[SLUG] changing to Fedora

2006-12-19 Thread Stephen Black
It seems to me that a lot of people on this list think that Fedora/Ubuntu is tops. whereas I have tried Ubuntu, Suse, and I am currently running Mandriva which is supposedly compatable with my hauppage win tv nova-t usb 2.0 if ever I can find the right firmware, which seems to be elusive. Anyhow I

Re: [SLUG] changing to Fedora

2006-12-19 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Stephen Black wrote: > whereas I have tried Ubuntu, Suse, and I am currently running Mandriva > which is supposedly compatable with my hauppage win tv nova-t usb 2.0 if > ever I can find the right firmware, which seems to be elusive. http://linuxtv.org/downloads/firmw

[SLUG] Re: changing to Fedora

2006-12-19 Thread Ben Buxton
> > No reason it won't work with Ubuntu. No idea about Mandriva. > If it doesnt work with Ubuntu, progress should be possible. One of the nice things in their philosophy is that if hardware doesn't work, it's considered a bug, not "unsupported hardware". Also check: http://www.linuxtv.org/v4l

Re: [: Re: [SLUG] how to type £]

2006-12-19 Thread Andreas Fischer
This doesn't really do what your looking for, but a program such as "kcharselect" would be easier to select the pound sign from than searching the web for it I would imagine. On 12/15/06, Alexander Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - Forwarded message from - To: nornagon <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [SLUG] ISP in Sydney? Unwired ?

2006-12-19 Thread Carlo Sogono
Byron Hillis wrote: When it comes to unwired, I have nothing but negative things to say. I would strongly discourage it's use unless you don't mind the following features: - Even though I'm in a good coverage area (Summer Hill), and occasionally get the supposed full signal strength (green li

Re: [SLUG] ISP in Sydney? Unwired ?

2006-12-19 Thread Andreas Fischer
Byron, I've been with unwired for a few years, and although I never new half of what you claim, it definitely falls in line with my experiences. I find their customer support very good compared to other's, but the level of service you get is absolutely terrible for all the reasons Byron has just

[SLUG] Installing DVB Firmware

2006-12-19 Thread Stephen Black
Most importantly I would like to know how do you install firmware for the Win tv nova-t usb 2.0? I have found the firmware and placed it into my /opt directory but don´t know what to do with it. Is the firmware installation the same for all devices? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing Li

Re: [SLUG] Installing DVB Firmware

2006-12-19 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Stephen Black wrote: > Most importantly I would like to know how do you install firmware for > the Win tv nova-t usb 2.0? > I have found the firmware and placed it into my /opt directory but don´t > know what to do with it. > Is the firmware installation the same for al

Re: [SLUG] ISP in Sydney? Unwired ?

2006-12-19 Thread David Lloyd
Carlo, If you're going for ADSL, I give Internode 5 starts for support, service and every other category you can think of. =P How about the "Bad Customer Service Category"? :P DSL -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.o

Re: [SLUG] Something oddball with iptables

2006-12-19 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 10:01:11AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > > > Howard Lowndes wrote: > > > > > >Alex Samad wrote: > >>On Tue, Dec 19, 2006 at 02:17:54PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: > >>>I have a number of iptables rules on my border ppp0 connection that > >>>are designed to collect traff

Re: [SLUG] SPAM is ramping up

2006-12-19 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Howard Lowndes wrote: > The vast majority are coming from 64.62.172.120 > > # whois 64.62.172.120 > [Querying whois.arin.net] > [whois.arin.net] > Hurricane Electric HURRICANE-4 (NET-64-62-128-0-1) > 64.62.128.0 - 64.62.255.255 > Fast