Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Glen Turner
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 10:09 +1000, Michael Lake wrote: > 'Description: The stone put, or clachneart, involves "putting" the stone as > far as > possible. The stone must be put; i.e. like in the shot put; the stone may not > be > thrown from behind like a baseball, underarm like a softball, or o

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Alan L Tyree
> > You are all pussies. When I was a boy, we used to carry our laptops in > backpacks and only complain if they were over 30kg. That didn't > include the tty you had to carry seperately and the spare valves. > I still have my first "portable": IBM twin disk, Compaq clone, about 30lb, cost $340

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Hardy
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 10:09 +1000, Michael Lake wrote: > 'Description: The stone put, or clachneart, involves "putting" the stone as > far as > possible. The stone must be put; i.e. like in the shot put; the stone may not > be > thrown from behind like a baseball, underarm like a softball, or o

[SLUG] SFD celebration in Nepal

2007-09-13 Thread Ekta Silwal
> Hey FOSSians, Here is the link for the SFD celebration in Nepal. http://www.tuxolta.com/wiki/index.php?title=Software_Freedom_Day_2007 -- cheers!! Ekta Silwal -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailing

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
david wrote: You are all pussies. When I was a boy, we used to carry our laptops in backpacks and only complain if they were over 30kg. That didn't include the tty you had to carry seperately and the spare valves. Sounds like you could really have done with Linux, when you were a boy. M -- Ma

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Michael Davies
On 14/09/2007, david <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You are all pussies. Sounds like you might like to have joined this thread (http://www.linuxsa.org.au/pipermail/linuxsa/2007-September/087998.html) then :) -- Michael Davies "Do what you think is interesting, do somthing that [EMAIL PR

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread david
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:58 +1000, Robert Collins wrote: > On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:18 +0930, Michael Davies wrote: > > On 14/09/2007, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > James Dumay wrote: > > > > > > > > > They are not heavy MacBook Pros are. > > > > > > > > Next SLUG m

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Robert Collins
On Fri, 2007-09-14 at 11:18 +0930, Michael Davies wrote: > On 14/09/2007, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > James Dumay wrote: > > > > > > > They are not heavy MacBook Pros are. > > > > > > Next SLUG meeting, how about we compare the weight of your machine against > > > my De

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

2007-09-13 Thread jam
On Friday 14 September 2007 07:54:04 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Don't know if this helps, but I have managed to disable the ADSL   > connection to my windows machine by installing a firewall. Enable it   > and I can't connect to the web, even though firefox is an allowed   > program. When I disable

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
> Bah! According to http://www.apple.com/macbookpro/specs.html and > http://www.apple.com/macbook/specs.html ... All this talk about Apple is making me queasy. I'm going to go and lick a Debian CD. - Jeff -- linux.conf.au 2008: Melbourne, Australiahttp://lca2008.linux.org.au/ ".

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Michael Davies
On 14/09/2007, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > James Dumay wrote: > > > > > They are not heavy MacBook Pros are. > > > > Next SLUG meeting, how about we compare the weight of your machine against > > my Dell or Robert's Dell? > > I challenge you both to a fight with wet newspaper

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

2007-09-13 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I know it is not ideal, but one thing to try is to check with your ISP and get the address of the DNSs. try these in the DNS area of the setup to see if that works. If it does then you will have to edit your dhclient.conf to make them stick. To do this

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
> James Dumay wrote: > > > They are not heavy MacBook Pros are. > > Next SLUG meeting, how about we compare the weight of your machine against > my Dell or Robert's Dell? I challenge you both to a fight with wet newspapers. (MacBook Pros are wrapped in metal. MacBooks are wrapped in plast

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Michael Lake wrote: Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: James Dumay wrote: They are not heavy MacBook Pros are. Next SLUG meeting, how about we compare the weight of your machine against my Dell or Robert's Dell? More fun would be to have a competition with the laptops like the Scottish Highla

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Michael Lake
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: James Dumay wrote: They are not heavy MacBook Pros are. Next SLUG meeting, how about we compare the weight of your machine against my Dell or Robert's Dell? More fun would be to have a competition with the laptops like the Scottish Highland Games. http://www.

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
James Dumay wrote: > They are not heavy MacBook Pros are. Next SLUG meeting, how about we compare the weight of your machine against my Dell or Robert's Dell? Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo --

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Zhasper
According to teh intarwebs, macboocs are about 5 pounds/2.3Kg; Macbook Pros are 5.4 pounds/2.45kg (at least, the latest ones are - I think the prior models were a tad heavier). Jeff specifically mentioned a Dell D420, which according to http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/92149/dell-latitude-d420.html

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

2007-09-13 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 20:53 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a complete novice when it comes to setting up networks, and I'm > running an ADSL router (D-Link 504T) on Ubuntu 6.06LTS (Drapper?). Turning > of my firewall, through Firestarte, doesn't help. I wouldn't have a glue > how to setup th

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread James Dumay
They are not heavy MacBook Pros are. On 9/13/07, Jeff Waugh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > James Dumay wrote: > > > I find my Apple Macbook really excellent. > > > > Me too - mine is a 13" basic white model (Core 2 duo) about a year old > > (which is old now I guess...) and have suspend

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

2007-09-13 Thread Murray
G'day Don't know if this helps, but I have managed to disable the ADSL connection to my windows machine by installing a firewall. Enable it and I can't connect to the web, even though firefox is an allowed program. When I disable it, everything is working again. More head scratching... M

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Glen Turner
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 17:12 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: > I have a G4 12" iBook running Debian Etch. No problems except the modem > doesn't work. I haven't really chased it up much since the rest of it > seems to work well. It is about a year old or so. I doubt if I would > get another one since it

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Glen Turner
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 17:13 +1000, Philip Derrin wrote: > No, you only actually had to install the firmware update that was > released at the same time as Boot Camp, and then use diskutil or > rEFIt's gptsync tool to make the hybrid GPT/MBR partition table. Reformatting disk now :-) Thanks h

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

2007-09-13 Thread Murray
G'day, Thanks for the description, I knew some of it, and this filled in the blanks. The reason I am swapping the phone plug is more laziness, that's the closest connection and I haven't bother to get all the plugs, leads, etc and set it properly yet. (Just moved into our new house, and a

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 16:23:52 +0930 Glen Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 16:47 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Denis Crowdy wrote: > > > > > James Dumay wrote: > > > > I find my Apple Macbook really excellent. > > > > > > Me too - mine is a 13" basic white model (Co

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Philip Derrin
On 13/09/2007, at 16:53, Glen Turner wrote: Unless things have progressed, on my MacBook Pro I needed to install a stupid bootloader/BIOS emulator which reserved half of the hard disk for MacOS. I don't think that's ever been true. The BIOS emulator has nothing to do with partitioning the har

Re: [SLUG] Suspenseful laptops

2007-09-13 Thread Glen Turner
On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 16:47 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Denis Crowdy wrote: > > > James Dumay wrote: > > > I find my Apple Macbook really excellent. > > > > Me too - mine is a 13" basic white model (Core 2 duo) about a year old > > About 2 years ago, i went from a white 13 inch PowerPC i