Re: [SLUG] On buying a laptop.
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 06:05:10PM EST, Daniel Pittman wrote: > ThinkPad, mostly. Their very bottom end stuff is really "IdeaPad" inside, > which is not the same quality as the ThinkPad hardware. See > http://www.thinkwiki.org/ for details on what does or doesn't suck. > > Apple, after six months. Not because of OS-X, mind you: because there are > about two dozen types of mac hardware *total*, compared to however many > thousands of combinations of non-mac laptop hardware, you can be pretty > confident that it will all be fairly rapidly supported, and solid once it is. I'll second all the above, In Ubuntu's case, generally community members will have made wiki pages discussing apple hardware support, so you can get a good idea of just how well recent apple hardware works, and what hurdles you may have to go through to get things working. 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] On buying a laptop.
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:25:36PM EST, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote: > So, I wish to buy a laptop. > > Choice suggests the Toshiba Satellite LP500. > > I recall some time ago a discussion on whether the AMD processors were > better at Linux than those of Intel. As I also recall, majority opinion > was that there was 0 in it. Is this still the case? > > Has anyone had experience (+ or -} with the Toshiba that's worth airing? Coming from a point of view of audio stack maintainer in a distro, I'd say stay away from Toshiba. There have been many issues surrounding hda audio and Linux in the past few years that myself and colleagues have tried to help sort out. I also believe the kernel maintainers for Ubuntu also recommend users stay away from Toshiba. I can't give any more information than that, but I personally trust the kernel maintenance team of Ubuntu when they suggest that people look at other manufacturers. 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] On buying a laptop.
On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 02:41:39PM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote: > Coming from a point of view of audio stack maintainer in a distro, I'd say > stay away from Toshiba. There have been many issues surrounding hda audio and > Linux in the past few years that myself and colleagues have tried to help > sort out. I also believe the kernel maintainers for Ubuntu also recommend > users stay away from Toshiba. I can't give any more information than that, > but I personally trust the kernel maintenance team of Ubuntu when they > suggest that people look at other manufacturers. I should add, that such audio issues were hard to diagnose, due to some ACPI oddities. I could dig for the bug refs if people are really interested. 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] Adjusting volume on bluetooth headset
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:10:11AM EST, Ken Foskey wrote: > On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 09:54 +1100, Luke Yelavich wrote: > > > Thats because ALSA bluetooth support is via an alsa plugin provided by > > the bluez package, as all audio goes via the bluez stack. > > This question springs to mind. Is there a bluez management tool? There is a GNOME bluetooth applet that allows you to pair devices, send files, etc. Probably something for KDE as well, but I don't know what its called. 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] Adjusting volume on bluetooth headset
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 04:52:12PM EST, Peter Chubb wrote: > Hi folks, >I've recently acquired a bluetooth headset capable of a2dp >streaming. After a lot of mucking around I've managed to get it >sort-of working with mplayer. But I can't wwork out how to adjust >the volume. > >I do > mplayer -ao alsa:device=bluetooth file.ogg >and I get sound from the headset. But alsamixer doesn't see the >mixer, and it's too loud. Mplayer's volume control says it has >changed the volume, but it doesn't seem to make a difference --- >even when mplayer reports 0% there's still lots of volume. Probably the ALSA interface to bluetooth is not working very well. What alsa-lib and bluez versions are you using? >And >cat /proc/asound/devices > shows only the on-board Intel sound card, not bluetooth. Thats because ALSA bluetooth support is via an alsa plugin provided by the bluez package, as all audio goes via the bluez stack. 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] Sound system details
On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 10:29:29AM EST, Adam Bogacki wrote: > Hi, I have just set up a lenny system on old box and > am having trouble getting audio up. > > It is a while since I have done this, but could someone > suggest how to find out details of the sound card ? If you want all the information regarding sound on your system, I suggest downloading http://www.alsa-project.org/alsa-info.sh and running it. It will give you everything from the alsa version, to what cards are in your system, mixer levels, etc. Hope this helps 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] hot swapping hard drives
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 11:58:14PM EST, david wrote: > I've just installed a sata hard drive bay for a second drive, the kind > that has a little front door so you can slip the drive in and out. > > The point of installing it was to make it easy to change drives when > doing backups, but I had assumed that I would have to shut down before > taking the drive in or out. > > When I unmount it, Gnome announces that I can now remove the media, which > surprised me a bit. Should I assume that this means I can safely hot swap > this drive as long as it's unmounted? The nice man in the shop assured me > that I needed all sorts of mobo magic to be able to do that, but of > course he was talking Windows. I would hate to splat 500G of backup. As far as I am aware, new SATA standards, such as AHCI, allow the hot plugging of drives/cables, in fact without AHCI, machines wouldn't be able to offer E-Sata ports. I would check the type of connection for the drive and the rack that you mount it in. Since its new, I'd say it will be SATA, however you will have to find out whether the rack itself supports hot-plugging of drives, due to how the power to the drive is managed, as well as whether the controller on the motherboard supports AHCI, and if so, whether its running in AHCI mode. I am no expert on this stuff, but this is from what I've read and done with my own drives via E-Sata ports. Hope this helps 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] automatix
On Mon, Oct 15, 2007 at 08:54:18AM EST, david wrote: > With Gutsy on the horizon, can anyone tell me how? or what the problem > is? Is it just a problem with sources.list or something more sinister? Here is a good blog post explaining why automatix is bad. No more to be said. http://mjg59.livejournal.com/77440.html -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [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
[SLUG] Re: [activities] Call for participation: SLUG Bootcamp
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Re: [SLUG] Etch on ibook
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:49:09AM EST, Robert Collins wrote: > At a guess: > 1) install the ubuntu kernel, acpi-support, laptop* packages. PowerPC machines do not use ACPI. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital 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] Audio editing
On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 04:55:40PM EST, William Bennett wrote: > I've asked this before, but lost the information. > > I'd like to turn a couple of long-playing (ie., vinyl) disks into CDs. > > This will involve taking the signalfrom the record player, sampling it and > then removing the clicks/pops/hiss (if any) before burning the CD. > > Has anyone who has done this any preferences? Audacity comes to mind, but > I have a feeling there are others. I think audacity is your best bet. Very popular amongst casual users, as well as those more serious about audio editing. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital 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] Linux laptop and training for new user
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 09:16:05AM EST, david wrote: > On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 21:44 +1100, Ershad Shafi Chowdhury wrote: > > i have used ibm t42 quite successfully with suse . > > > > I've had an excellent run with three different T series Thinkpads, but > gave up completely on an R series. It's sitting on the shelf gathering > dust right now :( Does anyone want it? What model R series is it? I have a ThinkPad R50 that works with Ubuntu 100% out of the box, excluding modem, which I never use anyway. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital 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] A quick way to remove masses of whitespace from a csv file.
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:36:10AM EST, Alex Samad wrote: > sed -e 's/ +"/"/' oldfile > newfile It seems that changing the + to an * did the trick. Thanks. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital 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] A quick way to remove masses of whitespace from a csv file.
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:50:11AM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote: > Hi all > I have been given a spreadsheet, which I have exported to a csv file, > for use with a community website I am working on. > > I have a nasty problem, where a lot of the sells have massive amounts of > whitespace. I am wondering whether there is a quick way to remove the > whitespace, either in the spreadsheet, or in the csv file? I am guessing > a regular expression could do it, but I am no regular expression expert. I should clarrify my needs a bit. There are text strings in this file that have spaces between words. The whitespace is only at the end of fields, and all text strings have quotes around them. I also think this whitespace is between the last character, and the quote in the text string. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital 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] A quick way to remove masses of whitespace from a csv file.
Hi all I have been given a spreadsheet, which I have exported to a csv file, for use with a community website I am working on. I have a nasty problem, where a lot of the sells have massive amounts of whitespace. I am wondering whether there is a quick way to remove the whitespace, either in the spreadsheet, or in the csv file? I am guessing a regular expression could do it, but I am no regular expression expert. Thanks in advance. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital 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] Can anyone recommend a reasonable text to speech software?
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 07:46:28PM EST, Vini Engel wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been looking for a text to speech software, I have tried festival but > that didn't quite do what I wanted. It works well but the sound is not clear > enough and sometimes very hard to understand if the volume is not high. > > Would anyone know any other software that I could use for that? I am trying > to > use a script to pass messages to it so that they are automatically said. Have a look at espeak, http://espeak.sourceforge.net. It might sound alright for your needs. If you are using Ubuntu, just enable the Universe repository, and apt-get install espeak, which is available in Edgy and later. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital 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] Another anti-spam idea
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 10:48:10AM EST, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > * If it is not in my DB I reject the mail, send you a reply explaining, > > with an attached obscure image of a number. > > The most annoying anti-spam method in the world. A sure-fire way to not get > mail from anyone. And not accessible. Just had to point out the obvious. :) -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital 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] New St George HTML based online banking interface
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:35:36AM EST, John Clarke wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:49:42 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote: > > > Now if I could just try and work out the damn URL used to load the > > sign-in screen, I just might be able to use the damn thing in elinks. :) > > This one?: > > > https://ibank.stgeorge.com.au/html/index.asp?redirected=True&JavaVendor=SUN&ClientPlatform=UNIX&JVMVersion=&document=/xml/bank.xml&browser=Firefox&ApplType=jdk11&cookies=True&size=&demo=&route=IBS&Version=1&IDMError=&card= Yep. I can get to the sign-in screen, but can't get any further. Thanks anyway. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital 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] New St George HTML based online banking interface
On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:24:10AM EST, Adam Kennedy wrote: > Ditto. > > I for one loved the Java web banking site. I felt something of a mild > sense of security in that it was the only site that couldn't be > trivially screen-scraped. (although I did discover a way later on to > emulate the client-server protocol). > > I consider the move to HTML a step back. Understandable, but on another front, it makes St George bank's internet banking a lot more accessibility friendly. Now if I could just try and work out the damn URL used to load the sign-in screen, I just might be able to use the damn thing in elinks. :) -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital 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] ubuntu dapper gtkmm-2.0
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 09:17:13AM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote: > On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:40:28AM EST, Grizzly(Francis Smit) wrote: > > Hi does anyone know where I ca get packages for > > gtkmm-2.0 for ubuntu dapper 6.06, preferably > > a repository but anything would be better than now > > You are probably looking for the libgtkmm2-2c1a and package. If you want > the development files, you want libgtkmm2-dev package. Sorry, that should be libgtkmm2.0-1c2a and libgtkmm2.0-dev packages. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18444344 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital 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] ubuntu dapper gtkmm-2.0
On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 08:40:28AM EST, Grizzly(Francis Smit) wrote: > Hi does anyone know where I ca get packages for > gtkmm-2.0 for ubuntu dapper 6.06, preferably > a repository but anything would be better than now You are probably looking for the libgtkmm2-2c1a and package. If you want the development files, you want libgtkmm2-dev package. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18444344 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital 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] Dapper Drake
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 07:54:12AM EST, Gerald wrote: > Hi one and all, > Can you tell me if libdvdcss is available for Ubuntu 6.02? > I will be away soon and i depend on my Linux laptop to provide > Multimedia experiences. > Thank you, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RestrictedFormats -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18444344 Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: Digital 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] Voice to text
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 08:29:01PM EST, Nick Croft wrote: > * john hedge ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Does anyone know of a Linux based project/product for converting voice to > > text? > > > Festival: > > Besides research into speech synthesis, festival is useful as a > stand-alone speech synthesis program. It is capable of producing > clearly understandable speech from text. Festival is for text to speech. Text to speech synthesis is easily obtainable in various forms on Linux. Speech to text, otherwise known as voice recognition, is not. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18444344 signature.asc Description: Digital 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] Bigpond EVDO service & Linux
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 12:19:22PM EST, Howard Lowndes wrote: > Does anyone know of any Linux drivers to suit Bigpond's EVDO service. I remember responding to someone else about this connection late last year, Oct/Dec timeframe. CHeck the archives as I can't exactly remember what I stated, but it certainly can be done, and no new drivers are necessary, just a recent kernel with ACM modem support I think. hth -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18444344 signature.asc Description: Digital 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] AMR files in Linux?
On Tue, Mar 07, 2006 at 01:58:35PM EST, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > My concern is that it cut the sound in half, and I think it was the encoder's > fault. The one I wrote about in the blog worked fine though, it encoded the > whole wav without a problem. I remeber searching for something along these lines about 6 months ago or so. I remember finding code that needed to be built. I took the custom built ffmpeg with reference code included approach, which meant I could then use it with gstreamer apps. Don't have it any more though, as I didn't really need it for long, but messing with ffmpeg was not fun. :) -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18444344 signature.asc Description: Digital 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] what is SAO mode in a cd write
On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 10:02:58PM EST, Ken Foskey wrote: > Calling: /usr/lib/xcdroast/bin/xcdrwrap CDRECORD dev= "ATAPI:0,1,0" > gracetime=2 fs=4096k driveropts=burnfree,noforcespeed -v -useinfo > speed=48 -dao -eject -pad -data "/data4/dapper-install-i386.iso" ... SAO is more commonly known as Disc-At-Once. As far as I know, I think the first session of a disc can be in that mode, but every subsequent session has to be in track at once mode. hth. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18444344 signature.asc Description: Digital 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] Big Pong wireless
On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 10:28:39PM EST, Peter Tyler wrote: > Hi there, > I'm looking at signing up with Big Pond wireless, but I don't seem to > be able to get any info on whether the modem supplied will run on Linux. > I'm running Mandrake 10.1 on an intel box > Just wondering if anyone else is running a wireless broadband modem > with this type of config? > Any other suggestions would be appreciated :) If you are intending to use the USB modem, I can confirm that it works with Linux, and it is quite easy to set up. Essentially the modem appears as a standard USB modem, and the connection is made using the ppp tools. I just helped somebody set up BigPond wireless on Windows, but was able to get it going on my notebook with no fuss. Feel free to contact me if you would like more info. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18444344 signature.asc Description: Digital 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] SATA raid
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:34:02PM EST, Ben Donohue wrote: > When I boot CentOS 4.2 (redhat based distro) it finds the raid 5 as one > drive ok, but the inbuilt raid drive it finds as two drives and NOT the > raid 1 set up in the BIOS. > the inbuilt raid controller is LSI logic. This is what is known as fakeraid. All the BIOS does is write some metadata to the hard disks about the array. Windows drivers are able to read this metadata and act accordingly. It can be accessed in Linux using a program called dmraid, however Centos would have to have this program as part of the init sequence for the install as well as general use, and since there are no distros that I have seen that have dmraid support, I doubt Centos does either. You would be better off setting up a software RAID during install, as this is all dmraid essentially does anyway. Hope this helps. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18444344 signature.asc Description: Digital 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] Tonights desktop apps talks - interactive
On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 03:17:45PM EST, Grant Parnell wrote: > Multimedia players > -- > xmms(in), madman(in), rhythmbox(in), mplayer, xine(in), amarok, kaffiene, > zinf (console) Zinf also has an X front-end, but there are far better GUI players around IMO. Zinf does seem to be just about the best for console however. I'd be happy to show zinf if need be. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18444344 signature.asc Description: Digital 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] Your top-ten linux desktop apps
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 03:57:25PM EST, Grant Parnell wrote: > For starters what apps do you tend to use the most? In no particular order: links2 - web browsing. mutt - email nano - text/document editing. pdftotext/html, catdoc etc - Utilities to convert PDF/word documents to text for reading snownews - RSS newsfeed reader. firefox - For when I need to brows graphical sites, and speech is not useful. grip - Much more flexible wen it comes to file naming, as I use a custom written script to keep to my music archive layout and file names. gnome-terminal - Whenever I am in GNOME and need something done quickly. zinf - Play music on the console Rhythmbox - My main music player. xine - DVD watching. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18444344 signature.asc Description: Digital 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] Telephone recording?
On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 01:19:43PM EST, James Gray wrote: > Dick Smith sell an analogue phone pickup (basically a purpose-built > microphone) that attaches to the hand piece and has a cable with monaural > 1/16" (IIRC) male plug on the other end. Plug the pickup into your sound > card's microphone jack and start recording. > > I've used one of these in the past with a tape deck and it was fine with > clear > recording of both sides of the conversation. s/tape deck/sound card/ and > bingo - digital telephone recorder. > > The only drawback with this is that you'll need to manually start/stop > recording (unless you hack a "silence detection" into your preferred sound > recorder). If quality is also of some concern, another drawback is that the person on the end where the conversation is being recorded will sound like they are on the phone as well, unlike when you hear people on the radio, where the full frequency range is heard. Hope this makes sense. :) -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18444344 signature.asc Description: Digital 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] URGENT - Sebastians talk changed
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 09:16:13AM EST, Pia Waugh wrote: > Please let me know if your preference is for him to speak in the city, > otherwise I will cancel that event and encourage everyone to watch him at > Macquarie. If the talk goes ahead tomorrow night at UTS, I certainly will attend. -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 18444344 signature.asc Description: Digital 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] Old 486 DX 66 to give away.
On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 05:55:27PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This is probably another good use for a wiki page... > each person with spare junk lists it on the same wiki page > along with where to pick it up from and then everyone knows > where to grab spares from. Speaking of which, the machine is now taken. -- Luke Get my public GPG key here: http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt signature.asc Description: Digital 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] Old 486 DX 66 to give away.
Hi all I have been given an old 486 DX 66, 516 MB hard drive, sound card, 3.5 and 5.25 floppy drives, CD-ROM. Seemed to boot fine, appart from a dead CMOS battery, but wouldn't boot for a second time. Haven't opened it, got about 4MB RAM. I could use it for spare parts, but I have no great need for most of the components in this system. You may be able to make it boot and use it for a firewall. if you can pick it up from Croydon, you are welcome to it. Feel free to contact me with questions/pickup arrangement. -- Luke Get my public GPG key here: http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt signature.asc Description: Digital 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] monthly meeting
On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 10:33:10AM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What's the special interest talk this month? Special Interest Talk: TBA Taken from Chris' announcement. -- Luke Get my public GPG key here: http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt signature.asc Description: Digital 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] InstallFest: Ubuntu Down Under Love Day
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 06:38:33PM EST, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: > When: > Monday, April 25, 10:30am - 4:30pm > Where: > Vibe Hotel, Rushcutters Bay Just wondering whether there will be anybody traveling via public transport to get there, particularly you Lindsay and Chris? If so, perhaps we could arrange to meet up somewhere along the way? if there is anybody else who may be able to help, it would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance. -- Luke Get my public GPG key here: http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt signature.asc Description: Digital 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] Skype [Was Sound help]
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 03:10:34PM EST, Alan L Tyree wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ esddsp skype > open /dev/dsp: No such file or directory > > The error message occurs when I try to make a call. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo esddsp skype > open /dev/dsp: No such file or directory > open /dev/dsp: Connection refused > > Second error message is when I try again to make a call. Have you tried shutting down any sound servers you have running and just run Skype on its own? 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] Skype [Was Sound help]
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 02:12:48PM EST, Alan L Tyree wrote: > For some reason it now seems to work after a reboot. > > I'm still not getting anywhere much with Skype. Has anyone done a > successful install? When I try to connect, I get an error that looks > like: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ read error, res = -1 , handle = 18 > > On the other hand, the tech info on the Skype call shows UDP packets > being received. No sound though. What version are you using? Are you using the statically linked version, or the dynamically linked version? 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] Sound help
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 01:13:46PM EST, Alan L Tyree wrote: > > > It does. Thanks to all responders. I am not using alsa. > > > > > > I am also having problems since the system does not seem to > > > recognise my mike (it is not seen by aumix). I don't think it is > > > hardware since I have the same problem on two different boxes (both > > > running Sarge). Do I need some special modules to get the mike > > > recognised? > > > > How is the microphone connected? If it is connected by a normal 3.5mm > > jack, then it is simply a matter of checking the volume settings in a > > mixer application. If it is USB, then you will need to load another > > module to allow it to be used. The module is audio I think. > > No, its a regular jack. And I have just tried another mike. In the mixer > aumix the mike shows up as not present. H. What soundcard is it? is it in a laptop or a desktop? How many connection jacks do you have on the card? Luke k -- 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] Sound help
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:05:26PM EST, Alan L Tyree wrote: > It does. Thanks to all responders. I am not using alsa. > > I am also having problems since the system does not seem to recognise my > mike (it is not seen by aumix). I don't think it is hardware since I > have the same problem on two different boxes (both running Sarge). Do I > need some special modules to get the mike recognised? How is the microphone connected? If it is connected by a normal 3.5mm jack, then it is simply a matter of checking the volume settings in a mixer application. If it is USB, then you will need to load another module to allow it to be used. The module is audio I think. 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] Sound help
On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 10:44:19AM EST, Alan L Tyree wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to install Skype, but it has different instructions for ALSA > sound. How do I know if I am using ALSA? If you have the directory /proc/asound then you are using alsa. Another way to check is to run lsmod and check whether there are any modules with snd- or snd_ in their name. if so, you are also running alsa. Hope this helps. Luke k -- 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] Matrox Millennium 32MB G450 DualHead AGP Video card
On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 06:29:34PM EST, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > has anyone has any experience with the video card in the subject line in > > linux. the x.org site claims good support. i understand it has lots of > > nice inbuilt hardware features. > > > > can someone just briefly run through status. dual output? opensource 3d > > drivers? > > I used to run one of these... Ahh, great card. Significantly better in 2d > display quality than the Radeon and finally Nvidia that replaced it. So > crisp! Matrox is *the* card for display snobs. ;-) I am running a Matrox Milennium G550 with a 21" monitor attached here, and I have never had any problems setting up the card in the many distros I have run on the P4 that the card is used in. Granted I am no judge of display quality, but it runs at the resolution and bit depth, as well as refresh rate that I feel comfortable working at, so I am satisfied. 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] St George Internet Banking
On Thu, Jan 13, 2005 at 02:27:10PM EST, Mary Gardiner wrote: > On Thu, Jan 13, 2005, Stuart Guthrie wrote: > > IMHO. The solution to the whole St George banking debacle is really > > easy. > > > > Move to another bank. If they will not support modern operating > > systems and basic HTTP compatible web browsers then they do not > > deserve your business. > > The last discussion about this ended with someone pointing out that > anyone with mortgages or term deposits among other things would suffer a > *significant* financial penalty in switching banks: probably taking in > the order of decades to recoup the time lost fiddling around with > browsers (unless they value cross-browser compatibility very highly in > dollar terms). There is also the fact that not many banks offer particular cards. One of the reasons why I have an account with St George is due to wanting a Visa debit card. Luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Regarding Ten Pin Bowling on Saturday.
Hi all I am just wondering if there is anybody who would be willing to meet me at either Parramatta or harris Park stations to assist in getting to the bowling alley? I have been told that it is closer to harris Park so that may be a better option, as it is only a couple of blicks away. Any offers much appreciated. Thanks 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] Fedora core 2 CDs
On Thu, Sep 23, 2004 at 11:08:11PM EST, Peter Hardy wrote: > Hello SLUG. > Would anybody going along to the meeting tomorrow night be able to bring > along their copies of Fedora core 2? I'd like to grab a copy; will bring > blanks. :-) Gladly Peter. I have no real use for them anyway. :) See you there tonight. Luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Hard disk spin down, and GNOME.
Hi all. I have managed to set up my laptop to allow my hard disk to be shut off after a period of time while on battery. However, for the times I need to go into GNOME, if the laptop is left idle for a while, the hard disk doesn't spin down. Listening to the hard disk, it sounds like that it is making a read or write every so often. I have laptop mode turned on, with the hard disk set to spin down after 3 mins of inactivity. Is there any setting in GNOME that can be changed to allow the desired result? Running Slackware 10.0 with default GNOME 2.6 that comes with it, on 2.4.27. Thanks in advance. 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] stopping automated scripts signing guestbooks
On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 02:23:03PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A typical way this is done is to ask the user > to type in a code which is there displayed in > front of them on the same page in some slightly > obfuscated manner. Unfortunately, he is a blind linux user, and blind/vision impaired people visit his site. Having a graphic with numbers might be more trouble than it is worth, and are quite inconvenient. I know it is possible to scramble email addresses in the source using JavaScript but am not sure whether that would work with other URLs, such as form submission URLs. If it is possible, this might be of some help. 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] Optimising Linux Kernel
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:21:06PM EST, Rod Butcher wrote: > Experts, I do a lot of intensive audio file editing, but I use the same > box for email, web, home office. Is it worthwhile looking to optimise > the kernel for the audio editing ? I have AMD XP3000, 1 gig RAM, 2.6.3 > kernel. Mandrake 10 supplies a precompiled kernel allegedly optimised > for memory size 1 - 4 gigs which I use, but the 1024x768 nVidia GeForce > 4 MMX video becomes a bit flaky while editing. Unfortunately, it is not possible to get low latency performance with a 2.6 kernel as yet. A patched 2.4 kernel can get very low latency, but I am not sure how Mandrake 10 would work with a 2.4 kernel. There is a 2.6 kernel patch, but it is currently under heavy development, but should be stable quite soon. If Mandrake 10 can take it, I would suggest go back to 2.4 and patch it for low latency, that is if your hardware is supported in 2.4. hth 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] Optimising Linux Kernel
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 08:40:10PM EST, Shaun Oliver wrote: > you might want to consider applying some low latency patches because > it's easy to get buffer underruns with the standard linux kernel. For 2.4 kernels, this is quite possible. However for 2.6, there have been a few problems, particularly with latency. This is currently being worked on with a patch, but it is still under heavy development and testing. 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] apt-rpm
On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:41:16AM EST, FH Leung wrote: > Are there any tools like the apt-get in Debian so that I can install and > update the packages easily from the net? Yes there are. It depends on the distro you are using. If you are using a recent version of Mandrake, you already have a system like this at your disposal called urpmi. If you are using one of the Fedora releases, you can geet apt for rpm from various sites on the net. For Fedora, there is also yum, which it comes with. hth 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] SLUG Installfest: Saturday 21st August.
Hi all I would love to help out at the SLUG installfest, however since I am vision impaired, this makes things a little difficult when it comes to reading stuff on the screen during installation. However I would be happy to answer any questions people may have, and can bring my laptop to demonstrate most aspects of Linux, particularly Linux multimedia. So if help is needed, and there is something that I could help out with, I would be glad to come. In terms of the location of the installfest, if someone is able to meet me outside UTS, that would be great. I will be coming from Central station, and would need assistance to find the room. Look forward to hearing from someone about this, and am happy to help out. 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] lowercasing file names, directory names, how ?
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:32:55AM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote: > # for dir in `find . -type d -name "*[A-Z]*"`; do mv "$dir" `echo "$dir" | tr > '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done > # for file in `find . -type f -name "*[A-Z]*"`; do mv "$file" `echo "$file" | tr > '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done Actually, I forgot to point out the path point. Instead of find . it should be find /path/to/dir. Sorry about that. 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] lowercasing file names, directory names, how ?
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 09:22:04AM EST, Voytek Eymont wrote: > how can I lowercase: > > all file names ? > all directory names ? > recursively ? > > I have user's web data in miXED CAse, and, I think I'd rather lower case > it now I have just tried this, and it worked for me, so it should work. Run these two lines. # for dir in `find . -type d -name "*[A-Z]*"`; do mv "$dir" `echo "$dir" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done # for file in `find . -type f -name "*[A-Z]*"`; do mv "$file" `echo "$file" | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'`; done hth 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] Rebuild hda
On Mon, Aug 02, 2004 at 07:43:09AM EST, The Salisburys wrote: > Most systems these days disabling the bios doesn't work. > The OS will see the harddrive and you may have confusion rain on you if you > are not aware! > I wish it did work! I ve had the frustration many times. I have seen this on a couple of Abit motherboards, but it doesn't happen on my Asus P4PE motherboard, which was from the beginning of last year, and one of the Abit motherboards is from several years back, an Abit BP6. 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] Cable or ADSL?
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 07:56:57PM EST, Kevin Saenz wrote: > I dunno it the problem has been fixed cable is great if you are the only > one in your street using cable. > Once people start using it from what I have read it slows down. > My preference is ADSL. With ADSL, you can also find better value for money in terms of download allowances, even though the speed is not quite as fast as cable. 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] [CUPS & samba: Linux serv, Windows clients] not spooling
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 07:50:47AM EST, Xavier! wrote: > And I configured my samba, I suppose, correctly: > -other linux system can send print jobs correctly, > through smbclient //mylinux/HP5550; smb:> print > some-file (at least it is the one I tested out) > -the windows machns can see the HP5550 printer shared > by my linux machine, and can send jobs to it. BUT > nothing actually goes. Are you using the Windows drivers for the printer on the Windows machines? If so, have you enabled the ability to send raw data streams through CUPS? This is done in /etc/cups/mime.types and /etc/cups/mime.convs. Uncomment eh lines that start with application/octet-stream hth 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] Sydney Morning Herald Article
On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 11:50:26PM EST, Andrewd wrote: > Or you could always use the link www.smh.com.au/text for all the news > without those annoying ads (usually a single small ad in the corner > only) or equally annoying register please pages As far as I can tell, the text page is not updated with the latest articles as soon as they come up on the front page. For example, the emergency at the airport story wasn't on the text-only site when I tried to look for it there. 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] SLUG Monthly Meeting, Friday July 30th
Hi again Once again, I forgot to mention that I am vision impaired :) On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 07:56:58PM EST, Luke Yelavich wrote: > Hi all > I would like to attend this month's meeting, and am asking once again if there > is anybody who would be able to offer assistance to get to the meeting? I will > be coming from Central station, and can get to UTS, but will need help with > the locating of the room where the meeting is being held. > > Sorry for the short notice, but if anybody is able to help, it would be much > appreciated. > > Looking forward to the meeting. > > Thanks in advance. > > Luke > > -- > 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] SLUG Monthly Meeting, Friday July 30th
Hi all I would like to attend this month's meeting, and am asking once again if there is anybody who would be able to offer assistance to get to the meeting? I will be coming from Central station, and can get to UTS, but will need help with the locating of the room where the meeting is being held. Sorry for the short notice, but if anybody is able to help, it would be much appreciated. Looking forward to the meeting. Thanks in advance. 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] ESP Ghostscript
On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 12:46:49PM EST, Edwin Humphries wrote: > I'm trying to make an Epson SC 1160 work under samba, using the gimp driver. > It prints nicely from KDE, but not from XP. > > The only error message I get is in /var/log/cups/error_log, which reads: > > Adding start banner page "none" to job 5326. > Adding end banner page "none" to job 5326. > Job 5326 queued on 'epson' by 'edwin'. > Unable to convert file 0 to printable format for job 5326! > Hint: Do you have ESP Ghostscript installed? > Hint: Try setting the LogLevel to "debug". Have you thought of setting up the printer to use the Windows drivers, and set up Cups to allow Raw data to be sent from Samba to the printer? 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] Samba Node Name
On Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 11:37:03AM EST, Peter Rundle wrote: > Sluggers, > > does anyone know if it's possible to override the nodename that appears > in the network neighbourhood for a samba server? In global, add the following netbios name = server-name-here This is from looking at my smb.conf file on my Samba server. hth 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] Looking for a hosting service provider
On Mon, Jul 12, 2004 at 06:22:08PM EST, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: > I heard about a company called "Web Central", are they any good? AFAIK, WebCentral are a Windows-based hosting company. I guess you are after a Linux-based host? 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] statically linked versions of samba and cups
On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 10:56:41PM EST, Shaun Oliver wrote: > hi all, > does anyone know where I can get some static binaries of smbd, nmbd, and > cupsd, > I want to incorperate these into a smoothwall installation because the > person I'm giving the installation too needs specifically a print > server/router and smoothwall is the easiest way I can think of giving > them what they want. Have you looked at Clark Connect? http://www.clarkconnect.com? It is RPM based, and can do everything that Smoothwall can do, and also comes with Samba, Cups and the rest, as far as I know anyway. What is more, it can be administered from a web-based interface. hth 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] Semester 2 Linux Courses
On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 04:19:48PM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: > > I believe the normal rate is about $200 per exam. LPIC-1 and LPIC-2 are > > two exams each. > > The learning is $150, the actual exam is extra on top of that. > > This is a hint to Geoff / Pia to post stuff on the new LPI certification > exam. Thanks for the information. I guess Geoffrey will have more to add, but what has been given so far is much appreciated. 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] Semester 2 Linux Courses
Hi On Sat, Jun 26, 2004 at 09:48:27AM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: > I did both of the LPI ones. Firstly thoroughly recommend them, if not > to get certified but just for learning more about the OS that we all > use. What is LPI exactly? > If you have some or a lot of Unix knowledge then you will benefit. The > basics are that it will force you to go through a lot of commands that > you might never have used. Once you know them you wil lbegin using > them. Nice. I like the sound of that. > The understanding of a number of underlying issues with Linux like the > FHS makes you life easier. > > Worth much more than the $150 cost. Thanks for that info. 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] Semester 2 Linux Courses
On Fri, Jun 25, 2004 at 02:26:13PM +1000, Geoffrey Robertson wrote: > Second semester Linux classes are enrolling from next tuesday. > > These courses are low cost ($150) open access classes at Granville > TAFE. It seems that most of the slugship has either attended or > taught these classes over the past 4 years. Just in case there > is anybody left who wants to join in, these classes, here are the > details: Do you, or anybody else know what is covered in these courses, and what requirements you need to take them? 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] Editing audio CDs
Hi Alternatively, check out gcdmaster I think it is called. You can take one file, and use the program to place cue points, and then use cdrdao to burn the one file as several tracks. Luke At 04:56 PM 5/05/2004, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 04:14:52PM +1000, Bill Bennett wrote: > A Cd contains one giant file. I will have to edit this (and > in the process, it would be nice to remove any foot shuffling, > bronchial egoists, etc.) You can rip the single track, chop it into useful sized tracks, ripping out the bits you don't want, then filter each track separately for any other noises you want to get rid of, then reburn. Tools for the task: * cdparanoia does a good job for the ripping. * audacity looks as good as any for the actual editing part. You'll likely need a large chunk of HDD space to hold the single large track plus all of your chopped bits. I can't remember what I used for my audio editing last time I had to play with that. * For specific filtering, sox is a good general-purpose sound-modification program. You can do all sorts of fades, band filtering, and pretty much anything else you're likely to want to try. Sox can also do your chopping for you, if you know the length and temporal position of all the individual parts you want. * cdrecord is *the* tool for CD burning, although you may possibly want to use a graphical front end like xcdroast for the task. > Has anyone had any experience with this kind of task? A bit. I've done some rip/reburn work for performances, and also some dubbing/filtering work for live recordings (court cases mostly - not mine!). I'm no audio engineer, though, so there might be better tools than the ones I've used. Note also that most of what I've suggested above are command line tools. - 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 - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] New Membership Benefit
Nice April fools joke. Just as good as an announcement of Patric retiring from Slackware development, seen at http://www.userlocal.com Luke At 10:43 AM 1/04/2004, Jan Schmidt wrote: Dear SLUG members, After some lengthy negotiations, the Sydney Linux Users Group committee are pleased to announce the availability of the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux at a reduced rate for SLUG members. Ordinarily, these licenses are $699 for a uniprocessor server, and $199 per Linux desktop. As a special benefit for SLUG members, the reduced rate of $698 per server and $198 per desktop is now available. As many of you know, SCO have recently revealed that several lines of SCO header files appear to have leaked into the Linux kernel, giving them ownership of the entire code base. As such, the SCO Intellectual Property License for Linux is now required in order to legally use a Linux system. SLUG is very pleased to provide its members with the opportunity to become SCOSource compliant, and the boss of SCO Australia and and New Zealand, Kieran O'Shaughnessy, is reported to be "just this side of ecstatic" at the opportunity to bring in some sales. In order to assist SLUG members with taking advantage of this deal, we've provided SCO Australia and New Zealand with a complete list of all our members, and they'll be in touch with everyone soon! Regards, Jan Schmidt SLUG President. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah. The whole climax thing would make much more sense if I'd paid attention. -- 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
[SLUG] Suggestions for FM tuner.
Hi all I am wondering whether anybody can recommend a good quality FM tuner to be used in conjunction with a PC. The interface doesn't really matter, as long as it doesn't use too many system resources. I also would rather not have a TV tuner as well. Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] A possible new member.
Hi all I have known about SLUG for a while now, and have been thinking of joining. I have decided to start attending the meetings held once a month, however I don't intend on going to the AGM. I am wondering whether anybody would mind possibly meeting me at Central station, as I am vision impaired, and am not quite sure where to go. I have also heard of vision impaired/blind atendees at the meetings, and I am wondering whether any of them still go, and what they do to get there? Thanks for any replies, and I look forwrad to meeting you all at the next meeting, at the end of April. Regards Luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
