[SLUG] Re: (OT) camcorders & linux - MiniDV vs Hard Disk?

Hi Sonia, I recently bought a Panasonic NV-GS180. Brilliant camera - it has 3 CCDs which give it very impressive poor light performance (I was just demonstrating it to a friend who has a fandoogly Sony and the 'sonic definitely won hands down). I use it with Kino, GIMP, some FFMPEG codes an

[SLUG] GUI batch renaming and renumbering tool

Hi all, Okay, I know some posted a command-line 'how to batch rename/number' some time ago, but I thought I'd post something I just found in Digikam. If you select the photos you wish to rename and/or renumber, you can choose: 'tools > Batch processes > Rename Images' and this allows you

[SLUG] Partitioning

Hi This is driving me up the wossname wall. Any suggestions? Was true for dapper and is true for edgy: I don't like and won't use the default partitioning. On most of my systems it will be (1) 10G /, (2) 1G swap, (3) rest /home To re-install a different distro etc just blot out /. Boot CD. Cho

RE: [SLUG] Spamassassin effectiveness

> -Original Message- > > If you don't see any ham with a score above 5, why not set your reject to > score of 5 or 6? > IMHO its better for a sender to get "Your Mail has been rejected due to > suspected spam", then the email getting lost in the spam box never to be > seen. > > Cheers,

Re: [SLUG] Partitioning

On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:45:02PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > This is driving me up the wossname wall. Any suggestions? Was true for dapper > and is true for edgy: > > I don't like and won't use the default partitioning. On most of my systems it > will be (1) 10G /, (2) 1G swap, (3)

Re: [SLUG] Partitioning

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi This is driving me up the wossname wall. Any suggestions? Was true for dapper and is true for edgy: I don't like and won't use the default partitioning. On most of my systems it will be (1) 10G /, (2) 1G swap, (3) rest /home To re-install a different distro etc

Re: [SLUG] GUI batch renaming and renumbering tool

there is also prefixsuffix and thunar bulk rename in the ubuntu repositories Ken elliott-brennan wrote: Hi all, Okay, I know some posted a command-line 'how to batch rename/number' some time ago, but I thought I'd post something I just found in Digikam. If you select the photos you wish to r

Re: [SLUG] bash problem - renaming files with their time stamp

On Sat, 2007-01-20 at 18:45 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: > > > > So the way around that is, when you hit that problem, replace this: > > > > for file in *; do > > > with this: > > > > ls | while read file; do > > ls? Madness. Use find(1). :-) > Why? does that overcome the bash size limitation?

Re: [SLUG] Spamassassin effectiveness

On 18/01/2007, at 10:18 AM, Phil Scarratt wrote: Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, Scott Ragen wrote: IMHO its better for a sender to get "Your Mail has been rejected due to suspected spam", then the email getting lost in the spam box never to be seen. Except that they d

Re: [SLUG] Spam - use of SPF

On 10/01/2007, at 2:51 PM, Howard Lowndes wrote: Just out of curiosity, and because I am procrastinating about doing something else, I ran a quick analysis across my mail log file to see what the extent of the use of SPF is: pass29517 neutral 30354 softfail31082 none4783 un

[SLUG] Hosed Ubuntu by apt-get upgrade

Yesterday I did an "apt-get update; apt-get upgrade" on my Ubuntu 6 system. Apparently it fiddled with the kernel (I had 2.6.15-26-386 installed and it I think installed 2.6.15-26-686.) I noticed today that it suggested a reboot. I had a look at /boot/grub/menu.lst which had been modified (acco

Re: [SLUG] Partitioning

On 21 Jan, Ken Wilson wrote: > > So far my only solution has been multiple tries, sometimes making entries > > /home /dev/hda3 > > swap /dev/hda2 > > / /dev/hda1 > > > > or swapping the order hda1, hda2, hda3 > > some times deleting hda1 then re-creating it works. > THi