[SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Sonia Hamilton
What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's Switching to VoIP) talks about a Grandstream Budgetone - what's an Australian equivalent? What about a recommended PCI card so Asterisk can communicate with the POTS? The book

[SLUG] Re: Wireless Mouse keyboard Combo's and Webcam's

2007-01-02 Thread elliott-brennan
Hi Alex, I use a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 (thanks to a swap with Lindsay, our esteemed leader :)) Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:08b2 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Pro 4000 I'm using (K)Ubuntu 6.06 and the repo drivers are great. It works perfectly. I've used it under Ekiga, Qnext, Marratech

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Michael Fox
On 02/01/2007, at 7:38 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's Switching to VoIP) talks about a Grandstream Budgetone - what's an Australian equivalent? You can buy a Grandstream VoIP

[SLUG] Make The Move website launched

2007-01-02 Thread Chris Smart
Dear sluggers, I am a clugger, but wanted to post to the slug list about a new website that I've launched, http://makethemove.net It is a website designed to promote Linux and open source software as viable alternatives to Windows and other computer systems. I don't think it's been discussed on

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 20:47, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/01/2007, at 7:38 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's Switching to VoIP) talks about a Grandstream

[SLUG] Re: Wireless Mouse keyboard Combo's and Webcam's

2007-01-02 Thread Alex Samad
Hi Patrick Thanks for that I will try and track one down Alex On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 08:43:54PM +1100, elliott-brennan wrote: Hi Alex, I use a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 (thanks to a swap with Lindsay, our esteemed leader :)) Bus 001 Device 002: ID 046d:08b2 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:02:27PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: I am looking at going down the same path, looking/playing with asterix. And there seems to be a familiar choice. 1) to either cable every thing back to a PC (make it into a PC/PABX), with digium cards or 2) Buy voip phones, that

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 07:41:57AM +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 20:47, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/01/2007, at 7:38 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk? The book

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Peter Hardy
Sonia Hamilton wrote: What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's Switching to VoIP) talks about a Grandstream Budgetone - what's an Australian equivalent? What about a recommended PCI card so Asterisk can communicate with

Re: [SLUG] Re: Wireless Mouse keyboard Combo's and Webcam's

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 02/01/07, elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alex, I use a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 (thanks to a swap with Lindsay, our esteemed leader :)) I have exactly the same camera (after getting high recommendations for it) and it connects perfectly to my Debian (Sarge and now Etch).

Re: [SLUG] Re: Wireless Mouse keyboard Combo's and Webcam's

2007-01-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 09:06:41AM +1100, Penedo wrote: On 02/01/07, elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Alex, I use a Logitech QuickCam Pro 4000 (thanks to a swap with Lindsay, our esteemed leader :)) A quick peruse of the logitech site, shows that they now have the quickcam

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 10:06:07AM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:02:27PM +1100, Howard Lowndes wrote: I am looking at going down the same path, looking/playing with asterix. And there seems to be a familiar choice. 1) to either cable

Re: [SLUG] Re: Wireless Mouse keyboard Combo's and Webcam's

2007-01-02 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Alex Samad A quick peruse of the logitech site, shows that they now have the quickcam 5000. I am guessing I am not going to run into any gotcha's with this or even any of the other models (they use the same sort of interface to the hardware ie not usb hardware interface, but the

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Dave Airlie wrote: can you send me the full Xorg.0.log, if the Xorg log says you have direct rendering you have a client side problem, which LIBGL_DEBUG=all may help.. I won't send you the Xorg.0.log output just yet because LIBGL_DEBUG=all glxinfo spits out the following: libGL error:

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Peter Hardy
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Anyone know what package provides fglrx_dri.so? Er, do you have xorg-driver-fglrx installed? -- Pete -- 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] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Dave Airlie
I won't send you the Xorg.0.log output just yet because LIBGL_DEBUG=all glxinfo spits out the following: libGL error: dlopen /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed (/usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/fglrx_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone know what package provides fglrx_dri.so? apt-file search fglrx_dri.so should get you the answer (I'm on Debian so can't give a direct answer). Be aware that apt-file doesn't know how to read the multiple files under

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Dave Airlie wrote: It should be in the fglrx package it may be installing it into /usr/lib/dri or some other directory. Bingo! Creating directory /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/ and then ln -s /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri/ fixed it. Thanks Dave (and Jdub). Very

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread jam
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 08:16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's Switching to VoIP) talks about a Grandstream Budgetone - what's an Australian equivalent? What about a

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Penedo wrote: apt-file search fglrx_dri.so should get you the answer (I'm on Debian so can't give a direct answer). Holy shit! I've been using Debian for over 5 years and I didn't even know that the apt-file program existed. Thanks Pendo. Erik --

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread John Ferlito
On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 07:38:26PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I know I don't need both; I want to experiment. I attended the SLUG talk on VoIP - back then a lot of it didn't make sense so I didn't take notes :-) I've finally gotten around to putting up the slides :)

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 10:49 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Penedo wrote: apt-file search fglrx_dri.so should get you the answer (I'm on Debian so can't give a direct answer). Holy shit! I've been using Debian for over 5 years and I didn't even know that the apt-file program existed.

Re: [SLUG] Make The Move website launched

2007-01-02 Thread Mark Chandler
Nice work! I like the snappy title; something I'll be able to remember when talking with potential movers :) Just in case you hadn't seen it, a live Fedora Core 6 CD has been announced on www.fedoraforum.org. I can't vouch for how good it is, but I thought you might want to know for the list

apt-file (was Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper))

2007-01-02 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 1/3/07, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also use 'dpkg -S fglrx_dri.so' 'apt-file' lets you search through packages you haven't installed yet (but are in the relevant apt repositories). I think dpkg -S is only for installed packages? Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Robert Collins wrote: You can also use 'dpkg -S fglrx_dri.so' That I did know of and have been using for many years. One problem with both dpkg -S and apt-file search is that they only work on packages that have actually been installed. When Pendo first mentioned apt-file I thought it was

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread jam
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 09:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apt-file search fglrx_dri.so should get you the answer (I'm on Debian so can't give a direct answer). Holy shit! I've been using Debian for over 5 years and I didn't even know that the apt-file program existed. That is the same

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 1/3/07, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One problem with both dpkg -S and apt-file search is that they only work on packages that have actually been installed. When Pendo first mentioned apt-file I thought it was actually able to find files in packages which weren't installed.

Re: apt-file (was Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper))

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, Steve Lindsay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 1/3/07, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also use 'dpkg -S fglrx_dri.so' 'apt-file' lets you search through packages you haven't installed yet (but are in the relevant apt repositories). I think dpkg -S is only for

[SLUG] Re: apt-file

2007-01-02 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Steve Lindsay wrote: On 1/3/07, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also use 'dpkg -S fglrx_dri.so' 'apt-file' lets you search through packages you haven't installed yet (but are in the relevant apt repositories). I think dpkg -S is only for installed packages? Hmm, I

Re: [SLUG] Re: apt-file

2007-01-02 Thread Steve Lindsay
On 1/3/07, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, I can't get apt-file to work at all: Sorry, I replied in the other thread. You need to run apt-file update. It needs to build up an index of the files in the packages before it works properly. Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Re: apt-file

2007-01-02 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Steve Lindsay wrote: Sorry, I replied in the other thread. You need to run apt-file update. It needs to build up an index of the files in the packages before it works properly. Yeah, just saw that. After and apt-file update I can do this: [EMAIL PROTECTED] dpkg -S FTGlyphContainer.h

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When Pendo first mentioned apt-file I thought it was actually able to find files in packages which weren't installed. Unfortunately this is not the case. From the apt-files package description: Unlike apt-cache, you can search in

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 03 January 2007 09:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apt-file search fglrx_dri.so should get you the answer (I'm on Debian so can't give a direct answer). Holy shit! I've been using Debian for over 5 years and I didn't even know that the apt-file

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I *really* think that you got the wrong end of the stick here. I have been using Debian for over 5 years but had never come across the apt-file command before and was genuinely greatful for Pendos response. No worries. Maybe

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of bona fide curiosity, and without casting opinions, why would I as a home user be interested in any way in VOIP. 1. It's just plain MUCH cheaper even for local calls in Australia (I use iiNet, which isn't the cheapest but that's

Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)

2007-01-02 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Penedo wrote: On 03/01/07, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I *really* think that you got the wrong end of the stick here. I have been using Debian for over 5 years but had never come across the apt-file command before and was genuinely greatful for Pendos

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Peter Hardy
Penedo wrote: 2. I use Skype to call overseas too but Skype requires me to seat in front of my computer to talk to people and we virtually never hear it when people call us (we have headsets both to keep the house quiter and to avoid feedback loops). (Skype is supposed to support having the ring

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Sonia Hamilton
* On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 08:43:43AM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You've got a few options here. [snip] Out of bona fide curiosity, and without casting opinions, why would I as a home user be interested in any way in VOIP. * for calling relatives who are interstate/overseas * like many

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 20:47, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/01/2007, at 7:38 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for

[SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

2007-01-02 Thread Adelle Hartley
Hi, I'm using xubuntu via SSH and the computer keeps turning itself off. Sometimes, /var/log/syslog contains a message about terminating on signal 15, but usually nothing. I don't have any genuine clues as to what is causing the problem. Could this be related to power management? How do I

Re: [SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, Adelle Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using xubuntu via SSH and the computer keeps turning itself off. Sometimes, /var/log/syslog contains a message about terminating on signal 15, but usually nothing. My first suspicion in such cases is the hardware - is the computer

[SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Norman Gaywood
I must be missing something simple. $ mkdir dir $ ln -s dir link $ rm link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rm -f link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rm -rf link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rmdir link/ rmdir: link/: Not a directory $ rm -rf link/. rm:

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Norman Gaywood
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:41:51PM +1100, Simon Males wrote: Been there. rm link No trailing slash. No, that removes the link, not the directory pointed to by the link. Thanks anyway. I must be missing something simple. $ mkdir dir $ ln -s dir link $ rm link/ rm: cannot

Re: [SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

2007-01-02 Thread Carlo Sogono
Adelle Hartley wrote: Hi, I'm using xubuntu via SSH and the computer keeps turning itself off. Sometimes, /var/log/syslog contains a message about terminating on signal 15, but usually nothing. My first question would be: Does it just switch off or do you see some sort of shutdown sequence?

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Simon Males
Been there. rm link No trailing slash. I must be missing something simple. $ mkdir dir $ ln -s dir link $ rm link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rm -f link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rm -rf link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rmdir

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Ken Wilson
An ATA lets u use existing telephones, if you have some that you currently like. For a single line in house something like the sipura 3000 is simple and small and easy Ken Peter Hardy wrote: Sonia Hamilton wrote: What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Simon Males
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:41:51PM +1100, Simon Males wrote: Been there. rm link No trailing slash. No, that removes the link, not the directory pointed to by the link. Thanks anyway. Got a bit to excited. rm -ri `ls -l link | awk -F' ' {'print $11'}` To dynamify it, I present to

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Ershad Shafi Chowdhury
Howard Lowndes wrote: Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Tuesday 02 January 2007 20:47, Michael Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/01/2007, at 7:38 PM, Sonia Hamilton wrote: What are people's recommendations for an ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk? The book I'm reading (OReilly's

RE: [SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

2007-01-02 Thread Adelle Hartley
Penedo wrote: Did the computer work well before and just started to act or is it a new computer/installation? It was working well for more than a month before the problem developed. I tried reinstalling xubuntu from scratch, and it worked for about a week before developing the problem again.

[SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Norman Gaywood
I must be missing something simple. $ mkdir dir $ ln -s dir link $ rm link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rm -f link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rm -rf link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rmdir link/ rmdir: link/: Not a directory $ rm -rf link/. rm:

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread Simon Males
An ATA lets u use existing telephones, if you have some that you currently like. For a single line in house something like the sipura 3000 is simple and small and easy Ken I use an ATA: Linksys PAP2 (which has now been superseded with a model that has the same features as a Sipura 3000).

RE: [SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

2007-01-02 Thread Adelle Hartley
Carlo Sogono wrote: My first question would be: Does it just switch off or do you see some sort of shutdown sequence? My money's on cooling if it just switches off. That seems to be the widespread consensus, and it does just switch off. The amount of time between being switched on and

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 02:41:51PM +1100, Simon Males wrote: Been there. rm link No trailing slash. No, that removes the link, not the directory pointed to by the link. Thanks anyway. Got a bit to excited. rm -ri `ls -l link | awk

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 14:36 +1100, Norman Gaywood wrote: I must be missing something simple. $ mkdir dir $ ln -s dir link $ rm link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rm -f link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rm -rf link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Zhasper
On 1/3/07, Norman Gaywood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must be missing something simple. $ mkdir dir $ ln -s dir link $ rm link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rm -f link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rm -rf link/ rm: cannot remove `link/': Not a directory $ rmdir

Re: [SLUG] recommended ip phone for experimenting with Asterisk?

2007-01-02 Thread jam
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 12:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of bona fide curiosity, and without casting opinions, why would I as a home user be interested in any way in VOIP. 1. It's just plain MUCH cheaper even for local calls in Australia (I use iiNet, which isn't the cheapest but

Re: [SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

2007-01-02 Thread Penedo
On 03/01/07, Adelle Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That seems to be the widespread consensus, and it does just switch off. The amount of time between being switched on and switching itself off ranges from minutes to hours. It's a P3, and isn't supposed to need a fan. The main fan is

Re: apt-file (was Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper))

2007-01-02 Thread Robert Collins
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:26 +1100, Steve Lindsay wrote: On 1/3/07, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also use 'dpkg -S fglrx_dri.so' 'apt-file' lets you search through packages you haven't installed yet (but are in the relevant apt repositories). I think dpkg -S is only

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Norman Gaywood
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 03:20:09PM +1100, Penedo wrote: Sorry Simon, I was going to pass but then I saw readlink(1), so something like: readlink -fe link | xargs -0r rm -rf Should do the trick. Well spotted! I had never noticed readlink before. It will indeed do the trick. Also removes

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/01/07, Penedo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: readlink -fe link | xargs -0r rm -rf Correction to the above - apparently xargs waits for \0 in order to terminate its input, so maybe the following is more appropriate: $ (readlink -fen link ; echo -e \\0) | xargs -0r rm -rf --Amos -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Zhasper
On 1/3/07, Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/01/07, Penedo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: readlink -fe link | xargs -0r rm -rf Correction to the above - apparently xargs waits for \0 in order to terminate its input, Only because you're using the -0 flag. --null, -0

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Amos Shapira
On 03/01/07, Zhasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only because you're using the -0 flag. ... (This is also going to destroy the ability to handle whitespace in filenames though, so you probably don't want to do this.) Correct on both accounts, but this is why I insist on using -0 whenever

Re: [SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

2007-01-02 Thread Joseph Goncalves
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 14:32, Penedo wrote: On 03/01/07, Adelle Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using xubuntu via SSH and the computer keeps turning itself off. Sometimes, /var/log/syslog contains a message about terminating on signal 15, but usually nothing. My first

Re: [SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

2007-01-02 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi Adelle, Could be just a dud power supply... Also sometimes when bits heat up they expand and a connection is broken, power stops, seen it before. Also (might be a bit obvious but hey...) check that the power cable in the power supply is in properly. Might be only just connecting. Try

Re: [SLUG] How do I remove a directory pointed to by a symbolic link

2007-01-02 Thread Norman Gaywood
On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 04:10:45PM +1100, Amos Shapira wrote: On 03/01/07, Zhasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Only because you're using the -0 flag. (This is also going to destroy the ability to handle whitespace in filenames though, so you probably don't want to do this.) Correct on

RE: [SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

2007-01-02 Thread Adelle Hartley
Howard Lowndes wrote: It's a P3, and isn't supposed to need a fan. The main fan is working though. P3s do have a fan on the CPU. You're right. The main fan is the cpu fan. The power supply is external, so there is no fan for it. Anyway, it's not hot. Adelle. -- SLUG - Sydney