Re: For my sins, I'm going to give a little chat on configuring Apacheinthe near future...

2007-09-09 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 7/12/07, Brett Davidson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You want to cover the gentoo stuff? I know nothing of gentoo and don't want to show any more ignorance than I already possess. And I'm lazy and can't be bothered to research it. :-) Nick Rout wrote: The split sounds sensible. You could

Re: === Meeting Tuesday 11 September 2007 ===

2007-09-09 Thread Ross Drummond
On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:17, Christopher Sawtell wrote: complaining about the Caly being closed. Nobody bring any biscuts. We have a backlog to chew through. Christopher, you were going to bring a din power supply lead for the switch. Cheers Ross Drummond

Re: === Meeting Tuesday 11 September 2007 ===

2007-09-09 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 9/9/07, Ross Drummond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 09 Sep 2007 17:17, Christopher Sawtell wrote: complaining about the Caly being closed. Nobody bring any biscuts. We have a backlog to chew through. Christopher, you were going to bring a din power supply lead for the switch. Correct.

Intel MB/LSI SAS Card Boot hang advice/options

2007-09-09 Thread Kim Robertson
Hi All, I am having fun with Intel and LSI. I have an Intel S5000VSA-4DIMM server motherboard and a LSI SAS3041X-R. It is interesting that I am having issues at all as the card is supposedly supported. When I boot the motherboard, it is an EFI system, after the LSI BIOS init it does not

Re: SFD poster

2007-09-09 Thread Rik Tindall
Christopher Sawtell wrote: On 9/7/07, Rik Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Christopher Sawtell wrote: Pity it has Producer (Acrobat Distiller 3.0 for Windows) in the file. What's its provenance? Ok. The race is on then. Can anyone come up with something FOSS-made, based

Re: bus info browser compatibility

2007-09-09 Thread Carl Cerecke
On 10/09/2007, Rik Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recalling Andrew Errington's post a while back about bus timetable info being unreadable with some web browsers, can we please confirm that this was the relevant page route and that the issue has been completely resolved?:

Re: === Meeting Tuesday 11 September 2007 ===

2007-09-09 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Greets to dining CLUGgers, Since the Caly has closed, those folks who like to eat together before the CLUG meeting are re-directed to the Carlton situated on the corner of Papanui Road and Bealey Avenue. This is experimental and we are open to further suggestions if the Carlton is

Re: bus info browser compatibility

2007-09-09 Thread Rik Tindall
Carl Cerecke wrote: On 10/09/2007, Rik Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recalling Andrew Errington's post a while back about bus timetable info being unreadable with some web browsers, can we please confirm that this was the relevant page route and that the issue has been completely

Re: bus info browser compatibility

2007-09-09 Thread Andrew Errington
A pity, since the page and services otherwise look so inviting.. Ok, let's do something about this. What I propose is to pitch our Software Freedom Day http://www.softwarefreedomday.org media release, for the coming weekend, around this key compatibility issue. Something like: 10% of

Re: bus info browser compatibility

2007-09-09 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 9/10/07, Rik Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carl Cerecke wrote: On 10/09/2007, Rik Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Recalling Andrew Errington's post a while back about bus timetable info being unreadable with some web browsers, can we please confirm that this was the relevant page

Re: bus info browser compatibility

2007-09-09 Thread Andrew Errington
If you use the page intended for use with 3-g mobiles you can get the information you want in any browser. Alternatively a simple bash script using the 'nc' utility could retrieve the info. Generation of same is left to the ingenuity of the previous poster. I wrote a Python script to retrieve

Re: SFD poster

2007-09-09 Thread Rik Tindall
Roy Britten wrote: On 06/09/2007, Christopher Sawtell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pity it has Producer (Acrobat Distiller 3.0 for Windows) in the file. $ pdf2ps AlanW-SFDposter4.pdf Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table. The file has been damaged. This

Re: SFD poster

2007-09-09 Thread Rik Tindall
Pity it has Producer (Acrobat Distiller 3.0 for Windows) in the file. $ pdf2ps AlanW-SFDposter4.pdf Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table. ..does anyone strongly object to this being published on our behalf in The Press? They need to know by 3pm. Have just given

Re: bus info browser compatibility

2007-09-09 Thread Rik Tindall
Andrew Errington wrote: If you use the page intended for use with 3-g mobiles you can get the information you want in any browser. Alternatively a simple bash script using the 'nc' utility could retrieve the info. Generation of same is left to the ingenuity of the previous poster. I wrote

Re: bus info browser compatibility

2007-09-09 Thread Caleb Sawtell
firefox can load svgs in 2.0 it is quite naff but compatibility has been improved in the new version On 9/10/07, Rik Tindall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Errington wrote: If you use the page intended for use with 3-g mobiles you can get the information you want in any browser.

Re: bus info browser compatibility

2007-09-09 Thread Christopher Sawtell
See the archives for:- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 09:34:01 +1200 From: Carl Cerecke [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: realtime bus timetable information on Linux To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Reply-to: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and messages following. On 9/10/07,

Re: bus info browser compatibility

2007-09-09 Thread Andrew Errington
How does one discover bus stop numbers from this page please? It isn't obvious. Indeed. It's tricky to get the bus stop numbers from the SVG map data (without the viewer). My script presupposes you have the bus stop number. Also, what FOSS SVG alternatives would be best employed to improve

Re: SFD poster

2007-09-09 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Saying something is a 'pity' is just a mild expression of sorrow and disappointment about the said something. Of course I can live with that. On the same subject, if the ~15 folks who downloaded my little flyer could print out just a few pages of it, separate the 3 flyers and scatter them about