Re: [SLUG] Lexmark E250D laser printer and Linux

[Mark Phillips]

HI Lindsay,

I didn't mean to be offensive in any way shape or form
I thought the videos had already been put up and when I went looking I
couldn't find them.

Funny enough I assumed it was my ignorance of not knowing where to look
rather than than your fault for not putting them up as yet.

Oh wait that comment is probably considered offensive as well.


V

Mark


 
On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 15:09 +1100, Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 3:35 AM, Mark Phillips
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >  So where are the slug videos?
> 
> Mate, this is not helpful.
> 
> We've all been doing our best to get the videos served, but comments
> like this are not constructive.
> 
> The video is currently being uploaded, and a URL will be posted by the
> end of the day.
> 
> Lindsay
> 
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Re: [SLUG] Lexmark E250D laser printer and Linux

[Mark Phillips]

So where are the slug videos?

Mark


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Re: [SLUG] spell check

[Mark Phillips]

All replies to list please.

I too, now. have a problem with Australian English since I recently
upgraded. I did the normal fixes including reinstalling the language
packs and it still don't work. English UK and English US are ok. 

Due to high workloads atm I haven't had a great deal of time to get to
the bottom of it.

Mark


On Thu, 2008-03-13 at 16:08 +1100, Chris Allen wrote:
> I am using Open Office om Ubuntu LTS and cannot get spell checker to
> work.  It works alright in Evolution's emailing but refuses to do
> anything in OO.
> 
> I've looked at all the options I can think of.  From what I can see
> everything is set correctly.  I don't work a lot with OO.  I presume
> there is some place I don't know about that will turn it on.
> 
> Can any one advise?
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Re: [SLUG] tool for displaying time in different timezones?

[Mark Phillips]

While not an installable tool as such

I use

http://www.timezoneconverter.com/cgi-bin/tzc.tzc


Mark

On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 11:24 -0600, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> Anyone know of a tool for displaying the tool in different timezones? At
> the moment I have my BIOS clock on UTC and just use tzconfig to see the
> time in the desired zone.
> 
> I've grepped through the package list in aptitude, not found anything...
> 
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> 
> 

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[SLUG] Final Reminder: Open Source Software Adoption:Anatomy of Success and Failure

[Mark Phillips]

Final  reminder for the IEEE Computer Societies seminar on Wednesday
19th December, tomorrow at the Australian Technology Park.

Professor Brian Fitzgerald on

"Open Source Software Adoption: Anatomy of Success and Failure"

RSVP: Friday December 14th 2007 to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] or (02) 6267 6276



Mark Phillips

PS:  In in order to bypass the moderation of the various lists the blurb
is not attached this time. If you want the full blurb mail me!



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[SLUG] Re: [Linux-aus] Open Source Software Adoption:Anatomy of Success and Failure

[Mark Phillips]

Woops!   
Your right that's next years.


This one is on DECEMBER 19th  as per the flyer itself


Mark


On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 11:58 +1030, Brenda Aynsley wrote:
> Mark Phillips wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > While I said we weren't having another IEEE Computer Society seminar
> > this year, this is too good an opportunity to pass up. Professor
> > Fitzgerald is only in Australia for a few weeks.
> > 
> > 
> > So please join us for this special NICTA event in the area of
> > Open Source Software
> > 
> > Professor Brian Fitzgerald
> > Lero and University of Limerick, Ireland Presents 
> > 
> > "Open Source Software Adoption: Anatomy of Success and Failure"
> > 
> > 
> > at 6:00pm on Wednesday 19th February
> > 
> 
> 
> i'm confused. you mention this year but then say 19 february?
> 
> more information or at least clarification please
> 
> thanks
> brenda
> 
> 

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[SLUG] IEEE Computer Society (NSW Chapter)

[Mark Phillips]

Hi All,

Its happening! 

Thursday 15th November The IEEE Computer Society (NSW Chapter) will be
holding the first of our bi-monthly seminars ( We hope ).

Our own indomitable Pia will be speaking and so I encourage you all to
attend, if not for the networking opportunities, then to show  Open
Source is a presence to be reckoned with. 

One of the things we discussed was to open these seminars to anybody who
wants to come along. A sharing of knowledge and interests It is NOT
restricted to IEEE members only, although you are encouraged to join.

And now for the official blurb   



The IEEE Computer Society (NSW Chapter) is happen to announce
our end of year seminar. It will be held in the Nicta Seminar
rooms Bay 15 at the Australian Technology Park on Thursday 15th
November. The meeting will be opening at 6:00pm for a 6:30pm
start and everybody and anybody is welcome.

The agenda will be:

  "Open Source - The Opportunities for Australia" 
   by Pia Waugh
 

   "Status of the IEEE Computer Society and our
Plans for the Future." 
   by Kate Carruthers President IEEE Computer
Society (NSW Chapter)


There will also be an endpoint discussion on how to upgrade to
being a "Senior Member" of the IEEE.


If you plan on attending could you RSVP to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] 

Refreshments will be served.

See you all there!







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Re: [SLUG] tidy/lint for Apache httpd.conf?

[Mark Phillips]

Damn!!! this means I gotta learn emacs.

Oh wait, I didn't mean that, emacs is great. :-)

Yep, I'm up to my eyeballs in two separate kernel builds for entirely
different processors that won't play ball. ANY distraction will do...

Mark

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 15:00 +1100, Ian Wienand wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 02:51:24PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> > Anyone seen a 'tidy/lint' like program similar to tidy [1] for cleaning
> > up/indenting Apache httpd.conf files?
> 
> Try opening it in emacs apache mode (if it doesn't already, type M-x
> apache-mode) then indent all lines with M-C-\
> 
> -i

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Re: [SLUG] tidy/lint for Apache httpd.conf?

[Mark Phillips]

I too would be interested for exactly the same reason.
So post to the list please.


Mark

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:51 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> Anyone seen a 'tidy/lint' like program similar to tidy [1] for cleaning
> up/indenting Apache httpd.conf files?
> 
> I'm dealing with an uncommented 4000 line file that's a bit messy...
> 
> [1] http://tidy.sourceforge.net/
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Re: [SLUG] SCO delisted from NASDAQ

[Mark Phillips]

Well then let's buy what IP we can and then

  Open Source it

:-)

I also am in for $20



On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 13:40 +0930, Glen Turner wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 12:43 +1000, Peter Hardy wrote:
> > > So there's still time to rush out and buy me a whole stack of SCO shares!
> > > Yay!
> > 
> > I was thinking about putting a pool together to buy UNIX from them.
> > 
> > I'm in for $20.
> 
> Then you've got a problem, because the heart of SCO's current
> legal and business issues is that Novell was found by the court
> to be the owner of UNIX.
> 
> If you buy a SCO share now, then it's for the share certificate to
> frame for posterity. Otherwise you are simply making a donation to
> SCO's creditors -- some of whom are responsible for the SCO
> ugliness in the first place.
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[SLUG] Evolution and Telstra

[Mark Phillips]

Hi all,

Is anybody else having Evolution mailbox synchronisation problems with
Telstra ADSL.

It seems to be almost continuous .

Mark Phillips

Snarky comments WILL be ignored :-)






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[SLUG] Re: [Osia-discuss] "Branding" and the website revamp

[Mark Phillips]

On Fri, 2007-08-10 at 08:04 +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
> Jeff Waugh wrote:
> > So LA counts on that second paragraph, and ensuring that it is seen
as
> > 'charitable' by the other definitions in the guide. It is a
difficult and
> > troublesome issue.
> > ...
> > [1]
http://www.ato.gov.au/nonprofit/content.asp?doc=/content/34267.htm&page=3&H3
> 
> With guidelines like that, it's no wonder it's a difficult and
> troublesome issue.  It reads like they've specifically designed their
> guidelines to be obscure so that people /need/ to ask them for advice
> first.  :-(
> 


I especially like
 


Example: Non-charity
An institute formed to educate people in the platform of a political
party is not a charity.

As, isn't Microsoft a pseudo political party these days.
And like any good political party LA also has it's factions, Redhat,
Debian, and countless others I have forgotten :-)



seriously though it's hard to pick just what type
Maybe

Example: Charity
An animal shelter’s main purpose is looking after sick, stray and
unwanted animals. Around budget time it sometimes lobbies politicians
for funding. As long as the lobbying remains no more than incidental to
the charitable purpose, the animal shelter will continue to be a
charity. of generic charity LA would be.



I feel pretty unwanted at times trying to convince people that embedded
Linux systems work as it just looks like I've strayed from the
"Microsoft is best" path. And I am sure sick of some of the patronising
comments I get.

Ummm that all seems to fit

regards
Spot!  



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Re: [SLUG] Slightly OT

[Mark Phillips]

Hi Alex

Dick Smiths
Jaycar Electronics
CTX as mentioned.
ADELong just up the road from CTX.

RS Electronics
Farnell

Mark Phillips

On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 13:33 +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I was wondering if any body knows where I can get a serial to usb converter 
> for 
> a WL-500gP.  I am running openwrt on it and would like serial access.  There 
> are lots of links on the site to american places to purchase such devices.  I 
> thought this list  might be geeky enough to have some answers
> 
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Re: [SLUG] our Jeff featureing in online ads?

[Mark Phillips]

Arrrgg

My eyes my eyes


On Wed, 2007-06-13 at 15:09 +1000, Peter Miller wrote:
> Check out this disturbing ad I saw today
> http://cdn.fastclick.net/fastclick.net/cid52467/media103572.gif
> Is that our own Jeff Waugh boosting Dada Mobile?
> 
> Regards
> Peter Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> /\/\*http://miller.emu.id.au/pmiller/
> 
> PGP public key ID: 1024D/D0EDB64D
> fingerprint = AD0A C5DF C426 4F03 5D53  2BDB 18D8 A4E2 D0ED B64D
> See http://www.keyserver.net or any PGP keyserver for public key.
> 
> "I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is
> indispensable." -- Dwight Eisenhower
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Re: [SLUG] Locking network interface number to specific MAC address

[Mark Phillips]

Hi Erik,

In my purpose built kernel I have in /etc/udev/rules.d/26-network.rules

ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", BUS=="pci", ID==":00:10.0",
NAME="eth0"
ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", BUS=="pci", ID==":00:11.0",
NAME="eth1"

to solve this very problem.

However tracking down the fix gave lot's of other ways tha should fix
the problem but dudn't.

Oh the kernel is 2.6.12.

Good luck :-)


Mark

 

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 14:20 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a motherboard with two identical (apart from the MAC addresses
> of course) ethernet interfaces. The two MAC addresses are consectutively
> numbered; XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:34 and XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:35.
> 
> On most reboots, the interface with the 34 MAC address becomes eth2
> and the other becomes eth3, but very occasionally they get swapped
> around which rather screws things up.
> 
> Is there any way to lock a MAC address to an interface name?
> 
> Cheers,
> Erik
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> -
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Re: [SLUG] Re: ATO online

[Mark Phillips]

Hi all,

Just got this through mail. So now might be a good time 
to add some pressure!



-tax 2006 is closed and e-tax 2007 is under development.
http://ato.gov.au/distributor.asp?doc=/content/39979.htm
Published:  28 Feb 2007


Mark


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Re: [SLUG] DIY networking kit at Aldi.

[Mark Phillips]

On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 22:18 +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote:
> ...and a $12,000 fine for using it if you do an "installation".
> 


What's this all about?

Mark


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Re: [SLUG] scripting question

[Mark Phillips]

Oh come on...

Shell syntax's are great. They're in the same league as the APL syntax.
Both leave obfuscated C for dead.

Mark ;-0


On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 14:32 +1000, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 17 Oct 2006, Sonia Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I've written a small script that archives email - it works, but I was
> > wondering if there's any better way to write it (apart from using
> > another language).
> > 
> > The script is:
> > 
> > > for i in z_bak:7 root:14 y_spam_definite:56 ; do
> > > mydir=${i%:*}
> > > mydays=${i#*:}
> > 
> > $mydir is the directory to cleanup, $mydays is the # of days I want to
> > keep email. Is there any better way of writing the for loop to go thru
> > the 2 sets of values?
> 
> Using associative arrays in zsh (or ksh or maybe bash?) you can write
> 
>  typeset -A to_archive
>  to_archive=(z_bak 7 root 14 y_spam_definite 56)
>  for mydir in ${(k)to_archive}
>  do 
>mydays=$to_archive[$mydir]
> 
> But I've actually never used them before doing this, and I have to say
> the ${(k)to_archive} is beyond my current tolerance for shell wierdness.
> 
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Re: [SLUG] Contracting stuff: wrap it into a company or PAYE through agency?

[Mark Phillips]

Hi All,

And while we are bitching about recruiters...


What is the worst cut you have seen in the industry?
For those people who don't deal with recruiters much there are two ways
they get their money.

The first is a one off cost to the employing company as a percentage of
the yearly salary

The second is a additional hourly rate added to your hourly rate which
is then charged to the employing company.
 

My worst are:

1) Paying a cut off the top to an agent (type 2) and then finding he
charged the employing company a one off charge (type 1). Essentially he
was double dipping.

2) Over 20% increase above my hourly rate charged to an employer.

3) A agent who convinced me to work on a daily rate while charging at a
hourly rate. My overtime went into his pocket.

Needless to say once these contracts were finished I moved.

Making a point to the employer on why you are leaving and making sure
they are aware that you stuck around to finish the project can mean
repeat business after the contract with the recruiters expires.

But NOT all recruiters have questionable morals. One in particular was
happy with what was a mutually acceptable rate. The relationship lasted
about 2 1/2 years, with multiple contract renewals, before she moved on.

Mark (No I'm not bitter, just wiser and less trusting)


On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 12:22 +1000, Michael (Micksa) Slade wrote:
> Scott wrote: 
> > On Friday 22 September 2006 13:33, Adam Kennedy wrote:
> >   
> > > > What I would look out for is recruiting firms. I had one that
> > > > placed me once, into a job I wasn't particularly suited to.
> > > > They took 15% from the employer for that.  Some time after I
> > > > was chatting with them and they said "oh, if we'd known you
> > > > were a networking person we could have got you a lot more" --
> > > > ie, they hadn't even read my CV for their 15% and they were
> > > > really working for the employer, not for me.
> > > >   
> > > One of the Perl maintainers did an analysis of this situation a few
> > > years ago.
> > > 
> > > His conclusion was that their intrinsic interests don't belong with
> > > either party.
> > > 
> > 
> >   
> > > They don't work for the companies, and they don't work for the people
> > > they find jobs for.
> > > 
> > > The remuneration structure of the industry means they work only for
> > > themselves, and the situation is set up for them to abuse both sides and
> > > use every trick they can to do so.
> > > 
> > 
> > Recruiting Firms do try to keep both parties Happy!!
> > 
> > It is important for us to place people in jobs that :
> > 1 - They are capable of doing!!
> > 2 - That they enjoy doing!!
> > 3 - In a Place they want to work
> > 
> > For the Client we Try to Match
> > 1 - The Skill they ask for
> > 2 - A Reliable Person
> > 3 - At a Remuneration Level they can afford!!
> >   
> [snip]
> 
> Okay, thankyou for the marketing spiel.
> 
> I've been dealing with recruiters for the past few weeks.  Now I'm
> going to vent.
> 
> I somewhat disagree with Adam, I think there is *some* incentive for
> recruiters to work in the interests of their clients (to get repeat
> business and earn a reputation), but really that's it.   Recruiters
> are people hoarders and glorified resume databases.  Because of the
> nature of most contracts the employees and candidates get the smelly
> end of the stick.  *Some* recruiters simply ask for a percentage on
> the employee's salary so that's not so bad, but others are more
> secretive and try to maximise their cut by being a "mediator" for
> negotiation between candidate and client.  They have no time for
> candidates that are too assertive about their abilities - a person who
> won't negotiate their rate is harder to get in and thus less worth
> their time.  They also have no time for candidates that are going for
> a few jobs at once for similar reasons.  They're uptight and on edge
> because of their job and all this gets let out on candidates because
> it's the *companies* that pay.  They'll try all sorts of bullshit on
> candidates to get them to take the job for less or whatever to get
> their cut, and generally give them no respect.  The only candidates
> that get mentioned to clients are those that have "x years using skill
> y" on their resumes, because that's all recruiters have time to
> discover - general talent, resourcefulness and initiative and so on
> are deplorably overlooked.
> 
> But I agree with Adam to this extent: the end result of this is that
> companies will have a lot of trouble getting the really *good* people
> out of recruiters, because these people won't go anywhere near
> recruiters for the reasons stated above.  It makes a commodity market
> out of the labor market, which it really isn't.
> 
> To summarise, recruiters suck.
> 
> Mick.
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[SLUG] Ubuntu 5.10 vs 6.06

[Mark Phillips]

Hi

I just received my latest shipit delivery from ubuntu, TEN 6.06 CD's.
The problem is I have a class to teach in three weeks, currently built
around the live distribution of 5.10.

I have 12-15   students
   7   5.10 CD's and
  10   6.06 CD's

I Need some more CD's, I will pick them up or pay for delivery.
Also I'll probably be at the OSIA or SLUG meetings this week. 

As I'm busy (and lazy) I would prefer the 5.10 CD's but will take
anything.

Anybody that can help please reply offline.


Mark


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Re: [SLUG] datalogger project or similar?

[Mark Phillips]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 19:25 +1000, amanda wynne wrote:
> I'm looking for a starting point for a project. Basically a datalogger, usb 
> i/o,
> x interface. Only thing I found on sourceforge was jaws.
> 
> Project entails a micro-controller, probably an avr, with numerous adc, dac,
> digital i/o, transferring raw data over serial usb, to a host (industrial sbc)
> running real-time linux, which will do the mathematical processing, hmi,
> ethernet interface, and other high-level functions.
> 
> Basically, I hate starting from a blank sheet of paper, almost as much as I 
> hate
> re-inventing the wheel.
> 
> Any pointers, even search terms to throw at google, would be appreciated.
> 
> Amanda
> 
> 

Hi Amanda,
I kinda do this sort of stuff for a living and I have yet to find
anything that could be classed as a "plug and play" system.

The main companies I deal with for of the shelf hardware are ICP
( http://www.icp-australia.com.au ) and Advantech
( http://www.advantech.net.au ) for the basic systems and add on boards.
I then tailor software supplied to suit the specific application. And
yes I've had to rewrite device drivers to suit.

On top of this the application software has almost always been either
modifying and gluing open source together and or writing the
applications when needed. There is always something out there that at
least can form the basis of what you're trying to do.  

A couple of questions to start.

Is it to be in industrial grade machine, (environment is hot,
dirty or has to handle vibration )?

How many DAC, ADC, Digital IO points are needed?

How are these points to be connected to the machine? 

The USB to Serial: is this USB to rs232 serial or is it
connecting two USB ports together?


Anyway send me the full specs and I'll give you a better idea of what to
look for where.

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