[SLUG] gnome-terminal and bitmap fonts on Ubuntu

2006-06-10 Thread James Gregory
I thought this might help someone else, it's been annoying me for far too long now. I'm quite enamoured with the fonts that xterm uses, but gnome-terminal does some stuff that I'd like from my xterms. Alas gnome-terminal was insistent on anti-aliasing a TrueType fixed-width font. Far too slow and

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu gop tools

2006-06-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
> on my ubuntu test machine I want to use the gop tools (gopchop, gopedit, > gopdit). A reference to the gop tools so we know what you're asking about? :-) - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ "It's my head, Schwartz - it's my head!

[SLUG] ubuntu gop tools

2006-06-10 Thread jam
Hi on my ubuntu test machine I want to use the gop tools (gopchop, gopedit, gopdit). I *think* that I have universe, multiverse, non-free and easyubuntu repositries enabled. I can find NO gop-anythings. Is this me-stupida, or ubuntu does not have and I need to build from source? Thanks James --

Re: [SLUG] server stopped

2006-06-10 Thread Martin Visser
Ashley, Tricky - but as already has been pointed out I would look at memory first (memtest86+), though if it was a proper server, it should have ECC memory which should minimise this risk . Power would be net on the list - some systems have voltage monitoring you can look at - other wise voltmete

Re: [SLUG] USB TV Systems

2006-06-10 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 04:01:51PM +1000, Martin Visser wrote: > Just been playing with the V-Gear PocketDTV made by Asiamajor. Works > very nice, only needed a 8K firmware download, prompted by the the log > [ .. ] Is that this one? http://www.qbik.ch/usb/devices/showdev.php?id=2893 It says no

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu : bypassing fsck when booting on battery

2006-06-10 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Robert Collins wrote: > On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 20:40 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Ok, daughter now in bed, so I can hack and stuff. > > ... > > > My guess at this point would be that on_ac_power is returning 255 during > > > bootup. > > > > Confirmed. > > Time for a bug report I think

Re: [SLUG] server stopped

2006-06-10 Thread Ben Donohue
could be a faulty memory chip. can you remove any and see what happens? Ben Marty Richards wrote: ashley maher wrote: I was happily working (using ssh) on a server and it stopped. Anybody mind guessing where I should look next to find why this thing stopped (Or even suggesting if I

Re: [SLUG] server stopped

2006-06-10 Thread Marty Richards
ashley maher wrote: I was happily working (using ssh) on a server and it stopped. Anybody mind guessing where I should look next to find why this thing stopped (Or even suggesting if I'm looking in the correct places) Next time it stops you might need someone to look at the local

Re: [SLUG] movie not on output vga connector

2006-06-10 Thread Ben Donohue
On laptops (if it is a laptop), you can press the function key along with one of the F control keys and it will cycle through the video on the output connectors. one is screen only, one is external vga only, one is both, and then back to screen only. Look on your keyboard for a function key alon

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu : bypassing fsck when booting on battery

2006-06-10 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 20:40 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Ok, daughter now in bed, so I can hack and stuff. > ... > > My guess at this point would be that on_ac_power is returning 255 during > > bootup. > > Confirmed. Time for a bug report I think ;). I haven't looked closely enough at t