[SLUG] Fedora Core 2 iso 4 problems

2004-06-08 Thread bill
Have downloaded Fedora Core 2 iso #4 twice today from two different servers. Neither time will the cd burn properly - using k3b on Xandros 2.0 - CDs 1 to 3 burned 100% OK on same system. Trying to use CD in upgrade gets error message, and upgrade just asks for insertion of correct cd. Problem

Re: [SLUG] GNU/Linux User's Group of Sydney

2004-06-08 Thread Brad Kowalczyk
Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 01:00:53PM +1000, Johngibbons wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2004 08:58 am, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:50:24AM +1000, Johngibbons wrote: A freeware enthusiast, I am reminded of a lesson I learned when I was in a war: Attack

Re: [SLUG] Digital cameras and motion video

2004-06-08 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Jeff, Well not so much weird but something you can do... There is a linux program called Motion. Check it out on freshmeat.net. It allows you to capture still shots from motion detected from your camera and post it to a website for instance. Not full video I know, but you did say weird...

[SLUG] Death of Predator.

2004-06-08 Thread Jamie Honan
Predator, a social activist/geek died of cancer, aged 33. I remember Predator mostly during the period when wireless networking was first being married with long distance aerials. He kept a blog of the progress of his cancer. Indy media details:

[SLUG] An IP for blocking 198.31.189.134

2004-06-08 Thread Terry Collins
Normally I think virus and spam discussion belong on slug-chat, but this spammer has sucked addresses off the slug-list so you might want to block the IP 198.31.189.134, since they now have a virus. Received: by maddog.slug.org.au (Postfix) id F3DD510E70B; Wed, 9 Jun 2004

[SLUG] Aptitude cache files

2004-06-08 Thread Mary Gardiner
Hi folks, I'm trying to use aptitude to do the equivalent of apt-get dist-upgrade on a system. aptitude downloads the new packages and then reports: Warning: could not lock the cache file. Opening in read-only mode It does not install the packages.

Re: [SLUG] Death of Predator.

2004-06-08 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 08:18, Jamie Honan wrote: Predator, a social activist/geek died of cancer, aged 33. I remember Predator mostly during the period when wireless networking was first being married with long distance aerials. Jamie, thank you so much for this. Predator has been a friend of