[SLUG] DWG (autocad) Viewer / Convert to SVG
Hi all, Can anyone recommend a DWG (autocad) Viewer / Converter to SVG and or PNG A cursory search returns LX-Viewer and DraftSight. Which one do you use, or do you prefer another programme ? (A deb package would be ideal!) regards, Meryl -- 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 calendaring
On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 13:28:29 +1100 pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: > > What calendaring clients are people using? I'm finding the need for a > calendar that syncs to a CalDAV server, and to my PDA. Evolution used > to be able to do this, but they've dropped PalmOS support now. And > its user interface is uncomfortable to use for me --- too much screen > real estate, and wants to be a MUA as well as a calendar and > addressbook. > > I'm still using JPilot for most things, but it doesn't talk to > CalDAV. > > Looking for recommendations... > > Peter C Orage might be suitable... It's an Xfce app. I like it because the files are plain text so I can easily edit them to suit myself. It imports / exports iCal files so I imagine that it should talk to CalDAV (iirc iCal & CalDAV are the same format?). It runs from the notification area, lists daily events, tasks, appointments etc ... It also works well in Unity & Gnome2 when I've switched out of Xfce. maintainer: http://www.kolumbus.fi/~w408237/orage/ Refer to the Import / Export section in the docs for synchronising via Firefox http://www.kolumbus.fi/~w408237/orage/orage_doc_4_7.html#exchange-impexp-tab HTH Meryl -- 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] Reputable notebook repairer?
On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:36:35 +1100 pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: > I've used Safemode computers -- they pick up and deliver for free for > most of Sydney. www.safemode.com.au > > But unless you have a really high-end laptop, it's probably cheaper to > buy a new one. Keep an eye out on > http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/shop/laptop-of-the-day/laptop-of-the-day > until you see what you like. Yesterday they had 15.6" HP core-i3 > laptops for under $500, and a repair will cost you at least $300, > mostly in labour costs. > > PeterC - Hi Peter, yes it's an i7 core with 4GB RAM & 1TB HDD as I do quite a bit of video editing & other load-intensive work on it... a $500 pc couldn't cope with my workload, so I can't afford to retire it just yet. Thanks for your Safemode suggestion I'll check them out. cheers, Meryl -- 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] Reputable notebook repairer?
Hi Kevin, So HP have gotten your goat too - they're not out to make friends with us Linux users! Yes my wireless is working fine, but I do enjoy the warm fuzzy security that my ethernet connection gives me and I'm not particularly keen to do any financial transactions over wireless (viz. my alfoil hat). cheers, Meryl On Wed, 12 Oct 2011 11:24:51 +0800 Kevin Shackleton wrote: > Can you not just use wifi - maybe grab a cheap/disused AP so you can > set up an instant wireless zone-for-one, if only wired ethernet is > presently available to you. Or even a 3G+twisted pair AP like a > Netgear MBRN3000 - excellent! No good of course if your wifi doesn't > work :-( > > I've just messed around with a brand new HP that they were very > reluctant to fix on warranty - the video crashed every couple of > minutes (and self-recovered after a few seconds). This was in > Windows, despite their using up a lot of my time searching through > what seemed like all combinations of original and updated drivers. > It worked fine in Linux but I suspect there was something rotten in > the motherboard (that the video chip would not work in whatever mode > that Windows was using) that was going to emerge before long. For > their disinterest, HP are now in my blacklist, where before they were > just grey. > > Cheers, > > Kevin. > > On 12 October 2011 10:56, meryl wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I suspect either my ethernet port has failed or perhaps it's the > > networking chipset on my motherboard. I contacted HP who were > > useless because > > 1. my notebook is just out of waranty and > > 2. I'm a 'naughty' Linux user (tisk, tisk!). > > > > So can anyone recommend a reputable notebook repairer in Sydney / > > / Northern Beaches / Nth Shore area that could troubleshoot and fix > > my problem. I'd rather not patch it up with a PCMCIA ethernet card > > if I can avoid it. > > > > cheers, > > Meryl > > -- > > 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] Reputable notebook repairer?
Hi all, I suspect either my ethernet port has failed or perhaps it's the networking chipset on my motherboard. I contacted HP who were useless because 1. my notebook is just out of waranty and 2. I'm a 'naughty' Linux user (tisk, tisk!). So can anyone recommend a reputable notebook repairer in Sydney / / Northern Beaches / Nth Shore area that could troubleshoot and fix my problem. I'd rather not patch it up with a PCMCIA ethernet card if I can avoid it. cheers, Meryl -- 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] Text book for html5
Morris' "Basics of Web Design, HTML5 CSS3" is a very good choice as it steps the student through web-page construction and shows how to build on those examples. Another contender is "Introducing HTML5", Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp, New Riders, ISBN 978-0-13-262942-3 http://www.peachpit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132629429 I'm not sure how much CSS3 is in it tho... Sample chapter: http://www.peachpit.com/content/images/9780321687296/samplepages/0321687299.pdf Way back when I did Ugrad webdesign we used Peachpit Press "Visual Quickstart Guides" as they had the best "from the ground up" explanations. Elizabeth Castro has an HTML5 Visual Quickstart Guide due for release in Dec '11 - whilst it's a long way off, it's worth keeping in mind for semester 1 2012. http://www.amazon.com/HTML-Visual-QuickStart-Guide-7th/dp/0321719611 As for browsers: Firefox still does not display HTML5 transitions, so it's best to stick with a "webkit" enabled browser: Chromium (Chrome), Midori, or Uzbl are very good. cheers, Meryl. -- 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 for seniors?
Hi Sonia, My 80 yo mother has used Ubuntu LTS since 2006 (Dapper). She used to freak out whenever she saw the update notifications so I've turned them off and I run updates for her when I visit & upgrade her system when a new LTS version is released. Screen resolution & system-fonts are set for her optimal viewing (big) and she has learnt to use claws-mail with the occasional tute/walkthrough from me over the phone. She prints and downloads her photos without too much trouble and she is hooked on playing Gnubg. The PABX phone system in her retirement village has meant that she has to use a mobile broadband dongle to connect to the net. Thus far, she hasn't managed to break anything! Meryl -- 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 14 and NVIDIA driver
Hi Lee, Ditto what Brett says, the Fedora package is definitely a recommended option - if your system works well without the Nvidia driver it will save you a lot of stuffing around at each and every kernel upgrade. As for me (Ubuntu) I had no other option; X freezes without the GeForce GT 230M Nvidia driver. But I persistently look forward to each new Ubuntu release in the hope it will solve my Nvidia problem! Meryl -- 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: [chat] yet another reason to advocate Linux
... the point of the article was that MS & Apple are using exploitative child labour in sweatshop conditions. It's an interesting article, well worth the read. Meryl -- 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 Membership decline
On Fri, 02 Apr 2010 08:14:03 +1100 jon wrote: > 1. Make it possible to obtain and renew membership online Yes, I'd become a member if I could do it online or via snail mail. > 2. Take advantage of the increasing interest in Linux on the desktop > by setting up an Applications SIG and/or focussing on applications at > some events. ... So most of the talks and > events scheduled by SLUG hold no interest for me. Here! Here! I totally agree, the majority of list of 2009 presented talks appeared to be waaay too techy to entice me to come along and SLUGlets talks appear to be too short to offer anything substantial to take away & use. I raised this same issue about a year ago (iirc), & I mentioned that LUV's plans for Software Freedom Day http://softwarefreedomday.org/melb looked like a very appealing program of talks and workshops & that I'd be really keen to see something like that organised on a regular basis, at SLUG-meets, for us Sydney-siders. > * New and upgraded applications demonstrated and discussed > * Distros compared and evaluated > * Using Linux with various peripherals -- scanners, printers, > tablets, multiple screens > * Bash programming techniques -- but keeping it simple > * OpenOffice techniques and macros > * GIMP, Inkscape, Scribus techniques In addition to the above, (a very good list Jon!) I'd also like to see basic/beginning Python, basic/beginning Rails/Ruby, & troubleshooting problems; i.e. using run levels, wireless setup etc... cheers, Meryl -- 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: [chat] this is a bit of a long shot...
On Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:40:30 +0100 Guido Arnold wrote: > Hi, > This is apparently not what you were looking for, but the question > reminded me of this article from EFF about a student in Boston: > http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2009/04/boston-college-prompt-commands-are-suspicious > Cheers, > Guido not quite but thanks for the link Guido it's a very interesting article! It's a fascinating to see that people can be criminalised just for using the command line. That guy's justification was that he was a computer science student (so he had good reason), but what about the rest of us; apt-get trouble? h cheers, Meryl -- 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] this is a bit of a long shot...
thanks James & Jon for your help. Here's a bit more about what was in the article that I'm trying to find... It commenced with defining the marked differences with the way we, as Linux users, use the terms hacker & cracker. And it then discussed how these terms have been confused and misused in the mainstream media and went on to say that the majority of Linux users are law abiding citizens whose main interest is in using non-proprietary software. The article wasn't from a uni journal, it was just a web page on a Linux advocate's website. The main crux of the article's intent was to clear the air over what the average Linux user's character is; how they care about promoting software freedoms, sharing knowledge, how the majority of Linux users do not fit the profile of a cracker. My main reason for trying to find the article is to argue against (what I see as) the totally unfounded crap in this piece of 'scholarly' work: http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/viewArticle/2417/2240 Personally I don't think that is an accurate assessment of today's Linux user and it certainly does not reflect kindly on the character of the Linux users that I know. cheers, Meryl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] this is a bit of a long shot...
Hi, I am trying to locate a web-article for uni that I came across maybe 2+ years ago. The article debunks the perpetrated myth that Linux users are a bunch of illegal crackers who operate on the fringes of society. iirc, it may have been from an Australian author/blogger. Would you happen to recall this article (& the url)? Or know of another article that follows a similar thread. cheers, Meryl -- 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] removing samba
> Hi, > I know I'm late for the party but I don't see anyone mentioning > aptitude's amazing "mark for auto remove" flag (set by pressing M). By > marking packages you know you don't care about with this flag you > automatically get them removed when nothing you care about depends on > them. > Also to get this flag set automatically when you install packages just > use aptitude instead of apt-get, e.g. Replace any mention of "apt-get > install ..." with "aptitude install...". > Cheers, > -Amos Hi Amos, yes iirc I saw that same orphan management tool in an "apt-get vs aptitude" article once but I'd since forgotten all about it... thanks for the reminder, much appreciated! cheers, Meryl -- 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] removing samba
Thank you Ken, Erik, James & Mike for your replies. You are a wealth of information! non-dependent Samba pkgs removed, restarted and I'm very happy! thanks again & cheers, Meryl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] removing samba
I needed to do some file sharing recently and now that the task is finished so I want to remove the Samba service. I'm using Ubuntu 9.10. in Synaptic > search: samba shows that the following items are installed; samba samba-common samba-common-bin smbclient libpam-smbpass libsmbclient libwbclient0 nautilus-share python-smbc When I mark "samba" for removal no other files on this list are marked. So is just marking "samba" for removal sufficient to stop this service from starting at boot... and I don't want to keep files that only rely on samba alone as they'll be superfluous. But when I select "samba-common" to be removed, Synaptic notifies me of a list of other files that it will also remove with "samba-common" - one of them being "ubuntu-desktop". I'm not so sure that I want ubuntu-desktop removed! advice/suggestions/help are welcome :) thanks... Meryl -- 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] Mentoring
Hello John, further to Ken's response, the best textual beginners guide is Elizabeth Castro's "HTML, XHTML, and CSS", Sixth Ed ISBN 978-0321430847. She has also published "HTML 4 for the World Wide Web". Printed as Visual Quickstart Guides, they are easy reading with very good exercises & explanations. Even if these titles are not in your textbook list, they are a fabulous resource for new web designers. cheers, Meryl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] grub2 menu highlighting
I'm not sure if this is pebcak or a bug & I may have included a lot of extraneous information here to put my problem in context - please be patient with the n00b :) Background to why I needed to edit grub: For some reason unbeknown to me PAE cannot load nVidia on my new HP notebook: 1T dual hdd (500gb x2) with 4gb ddr3 sdram, nVidia GeForce GT 230m with 1gb ddr3, with Ubuntu 9.10 on the 2nd hdd. generic-pae always starts in "low graphics mode". Due to my limited abilities with resoving my PAE/nVidia problem I chose to use "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic" because nVidia works fine with the plain generic kernel. (I'd really like to be able to use pae because the plain generic kernel means I have 1gb of unused ram but that's another story.) What I did: So in /etc/default/grub I set GRUB_DEFAULT=saved I updated grub and ran sudo grub-set-default "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic" in the terminal. My problem: When grub loads the top entry "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic-pae" is still highlighted which is very disconcerting! But thankfully grub actually loads the saved grub-set-default "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic" Shouldn't grub be highlighting my saved choice? Is this a bug or is it something that I failed to do? As a work around - my thoughts are to maybe delete the generic-pae entries from /grub. Or can I reorder the menuentry list to put "Ubuntu, Linux 2.6.31-17-generic" at the top? I've had a good read of https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Grub2 but I can't see how to reorder them. Am I going about this the wrong way? Any suggestions? cheers, Meryl -- 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: confirm 87ae287142948a745f605475e66033390d870aa2
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Re: [SLUG] Australian government to censor your internets
Heracles is right. The Filtering problem is more about stifling freedoms of speech and censoring the Net than it is about blocking child porn, and it is bound to be extended into other areas so freedom of speech will become a thing of the past for us in Australia. Apart from slowing down our already sluggish Internet speeds, if it is introduced it is likely to be extended down the track to include all manner of sites; possibly even political dissenters... if they get away with this and they'll add more and more sites to the list to the point where we may one day envy the freedoms that the Chinese have! Really the child porn issue is just being used as an emotional ruse to effect censorship controls because the purveyors of such material for the most part would most likely use VPNs and other evasive methods to avoid detection, as such their heinous activities will be totally unaffected by the filter. How about the government catch these crooks and lock them up instead of punishing all of us with this net-nanny filter. By and large the Filter will be way more detrimental to the average honest Internet user and the child pornographers will just sit back and laugh at the stupidity of Australian government. for more info see: http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,25773857-953,00.html http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/312845/statistics_experts_label_isp_filtering_trials_unscientific?fp=16&fpid=1 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/careful-big-brother-is-editing-you/story-e6frg7go-1225792964441 http://www.openforum.com.au/content/firewall-lies http://libertus.net/liberty/ http://www.efa.org.au/censorship/mandatory-isp-blocking/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S8AZ21hCkIg and as always there's a "Downfall" video on the subject! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH35CVig3fQ cheers, Meryl -- 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
In addition to getting involved in the EFA's campaign http://nocleanfeed.com you can subscribe to their lists to stay informed (there are familiar SLUG names there too!) http://www.efa.org.au/about/lists/ http://libertus.net/ and http://sites.google.com/site/filtermenot/home have additional information about the filter on their sites Also there's the PPA http://www.pirateparty.org.au/ who plan to fight the filter at the next election cheers, Meryl -- 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] Google Chrome for Linux !!!
thank you everyone for all your feedback & thoughts on Google Chrome. At the end of the day, as Daniel says, our real privacy controls are at our fingertips. I did enjoy Erik's article on Facebook, LOL thanks Erik ! cheers, Meryl -- 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] Google Chrome for Linux !!!
When I looked at some evaluations on Google Chrome the alarm bells went off. I'm keen to know what the general consensus is on the whole Google/Linux/privacy issue... Whilst the following Chrome criticisms were posted back in 2008, one wonders about the ethical processes for Google's need to introduce something akin to keylogger in the first place and are some of these concerns still valid today http://blogs.computerworld.com/chrome_googles_biggest_threat_to_your_privacy and the subsequent follow up http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9114369/Google_bends_to_Chrome_privacy_criticism Do you trust that Google have addressed these concerns adequately? Is the average Linux user concerned about their computing privacy? Is Google Chome a threat to the security of Linux machines? Meryl -- 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] krap mailers
Hi James, in the past I found Thunderbird & Evolution were not satisfying my needs. Eventually I found Claws Mail http://www.claws-mail.org/ and I have been extremely happy with the way it handles mail. It is plain text only, images can be displayed inline (at the end of the email) and set-up, filtering etc.. is very easy. Maybe Claws Mail will suit your purposes. cheers, Meryl -- 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] saving without the bom (byte order mark)
thanks Daniel that worked at treat! This is the 2nd time you have come to my rescue. You are my knight in shining armour :D Meryl -- 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] saving without the bom (byte order mark)
Hi Daniel, That's what I thought until this happened. I didn't copy the code from a windows file; I hand wrote it from scratch in gedit and gedit is putting a bom into the document. When I upload the html file (which has php scripts in it) I see the bom on the web page. A standard html file without php scripts doesn't show the bom. I've even opened up the file with Okteta to see if I can delete it that way but Okteta doesn't show it. It's quite bizarre. But I really need to find a way to remove it because it's there on the web page. cheers, Meryl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] saving without the bom (byte order mark)
Back in 'the bad old days' when I wrote php pages using ms notepad I could simply choose the option to save as "UTF-8 without the BOM" (byte order mark). Now I use Linux and have many txt eds installed (gedit, Kate, KompoZer, Bluefish and Quanta plus to name but a few) but I cannot find in any of them the option to save as "UTF-8 without BOM". please help. thanks Meryl -- 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] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?
Yes 高远 I forgot about Amaya... it is very good and Aptana is hot stuff too. http://www.aptana.com/ Meryl -- 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] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?
> > This is why I love SLUG. > > Somebody asks for a Linux Dreamweaver alternative, and it goes from > > "do it in vim" to "He should just learn Python". ... and it raises the question; When is one too young to start programming? By the time Kyle's little goldfish is 11 he'll might even be writing his own scripts ;) 100% encouragement! Meryl -- 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] Dreamweaver clone for Linux ?
Kyle wrote: > what is the best FOSS Dreamweaver clone for Linux? Bluefish or Quanta Plus would be what I'd recommend if a Dreamweaver style coding-helper is required. But Junior will really learn a lot more about standards, web development & clean code if he just uses gedit and follows the W3C schools pages. hth Meryl -- 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] BBC News: 40 Years of Unix
< Quote who: Amos > > > http://www.abc.net.au/iview/#/program/414471 > This is on 32 bit Ubuntu 9.04 with flash-plugin 10.0.32 (I install all > updates on this system). > Has anyone managed to get it to play? I'm running an older FF ver: 3.0.13 on 32 bit 9.04 with the same flash-plugin as yours 10.0.32 and it runs just fine. Maybe warm up an older version of FF to view it? hth Meryl -- 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] BBC News: 40 Years of Unix
< Quote who = bill> > Speaking of Windows - did anybody watch ABC1's "Web Warriors" last > night? Yes I saw it Bill, Very informative! It made me wonder: Whilst we might have enough common sense to be relativly secure behind our *nix boxes at home & possibly even at work... but most of our private information held by various corporate utilities and services are on the databases that these crackers are targeting. How can we ensure that our personal information are not just held on a Windows machine with an improperly secured database? And what sort of "intellectual property rights" do we have on our own private information? I can't imagine that my local GP would be encrypting my medical records. It's all rather disturbing when you think about it. Meryl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Ubuntu-user magazine issue 1
Ubuntu User Issue #1 is available exclusively on newsstands now! and an all new 1-year Ubuntu User subscription starts with Issue #2. http://ubuntu-user.com/ interesting articles; Q&A, interviews and new features! Meryl -- 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 I make this recursive?
Thank You Ben, Owen, Daniel and James for your responses :D For some reason (unbeknown to this wee brain) the perl script chucked a wobbly: syntax error at line 4, near "0 rename" So I opted for Daniel's shell script instead. I'm not sure what you meant by 'harder' Daniel in > Alternately, in shell, you can do the same, but harder: the script worked nicely and I'm v pleased with the result. thanks again everyone for all your help cheers, Meryl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] can I make this recursive?
I have a n000b question. I found a neat housework script to change case & space but I'm wondering is it possible to run it recursively? If so where do I put the -r in it? #!/bin/bash for f in *; do file=$(echo $f | tr A-Z a-z | tr ' ' _) [ ! -f $file ] && mv "$f" $file done cheers, Meryl -- 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] petition for multi-platform etax software
On Tue, 2009-07-14 at 18:31 +1000, Danny Yee wrote: > There's an online petition at > http://www.petitiononline.com/FreeEtax/ > asking that the ATO produce cross-platform etax software. > Danny. > When I rang the ATO Tech Helpdesk about obtaining CSI software for Linux I was told that their CSI software could only be used on "secure" operating systems like Windows and Apple. *choke!!!* Meryl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
