[SLUG] Couple of questions on Audacity.

2007-09-10 Thread wbennett
Is there anyone on SLUG who can answer a couple of questions on Audacity, please? Have the manual, started teaching myself, but there are a couple of queries that are simply not covered. Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Couple of questions on Audacity.

2007-09-10 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Is there anyone on SLUG who can answer a couple of questions on Audacity, please? Have the manual, started teaching myself, but there are a couple of queries that are simply not covered. You're totally welcome to fire off questions to the list straight away --

Re: [SLUG] dvdrip install

2007-09-10 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Kevin Shackleton wrote: Dear SLUG, I'm having difficulties installing dvdrip in FC7. Could not find a repository to make life easy. After working through a practically bottomless list of rpm dependencies I'm still getting problems like: error: Failed dependencies:

Re: [SLUG] AMD Sempron

2007-09-10 Thread Dean Hamstead
did you try another linux dist install cd? how far through does the kernel boot get? Dean On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:10:44 +, Malcolm Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On trying to install an already set-up version of Slackware 11 (it is running in an Athlon XP (761) box), from a bootable

Re: [SLUG] iptables defualt policy

2007-09-10 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 02:42:48PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am just going through my firewall setup and I notice I can no longer do iptables -P INPUT REJECT when did this happen ? I could have sworn that is what I used to use as a

[SLUG] Shopping Cart recommendations - 1 week turnaround

2007-09-10 Thread Zenaan Harkness
Hi, an association I am associated with has recently purchased a 5-year e-commerce hosting account with Melbourne-IT. They provide (by way of referral) an $1800 basic e-commerce website. What recommendations are there for providors of such a site - we need it in the next week (or two max),

Re: [SLUG] iptables defualt policy

2007-09-10 Thread Mark Chandler
Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 02:42:48PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am just going through my firewall setup and I notice I can no longer do iptables -P INPUT REJECT when did this happen ? I could have sworn that is

Re: [SLUG] iptables defualt policy

2007-09-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/09/2007, Mark Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Odd. My recollection was also that REJECT could be used in a policy. However, it seems clear from the man pages and searching around that ACCEPT, DROP, QUEUE, and RETURN are the only options. There are extended targets that include REJECT,

Re: [SLUG] iptables defualt policy

2007-09-10 Thread Amos Shapira
On 10/09/2007, Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iptables -P INPUT REJECT iptables: Bad policy name This complies with what I understand from the man page of iptables 1.3.6(Debian Etch): -P, --policy chain target Set the policy for the chain to the given target. See the section TARGETS

Re: [SLUG] Evolution slowness

2007-09-10 Thread Ken Foskey
On Sat, 2007-09-08 at 07:54 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: Hi all, I have a friend who uses Evolution with spamassassin on an older Ubuntu (Dapper, I think) box. He says that he gets about 150-200 spams a day. Lately, it is **very** slow starting up - like 20 minutes. I notice a huge difference

Re: [SLUG] AMD Sempron

2007-09-10 Thread Malcolm Johnston
On Monday 10 September 2007 07:47, Dean Hamstead wrote: did you try another linux dist install cd? how far through does the kernel boot get? Dean On Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:10:44 +, Malcolm Johnston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On trying to install an already set-up version of Slackware 11

Re: [SLUG] AMD Sempron

2007-09-10 Thread Nick Croft
* Malcolm Johnston ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On trying to install an already set-up version of Slackware 11 (it is running in an Athlon XP (761) box), from a bootable CD-ROM I got the message Kernel Panic and the the machine hung. Does anyone have any idea of why this might be happening. I

[SLUG] Can't access web through Broadband

2007-09-10 Thread mwaldron
G'day Slug, Just upgraded to broadband, and discovered that I can't access the web through my Linux partition. To my disappointment Windows can :-( I can do ftp on Linux, so it must just be some setting somewhere (I hope) I'm a complete novice when it comes to setting up networks, and I'm

[Fwd: Re: [SLUG] dvdrip install]

2007-09-10 Thread Kevin Shackleton
Thanks - ffmpeg does install and works thanks (though I haven't yet tried to play in most people's environment). In fact synaptic might have been enough - I haven't used it before and it found and fixed a stack of broken rpm dependencies. Kevin. You could check out ffmpeg (available via

Re: [SLUG] Can't access web through Broadband

2007-09-10 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Murray, Firstly, go to the System menu then Administration. - From the Administration menu select network. This brings up a dialog with both your ethernet card and modem. select the wired connection (this is eth0 usually) and click properties.

Re: [SLUG] compiliing a qt application

2007-09-10 Thread david
On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 20:04 +1000, Peter Chubb wrote: Running apt-get build-dep will still help, as it installs all the prerequisites for building the package that already exists. I'd expect that the newer package would still need most of these. QT libraries are a bit funny, though, and