[SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 24, Issue 35

2008-01-21 Thread dbmoodb
I have a problem printing from an ubuntu gutsy box. I am trying to print to a scx-4200 printer shared by a debian etch server. My other debian etch computers can all print and two windows xp boxes can as well. However, the ubuntu box does not want to print. I have sudo aa-compain ed about cups,

[SLUG] Problem with new kernel in Ubuntu

2008-01-21 Thread Ken Foskey
My wireless does not work and other random things going wrong. Booting with the old kernel works fine. I have tried the suggestion and also switch APIC and LAPIC around. Any suggestions would be great. [ 35.088301] PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing [ 35.088306] PCI: If a device doesn't work,

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 24, Issue 35

2008-01-21 Thread Melissa Draper
dbmoodb wrote: I have a problem printing from an ubuntu gutsy box. I am trying to print to a scx-4200 printer shared by a debian etch server. My other debian etch computers can all print and two windows xp boxes can as well. However, the ubuntu box does not want to print. I have sudo aa-compain

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 24, Issue 35

2008-01-21 Thread Melissa Draper
Melissa Draper wrote: dbmoodb wrote: turned off apparmor and it still will not work. The error cupsys Whoops, missed this line when reading... :-/ I blame the lack of changing the subject of the email *g* -- Sincerely Melissa Draper http://www.meldraweb.com Phone: 0404 595 395

Re: [SLUG] Problem with new kernel in Ubuntu

2008-01-21 Thread Kelvin Nicholson
Any suggestions would be great. [snip] [ 35.088320] PCI: Cannot allocate resource region 4 of device :00:1d.0 [snip] Maybe isolate exactly what PCI device is acting crazy. Try a 'lspci -vv | more' and look on the left side. What devices come up under 00:1d.0, 00:1d.1, 00:1d.2?

Re: [SLUG] External modem problem

2008-01-21 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Erik, I'll be ringing my daughter (She lives in Sawtell and I am on Lake Macquarie) tomorrow evening and post the output from the wvdial log then. Heracles Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: | On Jan 20, 2008 3:49 PM, Heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3

2008-01-21 Thread Daryl Thompson
Hi I have 287Gb of my music still on an external HD in Windows Wma format in multiply directory's under a top directory of wma i wish to mass convert these files and do a little tidy up on them I have 3 main goals to achaive 1. Converting the wma to mp3 2. Removing the wma after converting 3.

Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3

2008-01-21 Thread Sam Gentle
On Jan 22, 2008 12:59 AM, Daryl Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have 287Gb of my music still on an external HD in Windows Wma format in multiply directory's under a top directory of wma i wish to mass convert these files and do a little tidy up on them I have 3 main goals to achaive

Re: [SLUG] Problem with new kernel in Ubuntu

2008-01-21 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On Jan 21, 2008 2:29 AM, Ken Foskey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My wireless does not work and other random things going wrong. Booting with the old kernel works fine. I have tried the suggestion and also switch APIC and LAPIC around. What was the old kernel and what is the new kernel? Have you

Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3

2008-01-21 Thread Kristian Erik Hermansen
On Jan 21, 2008 5:59 AM, Daryl Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have 287Gb of my music still on an external HD in Windows Wma format in multiply directory's under a top directory of wma i wish to mass convert these files and do a little tidy up on them I have 3 main goals to achaive Have

Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3

2008-01-21 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 01:52:11AM +1100, Sam Gentle wrote: On Jan 22, 2008 12:59 AM, Daryl Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have 287Gb of my music still on an external HD in Windows Wma format in multiply directory's under a top directory of wma i wish to mass convert these

[SLUG] ubuntu: how to enable and start remote desktop via shell?

2008-01-21 Thread Sonia Hamilton
I'm troubleshooting a computer remotely, and I'm trying to work out how to enable and start the Gnome built-in remote desktop. I presume it's using some variant of vnc, but /etc/vnc.conf doesn't seem relevant... -- Sonia Hamilton http://SoniaHamilton.wordpress.com mobile in Mexico:

Re: [SLUG] New in australia

2008-01-21 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 22:10 +1100, Rodolphe wrote: Sonia Hamilton wrote: Hi Rodolphe, welcome to Australia! By gnu/linux compliant internet cafe, what do you mean? That they use Linux on their desktops (I don't know of any), you can use your Linux laptop to connect via ethernet cable

Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3

2008-01-21 Thread Sonia Hamilton
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 01:52 +1100, Sam Gentle wrote: Oh, and as always, man find will bring great enlightenment and happiness. Don't use 'man find' - 'info find' is better. -- Sonia Hamilton http://SoniaHamilton.wordpress.com mobile in Mexico: +52-664-165-6914 (sms's preferred) celular en

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu: how to enable and start remote desktop via shell?

2008-01-21 Thread David Gillies
Sonia Hamilton wrote: I'm troubleshooting a computer remotely, and I'm trying to work out how to enable and start the Gnome built-in remote desktop. I presume it's using some variant of vnc, but /etc/vnc.conf doesn't seem relevant... /usr/lib/vino/vino-server -- dave. -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3

2008-01-21 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Sonia Hamilton wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 01:52 +1100, Sam Gentle wrote: Oh, and as always, man find will bring great enlightenment and happiness. Don't use 'man find' - 'info find' is better. Except that 'info' is such a horrible info reader. You might want to try pinfo instead:

Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3

2008-01-21 Thread Jeremy Portzer
Sonia Hamilton wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 01:52 +1100, Sam Gentle wrote: Oh, and as always, man find will bring great enlightenment and happiness. Don't use 'man find' - 'info find' is better. And if you don't like the emacs-y navigation/keybindings of info - checkout the pinfo client

Re: [SLUG] Re: slug Digest, Vol 24, Issue 35

2008-01-21 Thread david . lyon
I have seen those problems also. If you are certain that you have the correct driver (this must be right) then try supplying a username and password. It is quite possible that 'nobody' doesn't have the correct access with samba for the printer share to be able to print. Within Samba, it

Re: [SLUG] Re: [LINK] Sourcing replacement laptop batteries

2008-01-21 Thread John Clarke
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 09:37:31 +1100, Daryl Thompson wrote: What is the Web address for Global Batteries please? It was in Howard's original email: http://global-batteries.com.au/ Cheers, John -- Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that's not why we're doing it.

[SLUG] Re: Printing

2008-01-21 Thread jam
On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 09:58 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have seen those problems also. If you are certain that you have the correct driver (this must be right) then try supplying a username and password. It is quite possible that

Re: [SLUG] Mass converting Gigabites of wma to mp3

2008-01-21 Thread Rick Welykochy
Daryl Thompson wrote: # # Move the conversion process into a function that can # be called. # The makes it so each step must be successful before No, the will not work as written. It must be used as a conjunction on one command

Re: [SLUG] New in australia

2008-01-21 Thread Peter Hardy
On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 16:17 -0600, Sonia Hamilton wrote: On Mon, 2008-01-21 at 22:10 +1100, Rodolphe wrote: Sonia Hamilton wrote: Hi Rodolphe, welcome to Australia! By gnu/linux compliant internet cafe, what do you mean? That they use Linux on their desktops (I don't know of any),

[SLUG] Adding Comic font to Xvfb FC6

2008-01-21 Thread Peter Rundle
Sluggers, Just looking for some info on how to add the ttf comic to FC6 so that Xvfb will use it. I've inherited a server that is using html2image to generate page images using Xvfb and the resultant images don't look like what the user sees on their desktop because the font comic is