[SLUG] [ot] StartupCamp Friday 5th Sept 7:00PM until Sunday 7:00PM

2008-08-25 Thread Richard Hayes
Dear List, There fest to create a company in a weekend. Limited spots available. http://www.startup-australia.org/startupweekend What is StartupCamp? It's a get together of people from different disciplines that have an interest in startups and do a complete startup in one weekend. From

[SLUG] procmail guru anyone?

2008-08-25 Thread Nigel Allen
Hi I'm struggling with procmail - as a complete newbie I should add. Basically the pseudo code for what I want is as follows: extract string from header. if length($string) 6 pad $string left spaces to 6; if test -d $string file the email into the folder $string else forward to

[SLUG] Glen Turner : The return of the Walled Garden

2008-08-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
HI all, Glen Turner's blog post tweaked my interest. A bit of Googling showed that Internode is offering IPv6 ADSL connections: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com.au/articles/25688-ANALYSIS-Why-Internode-s-IPv6-product-makes-sense Is anyone using one of the IPv6 enabled Internode

Re: [SLUG] Prefered video card for Linux dual-head?

2008-08-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
jam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Monday 25 August 2008 08:27:55 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My boss bought second-hand extra monitors for all of us and I now need to buy a graphics card which can support dual-head for Debian/Ubuntu (and Windows XP and Vista). Since there are always swings

Re: [SLUG] Glen Turner : The return of the Walled Garden

2008-08-25 Thread Daniel Pittman
Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Glen Turner's blog post tweaked my interest. A bit of Googling showed that Internode is offering IPv6 ADSL connections: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com.au/articles/25688-ANALYSIS-Why-Internode-s-IPv6-product-makes-sense Is anyone

[SLUG] Re: appaling wireless performance [update]

2008-08-25 Thread Richard Heycock
Well I finally got my PCMCIA (Netgear WG511T) back and tried it. Lo and behold it works like a charm, I get a sustained rate of about 2.7MB/sec so it would seem that it really does matter what devices are talking to each other. Thanks to all who responded. rgh -- +61 (0) 410 646 369 [e]:

Re: [SLUG] procmail guru anyone?

2008-08-25 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi Nigel. You could post to the (very active) procmail mailing list. I did some procmail stuff years ago and my experience with the help on that list was very good! hth. Kr. Luke. Nigel Allen wrote: Hi I'm struggling with procmail - as a complete newbie I should add. Basically the

Re: [SLUG] Prefered video card for Linux dual-head?

2008-08-25 Thread Luke Vanderfluit
Hi. Amos Shapira wrote: My boss bought second-hand extra monitors for all of us and I now need to buy a graphics card which can support dual-head for Debian/Ubuntu (and Windows XP and Vista). Since there are always swings around about best linux support which I didn't follow, what's the order

[SLUG] Restricting available visuals in X

2008-08-25 Thread Peter Chubb
Hi, Does anyone know how to restrict the available Visuals in X? I'm attaching a greyscale monitor, and want to exclude everything excet StaticGray. My xorg.conf file sets the default visual correctly; but xdpyinfo (and other applications) see lots of other visuals, attempt to use them,

[SLUG] Flash displays over everything else in webpages on Linux FF

2008-08-25 Thread Scott Ragen
Hi All, I'm a little frustrated by web pages that display flash, and their popup menus that become hidden behind it. I know I could block flash, but I don't always want to do this. I have searched the web and the only solutions I have found are targeted for the web admins, and not the client

[SLUG] The USB2 Problem, amended.

2008-08-25 Thread wbennett
The friend's equipment: Hardy Heron 100GB external hard drive (Seagate) USB2 connection The drive works with Windows, however Hardy won't recognise it. He has a tichier 4GB USB2 drive. Hardy recognises this. Many thanks to those who posted suggestions. Does this alter things? Regards, Bill

Re: [SLUG] The USB2 Problem, amended.

2008-08-25 Thread david
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 10:43 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The friend's equipment: Hardy Heron 100GB external hard drive (Seagate) USB2 connection This probably won't help, but I've given up on external USB drives completely because so many of them simply died on me. I've got four

Re: [SLUG] Flash displays over everything else in webpages on Linux FF

2008-08-25 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Scott Ragen wrote: Hi All, I'm a little frustrated by web pages that display flash, and their popup menus that become hidden behind it. I know I could block flash, but I don't always want to do this. There are things like Adblock Plus which puts a small tab marked block on each picture and

Re: [SLUG] The USB2 Problem, amended.

2008-08-25 Thread Peter Chubb
wbennett == wbennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wbennett The friend's equipment: Hardy Heron 100GB external hard wbennett drive (Seagate) USB2 connection wbennett Many thanks to those who posted suggestions. Does this alter wbennett things? We really need more info to be able to help you.

Re: [SLUG] Prefered video card for Linux dual-head?

2008-08-25 Thread jam
On Tuesday 26 August 2008 10:00:03 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amos Shapira wrote: My boss bought second-hand extra monitors for all of us and I now need to buy a graphics card which can support dual-head for Debian/Ubuntu (and Windows XP and Vista). Since there are always swings around

Re: [SLUG] Glen Turner : The return of the Walled Garden

2008-08-25 Thread Glen Turner
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Is anyone using one of the IPv6 enabled Internode conenctions and care to tell us how it's going? I'm an Internode customer at home (my employer doesn't do domestic premises). So I asked. Internode are currently shipping IPv6 to colocation rack customers. They are

Re:Subject:,[SLUG] Flash displays over everything else in webpages on Linux FF

2008-08-25 Thread bill
Firefox 3.01 and Flashblock 1.5.6 Addon works for me - a bit of a pain at times but at least I decide what Flash I see. Hi All, I'm a little frustrated by web pages that display flash, and their popup menus that become hidden behind it. I know I could block flash, but I don't always want to do

Re: [SLUG] Glen Turner : The return of the Walled Garden

2008-08-25 Thread Robert Collins
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 11:53 +0930, Glen Turner wrote: Tunnel brokers are fine for experimentation. It's nice to see Internode offer one, as the AARNet one is incredibly hammered (the most-heavily used Hexago box in the world). But neither the ISP nor the customer will want tunnels in the

Re: [SLUG] Glen Turner : The return of the Walled Garden

2008-08-25 Thread Dean Hamstead
their traffic is already tunneled, its part and parcel of ADSL. Dean Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 11:53 +0930, Glen Turner wrote: Tunnel brokers are fine for experimentation. It's nice to see Internode offer one, as the AARNet one is incredibly hammered (the most-heavily used

Re: [SLUG] Flash displays over everything else in webpages on Linux FF

2008-08-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Scott Ragen I'm a little frustrated by web pages that display flash, and their popup menus that become hidden behind it. I know I could block flash, but I don't always want to do this. I have searched the web and the only solutions I have found are targeted for the web admins,

Re: [SLUG] Flash displays over everything else in webpages on Linux FF

2008-08-25 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/8/26 Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]: quote who=Scott Ragen I'm a little frustrated by web pages that display flash, and their popup menus that become hidden behind it. I know I could block flash, but I don't always want to do this. I have searched the web and the only solutions I have

Re: [SLUG] Prefered video card for Linux dual-head?

2008-08-25 Thread Amos Shapira
2008/8/25 Dean Hamstead [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I agree with open drivers, but if you are going to go buy an $80 video card and use it right away. The nvidia is the best option. Yes its a binary driver and no there isnt source code, so yes it taints your kernel. But right now, today, nvidia binary