Re: [SLUG] Further to the deadly authentication.

On Thu, May 22, 2008, Martin Visser wrote: > My guess is that the mirror process works alphabettically through the > tree, hence .../ubuntu/dists/ /main/ /Packages.* gets > mirrored before .../ubuntu/pool/main/ /*.deb does. Hence there is > a pretty good chance you will be trying to update packages

[SLUG] Question on an update.

I have been requested/advised to upgrade my OS from Feisty Fawn (which works and serves me well) to Hardy Heron. Of which I know 0. Has anybody had any experience with HH? Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Question on an update.

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Has anybody had any experience with HH? I've been running Hardy for a couple of months now. AFAIAC this is one of the best releases since Dapper. Erik -- - Erik de Castro Lopo

Re: [SLUG] Question on an update.

On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:36 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have been requested/advised to upgrade my OS from Feisty Fawn (which > works and serves me well) to Hardy Heron. > > Of which I know 0. Since you are running Feisty you will need to upgrade to Gutsy and then to Hardy (if you were runn

Re: [SLUG] MythTV = Media Centre ++

How does this plug into the TV... if it does? Or do you use a video card like a conexant? Ben Grahame Kelly wrote: Hi Sluggers. In response to several questions on Media Centre (or is that arr.. Media Center) the only way to go is: Myth-Ubuntu downloadable on a single DVD off the net. Sever

Re: [SLUG] Question on an update.

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> Has anybody had any experience with HH? >> > > I've been running Hardy for a couple of months now. AFAIAC this > is one of the best releases since Dapper. > > Erik > I'll second that Hardy Rocks -- In my life God comes firs

Re: [SLUG] MythTV = Media Centre ++

MythTV it appears to be. Thanks the replies Kevin, Richard and Grahame. I s'pose the followup question(s) should be; Which tuner card, video card and composite sound card are the recommended Linux compatible options? The host I plan to put it in/on is a P4 2.4 with 1GB RAM. Presently with a

Re: [SLUG] MythTV = Media Centre ++

On Thursday 22 May 2008 20:08:14 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thanks the replies Kevin, Richard and Grahame. > > I s'pose the followup question(s) should be; > > Which tuner card, video card and composite sound card are the > recommended Linux compatible options? > > The host I plan to put it in/on i

[SLUG] Asus <3 Linux - Linux embedded on EVERY ASUS motherboard

Haven't seen this on the list yet and just found out today: "On Wednesday, DeviceVM, the company behind the distribution, said the hardware manufacturer would be putting Splashtop — which Asus calls "Express Gate" — into a million motherboards a month. Splashtop includes a Firefox-derived browser

Re: [SLUG] Question on an update.

On Thu, 2008-05-22 at 21:34 +1000, Grizzly(Francis Smit) wrote: > I'll second that Hardy Rocks I have had hardy since about January. The only issue I experience is some problems with flash on AMD 64. It seems to work fine now, very occasionally I have to totally log off and log on to clear th

[SLUG] MythTV = Media Centre ++

We use the following configuration(s). Back-ends are: What ever is at hand. I went a four core AMD Phenom 2.4GHz - GA- MA790FX-DQ6 (1.6TB RAID-6) finally [also used as family backup machine] and Lachlan has a dual core Intel variation (straight 0.6TB non-raid) running at 2.6GHz. Lachlan wa

Re: [SLUG] MythTV = Media Centre ++

On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 09:00:43AM +1000, Grahame Kelly wrote: > We use the following configuration(s). > > Back-ends are: [snip] > > Front-ends are: > > Jetway Hybrid J7F2WE1G2E Fanless (and like) > > HYBRID-C7-1.2G Fanless micro-ATX based: > - Manufacturer P/N: J7F2WE1G2E > - 1.2GHz VIA

Re: [SLUG] MythTV = Media Centre ++

This one time, at band camp, Alex Samad wrote: > so how does the setup work, does mythtv transcode everything to mpeg2 ? DVB-t (digital terrestrial) is already MPEG-2, so I doubt he bothers transcoding anything. > I am currently using an xbox with xbmc on it, works well, except for the > newer

Re: [SLUG] MythTV = Media Centre ++

err GULP!!! Ok! Thanks. I'll just walk before I go for the Olympics I think. Kind Regards Kyle Grahame Kelly wrote: We use the following configuration(s). Back-ends are: [snip] Front-ends

Re: [SLUG] MythTV = Media Centre ++

This one time, at band camp, Kyle wrote: > err GULP!!! > > Ok! > > Thanks. I'll just walk before I go for the Olympics I think. For the record, if you're recording DVB-t, you really don't need much CPU grunt in either the back-end or front-end. All it's doing is pullin

[SLUG] RE: update to Hardy

I've been running Kubuntu Hardy for a while now an apart from an early initial problem when some update caused my 10gb "/" partition to fill up ( could never find out why or how), there has only been one unsolved problem since a re-install of the Final release:- THe problem relates to Hardy de

Re: [SLUG] Question on an update.

Harrison Conlin wrote: > On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 8:36 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have been requested/advised to upgrade my OS from Feisty Fawn (which >> works and serves me well) to Hardy Heron. >> >> Of which I know 0. >> > Since you are running Feisty you will need to upgrade

[SLUG] Ubuntu drive designations (Re: update to Hardy)

On Fri, May 23, 2008, bill wrote: > As I often swap drives around this is a real pain. Ideally the system should be using drive UUIDs to identify partitions now rather than the dsXX and hdXX identifiers although I think in some circumstances one might not be able to. Does /etc/fstab look like this