[SLUG] Can SLUG help i386. For Linux.Conf.Au

2006-11-07 Thread Adam Nelson
Hi I'm was wondering if someone could help me. I'm Adam from i386.tv. I run a little Aussie based vodcast/podcast and currently seeking some assistant/help Heres the deal. : - I'm currently keen on covering Linux.conf.au event in January, - But I lack an interviewers/presenters talent to be o

[SLUG] GNOME multifunction password manager

2006-11-07 Thread Ben
I'm looking for a password manager to run under GNOME with the following features: mandatory: * allows copying of password to clipboard, without showing password on screen (to stop shoulder surfers) highly desirable: * integrates with Firefox to store website passwords, or failing that, another

[SLUG] Sydney.pm Meeting Tonight

2006-11-07 Thread Adam Kennedy
Hi Gang Just a short note to let people know that the monthly Sydney Perlmongers meeting is on tonight. We're meeting up at 6:30pm at the Firehouse Hotel (pub) in North Sydney for a drink or two. http://www.firehousehotel.com.au/2.html Then at about 7pm once everyone is arrived, we'll be t

[SLUG] Can't seem to get DirectoryIndex to work in Apache 2.0

2006-11-07 Thread Michael Lake
Hi all Problem: I can't get http://localhost/kid/ to serve out http://localhost/kid/index in Apache 2.0 Details: I'm having some probs in getting a web application to work on my new Debian box. It worked on my old laptop with Apache 1.3 but my new laptop has Apache 2.0 and many things are qui

Re: [SLUG] Setting the date format in Thunderbird

2006-11-07 Thread elliott-brennan
Hi Dave, Here's mine: ** $ locale LANG=en_AU.UTF-8 LANGUAGE=en_AU:en LC_CTYPE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_AU.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_AU.UTF-8" LC

Re: [SLUG] Has anyone had the idea of making an RSS feed out of email?

2006-11-07 Thread David Gillies
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howard Lowndes wrote: > > > Peter Hardy wrote: >> Howard Lowndes wrote: >>> ...as per the subject >> >> Depends. >> If you're talking about an RSS feed representing the contents of a >> mailbox, gmail does this. From memory, you can get RSS feeds of

Re: [SLUG] apt- bittorrent

2006-11-07 Thread Shehjar Tikoo
Hi all Ken Foskey wrote: I am sure someone has thought about this. The two implementations that I know of, are: 1. apt-torrent: Available at http://sianka.free.fr/. This one seems to be under active development as compared to my work below. I havent gone into much detail with this one, but i

Re: [SLUG] Another anti-spam idea

2006-11-07 Thread Peter Hardy
Michael Brown wrote: On 08/11/06, Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm unplugging my computer RIGHT N Wow, that's really cool. Can you teach me how to send an email character by character right up until the point that I pull the power? I wouldn't have to keep saving my multi page rant

Re: [SLUG] Has anyone had the idea of making an RSS feed out of email?

2006-11-07 Thread Peter Hardy
Howard Lowndes wrote: ...as per the subject Depends. If you're talking about an RSS feed representing the contents of a mailbox, gmail does this. From memory, you can get RSS feeds of arbitrary searches in your gmail inbox, too. -- Pete -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - htt

Re: [SLUG] Has anyone had the idea of making an RSS feed out of email?

2006-11-07 Thread David Gillies
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howard Lowndes wrote: > ...as per the subject Yes http://www.google.com.au/search?q=rss+email - -- dave. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFUSh8hPPdWeHRgaoRAsdcAJ0RQT+P1swp/DcAMe9dnAB8DfPLywCg8iXX Of0kdN4ko0l3

Re: [SLUG] Setting the date format in Thunderbird

2006-11-07 Thread Michael Knight
David Gillies wrote: > Perhaps having "C" might be affecting it. Yeah, I suspect having LC_TIME set to "C" might be the cause of the problem. > $ locale > LANG=en_AU > LC_CTYPE="C" > LC_NUMERIC="C" > LC_TIME="C" > LC_COLLATE="C" > LC_MONETARY="C" > LC_MESSAGES="C" > LC_PAPER="C" > LC_NAME="C" > L

Re: [SLUG] Suspend and IR

2006-11-07 Thread Joseph Goncalves
On Friday 03 November 2006 13:54, Kevin Saenz wrote: > I have gentoo running MythTV, I would like to build suspend into the > kernel and use the USB IR to start up the system. Is this possible? > Or do I have to use some sleep function that is only actioned when > using the power button on the remo

[SLUG] Palm PDA discussion, appendix to

2006-11-07 Thread Voytek Eymont
just FYI, in view of the recent discussion, I though it topical apologies if not Original Message Subject: Correction to PalmSource Newsletter #26 Date:Wed, November 8, 2006 10:40 am ---

Re: [SLUG] Another anti-spam idea

2006-11-07 Thread Michael Brown
On 08/11/06, Peter Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm unplugging my computer RIGHT N Wow, that's really cool. Can you teach me how to send an email character by character right up until the point that I pull the power? I wouldn't have to keep saving my multi page rants for fear of haning t

Re: [SLUG] Setting the date format in Thunderbird

2006-11-07 Thread David Gillies
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Knight wrote: > David Gillies wrote: >> For the life of me I can't find (and I swear I've googled this before to >> no avail) where to set the time/date format in Thunberbird. >> >> Does anyone know how to do this? It seems to completely ignore

[SLUG] SA FuzzzyOCR rejection Q

2006-11-07 Thread Voytek Eymont
I have a user complain valid sender got rejected, mail log says: Nov 3 14:19:17 koala amavis[26922]: (26922-03-3) SPAM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Yes, score=6.941 tag=0.5 tag2=6.31 kill=6.31 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599, EXTRA_MPART_TYPE=1.091, FUZZY_OCR=6.000, HTML_MESSAGE=0.001, HT

Re: [SLUG] Another anti-spam idea

2006-11-07 Thread Peter Hardy
David Lloyd wrote: Jeff, The most annoying anti-spam method in the world. A sure-fire way to not get mail from anyone. If you get *no* e-mail, it follows that you don't get any *spam* e-mail as well... I'm unplugging my computer RIGHT N -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Another anti-spam idea

2006-11-07 Thread David Lloyd
Adam, Any time a spam strategy is predictably imperfect, that is a specific type of spam gets through, you've essentially created a scenario in which you have a strong evolutionary selection towards that type of spam. And so the percentages will start to grow as more spammers use that succe

Re: [SLUG] apt- bittorrent

2006-11-07 Thread Martin Visser
Only the .torrent file needs to be trusted. It contains a SHA-1 hash for each of the pieces it would expect to download. As long as the .torrent is signed by say the Debian or Ubuntu key you should be right. Any pieces sent by bogus seeds will be rejected. It's funny - I was talking about exactly

Re: [SLUG] Another anti-spam idea

2006-11-07 Thread David Lloyd
Jeff, The most annoying anti-spam method in the world. A sure-fire way to not get mail from anyone. If you get *no* e-mail, it follows that you don't get any *spam* e-mail as well... DSL -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] apt- bittorrent

2006-11-07 Thread Michael Lake
Ken Foskey wrote: Why don't we have apt-bittorrent. I would be happy to participate if the setup could be set so I could permanently seed any packages in my package directory with my off-peak data rate and rational throttling. Ubuntu / debian provides the tracker and a seed, and then the swarm

Re: [SLUG] apt- bittorrent

2006-11-07 Thread Morgan Storey
Ken Foskey wrote: > I am sure someone has thought about this. > > Why don't we have apt-bittorrent. I would be happy to participate if > the setup could be set so I could permanently seed any packages in my > package directory with my off-peak data rate and rational throttling. > > Ubuntu / debi

Re: [SLUG] Making Links 2006 Conference

2006-11-07 Thread Pia Waugh
Hi all, > Pia Waugh, Vice President of Linux Australia, will be in attendance. Heh, thanks Mitch :) Yeah Craig, we'll be there with a table talking about Open Source in education. The table we'll be hosting is an ASK-OSS table (which they paid for) as ASK-OSS is a research project specifical

Re: [SLUG] SQL join to most recent log table entry?

2006-11-07 Thread Grant Parnell - slug
On Wed, 8 Nov 2006, Grant Parnell ELX wrote: select itmmaster.id, suppstock.stockavail, suppstock.lastupdated from itmmaster left join suppstock on itmmaster.id = suppstock.id where -- match only latest suppstock entry suppstock.lastupdated = (sel

Re: [SLUG] apt- bittorrent

2006-11-07 Thread Ian Wienand
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 01:02:07AM +1100, Ken Foskey wrote: > I am sure someone has thought about this. Yes, I know Shehjar (cc'd) has thought about it an implemented a version; I'm sure he'd love to talk about it :) -i -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subsc

Re: [SLUG] SQL join to most recent log table entry?

2006-11-07 Thread Grant Parnell ELX
On Tue, 7 Nov 2006, Sam Lawrance wrote: On 07/11/2006, at 10:03 PM, Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote: I've got a couple of tables itmmaster and suppstock. itmmaster contains products, suppstock contains log-like entries of product codes and stock availability and a datetime stamp. I wan

[SLUG] Re:Setting the date format in Thunderbird

2006-11-07 Thread bill
How about:- Edit/Prefs Advanced/General Advanced Config ( Config Editor) "general.useragent.locale" set to AU Hope this helps Bill Subject: Re: [SLUG] Setting the date format in Thunderbird From: Michael Knight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 22:15:54 +1100 To: David Gillies <[EMA

[SLUG] apt- bittorrent

2006-11-07 Thread Ken Foskey
I am sure someone has thought about this. Why don't we have apt-bittorrent. I would be happy to participate if the setup could be set so I could permanently seed any packages in my package directory with my off-peak data rate and rational throttling. Ubuntu / debian provides the tracker and a s

[Fwd: Intellectual property for newbie programmers (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Novell and Microsoft])]

2006-11-07 Thread Phill O'Flynn
Thanks Adam really! It did clarify a few issues for me Regards Phill O'Flynn - Original Message - Subject: Intellectual property for newbie programmers (was Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] Novell and Microsoft]) From: "Adam Kennedy

Re: [SLUG] Web based poll/survey software

2006-11-07 Thread Pia Waugh
Heya, > I am looking for some web based software to run a poll or more of a > survey with multiple questions eg PHP Surveyor is pretty good. Also there are good components for both drupal and joomla :) Cheers, Pia -- Linux Australia http://linux.org.au

Re: [SLUG] SQL join to most recent log table entry?

2006-11-07 Thread Sam Lawrance
On 07/11/2006, at 10:03 PM, Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote: I've got a couple of tables itmmaster and suppstock. itmmaster contains products, suppstock contains log-like entries of product codes and stock availability and a datetime stamp. I want to do a join to select a bunch of pr

Re: [SLUG] Setting the date format in Thunderbird

2006-11-07 Thread Michael Knight
David Gillies wrote: > For the life of me I can't find (and I swear I've googled this before to > no avail) where to set the time/date format in Thunberbird. > > Does anyone know how to do this? It seems to completely ignore the > locale settings of my system (en_AU) and go for en_US. It should b

[SLUG] SQL join to most recent log table entry?

2006-11-07 Thread Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux
I've got a couple of tables itmmaster and suppstock. itmmaster contains products, suppstock contains log-like entries of product codes and stock availability and a datetime stamp. I want to do a join to select a bunch of products along with their most recent stock update entry and was wondering

Re: [SLUG] ICT and the Business of Sustainability - WSITC Quarterly 'Hot Topic' Forum

2006-11-07 Thread James Purser
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 21:37 +1100, Craig Warner wrote: > One final question, the Plural word for a cluster of Linux users is a > Linuxen? I think you'll find its called an argument :) -- James Purser Producer/Presenter - Open Source On The Air A LocalFOSS Production http://www.localfoss.org irc:

[SLUG] ICT and the Business of Sustainability - WSITC Quarterly 'Hot Topic' Forum

2006-11-07 Thread Craig Warner
An interesting forum which offers: * reduce costs and increase profits? * increase efficiencies and competitive advantage? * reduce environmental impact? * tap a critical and growing market? http://interdependent.com.au/wsitc/network/index.cfm?L=122100 One final question,

Re: [SLUG] Web based poll/survey software

2006-11-07 Thread Del
Simon Wong wrote: I am looking for some web based software to run a poll or more of a survey with multiple questions eg Q1 Do you like Pizza? yes/no Q2 What toppings would you like in the future? Q3 Choose your favourite crust. (i) thin (ii) thick (iii) cheesy I