[SLUG] USB speakers play everything but web served files

2008-03-04 Thread Mark
I am running debian and have just managed to stumble my way through getting some USB speakers to work. That is they work for system sounds, CDs, mp3 files but I get no sound from websites, flash files, you tube and the like. I assume I am missing some iceweasel plug in, but everything seems to

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread David Guest
Armin Marth wrote: Exporting patient files, with the patients details (name, DOB, sex, Medicare number, etc.) from HCN's software is possible as they can be exported from the program as a delimited text file (patients.out), but the patient's billing history, etc. cannot be imported into

Re: [SLUG] USB speakers play everything but web served files

2008-03-04 Thread Ian Wienand
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 08:13:41PM +1100, Mark wrote: I assume I am missing some iceweasel plug in, but everything seems to be there any pointers? If you see the video then you've got the flash plugin installed OK. You might like to try installing the pulseaudio sound server (if it's not

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 06:18:21AM +1100, David Guest wrote: Armin Marth wrote: Exporting patient files, with the patients details (name, DOB, sex, Medicare number, etc.) from HCN's software is possible as they can be exported from the program as a delimited text file (patients.out), but

Re: [SLUG] open source management...

2008-03-04 Thread david . lyon
Quoting Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The often touted response to this observation is that I should get into management. As if that is natural career growth path for someone talented in software design and development. Nothing of course could be further from reality. A good geek != a good

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, David Guest wrote: The format for this data is undocumented but should not be too difficult to decipher. It changes from time to time so you are playing samba to HCN's Microsoft. Making assumptions about data, especially something as important to a business as

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, David Guest wrote: The format for this data is undocumented but should not be too difficult to decipher. It changes from time to time so you are playing samba to HCN's Microsoft. Making assumptions about data, especially something as

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On 05/03/2008, Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, David Guest wrote: The format for this data is undocumented but should not be too difficult to decipher. It changes from time to time so you are playing samba to HCN's Microsoft. Making assumptions

Re: [SLUG] Strange behaviour of Samba3 with wireless clients

2008-03-04 Thread jam
On Wednesday 05 March 2008 04:18:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I presume you also setting up bridging between eth1 and ath0 as per http://www.linux.com/feature/55617 (and NOT to eth0) I would assume then you should have an IP address configured on device br0, and this is also the interface ARP

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread Ken Wilson
Marghanita da Cruz wrote: Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, David Guest wrote: The format for this data is undocumented but should not be too difficult to decipher. It changes from time to time so you are playing samba to HCN's Microsoft. Making assumptions about data,

[SLUG] 2008 AGM Annoucement: nominations are open!

2008-03-04 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Dear Sydney Linux Users Group members, This message is to give notice that the Sydney Linux Users Group will hold its Annual General Meeting of Members on Friday March 28th 2008 at 07:00pm EDST at the Atlassian offices, 173-185 Sussex Street, Sydney, NSW, Australia. Members unable to attend the

[SLUG] Nomination: Sridhar Dhanapalan for President

2008-03-04 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
Ok, time to kick off the nominations! I'd like to nominate Sridhar Dhanapalan for the position of President. Although his current position on the committee may be Ordinary Committee Member there is nothing ordinary about what he's acheived - over the last year Sridhar has demonstrated an

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Sridhar Dhanapalan for President

2008-03-04 Thread Zhasper
I second this nomination. On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Lindsay Holmwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, time to kick off the nominations! I'd like to nominate Sridhar Dhanapalan for the position of President. Although his current position on the committee may be Ordinary Committee Member

[SLUG] [ot] Tender for 2 websites

2008-03-04 Thread Richard Hayes
I have been asked to help redevelop 2 websites 1. http://www.kingdompins.com 2. http://www.ecolivingcenter.com.au Who ever wants to tender please call me 0414 618 425. Richard begin:vcard fn:Richard Hayes n:Hayes;Richard org:Nada Marketing adr:;;PO Box 12 ;Gordon;NSW;2072;Australia

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Sridhar Dhanapalan for President

2008-03-04 Thread James Dumay
I also second. I think we are extremely lucky to have a person like Sridhar as a member our community and more so in the role as SLUG president. On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Lindsay Holmwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, time to kick off the nominations! I'd like to nominate Sridhar

[SLUG] Wireless problems: what does RX too short data frame payload mean?

2008-03-04 Thread Mary Gardiner
I upgraded to Ubuntu Hardy on Monday and have spent my time since largely filing bugs against the iwl3945 wireless support (some behaviour, like very buggy support for the physical wireless-off switches that you're meant to use when flying, is a considerable regression over ipw3945 at this time).

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread david varnes
* Armin Marth wrote, On 03/03/08 15:03: [snip] Now, this type of software is the perfect candidate to be on an open platform (which some medical practices use Linux to store a flat-file database on), and with simple google seaches I've found some open-source Medical Billing/Appointment book

[SLUG] do I need /dev/snd for ALSA, if so how to create it ?

2008-03-04 Thread Rod Butcher
greetings from sunny Northmead. Apologies if this is a duplicate, but I didn't receive a copy of my first sending. I've cruised along with a 2.6.18 kernel that I compiled myself, for a while now, on a Gigabtye board with NVidia NForce 430 southbridge, AMD Athlon X2 cpu. For various reasons I've

Re: [SLUG] Wireless problems: what does RX too short data frame payload mean?

2008-03-04 Thread Martin Visser
RX is jargon for receive. I would interpret the error to mean that the device receiving the frame found it to be truncated, that is, it was less than advertised in the header. It is possible this could be simply a physical layer issue, in that it didn't receive the end of the frame, which is

Re: [SLUG] Re: Wireless problems: what does RX too short data frame payload mean?

2008-03-04 Thread Adrian Chadd
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008, Mary Gardiner wrote: Looks like it might be their problem, right now. I'd still like to find out what causes the RX message, as my disk has to wake up all the time to write it out to the logs. There's at least a minimum frame size in Ethernet; I'd not be surprised if

[SLUG] Re: Wireless problems: what does RX too short data frame payload mean?

2008-03-04 Thread Mary Gardiner
Looks like it might be their problem, right now. I'd still like to find out what causes the RX message, as my disk has to wake up all the time to write it out to the logs. -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: