quote("Lindsay Holmwood");
>I'd like to nominate Chris Deigan for a position as an ordinary
>committee member.
*ACCEPTED*
-Chris.
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Thanks to both James and Ian for your encouragement! Seriously though,
it's better that I should be told that, whether or not I can do what I
want, there won't be any practical benefit to it. James was right to
assume I was having fun learning, but I have so much else to learn, I
might as well
On 2/24/06, Rajnish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> that I'd ask the sluggers. What are your suggestions for a modest $50/month
> commitment, minimum 512Kbps plan from an ISP that does not shy away from
> Linux (slackware, fedora) ?
If you are willing to sign up your home phone with them and you are
Ken Foskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>On Fri, 2006-02-17 at 08:24 +1100, Benno wrote:
>
>
>>On Fri Feb 17, 2006 at 08:14:07 +1100, ashley maher wrote:
>>
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>>>G'day,
>>>
>>>Anybody know the ball park for grad programmers these days in Sydney?
>>>
>>>
>>I'm not sure, it would totally depe
> I've been using Linux since about 1993. I've been going to SLUG for at
> least 8 years now. I work for EverythingLinux (ELX) and have an interest
> in the Linux market. I've been on the committee since 2004, first as
> Secretary then as President. I'm involved with OSIA and Computer Bank
> Sydn
I've been using Linux since about 1993. I've been going to SLUG for at
least 8 years now. I work for EverythingLinux (ELX) and have an interest
in the Linux market. I've been on the committee since 2004, first as
Secretary then as President. I'm involved with OSIA and Computer Bank
Sydney. I guess
check out http://www.netspace.net.au
free downloads off their peers (ie mirror.pacific.net.au)
ppc, amd64 (probably i386) debian updates all free data!
Dean
Rajnish wrote:
All,
Finally, I am jumping onto the broad-band-wagon. I am currently with TPG
dialup
and am generally satisfied with t
Internode offer all you want and then some. ISO's are unmetered from
their server.
Very happy with them, been with them for over 3 years now on ADSL.
http://internode.on.net/
On 2/24/06, Rajnish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> All,
>
> Finally, I am jumping onto the broad-band-wagon. I am currently
All,
Finally, I am jumping onto the broad-band-wagon. I am currently with TPG
dialup
and am generally satisfied with their service quality.
After looking at the broadbandchoice website for some weeks now, I've
figured
that I'd ask the sluggers. What are your suggestions for a modest $50/mont
On Fri, Feb 24, 2006 at 10:09:36AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Actually this is mostly just a waste of effort. Config swap and let
> the system swap out all the bits it does not need.
Ahh, what if you compile your SCSI driver as a module, and the pages
containing its code are put onto a SCSI
On Friday 24 February 2006 09:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:31:35PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote:
> > I'm trying to make an ancient laptop run with a mini-distribution, DSL.
> >
> > As the laptop has only 64MB of RAM, I'm trying to make sure DSL doesn't
> > include any unnec
Thanks to both Oscar and Matt for replying.
As to Oscar's suggestion, I know it's just beyond me. I know my method's
crude, but it does work.
As to Matt's questions: when I ran lsmod before making any changes, 17
modules showed up as loaded, including ieee1394, and that even though
the compu
On Thursday 23 February 2006 21:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have need to set up Linux POS soft/hard ware for a customer.
> >
> > I'm thinking SQL-Ledger for the software as it has POS, but I need a
> > Linux compat slip printer, barcode reader (probably k/b wedge would be
> > best), and cash
On Thursday 23 February 2006 21:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have need to set up Linux POS soft/hard ware for a customer.
> >
> > I'm thinking SQL-Ledger for the software as it has POS, but I need a
> > Linux compat slip printer, barcode reader (probably k/b wedge would be
> > best), and cash
On Thu, February 23, 2006 11:06 am, Peter Rundle wrote:
> Well that's my explanation for the "annomolie".
ahem... what I think happened was I wasn't mounting anything, just going
to a subdir /mnt/hd2 on the 1st hd... (I noticed I was getting same df/du
on 'old' and 'new' hd
oops..
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Voy
O Plameras wrote:
Steve Kowalik wrote:
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:49:43 +1100, O Plameras uttered
Then do a # make menuconfig and figure out which ones to activate or
deactivate. Or #make config, if you are unable to run X.
menuconfig requires ncurses, not X.
Thanks, my bad.
If y
On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:31:35PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote:
> I'm trying to make an ancient laptop run with a mini-distribution, DSL.
>
> As the laptop has only 64MB of RAM, I'm trying to make sure DSL doesn't
> include any unnecessary services or modules when it boots up.
>
> For instance, the
Steve Kowalik wrote:
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:49:43 +1100, O Plameras uttered
Then do a # make menuconfig and figure out which ones to activate or
deactivate. Or #make config, if you are unable to run X.
menuconfig requires ncurses, not X.
Thanks, my bad.
O Plameras
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On Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:49:43 +1100, O Plameras uttered
> Then do a # make menuconfig and figure out which ones to activate or
> deactivate. Or #make config, if you are unable to run X.
>
menuconfig requires ncurses, not X.
Cheers,
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Steve
I may be love's
Leslie Katz wrote:
I'm trying to make an ancient laptop run with a mini-distribution, DSL.
As the laptop has only 64MB of RAM, I'm trying to make sure DSL
doesn't include any unnecessary services or modules when it boots up.
For instance, the laptop has two PCMCIA slots, so on bootup, DSL
s
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 23:21 +1100, Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
> I'd like to nominate Chris Deigan for a position as an ordinary
> committee member.
Seconded. Good on you Chris. Thanks for Slugging it out with Maddog (no
pun intended).
:)
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G'day all,
I'd like to nominate Chris Deigan for a position as an ordinary
committee member.
Chris does a huge amount of work behind the scenes, both in maintaining
Slug's infrastructure but also in managing the meetings. He would lend
youth *and* experience to the committee, and hence receiv
Robert Collins wrote:
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 19:37 +1100, Chris Deigan wrote:
Because nothing is more exciting than people getting nominated, here's
some to start us off, featuring the rogues from the outgoing committee..
Lindsay Holmwood for Secretary!
Lindsay has shown a keen interest
I'm trying to make an ancient laptop run with a mini-distribution, DSL.
As the laptop has only 64MB of RAM, I'm trying to make sure DSL doesn't
include any unnecessary services or modules when it boots up.
For instance, the laptop has two PCMCIA slots, so on bootup, DSL starts
cardmgr. Howeve
aww yeah I know...
it was just a help to someone who wanted some pointers...
however it's a test system I'm playing with, without internet access and
it's just easier to work in root to get it setup right, and then stick
it on the internet, rather than the tiresome logging in as a user and
doi
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