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

2008-01-22 Thread Richard Heycock
Excerpts from Kristian Erik Hermansen's message of Tue Jan 22 05:24:39 +1100 2008: 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

Re: [SLUG] Adding Comic font to Xvfb FC6

2008-01-22 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Peter Rundle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sluggers, Just looking for some info on how to add the ttf comic to FC6 so that Xvfb will use it. The easiest way is to put it into the /home/username/.fonts directory. There are other ways but they're unnecessary unless you want the

[SLUG] Geek Girl Dinners in Sydney

2008-01-22 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Hi all, LinuxChix and others may be interested in this: http://girlgeekdinnerssydney.blogspot.com/ which I found on my friend Damana's blog. Cheers, Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo

[SLUG] Call for the likeminded.. Assistance with Local Linux Distro

2008-01-22 Thread david . lyon
Hello everybody.. I have stumbled into something which I think is too big for me and I am looking to reach out to people who might find some value. By Trade, I am a Programmer/Project Manager. Last year I worked at the Department of Commerce and they were talking about this and that with Open

[SLUG] Re: Printing

2008-01-22 Thread jam
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:00 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why use samba for any of the printing stuff? Cups works perfectly, nicely, properly. I even use cups for windows to print raw to an epson photo printer, the only

Re: [SLUG] Call for the likeminded.. Assistance with Local Linux Distro

2008-01-22 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:27:42PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody.. I have stumbled into something which I think is too big for me and I am looking to reach out to people who might find some value. By Trade, I am a Programmer/Project Manager. Last year I worked at the

Re: [SLUG] Call for the likeminded.. Assistance with Local Linux Distro

2008-01-22 Thread Rick Welykochy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My general observations are: - needs to be debian based - start with an SME server (FileServer 2008) - make it commercially viable and supportable You haven't explained why Australia in particular needs a Linux distro. I am sure many of us on the list (me

Re: [SLUG] Call for the likeminded.. Assistance with Local Linux Distro

2008-01-22 Thread Phil Scarratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everybody.. I have stumbled into something which I think is too big for me and I am looking to reach out to people who might find some value. By Trade, I am a Programmer/Project Manager. Last year I worked at the Department of Commerce and they were talking about

Re: [SLUG] Call for the likeminded.. Assistance with Local Linux Distro

2008-01-22 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Here in Australia, we are so lucky. We have everything. I think we could do a really server based distro for the world stage. having our own distro there is a sensible thing for us to be doing I wonder why you've come to the conclusion that having our own

Re: [SLUG] Call for the likeminded.. Assistance with Local Linux Distro

2008-01-22 Thread Phil Scarratt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I simply use the server version of ubuntu and apt-get any other extras I may or may not need depending on the function of the server. Yes.. but it takes some time to do all that... I guess you are talking about not having to

Re: [SLUG] Call for the likeminded.. Assistance with Local Linux Distro

2008-01-22 Thread Ken Foskey
On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 12:45 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: I wonder why you've come to the conclusion that having our own distribution is the right place to start. :-) Puppet to control the installed software on all those servers springs to mind. Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing