Re: [SLUG] MBR, GRUB .. a Capital C with a Cedilla

2006-11-08 Thread Adam Bogacki
Adam Bogacki wrote: Hi, I've recovered a partition to the point where GRUB recognises its fs (FAT), restored the MBR, and written GRUB to it. However, trying to boot it via LILO or GRUB ends up with what AbiWord describes as U+00C7 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER C WITH CEDILLA - something I can't

[SLUG] Re: SA FuzzzyOCR rejection Q

2006-11-08 Thread Ben Buxton
Voytek Eymont wrote: 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,

Re: [SLUG] Re: SA FuzzzyOCR rejection Q

2006-11-08 Thread CaT
On Wed, Nov 08, 2006 at 11:28:07PM +1100, Ben Buxton wrote: Aside from this potentially legitimate concern, it's a great plug. I put it on my server and have had a huge reduction in spam since. How's the CPU load? -- To the extent that we overreact, we proffer the terrorists the

[SLUG] Enabling XTestExtensions

2006-11-08 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, I'm trying to enable the XTestExtension to the standard Xorg server in Ubuntu Dapper. It currently isn't enabled because when I run the xdpyinfo command, in the extentions section I get: number of extensions:32 ATIFGLEXTENSION ATIFGLRXDRI

[SLUG] Setup of acpi to get Suspend/Hibernate Working

2006-11-08 Thread Michael Lake
Hi all I'm having trouble getting my laptop to resume after suspend. It's a Dell Latitude 620 with Intel 945 chipset. I have come across info on how to get suspend to work on this specific model (Ubuntu forum stuff) and its supposed to work 'out-of-the-box' with just minor tweaks to

[SLUG] core 6

2006-11-08 Thread Lloyd Gall
Hey guys. Do you guys mail out fedora core 6 DVD's? Is there a fee involved? Regards Lloyd Gall -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] PDA phones ? Try a customisable open source Linux phone with GPS ..

2006-11-08 Thread Adam Bogacki
Fyi, Adam Bogacki http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35590 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Enabling XTestExtensions

2006-11-08 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to enable the XTestExtension to the standard Xorg server in Ubuntu Dapper. Oops, XTestExtensions are not part of Xorg so I don't need them :-). Erik -- +---+ Erik de Castro Lopo

[SLUG] Job opportunity

2006-11-08 Thread Bobby Alexander
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Re: [SLUG] PDA phones ? Try a customisable open source Linux phone with GPS ..

2006-11-08 Thread Adam Bogacki
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 10:33:36AM +1100 or thereabouts, John wrote: Wow! At last. :-)) No wifi yet but wow! On 11/9/06, Adam Bogacki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fyi, Adam Bogacki http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35590 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] core 6

2006-11-08 Thread Daniel Bush
On 09/11/06, Lloyd Gall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys. Do you guys mail out fedora core 6 DVD's? Is there a fee involved? Regards Lloyd Gall -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html Try

[SLUG] NSLU2 USB Power/Serial Port Board

2006-11-08 Thread Ian Wienand
Hi, A few of the smart cookies at ERTOS/UNSW have designed a great little add-on board for the Linksys NSLU2 (also known as a Slug -- http://www.nslu2-linux.org/). It gives you a serial port, a remote reset and allows the device to be powered over USB -- and it all fits inside the standard case!

Re: [SLUG] core 6

2006-11-08 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Lloyd Gall Do you guys mail out fedora core 6 DVD's? Is there a fee involved? SLUG doesn't, but you might want to check out Everything Linux (elx.com.au). - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2007: Sydney, Australia http://lca2007.linux.org.au/ A narcissist - every inch the

Re: [SLUG] Web based poll/survey software

2006-11-08 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 22:38 +1100, Pia Waugh wrote: PHP Surveyor is pretty good. Also there are good components for both drupal and joomla :) Their demo looks really good. Thanks. http://www.cpsuvic.com/phpsurveyor/index.php?sid=10token= Is it reasonably easy for non-technical people to use?

Re: [SLUG] Web based poll/survey software

2006-11-08 Thread Simon Wong
On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 21:15 +1100, Del wrote: I've used PHPESP in the past and been pretty happy with it. http://www.butterfat.net/wiki/Projects/phpESP/ Thanks, Del. Do you find it's easy for non-technical people to use and setup? -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] create partitions fdisk, no reboot?

2006-11-08 Thread Sonia Hamilton
Is there a way of creating partitions using fdisk, and not having to reboot before creating filesystems on the new partitions? ie getting the kernel to be aware of the new partions. (Apart from using LVM :-) ) -- Sonia Hamilton. GPG key A8B77238. . One OS to rule them all, One OS to find them.

Re: [SLUG] Web based poll/survey software

2006-11-08 Thread Del
Simon Wong wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 21:15 +1100, Del wrote: I've used PHPESP in the past and been pretty happy with it. http://www.butterfat.net/wiki/Projects/phpESP/ Thanks, Del. Do you find it's easy for non-technical people to use and setup? Yes, once it's installed. -- Del

Re: [SLUG] SA FuzzzyOCR rejection Q

2006-11-08 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 01:35:47PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: The spammers must be monitoring this channel. I don't think so, when they could just be subscribed to, say the spamassassin mailing list. http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2006/11/msg00127.html I have just got one

Re: [SLUG] create partitions fdisk, no reboot?

2006-11-08 Thread Scott Ragen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 09/11/2006 03:08:46 PM: Is there a way of creating partitions using fdisk, and not having to reboot before creating filesystems on the new partitions? ie getting the kernel to be aware of the new partions. Does it have to be fdisk? cfdisk is recommended over fdisk

Re: [SLUG] Setup of acpi to get Suspend/Hibernate Working

2006-11-08 Thread Michael Lake
Michael Lake wrote: I'm having trouble getting my laptop to resume after suspend. It's a Dell Latitude 620 with Intel 945 chipset. It does enter suspend, the display fades, hard disk spins down. Pushing the power button momentarily to resume I can see the hard disk light come on but

Re: [SLUG] Antispam Ideas

2006-11-08 Thread Andreas Fischer
I don't know how much spam is getting caught on my local filter (I use gmail), but I find one type of spam is consistently getting through, and that's the spam that has usually a single random word as the subject, an image containing the spam, followed by several lines of random words, and