Jim Cheetham wrote:
lol. "sudo su" is almost pointless ... "sudo -s" gives you a root shell :-)
Ok, I do not have much experience with sudo and typing 'u' is for me
easier than '-'.
sudo has some major benefits in larger shared-admin systems, but from
Ubuntu's point of view, the prime ben
If the speakers would like I could offer my ThinkPad - R40 1,800MHz P4m
for the show. I have ruby, python, perl and bash all installed and working,
and am happy to emerge emacs for those who do not find Kate sufficiently
appealling
Most unfortunatley I cannot be there so that would have the adva
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 09:44:35 +1200
Carl Cerecke wrote:
> On 04/08/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:22:01 +1200 (NZST)
> > John Carter wrote:
>
> > > What resources can we rely on?
> >
> > Yes thats the next question isn't it!
>
> What version of Acroread
2006 - Dunedin, NZ!
linux.conf.au is the annual Australian Linux technical conference, and is
one of the largest gatherings of users and developers of Free and Open
Source Software in the Southern Hemisphere. It is an opportunity for
developers and groups to present their ideas amongst peers, and
Miles disassembled an old scsi drive a while ago and there were some
magnets involved. I'll see what is in the garage.
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 15:06:53 +1200
Carl Cerecke wrote:
> OK, an unusual request. I need a magnet for a hardware project I'm
> working on. Something like out of a 2.5 or 3.5 inch
OK, an unusual request. I need a magnet for a hardware project I'm
working on. Something like out of a 2.5 or 3.5 inch hard drive. I'm
sure some of you geeks have these lying around!
I'll be at the meeting on the 9th (well, I'm one of the speakers, so
I'd better be there!)
Cheers,
Carl.
Robert Himmelmann wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>>> with. ... For some reason I also thought that there is no root-user
>>> on ubuntu. On my system su and logging in over ssh with username root
>>> all work well.
>>>
>> Of course it has a root user, but the root password is locked unless you
>> set
Nick Rout wrote:
It is sensible to have them all done from one system. I thought at this
stage my laptop wouold do the trick. I think we have used it with your
projector before, so there may be no need for further testing. Was it
your projector we used for the talk at the Shirley Workingmens Clu
On Fri, 5 Aug 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:11:57 +1200 (NZST)
John Carter wrote:
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
As long as Rik brings it we wil have a projector. I am happy to supply
my laptop and install whatever i need to in order to help out, although
emacs does see
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 10:11:57 +1200 (NZST)
John Carter wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
>
> > As long as Rik brings it we wil have a projector. I am happy to supply
> > my laptop and install whatever i need to in order to help out, although
> > emacs does seem to be approaching a lin
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Steve Holdoway wrote:
John Carter wrote:
Open up a command line, and say "top"
[snip a jolly good read]
Could I just point out that top redraws the screen every 3 seconds, and the
first set of data that you see is historical - and may be an average of many
days. From
On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Nick Rout wrote:
As long as Rik brings it we wil have a projector. I am happy to supply
my laptop and install whatever i need to in order to help out, although
emacs does seem to be approaching a line I don't want to cross.
If I had said XEmacs or KDevelope or Eclipse I
On 04/08/05, Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:22:01 +1200 (NZST)
> John Carter wrote:
> > What resources can we rely on?
>
> Yes thats the next question isn't it!
What version of Acroread?
Cheers,
Carl.
On 04/08/05, Dale & Yvonne Ogilvie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well, I upgraded from Sun 1.4.2_06 to _08 with no improvement. And yes Jdev
> is written in java). JDev is upposed to run on 1.4.2_04 or later.
>
Reading through the replies to the link you posted, it's a conflict
between what behav
Very cool!
I just got my SuSE 9.3 DVD in the mail yesterday, haven't had the chance
to install it yet, with this happening I can hope for more software to run
on it too :-)
> Well, SuSE + Novell managed to drop a bombshell:
>
> http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/62400
> http://www.heise.de/new
Well, SuSE + Novell managed to drop a bombshell:
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/62400
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/62435
The distro is going multi-tier. OpenSUSE will be the community-based
version of the distribution, also known as SuSE Linux. No commercial,
support for this fr
Nick Rout wrote:
It is sensible to have them all done from one system. I thought at this
stage my laptop wouold do the trick. I think we have used it with your
projector before, so there may be no need for further testing. Was it
your projector we used for the talk at the Shirley Workingmens Clu
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 00:23 +1200, Richard Tindall wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>
> >Can you do the projector thing at St Albans next Tuesday? (9/8/5)
> >--
> >Nick Rout
> >
> Chris asked me too. Answer:
>
> On the assumption that all presentations will be done from the one
> system, which is teste
On Fri, 05 Aug 2005 06:39, Robert Himmelmann wrote:
> I would like to thank everybody, especially those who organised the
> Gentoo installfest
Yes it was a good day wasn't it? (Even if the surroundings of my garage were
not very pretty).
I too enjoyed the company, computers, coffee and curries.
Jim Cheetham wrote:
Greeting from the other side,
out of the summer,
where water drains clock-wise ;-),
This part I can only confirm. Our summer here reminds me very much of
the winter in New Zealand. My year over there ended a few weeks ago. I
was a bit unhappy that I had to leave but bein
Nick Rout wrote:
Can you do the projector thing at St Albans next Tuesday? (9/8/5)
--
Nick Rout
Chris asked me too. Answer:
On the assumption that all presentations will be done from the one
system, which is tested for compatibility by next Monday, then yes - no
problem.
--
Richard Tindal
John Carter wrote:
Open up a command line, and say "top"
[snip a jolly good read]
Could I just point out that top redraws the screen every 3 seconds, and
the first set of data that you see is historical - and may be an average
of many days. From the first redraw on is current information.
Well, I upgraded from Sun 1.4.2_06 to _08 with no improvement. And yes Jdev is
written in java). JDev is upposed to run on 1.4.2_04 or later.
Carl Cerecke wrote:
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> strace -p 6407
>>
>>Process 6407 attached - interrupt to quit
>>
>>futex(0x8911174, FUTEX_WAIT, 1, NU
Craig FALCONER wrote:
The main problem will be the trident cyberblade. It's a totally bollocks
video chipset... I had a 4 Mb one in a toshiba 4030.
Try an older version of X...
How would you do that under (K)Ubuntu?
These links may help
http://personal.telefonica.terra.es/web/malfer1/ar
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