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SLUG Website Codefest
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Start: 2006-11-11 10:00
End: 2006-11-11 16:15
Location: Riley Street, Surry Hills
Get your hands dirty!
The SLUG Website needs a make-over with things such as:
* upgrade drupal, fix iCal, and add modules for online payment on
I have a Dell work station (about 3 years old) with external speakers
and Ubuntu 6.06 installed. The sound through the speakers is very low.
If I turn the volume up to FULL on the screen AND on the the speakers, I
can hear a music CD at a level JUST load enough to be acceptable if
there is there
Actually, the location is in Kippax Street. To all those who RSVP, we
will foward to exact address - it's an awesome venue and we will have
the best time!
Do remember: it's the beginning of carnival time, so bring a funny hat
if you like. We might have a special prize for that! ;-)
Cheers,
Alan L Tyree wrote:
Hi all,
I'm doing a small book that contains lots of black and white drawings.
The final product must be a pdf file, probably produced with LaTeX.
The question is, what format should use I save the scanned grayscale
drawings to get the best output?
It depends on whether
On Mon, 06 Nov 2006 10:11:25 +1100
Michael Lake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan L Tyree wrote:
Hi all,
I'm doing a small book that contains lots of black and white
drawings. The final product must be a pdf file, probably produced
with LaTeX.
The question is, what format should use I
Alan L Tyree wrote:
I started using Lyx because I was hoping that non-computniks would find
it easy to enter some of the text. They did, but in the end it seems to
be up to me.
Therefore, I'm moving to emacs and the standard tetex installation.
Thats generally better. The latex you create will
I'm sure everybody has noticed the massive upsurge in spam over the
last two-three weeks. This increase in volume seems to have begun at
about the end of the NSW school holidays, but I think that their ending
may be more-or-less coincidental.
Just watching the spam arrive, it seems to hit in
This one time, at band camp, Robert Thorsby wrote:
I'm sure everybody has noticed the massive upsurge in spam over the
last two-three weeks. This increase in volume seems to have begun at
about the end of the NSW school holidays, but I think that their ending
may be more-or-less
On 06/11/06, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm not sure the spam has increased, just it's currently able to get
through the filters more. It's an arms race and, at this point in time,
the spammers are winning.
Actually, from having access to the records of a major ISP (though
On 2006.11.06 11:10 Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Robert Thorsby wrote:
I'm sure everybody has noticed the massive upsurge in spam
over the last two-three weeks. This increase in volume seems
to have begun at about the end of the NSW school holidays,
but I think that
According to this article -
http://www.informationweek.com/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1935
01739 the recent sharp increase of spam is due to a couple of new
trojans, one of which uses a peer-to-peer mechanism for it's bots.
My guess is that if the bulk of spam is being sent by
You should also check out bacula http://www.bacula.org which includes
DVD backup in the beta version. It is a bit complex to set up as it
provides full enterprise-level backup. The manual is very extensive,
with lots of examples and there is an active mailing list. I have not
tried the dvd
Excuse my ignorance... but
I've been asked to get a PDA phone for my wife, about which I know
zilch.
Can anyone suggest a retailer in or near the Sydney CBD that actually
doesn't faint when I say the word linux, or alternatively, is there a
model that is just so good that nothing else is
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Silvia,
I'm aiming to be there all day.
Regards,
Ashley
Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
Actually, the location is in Kippax Street. To all those who RSVP, we
will foward to exact address - it's an awesome venue and we will have
the best time!
Do
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:40:14AM +1100, Robert Thorsby wrote:
There is also another new one (which is present on a number of
mailing lists) that commences with an image.
The only ones spamassassin has missed for me lately is a bunch of
stock scam image based ones with random text. I heartily
On 11/6/06, david [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been asked to get a PDA phone for my wife, about which I know
zilch.
Can anyone suggest a retailer in or near the Sydney CBD that actually
doesn't faint when I say the word linux, or alternatively, is there a
model that is just so good that
quote who=david
I've been asked to get a PDA phone for my wife, about which I know zilch.
Can anyone suggest a retailer in or near the Sydney CBD that actually
doesn't faint when I say the word linux, or alternatively, is there a
model that is just so good that nothing else is worth
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 06:32:28PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote:
Luke Kilborn wrote:
Mondo resuce is very good for a disaster recovery backup, and i would
suggest you use it for that situation.
For a day to day backup, try using tar or cpio.
Thanks for taking the trouble to reply, Luke, and
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:10:55AM +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Robert Thorsby wrote:
I'm sure everybody has noticed the massive upsurge in spam over the
last two-three weeks. This increase in volume seems to have begun at
about the end of the NSW school
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:30:51PM +1100, Ian Wienand wrote:
The only ones spamassassin has missed for me lately is a bunch of
stock scam image based ones with random text. I heartily recommend
the FuzzyOcr [1] plugin, which passes images through gocr and picks
out scam words.
I've noticed
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:30:21PM +1100, david wrote:
I've been asked to get a PDA phone for my wife, about which I know
zilch.
I'm going to be /really/ annoying and ask whether
you really need a pda phone :-).
I think most people would be better off with a separate
phone and a PDA. Having a
Jeff Waugh wrote:
You
will deserve all flavours of pain and misery if you give your wife a device
that does not run Palm OS. :-)
Oh really?
What's wrong with my search engine skills?
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=enq=source+code+download+site%3Awww.palm.combtnG=Searchmeta=
What am I
Switched to Ubuntu 6.10 for my Dell 640m laptop and I'm having trouble
with getting the wireless working.
I had to do a text mode install, because the resolution didn't work
and I didn't have the wired lan connected when I did that.
I edited /etc/network/interfaces and added:
auto eth0
iface
quote who=Hal Ashburner
Jeff Waugh wrote:
You will deserve all flavours of pain and misery if you give your wife a
device that does not run Palm OS. :-)
Oh really?
What's wrong with my search engine skills?
Matthew Hannigan wrote:
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 06:32:28PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote:
I made five .isos, each the size of one cd. I tried
to create a single .iso out of the five by using cat, as I'd seen
I dunno how that'd work, but I guess it's possible!
suggested somewhere, but
* On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 12:24:00AM +, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The business gets some 500 spam / day. spamassassin gets about 300-400 (The
spammers are getting really clever).
I suggest you outsource your spam filtering to
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 13:31 +1100, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:30:21PM +1100, david wrote:
I've been asked to get a PDA phone for my wife, about which I know
zilch.
I'm going to be /really/ annoying and ask whether
you really need a pda phone :-).
You can be as
This one time, at band camp, david wrote:
You can be as annoying as you please. I'm hoping that there will be a
really good PDA flame war which will result in my knowing zilch ;-)
You've come to the right place ;)
She has to replace her basic phone, and she is running Ubuntu desktop,
so
On Mon, November 6, 2006 2:36 pm, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Hal Ashburner
Jeff Waugh wrote:
What am I missing in this conversation?
I don't know, and I don't understand your point, either. My comment
suggests that every non-Palm PDA operating system is an exercise in pain.
I made no
On Mon, November 6, 2006 1:31 pm, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 12:30:21PM +1100, david wrote:
I'm going to be /really/ annoying and ask whether
you really need a pda phone :-).
most ppl I know seem to think , yes'
I thought about it, whether I should get a Treo or Palm
On 06/11/06, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is another option. I have a Nokia 6630, though any Symbian
phone should do. It syncs using SyncML to an online calendar service
called Mobical[1]. The synchronisation goes over GPRS, so can be done
anywhere. That way, no need to
Solved:
sudo apt-get install linux-restricted-modules-generic
I also installed network-manager-gnome, which is needed to make things
easy, and a bunch of other stuff, but that probably didn't have much
affect.
The answer was at:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Edgy
Ben
On 11/6/06, Ben
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 02:36:46PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote:
I made five .isos, each the size of one cd. I tried
to create a single .iso out of the five by using cat, as I'd seen
I dunno how that'd work, but I guess it's possible!
Where I read the suggestion (unless, of course, I
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 02:36:11PM +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Hal Ashburner
Jeff Waugh wrote:
You will deserve all flavours of pain and misery if you give your wife a
device that does not run Palm OS. :-)
Oh really?
What's wrong with my search engine skills?
This one time, at band camp, Amos Shapira wrote:
Nice one. Is it practical to transfer photos that way?
Via GPRS? Well, if you've got deep pockets I guess so, though it won't
be super fast. Bluetooth works fine for that.
--
Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.rumble.net
Only one
Matthew Hannigan wrote:
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 02:36:46PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote:
I made five .isos, each the size of one cd. I tried
to create a single .iso out of the five by using cat, as I'd seen
I dunno how that'd work, but I guess it's possible!
Where I
Jeff Waugh wrote:
I don't know, and I don't understand your point, either. My comment suggests
that every non-Palm PDA operating system is an exercise in pain. I made no
reference to FLOSS.
Lemme try again.
What license is Palm OS distributed under?
(And all deserve joy, happiness,
quote who=Hal Ashburner
What license is Palm OS distributed under?
Garnet is not FLOSS at all, but there are plenty of FLOSS development tools
(including compiler) for it. ACCESS Linux Platform will be thoroughly based
on FLOSS (including the GNOME Mobile and Embedded Platform)... but has some
I'm looking for a Gnome terminal emulator with similar features to yakuake:
* rollup/down in response to ` key,
* multiple tabs
* transparency options with several colour scheme choices would be handy.
Ben
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Or just accept that your anti-spam setup is going to get x% of the spam,
and beyond that you're better off putting your efforts into something
else - like learning a decent mail client that allows you to quickly get
rid of any spam that got thru... Did someone say mutt?
Any time a spam strategy
On 11/6/06, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking for a Gnome terminal emulator with similar features to
yakuake:
* rollup/down in response to ` key,
Explain this a little bit better :P
* multiple tabs
GNOME Terminal has this :)
* transparency options with several colour scheme
On 11/6/06, James Dumay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/6/06, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm looking for a Gnome terminal emulator with similar features to
yakuake:
* rollup/down in response to ` key,
Explain this a little bit better :P
In Quake you could hit the ` (back quote) key, or
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