is the culprit. Brett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] watching Channel Ten videos on Linux?
| I'd like to send a link to an episode of Good News Week to a friend | and I think I found it | with either Chromium 6.0.472.53 or Firefox 3.6.3. | Is there a way to view this on Linux? I just get the digest version of this list (in case this question is already answered). This plays fine on for me with Flash (I have installed the flash plugin in ~/.mozilla/pluginsdownloaded from Adobe). Also if you use Mozilla you can install the plugin "video downloadhelper." It will show 3 spinning balls on your toolbar everytime there is downloadable media on a webpage. You can click on the icon and download the episode, it should play with vlc or xine. Brett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Disappearing title bar
> Subject: [SLUG] Disappearing Title Bar > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > The title bar on the windows that open within gnome sometimes go away. > This is a random sort of happening. I may be using the system fine for > an hour or so and then the next window I open has no title bar and when > I look at the other open windows I find that their title bars have > disappeared also. The only way they come back is by rebooting. Is this a > bug in gnome? > System: Core 2 Duo with 4GB RAM > OS: Ubuntu 10.04 with Gnome 2.30.2 I am using 32 bit Ubuntu 10.04 (mine came with Gnome 2.30.0, which I did not upgrade) and the title bars have never disappeared. I do not use desktop effects, though. Brett. -- 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] change to linux and google chrome
> From: Bob Peterson > To: s...@slug.org.au > Subject: [SLUG] change to linux and google chrome > I am new to slug, can you do the following, I have a note book with > XP, can I remove microsoft and change to linux and use google chrome > as the browser, if so, how would I get information to do so. > http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Subject: [SLUG] change to linux and google chrome
>> I am new to slug, can you do the following, I have a note book with >> XP, can I remove microsoft and change to linux and use google chrome >> as the browser You might like to check out SW Iron instead of Chrome, it is the same thing but without the many Google tracking devices built-in: http://www.srware.net/en/software_srware_iron_chrome_vs_iron.php -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Flashplayer
> On 19/10/10 17:20, Malcolm Johnston wrote: >> Hi >> >> I've copied the new libflashplayer.so to its plugin directory, but something >> is not working. I get a message that I need to download a new flashplayer >> from Adobe, but that's what I've done. >> >> Restoring the older *.so gets me back to par, so no damage has been done; it >> seems, however, that I must be missing something. > > > >> Cheers, >> Malcolm Johnston > Another long shot is assuming you copied and pasted libflashplayer.so with a mouse: once you have pasted it you need to click in the folder to "deselect" the icon, before closing and re-opening firefox. If libflashplayer.so is still highlighted it will not be detected. Brett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
