[SLUG] LateX question, tabular and raggedright.

2005-02-17 Thread Bill Bennett
So I'm mooching through TLC (second edition). Page 244 goes on about the new improved array and I decided to fix something that's been niggling me for some time. The old: \begin{tabular}{p{0.33\textwidth}p{0.33\textwidth}p{0.33\textwidth}} First amendment: \begin{tabular}{>{\raggedright}p{0.33\te

[SLUG] Invitation from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (fwd)

2005-02-17 Thread Grant Parnell
I think this is of general interest. Something like this works both ways, they get work done, you get something on your resume. -- Forwarded message -- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:00:12 +1100 (EST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] list of distros

2005-02-17 Thread QuantumG
Rod Butcher wrote: I think in a capitalist system, all these leeches are in fact contributing something, they're filling the user-friendliness niche, i.e. they've turned Linux from a geek hobby into a system useable by the techophobe public. Oh yes, they're contributing something to their cust

Re: [SLUG] list of distros

2005-02-17 Thread Rod Butcher
I think in a capitalist system, all these leeches are in fact contributing something, they're filling the user-friendliness niche, i.e. they've turned Linux from a geek hobby into a system useable by the techophobe public. Competition enforces the best will prevail. This frees up the developers t

Re: [SLUG] safe(ish) single-login from website

2005-02-17 Thread Taryn East
ok, I've found an issue with it... it seems to be doing multiple posts (or something) as I am getting a whole bunch of results back (copies fo the same page). for example, if the page "curltestpage.php" that is retrieved has just phpinfo() in it - I get at least three copies of phpinfo all intermi

Re: [SLUG] OT: managers secretly reading users emails

2005-02-17 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 14:16:33 +1100 Nicholas Tomlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ben, > > I would have a look at the act covering surveilance in the work place, > that may give you some guidance. You'll have to google for it though. > > Cheers, > > Nick. I think the only relevant act covers

Re: [SLUG] safe(ish) single-login from website

2005-02-17 Thread Taryn East
In case anyone's interested, I threw together a quick-fix demo in CURL as below and it seems ot have passed our preliminary tests... all the Channel partners need to is include this in their first page. It seems to be

Re: [SLUG] list of distros

2005-02-17 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I hear that Xandros doesn't actually try to get their patches intergrated > back into the community projects they extend, is that true? They're kinda standoffish, not really deeply involved in the community as other companies (like Novell, Red Hat, Ubuntu/Canonical, etc). - Jeff -- GUADEC 2

Re: [SLUG] list of distros

2005-02-17 Thread QuantumG
Dean Hamstead wrote: sorry, i just didnt like the tone of the email. im 100% debian and bsd Wow, I'm being chastised for things I *didn't* say now. Cool. Yes, as I understand it Xandros doesn't not participate in the open source community. They just leech what they can get, add "value" and try

re: [SLUG] OT: managers secretly reading users emails

2005-02-17 Thread Nicholas Tomlin
Hi Slugs, Not exactly Linux questions but I've been asked by management to allow them to seretly read users emails and a few questions are poping up. What is the legal position on the ownership of emails between members of the company and betwen members and those outside the company? If such em

Re: [SLUG] list of distros

2005-02-17 Thread Dean Hamstead
im note sure if 'tryong to get them back' is really a requirement of the GPL. i dont think your trying to say they violate the GPL, im sure your just saying that they arent being as community oriented as they might otherwise be. but my understanding of the GPL is that changes become GPL and should

Re: [SLUG] list of distros

2005-02-17 Thread QuantumG
Ken Wilson wrote: Xandros was able to recognise all other ditributions on my hard discs and give them a place on the boot selection screen. I hear that Xandros doesn't actually try to get their patches intergrated back into the community projects they extend, is that true? Trent -- SLUG - Sydn

[SLUG] Call for volunteers: Installfest

2005-02-17 Thread Ashley Maher
G'day All, There is to be an installfest at the Universtiy of Wollongong over two days: Sat and Sun the 19th and 20th March, 2005, 10am to 4.30pm. This is not going to be a typical open install fest. It has the clear aim and objective to setup the first year student home computers to be similar

Re: [SLUG] list of distros

2005-02-17 Thread Ken Wilson
Here aare my experiences at trying to get various linux distros working as a not very technical user. I an not much at working with linux but I have tried various linux distros in order to get my hardware to work. Small home LAN with attached and a network printer using email, web browsing, a small

Re: [SLUG] OT: managers secretly reading users emails

2005-02-17 Thread john
Try Brenden. Brendan Scott Phone: 0414 339 227 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.opensourcelaw.biz/ John-- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] OT: managers secretly reading users emails

2005-02-17 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Slugs, Not exactly Linux questions but I've been asked by management to allow them to seretly read users emails and a few questions are poping up. What is the legal position on the ownership of emails between members of the company and betwen members and those outside the company? If such ema

Re: [SLUG] Wall-to-wall Windows

2005-02-17 Thread David Guest
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff Waugh wrote: | | |> Is operating system vilification permited under the NSW |> anti-vilification laws? |> http://smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/14/1108229893549.html |> |> Really, someone should take the IT section of SMH to task over |> this sort of

[SLUG] list of distros

2005-02-17 Thread Ken Foskey
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 09:03 +1100, O Plameras wrote: > Simon Wong wrote: > How about organizing a publicly accessable WWW Internet > site from where people can install ANY of the major distro remotely ? > > Debian, Ubunto, Fedora, RedHat, Mandrake, Suse, Gentoo. The more, the > merrier. I am sur

Re: [SLUG] Wall-to-wall Windows

2005-02-17 Thread O Plameras
David Guest wrote: Is operating system vilification permited under the NSW anti-vilification laws? http://smh.com.au/articles/2005/02/14/1108229893549.html Really, someone should take the IT section of SMH to task over this sort of crap. I do not consider this vilification of Open Systems or U