[SLUG] New Epson Stylus Photo 1410 - Linux friendly?

2007-05-24 Thread Mark O'Connor
I am looking for a good quality A3 printer to use with my debian machine. The Epson site does not acknowledge that the new 1410 functions with Linux, and I couldn't find it on www.linuxprinters.org so I am not sure whether to go ahead or not. If anyone has tried it or has any other advice it would

[SLUG] Help with strace - WinDev HyperFile Server

2007-05-24 Thread Simon Wong
Has anyone had any experience with setting up this proprietary database server? http://windev.com/pcsoft/hyperfile.htm Yes, the installation is quite evil with SETUID root daemons even :-( The server starts but seems to die straight away without any reason. Can anyone shed a glimmer of light

RE: [SLUG] New Epson Stylus Photo 1410 - Linux friendly?

2007-05-24 Thread Scott Finneran
Hi Mark, I don't know how different the models are, but I have a PSC 1410 (one of those all-in-one jobs) and it was almost zero setup and works an absolute treat running Ubuntu Fiesty. Cheers, Scott -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Mark O'Connor Sent: Thu

RE: [SLUG] New Epson Stylus Photo 1410 - Linux friendly?

2007-05-24 Thread Visser, Martin
Unfortunately I think this is a case of 'overloading' on model numbers. I think you will find that the PSC 1410 is in fact an HP printer (low-end A4 size all-in-one) not an Epson A3 printer. While I totally concur that adding an HP printer on Linux is pretty painless, the experience might not

Re: [SLUG] Multimedia storage and retrieval

2007-05-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Rick Welykochy I have googled for something in the Open Source world that provides a black box for multimedia storage and retrieval. The purpose of such would be a complete self-contained software unit that can be plugged into applications that wish to manage multimedia content

[SLUG] Multimedia storage and retrieval

2007-05-24 Thread Rick Welykochy
Hello Sluggers, I have googled for something in the Open Source world that provides a black box for multimedia storage and retrieval. The idea is that the black box hides all the gory details of storing (sometimes large) multimedia content such as images, audio and video, indexing same and then

Re: [SLUG] Help with strace - WinDev HyperFile Server

2007-05-24 Thread Ian Wienand
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:45:08AM +1000, Simon Wong wrote: Can anyone shed a glimmer of light on what the strace trace means? clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0xb7da9928) = 19927 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---

Re: [SLUG] Has jabber.org.au gone AWOL?

2007-05-24 Thread James Dumay
Jabber.org.au is one of the most unreliable jabber services on the net - I'm not surprised its down at all. James On 5/25/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was using it earlier today but it now looks as if the DNS has gone walkabout. Doing a default dig for the A record comes back

[SLUG] using apt-cacher in debian install time?

2007-05-24 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi all, We have a CD of Deiban Etch netinst and I've just configured apt-cacher on another debian machine. Now I'd like to force the network install to use apt-cacher but it seems to force me to pick out of a pre-compiled list. Is this possible somehow? (e.g. edit the file containing that list

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] May SLUG Monthly Meeting

2007-05-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 01:53:41PM +1000, Matt Moor wrote: Hi All, Unfortunately Justin is unable to present his talk Building a load-balanced, highly-available web site with Debian, Pound, Apache, Spread and Wackamole. We're currently seeking other speakers on the activities list, so the

[SLUG] Restoring Windows Disaster, but problem with invalid characters

2007-05-24 Thread david
I have a friend's WinXP that has died because of severe viral infection. I'm rebuilding it with the following steps: Boot into Feisty live CD Backup the entire drive to external USB Clean re-install of Windows Install Feisty Boot Feisty Install