Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3
On 13/11/11 08:25, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: I sat down and spent a lot of time with Gnome 3's classic mode, and have been able to make it almost identical to my former Gnome 2 setup. My main problem with that route is that firstly I can't figure out how to enable it and second, I'm concerned that it may disappear in some future release. I'm running classic mode but am pretty sure that it *is* going away at some point in the near future (although I can't remember where I read that). Longer term, I'm holding out hope for “MGSE” (Mint Gnome Shell Extensions). I'm not planning on switching to Mint but hoping that it will make its way upstream or at least be easily portable. Worth a read: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1851 Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Help with files that have identical filenames
Hi All, I'm trying to find the cause of a bug, the symptom of which is two copies of a file are created in the same directory with apparently the same filename. The files have different inodes and the filesystem is ext3. From what I know, this shouldn't be possible, so I'm assumed that there are some non-printable characters in the filename. ls -d doesn't show any however. Anyone hits with he clue-bat would be appreciated Scott -- 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] Help with files that have identical filenames
On 13/04/11 08:10, Rick Welykochy wrote: Scott Finneran wrote: The files have different inodes and the filesystem is ext3. From what I know, this shouldn't be possible, so I'm assumed that there are some non-printable characters in the filename. ls -d doesn't show any however. Anyone hits with he clue-bat would be appreciated Perhaps try this: ls -1 | hexdump -C and you can see the filename chars in hex and ascii. If you have UTF-8 as your charset, similar looking characters could be different unicodes. Jackpot! Similar unicode characters were the culprit. Now to figure out what is causing it Cheers, Scott -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: XecureBrowser - looks like snake oil to me. (was Re: [SLUG] Browsers for banking)
On 11/11/10 13:29, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: One thing I like to do is use Firefox's profile manager to set up a profile which I only use for web banking. Nice idea. Do you do anything special on that profile or does it just provide isolation? Scott -- 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] NASA’s own Nebula cloud re leased under an Apache 2
Marghanita da Cruz wrote: Any comments? The new OpenStack project will power NASA’s own Nebula cloud and puts new pressure on Eucalyptus, as well as Amazon’s EC2 and the whole Hadoop ecosystem. The system is being released under an Apache 2 license. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/nasa-gives-openstack-instant-credibility/6878 Last week's FLOSS Weekly was an episode about it. http://twit.tv/floss128 Scott -- 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] mobile printer
Peter Miller wrote: Hi Folks, My google fu has failed me. Can anyone suggest a *small* A4 printer, suitable for lugging around for use with a laptop? Of course, it must be usable from Linux. I have seen such a beast: it was about 300mm x 80mm x 40mm, and was only able to cope with a single sheet of A4 at a time. No idea of the brand or model. Suggestions? I doubt it's the same device but I've heard good things about the Canon IP100. (review http://www.smallportableprinter.com/canon-ip100-mobile-photo-printer/) The HP Officejet H470 is supposedly a similar device but reviews that I've seen aren't as good. I can't comment on price of consumables. Cheers, Scott -- 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] Australian government to censor your internets
jam wrote: I'm not sure if this belongs here, sorry if it doesn't. Well looks like the government got it's way. Our Internet will be censored next year. http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2009/115 I wrote to Conroy talking about proxies and ssh tunnels and received back many pages reminiscent of 'Shirley Valentine' 'Hello wall ...' Then, older and wiser, I realized *doing something* and being seen *to do something* are vastly different and after all it's *your* $100 million ... Doing something like this may have more of an impact: http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/16/dont-waste-your-time-waste-theirs-a-guide-to-writing-to-ministers/ Scott -- 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 Saves Aussie Electrical Grid
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: 2009/10/11 Richard Ibbotson richard.ibbot...@gmail.com: Hmmm... http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1556944/linux-saves-aussie- electricity QUICK THINKING open sourcerers might have saved an Australian power supply system after its electrical grid control room network got infected with a virus. Winduhs ... my friend for life A slight exaggeration :) Had they kept their OS and anti-virus up to date, they would have had some protection against what felled their systems. However, considering that they were using Windows as X terminals for Solaris servers, one wonders why they weren't using Linux. I've worked with SCADA systems on and off for nearly 20 years. For me, the real question is why were the machines in the control room accessible from or needing access to the public internet? Scott -- 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 Saves Aussie Electrical Grid
Scott Finneran wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: 2009/10/11 Richard Ibbotson richard.ibbot...@gmail.com: Hmmm... http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1556944/linux-saves-aussie- electricity QUICK THINKING open sourcerers might have saved an Australian power supply system after its electrical grid control room network got infected with a virus. Winduhs ... my friend for life A slight exaggeration :) Had they kept their OS and anti-virus up to date, they would have had some protection against what felled their systems. However, considering that they were using Windows as X terminals for Solaris servers, one wonders why they weren't using Linux. I've worked with SCADA systems on and off for nearly 20 years. For me, the real question is why were the machines in the control room accessible from or needing access to the public internet? (Which to give credit where it's due, was highlighted by the security consultants towards the end of the article. This has become a common problem in SCADA and to a lesser extent process control systems in recent years, so my eyes rolled before I hit the end of the article.) Scott -- 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] Changing default ownership of /dev device in Ubuntu Hardy
Hi all, I currenty have a device with the following permissions and ownership: crw-rw 1 root dialout 4, 64 Oct 10 11:05 /dev/ttyS0 Where and how do I fiddle to changes this so it sticks across reboots? The short answer is udev (or at least that is the approach I have taken in the past). There are some good pointers here: http://www.debianhelp.org/node/5003#comment-36703 Scott Make the switch to the world#39;s best email. Get Yahoo!7 Mail! http://au.yahoo.com/y7mail -- 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] Coding and Camping, 19-21 September
Peter Miller wrote: Hi Folks, This is a reminder that Coding and Camping is on again this year, at Coledale caravan park, right on the beach. We have a powered site and an unpowered site. Power for laptops and plenty of room for tents. See http://slug.org.au/node/104 for details. Hi Peter, Just took a look at the camp-ground site. Individual costs look to be about $30 per head + our share of the base site fees. Are there any other costs that we'll need to fix you up for on the day eg. marque rental? I should have a couple of spare chairs for those not wanting to lug one on public transport. Cheers, Scott -- 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: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG Monthly Meeting, Friday 30 November
Ben wrote: On Nov 25, 2007 4:58 PM, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Where: Atlassian[1], 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney (corner of Sussex and Market Street) any recommendations for convenient and vaguely affordable parking in the area for a small van? The parking station diagonally across from the Atlassian building (and opposite the IBM building from memory) is a fixed $10 after 6pm. Scott Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering.http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg -- 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 Epson Stylus Photo 1410 - Linux friendly?
Hi Mark, I don't know how different the models are, but I have a PSC 1410 (one of those all-in-one jobs) and it was almost zero setup and works an absolute treat running Ubuntu Fiesty. Cheers, Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark O'Connor Sent: Thu 5/24/2007 4:13 PM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] New Epson Stylus Photo 1410 - Linux friendly? I am looking for a good quality A3 printer to use with my debian machine. The Epson site does not acknowledge that the new 1410 functions with Linux, and I couldn't find it on www.linuxprinters.org so I am not sure whether to go ahead or not. If anyone has tried it or has any other advice it would be gratefully received Thanks Mark -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering. http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg -- 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] Ruby-on-Rails talk - interest?
Would the talk be focusing on or covering Ruby itself or mostly Rails as a system? Either would be good. Cheers, Scott Taryn East wrote: Would there be any interest in me running an Introduction to Ruby on Rails talk at SLUG? If so - do you have any questions you'd like me to research ahead of time? Cheers, Taryn -- Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering. http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg -- 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] data recovery specialists?
Jon Wilson wrote: David Kempe wrote: Jon Wilson wrote: Hiya, Can anyone recommend any data recovery specialists, preferably in Sydney? We have a several boxes of ten year old DLTIII tapes, but have only been able to read the data we need off about half of them. Payam have been good for us http://www.payam.com.au/ dave Apparently they don't do tape recovery :-( A co-worker recommended these guys: http://www.sydneydatarecovery.com.au/tape-recovery.html He didn't use their tape service but said that he was happy with their recovery of a hard disk. Scott -- Message protected by MailGuard: e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam and content filtering. http://www.mailguard.com.au/mg -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
