[SLUG] Reminder: Sydney Python Meetup, This Thursday July 5

Hi everyone, A quick reminder that our July meeting is this Thursday. 6:15 (for 6:30 start) - 8:30PM Century Software 165 Walker Street North Sydney We will have two presentations: 1. Tim Churches will talk about the NetEpi Project, which is a set of open-source,network-enabled tools for

Re: [SLUG] Possible BIOS problem

Hi Howard, have you tried to reset bios to factory default? Ive also seen before on a machine that had the bios selecting whether it was going to boot from a PCI video or AGP. If set incorrectly you saw the Bios on one screen and then the operating system on the other... same symptoms you see

[SLUG] HDD, new motherboard

Hi SLUG, I have a strange question. Background: Last week my father in-law was having computer problems (as usual), anyway, through a course of different problems; PSU and graphics card. The computer guy offered to replace the MB? Very strange, for FREE! After that he got it home, plugged it

Re: [SLUG] HDD, new motherboard

Hi Scott, I did exactly that with Ubuntu 6.10 a little while back. I replaced a basic AMD 2400+ and MB with a 64 bit AMD 3300+ and had no problems at all. I used the same video card in both instances, so if you are also changing the video card you may have to reinstall your nvidia drivers (if

[SLUG] removing duplicate files

I have a directory tree with a lot of duplicate leaves. The command rm -r junkfile does not work, saying: cannot lstat 'junkfile' I even seeded the root of this tree with one of these files but still the rm command did not recurse. I know the command rm -rf * would get rid of these files with

Re: [SLUG] HDD, new motherboard

My Father in law has a lot of software and important files that he really can't afford to loose or go through re-installing programs. The guy told him a story that in windoze XP you can not just put an old HDD onto a new MB? I offered to call the guy, as I had done this many times when I

Re: [SLUG] HDD, new motherboard

On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 20:24 +1000, Scott Waller wrote: What ever flavour Linux whether Ubuntu or Redhat or Fedora, will this be the same? Could I take the HDD (80 gig about 2 years old) out of my wife's desktop and install it into a brand new computer and still boot up? Would it be better

[SLUG] New message

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Re: [SLUG] What plug is that

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 02:17:26 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: There used to be a web site that told you the wiring for various plug and connectors. Does anyone have it bookmarked? Is pinouts.ru what you're thinking of? Cheers, John -- If they're going to make up their own alphabet, play

Re: [SLUG] removing duplicate files

On 03/07/07, Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a directory tree with a lot of duplicate leaves. The command rm -r junkfile does not work, saying: cannot lstat 'junkfile' Does it give any more information in the error message? Usually such errors are followed by the exact

[SLUG] ISP Rebranding/ Wholesaleing question

Hi, I'm looking for some information on starting an ISP: 1) ISP Upstreams who provide rebranding (must include ADSL). 2) Info on ISP backoffice software as well (radius server, etc). I found eg. http://www.anime.net/linuxisp/Linux-ISP-HOWTO.html but it's from 1995! Did give me a good start to