Re: [SLUG] weather data

2004-10-04 Thread DaZZa
On Mon, 4 Oct 2004, Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit wrote: I want to include weather data on a site that I am developing (non-commercial) and I'd like to find a free source of frequently updated weather data to use, any suggestions? www.bom.gov.au? DaZZa -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] weather data

2004-10-04 Thread Michael Knight
Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit wrote: Hi, I want to include weather data on a site that I am developing (non-commercial) and I'd like to find a free source of frequently updated weather data to use, any suggestions? The Xfce4 weather plugin pulls its data from weather.com via

Re: [SLUG] weather data

2004-10-04 Thread amos
Hi Luke, KDE's kweather (part of kde toys now) shows weather data in KDE's kicker. It provides a DCOP interface, in case this is relevant to your site. I don't see where it pulls its data from but according to its configuration which takes ICAO codes and the site it uses to help search these codes

[SLUG] Resizing XFS paritions?

2004-10-04 Thread Jon Austin
Hello list, I'd like to resize /dev/hdc1 to take up the entire disk. I've read about xfs_growfs, but I'm worried about committing any changes without some confirmation from the list about the steps involved. Last thing I need to do is drive out to our datacenter right now. :) Disk looks like:

[SLUG] laptop giga-byte.com N601

2004-10-04 Thread Ken Foskey
I am looking at a laptop. My priorities are: Wireless + 100 base network Battery life Screen performance I was thinking of this: N601 (Notebook) * G-MAX 15.4'' 16:10 Wide Screen Powerful Multimedia Notebook * MicrosoftWindowsXP * 15.4 16:10 WXGA, 1280x800 resolution

[SLUG] Graphic tablet - 'found' driver ? need help understanding :)

2004-10-04 Thread elliott-brennan
Hi, I've been trying to configure a graphic tablet in Linux (as those who've seen my previous posts will know). I'm 95% there but need some help understanding some material I've found. At: http://aiptektablet.sourceforge.net/ I've found some information, but I don't quite understand what they're

Re: [SLUG] Graphic tablet - 'found' driver ? need help understanding :)

2004-10-04 Thread James Gregory
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 22:13 +1000, elliott-brennan wrote: Mandrake 10.0 official, Kernel 2.6 (no changes - I wouldn't know how) reads this as a USB device (which it is) and I can do everything I can in the 'other O/S' except... the tablet area needs to be read as the same size as the monitor

Re: [SLUG] laptop giga-byte.com N601

2004-10-04 Thread David Helstroom
Hi Ken, With regards to the IPW2200 drivers, I am using them right now to transmit this email ;-) Development is proceeding pretty fast at present, with AdHoc wireless networking just being added. I have no troubles with connecting to networks using WEP and Managed (Infrastucture) mode. Monitor

Re: [SLUG] FC2 BREAKS sound card

2004-10-04 Thread linley
O Plameras wrote: linley wrote: I on a Dell gx 1 with cs4236 on board card Worked fine in fc1 after running sndconfig on FC2 sound does not work snip You upgraded from 2.4.x ? If you did, suggest you re-compile your kernel. Use your current kernel config by copying it from /boot/config-2.6.5-1.358

Re: [SLUG] FC2 BREAKS sound card

2004-10-04 Thread O Plameras
linley wrote: Did all that but got some c did all that but got an error: [EMAIL PROTECTED] linux-2.6.5-1.358]# make install make[1]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date. CHK include/linux/compile.h Kernel: arch/i386/boot/bzImage is ready sh

Re: [SLUG] laptop giga-byte.com N601

2004-10-04 Thread Simon Wong
On Mon, 2004-10-04 at 22:50, David Helstroom wrote: sniffing) is still in the works though. Setting the drivers up requires building a kernel module, and grabbing some firmware for the hotplug system to load, so don't expect it to just work. If you're using Debian Testing/Unstable there's a

Re: [SLUG] Graphic tablet - 'found' driver ? need help understanding :)

2004-10-04 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Elliott, The reason the mouse moves across the entire screen when you move it 2 is because it's set that way on purpose. (however this is resettable) Imagine a graphics tablet 4 feet high x 6 feet wide. (you can get them). If you had an absolute setting you would have to move the

Re: [SLUG] Graphic tablet - 'found' driver ? need help understanding :)

2004-10-04 Thread Ben Donohue
forgot to say... sometimes there's a button on the back of the tablet that you stick a pen into and it reset's the tablet. otherwise read the manual. -- 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 PostgreSQL Users Group Meeting

2004-10-04 Thread Gavin Sherry
The second Sydney PostgreSQL Users Group Meeting will take place on Tuesday 5th of October at the James Squire Brew House. http://www.malt-shovel.com.au/brewhouse.asp?Sydney=true We will kick off at around 6:30pm. Gavin Sherry will be giving a tutorial on tablespaces, Neil Conway will be

[SLUG] Re: Resizing XFS paritions?

2004-10-04 Thread Jon Austin
FYI, I ended up deleting hdc1 and hdc2, recreating hdc1 as the full disk size. Then running lilo for good measure, and rebooting. The parition remounted fine, and running xfs_growfs / grew the filesystem as necessary and df reports the correct parition sizes. On Mon, 4 Oct 2004 16:45:43

Re: [SLUG] installing amsn error

2004-10-04 Thread Ian Wienand
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 12:11:12PM +1000, Gareth Smith wrote: #apt-get install amsn Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: kde: Depends: kdebase-audiolibs but it is not going to be installed or kdebase3-audiolibs but it is not installable Often with

[SLUG] telnet [host] http

2004-10-04 Thread Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit
Hi, I want to download an html page to a local file. I can do: telnet [host] http GET foobar.html HTTP/1.0 and get the page, but I want the page in a file that I can then parse. I've tried putting the above commands in a script but that don't work. Any suggestions? TIA, Luke --

Re: [SLUG] telnet [host] http

2004-10-04 Thread Kevin Saenz
How about wget? I want to download an html page to a local file. I can do: telnet [host] http GET foobar.html HTTP/1.0 and get the page, but I want the page in a file that I can then parse. I've tried putting the above commands in a script but that don't work. Any suggestions?

[SLUG] (no subject)

2004-10-04 Thread Michael Kraus
G'day all... A quick couple of questions: How easy is it to program logic into CMSs? (Currently I'm looking at Drupal and Mambo, but am very open to other suggestions as well. I've noticed them mentioned here a bit lately.) When I say program logic, I mean implement validation on both the

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2004-10-04 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 15:13 +1000, Michael Kraus wrote: How easy is it to program logic into CMSs? (Currently I'm looking at Drupal and Mambo, but am very open to other suggestions as well. I've noticed them mentioned here a bit lately.) I'm more familiar with Drupal so my response is more