Re: Those who do... [Was: [SLUG] Re: 2006 President's Report]

> > I don't think this is accurate at all. Membership has been declining due > > to the change in demographic > > Demography as I understand is a basket of things like Age, Sex, Race, > Education, and similar categories. This can't be correlated to decline in > SLUG membership. The link is very

Re: Those who do... [Was: [SLUG] Re: 2006 President's Report]

> Extreme examples are codefests in Wollongong in recent times. > If you remember or check the Archives, it was announced only Debian > installs > will be done. Leaving aside the rest of the message can I make a couple of corrections here please. Firstly it was an installfest not a code fest, seco

Re: Those who do... [Was: [SLUG] Re: 2006 President's Report]

On 4/6/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The rumour vines says this: intending members using other distros are > > discouraged altogether from becoming members. The President's report was > > making this plain and clear - declining membership in recent years. > > I don't think this

Re: [SLUG] kernel package management and third party modules

Peter Hardy wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 22:44 +1000, Richard Neal wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 02:40 +1000, tuxta2 wrote: Hmm, strange that there is a perception that Ubuntu doesn't handle nvidia drivers with kernel upgrades. Not saying it does just saying when you do a kerne

RE: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

There is a good website here http://www.linuxhpc.org/ with lots of info and references. Martin Visser Technology Consultant Consulting & Integration Technology Solutions Group - HP Services 410 Concord Road Rhodes NSW 2138 Australia Mobile: +61-411-254-513 Fax: +61-2-9022-1800 E-mail:

Re: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

Basically I'm looking at two Xen server boxes, physically wide spread, each with multiple virtual servers, that I need to keep synchronised and monitored such that when a virtual server falls over then its compatriot on the other box gets transparently brought on line, or when a box itself fall

Re: [SLUG] software for screencasts

I looked to xvidcap, and it apparently does the job if you want to create a recording of your desktop. But that's not what I'm looking for. I found an article that outlines a similar need: http://software.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=04/09/13/177239&tid=89&tid=75 I think using VNC will be the way

Re: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

Howard Lowndes wrote: ...is it possible? ...what's the best way? Do you mean by 'tandeming' is 'redundancy' and/or location transparency and/or 'uninterrupted' file access when one server goes down ? Microsoft has DFS, IBM has TransArc which was branched to OpenAFS (www.openafs.org), CMU has C

Re: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

Tks, that looks a good place to start... Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:27:14AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: ...is it possible? Depends on what you want exactly. ...what's the best way? Ultra-Monkey! (probably) Check out linux-ha.org -- Howard. LANNet Computin

Re: [SLUG] Eterm/xterm and setting PROMPT_COMMAND

On Wednesday 12 April 2006 03:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So I've ditched gnome-terminal in favour of Eterm since Eterm is > considerably faster than gnome-term (and ditched metacity and gone back > to fluxbox, but that's another story). > > Everything is nice and dandy except for one thing that

Re: [SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:27:14AM +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: > ...is it possible? Depends on what you want exactly. > ...what's the best way? Ultra-Monkey! (probably) Check out linux-ha.org -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

[SLUG] Tandeming Linux servers with auto fall over...

...is it possible? ...what's the best way? -- Howard. LANNet Computing Associates - Your Linux people When you want a computer system that works, just choose Linux; When you want a computer system that works, just, choose Microsoft. -- Flatter government, not fatter gover

[SLUG] kernel package management and third party modules

On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 22:44 +1000, Richard Neal wrote: > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 02:40 +1000, tuxta2 wrote: > > > Hmm, strange that there is a perception that Ubuntu doesn't handle > > nvidia drivers with kernel upgrades. > > Not saying it does just saying when you do a kernel update it doesnt > s

Re: [SLUG] Automatix/EasyUbuntu and kernel upgrades

Richard Neal wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 02:40 +1000, tuxta2 wrote: Hmm, strange that there is a perception that Ubuntu doesn't handle nvidia drivers with kernel upgrades. Not saying it does just saying when you do a kernel update it doesnt simple check on the reboot to make sure th

Re: [SLUG] Automatix/EasyUbuntu and kernel upgrades

On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 02:40 +1000, tuxta2 wrote: > Hmm, strange that there is a perception that Ubuntu doesn't handle > nvidia drivers with kernel upgrades. Not saying it does just saying when you do a kernel update it doesnt simple check on the reboot to make sure the nvidia driver is re-initia

Re: [SLUG] software for screencasts

On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 03:57:46PM +1000, Julio Cesar Ody wrote: > does anyone has a recommendation for a software to make screencasts > (for GNU/Linux)? > > What I want is the hability to "broadcast" my desktop via GAIM/MSN. I think you might mean taking your screen and encoding it into some sor

Re: [SLUG] software for screencasts

Julio Cesar Ody wrote: Hello all, does anyone has a recommendation for a software to make screencasts (for GNU/Linux)? What I want is the hability to "broadcast" my desktop via GAIM/MSN. Thanks in advance. -- Julio C. Ody http://rootshell.be/~julioody gvidcap if you use gnome is very good