Re: ubuntu 64 bit tonight?

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 14:50:48 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 14:42, Nick Rout wrote: > > Can someone bring a ubuntu disk (latest but not beta) for the AMD 64 > > tonight please? > > I've got a 5.10 set. It's the CD production version. > > -- > CS

Re: Rik's projector - whats the maximum resolution

[EMAIL PROTECTED] ~ $ xrandr -d :0 -q SZ:Pixels Physical Refresh *0 1280 x 1024 ( 342mm x 271mm ) *75 60 1 1280 x 960( 342mm x 271mm ) 60 2 1152 x 864( 342mm x 271mm ) 75 3 1024 x 768( 342mm x 271mm ) 75 70 60 4832 x 624( 342mm x 27

Re: Rik's projector - whats the maximum resolution

Nick Rout wrote: I normally run my desktop at 1280x1024, but I suspect it won't handle that. 1280 x 720 pixels http://panasonic.com.au/products/details.cfm?productID=1211 -- Rik Tindall, InfoHelp Services , on: Ubuntu GNU/Linux 5.10 free OS, 2.6.12-9-386 kernel,

Re: ubuntu 64 bit tonight?

On Tuesday 11 April 2006 14:42, Nick Rout wrote: > Can someone bring a ubuntu disk (latest but not beta) for the AMD 64 > tonight please? I've got a 5.10 set. It's the CD production version. -- CS

ubuntu 64 bit tonight?

Can someone bring a ubuntu disk (latest but not beta) for the AMD 64 tonight please? -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Rik's projector - whats the maximum resolution

Nick Rout wrote: I normally run my desktop at 1280x1024, but I suspect it won't handle that. 1024x768 is the native res - best set desktop to that. We can test 1280x1024 (doubtful) 1st/later if u like. -Rik

Rik's projector - whats the maximum resolution

I normally run my desktop at 1280x1024, but I suspect it won't handle that. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Horse's UPS

I finally got horse's UPS monitored correctly. I had to use Nut 2.0.3 (the latest) and I had to remember to compile support for serial :) Otherwise it goes good. horse:~# upsc [EMAIL PROTECTED] battery.charge: 100.0 battery.voltage: 25.3 driver.name: fentonups driver.parameter.port: /dev/ttyS0 dr

Re: OT: Transcription software for Linux

Craig FALCONER wrote: Have you considered the new Vmware player? Its free. Or run the app under win/qemu using samba to access the ports and with OO also running - if this setup is possible Barry -Original Message- From: Tom Munro Glass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesd

Meeting Reminder tonight

St Albans Multimedia Presented by me, if I get my act together. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: 64 bit ubuntu support...

On Tue, April 11, 2006 10:24 am, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: >> Suse 10.0 ( isn't 10.1 coming out real soon >> now?? ). > > Yes, got delayed because management decided quality control was more > important than meeting the release date, after top management (not > SUSE's) decided to turn the package ma

Re: 64 bit ubuntu support...

> Suse 10.0 ( isn't 10.1 coming out real soon > now?? ). Yes, got delayed because management decided quality control was more important than meeting the release date, after top management (not SUSE's) decided to turn the package management upside down not much before beta1. > I did get to the st

Re: OT: Transcription software for Linux

> Most of the work seems to be for transcribing DSS audio into Word/Excel > files, and I am now convinced that the best solution for this is the > Olympus software. I raised the original question because if there was > some good transcription software transcription software for Linux, my > wife wo

Re: LDAP

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 23:22 +1200, Don Gould wrote: > then the base dn in thunderbird becomes 'bowenvale' > > What is a 'DN'? DN is short for distinguished name. it seems to indicate a full path to a name such as: cn=admin,dc=dist,dc=ro (here there is a CN (common name) and a "base") ..so i

RE: OT: Transcription software for Linux

Have you considered the new Vmware player? Its free. -Original Message- From: Tom Munro Glass [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 11 April 2006 8:51 a.m. To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: OT: Transcription software for Linux > Actually, on the nch website, as well

Re: OT: Transcription software for Linux

> Actually, on the nch website, as well as the aforementioned 'scribe' is > also a program called 'switch'. It is for converting audio to different > formats. > > My wife does this sort of work too, and frankly it was easy to install the > Olympus software on a cheap laptop which was running Win 9

Re: OT: Transcription software for Linux

On Monday 10 April 2006 20:06, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > Thanks to all who replied, but apart from running Scribe on Wine it looks > > like a lost cause. > > Did you track down the Linux converter I mentioned? No I didn't track this down, but I have a had a play with the free Scribe software. Th

IMAP Only thanks...

Set up thunderbird on Jo's machines and she promptly put messages in the local folders rather than the IMAP folders Does anyone know off hand is you can get rid of the local folders so that the user is restrained to the imap account? Cheers Don

Re: LDAP

Thanks Neil. Clear as mud at this stage, but I got some good starting points to have a read of. I didn't understand what to put in Base DN in Thunderbird. But I see I have to set up the base setting in the ldap.conf first? I"m guessing it's dc=bowenvale, dc=pointclark, dc=net then the base

Re: LDAP

i'm not recommending LDAP, but i like to use it. i had trouble migrating contacts from one mail program to another so i put them in LDAP instead. i probably use only a tiny proportion of the LDAP feature set but i hope that having my contacts accessible via a standard will make switching e-mail

Re: LDAP

Although the L in LDAP stands for lightweight, unless you've got a need for a complex, centralised data repository, and are prepared to modify all of your core services to use it, then forget it! If however, you do, then I've got the O'Reilly book to help you. Steve On Mon, 10 Apr 2006 21:45:4

LDAP

I noticed support for ldap directory services while rebuilding a number of systems and installing thunder bird on them all. I now have my mail set up so that it's all on the server but contact lists are getting lost on each machine and we don't have anyway of sharing contact. In the past I ju

Re: 64 bit ubuntu support...

On Sat, 08 Apr 2006 19:21:17 +1200 Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My current view is to scrap using 64 bit until it grows up, and reert > > to 32 bit. Any comments? > > You mighn't like me saying that, but scrap that distro until it has > grown up. > > Thatns for the offer of Sus

Re: OT: Transcription software for Linux

> Thanks to all who replied, but apart from running Scribe on Wine it looks > like > a lost cause. Did you track down the Linux converter I mentioned? > Sorry Craig - I can't provide a sample because we don't have recording > software, only Olympus playback software for Windows. I could proba