On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 12:36:20 +1000
"T Murray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anyone know how to install Ubuntu without the use of a CD Rom Drive?
> (my laptop CD Rom is playing up and a replacement is a week or two away)
>
>
>
> --
> Regards,
>
>
> Trent Murray
> (diazepam)
Andrew Bennetts wrote:
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 01:27:25PM +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote:
[...]
Two very good points. I guess I wasn't thinking that broadly. The only
problem I was thinking about was device order, everything else works
well enough to wait for "bigger-better-brighter" subsystems. Bu
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 01:27:25PM +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote:
[...]
> Two very good points. I guess I wasn't thinking that broadly. The only
> problem I was thinking about was device order, everything else works
> well enough to wait for "bigger-better-brighter" subsystems. But then
> again, th
There is a netboot floppy somewhere I believe, that will just apt-get the whole lot.
But the way I would do it, if you already have the cd is put the laptop's hard drive in another laptop/desktop, install ubuntu, take the hard drive back out and put it back in your laptop and it will boot, and
Jeff Waugh wrote:
If only there was a reliable patch that could be implemented temporarily.
Two comments - huge integration tasks like "fixing the FLOSS audio and media
subsystems" are not fixed with patches... and temporary fixes are often the
most permanent (cf. esd).
Two very good poin
On 6/5/06, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You can do a netboot install. Check out the 'TFTP net booting' sections of
the installer documentation (linking to breezy docs, for some reason the
dapper ones aren't where I expected them to be):
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/breezy/m
> The Ubuntu installation guides found at
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installation reveal all. :-)
Please don't look at these ones, they're out of date and recommend some
really crazy stuff... The doc team are trying to push the good stuff out to
help.ubuntu.com, but there are some fixes to do (I
> Does anyone know how to install Ubuntu without the use of a CD Rom Drive?
> (my laptop CD Rom is playing up and a replacement is a week or two away)
You can do a netboot install. Check out the 'TFTP net booting' sections of
the installer documentation (linking to breezy docs, for some reason t
The Ubuntu installation guides found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Installation reveal all. :-)
Lindsay
On 6/5/06, T Murray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know how to install Ubuntu without the use of a CD Rom Drive?
(my laptop CD Rom is playing up and a replacement is a week or t
Hi all,Does anyone know how to install Ubuntu without the use of a CD Rom Drive? (my laptop CD Rom is playing up and a replacement is a week or two away)-- Regards,Trent Murray
(diazepam)
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> If only there was a reliable patch that could be implemented temporarily.
Two comments - huge integration tasks like "fixing the FLOSS audio and media
subsystems" are not fixed with patches... and temporary fixes are often the
most permanent (cf. esd).
> Would udev rules achieve what we want?
Jeff Waugh wrote:
All this cause Gnome (or Ubuntu - not sure which but I suspect Gnome)
can't change the bloody default sound card properly.
That selection thingy is an Ubuntu patch for GNOME. All of this stuff is
very badly integrated and broken, and I blame several layers of crap and
histo
> All this cause Gnome (or Ubuntu - not sure which but I suspect Gnome)
> can't change the bloody default sound card properly.
That selection thingy is an Ubuntu patch for GNOME. All of this stuff is
very badly integrated and broken, and I blame several layers of crap and
history that frustrate
Michael Lake wrote:
>> So, the current problem is finding FOSS or affordable software to do
>> this good gis work. I have recently been through FOSS offerings, many
>> and scattered functionality and it looks like a write your own situation.
>
>
> Look at GRASS. It's a FOSS GIS.
> http://www.geo
A warning to others out there who may be using the proprietary ATI fglrx
drivers (I think v8.25.18) - it breaks OpenGL so things like OpenOffice
won't open, etc etc.
The fix is simple: replace libGL.so.1.2 with one from an older version.
Fil
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
A last request for help:
a) I want to configure my soundcards.
They are there:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# lspci |grep audio
:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER
(ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
:02:0c.0 Multimedia audio
Dean Hamstead wrote:
does cedega give you better results than wine?
Have not tried cedega yet.
Would love too, when time permits.
For the moment, GoogleEarth is just running
happily on my Win XP.
Thanks.
O Plameras
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Phil Scarratt wrote:
Craige McWhirter wrote:
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 12:06 +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote:
Just wondering what other people do with their keybinding on Gnome
for media keys.
I use System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts to set all my media
keys.
Thanks to all who replied.
Phil Scarratt wrote:
Craige McWhirter wrote:
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 12:06 +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote:
Just wondering what other people do with their keybinding on Gnome
for media keys.
I use System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts to set all my media
keys.
As do I - but the problem is
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:44 am, david wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:25 +1000, James Gray wrote:
> > Yeh, I've had mixed success with that switch. Seems every sudo I use
> > supports "-H -s" but only the Linux variants support "-i"...which sux
> > when you divide your time between Solaris, the BSD
> All of which doesn't quite answer my original question, which was
> (restating it slightly):
>
> This is a server, only I access it, and everything I do on it is done as
> root. I ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED], then su -
>
> So what is the advantage of su -i over simply activating the root account
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 09:44:41AM +1000, david wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:25 +1000, James Gray wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:01 am, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:57:59AM +1000, James Gray wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:04 pm, david wrote:
> > > > > On my pu
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 09:44:41AM +1000, david wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:25 +1000, James Gray wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:01 am, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:57:59AM +1000, James Gray wrote:
> > > > On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:04 pm, david wrote:
> > > > > On my pu
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 09:25:57AM +1000, James Gray wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:01 am, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:57:59AM +1000, James Gray wrote:
> > > On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:04 pm, david wrote:
> > > > On my pure server boxes, I've activated the root account because i
On Mon, 2006-06-05 at 09:25 +1000, James Gray wrote:
> On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:01 am, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:57:59AM +1000, James Gray wrote:
> > > On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:04 pm, david wrote:
> > > > On my pure server boxes, I've activated the root account because it's
> >
On Mon, June 5, 2006 9:02 am, justin randell wrote:
> On 6/5/06, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I'd like to include a word with an "'s" like "individual's permission"
>> what the proper way to do this ? (change the outer ' ' to " " ?)
>
> yes, that will work.
Justin, Matthew, thanks
On Mon, 5 Jun 2006 09:01 am, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:57:59AM +1000, James Gray wrote:
> > On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:04 pm, david wrote:
> > > On my pure server boxes, I've activated the root account because it's
> > > the only account that I use. Why use sudo when every time
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On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 08:42:18AM +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> I'm trying to insert some text into a php file, the text is enclosed in ' '
>
> I'd like to include a word with an "'s" like "individual's permission"
> what the proper way to do this ? (change the outer ' ' to " " ?)
I'd definitel
On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 06:57:59AM +1000, James Gray wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:04 pm, david wrote:
> > On my pure server boxes, I've activated the root account because it's
> > the only account that I use. Why use sudo when every time I log in and
> > everything I do on the box is done as root
On 6/5/06, Voytek Eymont <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I'm trying to insert some text into a php file, the text is enclosed in ' '
I'd like to include a word with an "'s" like "individual's permission"
what the proper way to do this ? (change the outer ' ' to " " ?)
yes, that will work.
you can
I'm trying to insert some text into a php file, the text is enclosed in ' '
I'd like to include a word with an "'s" like "individual's permission"
what the proper way to do this ? (change the outer ' ' to " " ?)
-
define('TEXT_INFORMATION', 'Disclaimer and Privacy.
The contents o
On Sat, 3 Jun 2006 01:04 pm, david wrote:
> On my pure server boxes, I've activated the root account because it's
> the only account that I use. Why use sudo when every time I log in and
> everything I do on the box is done as root, and only I do it. I ssh into
> my own account, then su -
"sudo -H
david wrote:
On my pure server boxes, I've activated the root account because it's
the only account that I use. Why use sudo when every time I log in and
everything I do on the box is done as root, and only I do it. I ssh into
my own account, then su -
%sudo su -
works without root user enabl
On 1 Jun 2006, Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This one time, at band camp, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> >Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
> >
> >> I actually remember seeing a procmail rule that did some formail/split
> >> magic
> >> to separate digests into individual mails, some trivial goo
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:44:51PM +1000, James Gregory wrote:
> Since just the other day I've been logging into my Dapper notebook only
> to discover that gnome-panel is "frozen". Doesn't respond to mouse
> clicks etc. I straced it and found out that it's stuck on a futex. On a
> hunch I made a .x
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 10:57:08AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > > I downloaded 6.06 server and installed.
> >
> > Downloading the desktop CD would have been much more efficient. Would have
> > gotten you past the first few steps.
> Jim Mcquellen of http://www.ltsp.org (Mr LTSP) suggested th
On Sun, Jun 04, 2006 at 01:49:56PM +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> On Sunday 04 June 2006 13:13, James Purser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > * This message has been copyrighted by me and is released under CC
> > license in keeping with the philosophy behind the Free and Open Source
> > Software
Since just the other day I've been logging into my Dapper notebook only
to discover that gnome-panel is "frozen". Doesn't respond to mouse
clicks etc. I straced it and found out that it's stuck on a futex. On a
hunch I made a .xsession file that ran
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.2.5 gnome-session
So tha
James,
On 6/4/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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b) I want to run a couple of services. service-admin is no help, but the help
shows more info, that looks promising. Its just not available.
By hand I symlink /etc
Hi
A last request for help:
a) I want to configure my soundcards.
They are there:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# lspci |grep audio
:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER
(ICH5/ICH5R) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)
:02:0c.0 Multimedia audio controller: Creative Labs
Guys I'm trying to mount a webdav directory via the fstab. I've looked
at the man page for fstab & googled it, but cant find a solution..
I need to mount it via fstab as i need/want to select a particular mount
point, and doing it in gnome (via the connect to servers option) doesnt
seem to give
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On 6/4/06, Craige McWhirter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Why not choose one from http://oswd.org/ ?
That's definitely an option if we don't have any submissions. People
are free to adapt existing themes to a style more suitable to SLUG and
submit them too.
Lindsay
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On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 17:07 +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote:
> However, the new site is in need of some love with URLs, content, and theming.
> We also need a new website theme. We're using the phptemplate theming
> engine, so if you've got some mad theming skills we'd love to see
> what you can c
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After months of planning, hacking and setbacks, we've just made the
shift over to the new Drupal-based SLUG website.
The biggest improvements are event management, working iCal/RSS feeds,
and a working user privilege system.
However, the new site is in need of some love with URLs, con
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