Re: [SLUG] what colour car

2006-01-18 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Dean Hamstead wrote: > get a mac laptop. > > they work excellently and the airport extreme is now > working. My advice is not to get a Apple laptop. See: http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2005/11/msg00251.html http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2005/11/msg00269.html http://

Re: [SLUG] what colour car

2006-01-18 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All > a mate has asked me to choose him a laptop that just works. > He got a Sony Viao that was much heartache (much much heartache) > > Any suggestions: (considerations) > > more than 2 usb > small/light > centrino > wireless hardware switch (soft switches are infi

[SLUG] Re: what colour car

2006-01-18 Thread Nicholas Tomlin
Sluggers, No problems at all so far with a Toshiba A10 Satellite lap top, Mandrake 9.2 runs well on it c/w drivers for everything. later models may be even better. Regards, Nick. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Fox
On 1/19/06, Michael Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > seven = sydney.seven.com.au > nine = sydney.nine.com.au > ten = sydney.ten.com.au > abc = sydney.abc.gov.au > abc2 = abc2.abc.gov.au > sbs digital 1 = sydney.sbs.com.au > sbs digital 2 = news.sbs.com.au Oops made a mistake, correction. abc = ns

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread Lithion
I am also a MythTV Love-Hater. I have a Gentoo MythTV setup with 2 DVB-T tuner cards. I find that there are many, many crashes which wreck some recordings, but after being beaten around I still come back because of the really great benefits that MythTV provides such as the ability to watch reco

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread Lithion
I am also a MythTV Love-Hater. I have a Gentoo MythTV setup with 2 DVB-T tuner cards. I find that there are many, many crashes which wreck some recordings, but after being beaten around I still come back because of the really great benefits that MythTV provides such as the ability to watch reco

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Fox
On 1/19/06, Morgan Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > heh, yeah thats the script I use. I just never had luck setting up channels > that could be recorded, probably due to the lack of xmltvid's the box is > just sitting in my rack doing nothing. Need to set it up one day as my wife > really wants

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread Morgan Storey
heh, yeah thats the script I use. I just never had luck setting up channels that could be recorded, probably due to the lack of xmltvid's the box is just sitting in my rack doing nothing. Need to set it up one day as my wife really wants to use it. Michael Fox wrote: On 1/19/06, Morgan Stor

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Fox
On 1/19/06, Morgan Storey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey what do you put in the xmltv id's using the au_grab script in sydney? What script is it? Where did you get it from? I use tv_grab_au from immir (and its documented when the script runs what channels use what xmltv id's). Thanks -- SLUG

[SLUG] DVD rom not working

2006-01-18 Thread Daniel Pottumati
Hello, I have an All-in-one unit running debian sarge... My DVD Rom isn't being detected, during boot up...I think!!? (please see dmesg below) Thanks for your help.. uname output: Linux All-in-One 2.6.8-2-686 #1 Tue Aug 16 13:22:48 UTC 2005 i686 GNU/Linux lspci output: :00:00.0 Host bridge

[SLUG] Apache gzip module

2006-01-18 Thread Phill
Hi Sluggers Someone told me that the Apache gzip module bloats the temp directory and can cause the hardisk to be filled with rubbish. Is this true? If so is there a fix? Phill smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slu

[SLUG] Gnome Stock Ticker

2006-01-18 Thread Leslie Katz
I want to use the above applet. I've been able to get it to work showing only the All-Ords. However, when I add any new symbol, that new symbol doesn't work--all I get scrolling by is the All-Ords, working properly, followed by the new symbol, say ^AGL.AX, showing a price of 00.00 and saying "n

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Fox
On 1/19/06, David Gillies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Would you be able to share your channel configuration for mythtv? I > previously managed to get part of that working, but not all. I can if the following doesnt work for you (or atleast make enough sense to follow). Thanks to James for providi

Re: [SLUG] what colour car

2006-01-18 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Hi All >a mate has asked me to choose him a laptop that just works. >He got a Sony Viao that was much heartache (much much heartache) > >Any suggestions: (considerations) > >more than 2 usb >small/light >centrino >wireless hardware switch (soft

Re: [SLUG] what colour car

2006-01-18 Thread David Gillies
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Any suggestions: (considerations) > > more than 2 usb > small/light > centrino > wireless hardware switch (soft switches are infinite pain) > (centrino + switch = working wireless) > Dell are good and cheap > > Do any of th

Re: [SLUG] what colour car

2006-01-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
get a mac laptop. they work excellently and the airport extreme is now working. Dean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All a mate has asked me to choose him a laptop that just works. He got a Sony Viao that was much heartache (much much heartache) Any suggestions: (considerations) more than 2 usb

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread David Gillies
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Fox wrote: > I have a 15 step process on what needs to be done, so I can certainly > share this with anyone interested, however its by no means ready to > publish to public. > > You could have a box installed in about 1hr or more (depending on

Re: [SLUG] what colour car

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Fox
On 1/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do any of the laptops do dual head. Most I've tried do in winders, but not in > linux. A fellow here has his Dell notebook in a dock which can take PCI cards and thus has PCI video card in dock allowing him to have extra monitors. He curre

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Fox
On 1/19/06, Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What make/model card? Follow this link below; http://www.auspcmarket.com.au/show_product_info.php?input[product_code]=MU-VP3020C&input[category_id]=1088 I have 2 of those cards in a machine doing backend/frontend (not connected to a TV).

[SLUG] mod_perl question

2006-01-18 Thread Dean Hamstead
in using Crypt::RandPasswd (::word() specifically), it doesnt seem at all mod_perl safe. there definately seems to be something that loops of and consumes all the web servers cpu. can anyone confirm this? or some way to beat it into submission. the first time i 'run' the page/script (aka go to it

[SLUG] what colour car

2006-01-18 Thread jam
Hi All a mate has asked me to choose him a laptop that just works. He got a Sony Viao that was much heartache (much much heartache) Any suggestions: (considerations) more than 2 usb small/light centrino wireless hardware switch (soft switches are infinite pain) (centrino + switch = working wirele

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Michael Fox wrote: >On 1/19/06, Terry Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Michael Fox wrote: >> >> > Happy to demo if anyone wants to drop past. I dont have it connected >> > to a TV or anything. The backend box with 2 x Twinhan Mini Ter tuners >> > is sitting under m

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Fox
On 1/19/06, Terry Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael Fox wrote: > > > Happy to demo if anyone wants to drop past. I dont have it connected > > to a TV or anything. The backend box with 2 x Twinhan Mini Ter tuners > > is sitting under my desk and just records stuff as it should. > > Digita

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Ken Foskey wrote: >There are a couple of requirements that I am unsure of: >- system would need a remote for ease of use for guests I hear mythtv can "just work" with IR receivers. >- How do you run a play station through a computer? I used to have my PS2 plugged int

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Fox
On 1/19/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > mythtv, like thunderbird, is delightfully full of promise, but not so good in > the gritty detail. > myth works, and the user interface is streets better than any commercial PVRs > that I've looked at eg Toshiba, although Humax looks to be

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread jam
On Thursday 19 January 2006 09:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I was thinking that my desktop is not being used anymore and I have seen > a theatre setup at a friends place and I could easily recycle the > computer and buy a data projector to do this. > > There are a couple of requirements that I am

Re: [SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread Chris Deigan
On 1/16/06, Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - How do you run a play station through a computer? Using a TV capture card, ofcourse. ;) Should have an AV plug (my analogue card has one) or you can tune it using an RF adapter (an analogue signal thing). -- Cheers, Chris. -- SLUG - Sydney L

[SLUG] ISC DHCP and Jumpstart

2006-01-18 Thread Tony Green
OK, not directly Linux related, but there's Linux in there somewhere. I'm setting up a DHCP jumpstart environment on Solaris (jumpstart is the Solaris build system for those who're scratching their heads). The problem I'm having is that the DHCP requests are only sucessful if I use 'boot -v net:d

[SLUG] ssh failure - was working...

2006-01-18 Thread Ken Foskey
I suddenly cannot ssh into aix at work, old ssh anyone give me a hint. debug3: packet_send2: adding 64 (len 59 padlen 5 extra_pad 64)^M debug2: we sent a password packet, wait for reply^M debug1: Authentication succeeded (password).^M debug2: fd 6 setting O_NONBLOCK^M debug1: channel 0: new [clie

[SLUG] tv setup

2006-01-18 Thread Ken Foskey
I was thinking that my desktop is not being used anymore and I have seen a theatre setup at a friends place and I could easily recycle the computer and buy a data projector to do this. There are a couple of requirements that I am unsure of: - system would need a remote for ease of use for guests -

Re: [SLUG] Unzip and install

2006-01-18 Thread Gottfried Szing
john gibbons wrote: > I have installed Fedora 4 and have an application vym-1.7.0.tar.gz on my > desktop. Would appreciate advice on what I type into the terminal to > unzip it and then get it running. to unpack (not to unzip because thats a geziiped tar-ball) use $ tar xvzf vym-1.7.0.tar.gz or

Re: [SLUG] Unzip and install

2006-01-18 Thread Michael Fox
On 1/18/06, john gibbons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have installed Fedora 4 and have an application vym-1.7.0.tar.gz on my > desktop. Would appreciate advice on what I type into the terminal to > unzip it and then get it running. man tar tar zxvf vym-1.7.0.tar.gz -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User'

[SLUG] Unzip and install

2006-01-18 Thread john gibbons
I have installed Fedora 4 and have an application vym-1.7.0.tar.gz on my desktop. Would appreciate advice on what I type into the terminal to unzip it and then get it running. John. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.or