[SLUG] Open Source Accountants

As my business is expanding I'm needing to account for things thoroughly, register for GST etc. It seems the options are MYOB and Quicken. I would much prefer to use something open source, but I'm not willing to go down that path without an accountant helping me set things up. Do you know any

[SLUG] ZTE MF626, Ibex Wireless Broadband

Hi, Thanks very much to the gentlemen who helped with my previous question. I've discovered the webpage https://wiki.ubuntu.com/NetworkManager/Hardware/3G which lead me to understand that my USB wireless device is a ZeroCD device, which is seen as usb_storage. This lead me to bug #259028

[SLUG] linksys wireless router

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I have a Linksys wrt54g2 wireless router which plays very happily with the Linksys wmp54g wireless network card under Ubuntu 8.04 with no hassles. Problem 1: (most critical to me as I used WEP rather than WPA because my laptop system did not

[SLUG] sata drive problems - slow load

I installed a very large harddrive today and now everytime I boot I am dropping to a kernel prompt. I have figured out that I need to modprobe sata_via exit It all boots OK but the modprobe takes a huge amount of time. Is there a step that I have not done in setting this up? Is there

Re: [SLUG] sata drive problems - slow load

On 21/11/2008, at 12:08 AM, Ken Foskey wrote: I installed a very large harddrive today and now everytime I boot I am dropping to a kernel prompt. I have figured out that I need to modprobe sata_via exit It all boots OK but the modprobe takes a huge amount of time. Is there a step that

Re: [SLUG] sata drive problems - slow load

Ken Foskey wrote: I installed a very large harddrive today and now everytime I boot I am dropping to a kernel prompt. I have figured out that I need to modprobe sata_via exit It all boots OK but the modprobe takes a huge amount of time. Is there a step that I have not done in setting

Re: [SLUG] Best of breed LDAP/directory servers in 2008?

On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:28:31AM +1100, Jeremy Portzer wrote: Hello, Does anyone have any recent experience with LDAP deployments across reasonably large environments (we have 1000+ hosts)?We use LDAP for traditional Unix host authentication/authorization, as well as various other web

[SLUG] Medical Practice Management Software

Hi There was some talk about this a while back but limited to opensource. I am looking after a small clinic and they have some 3rd party software that works some of the time and can be a real pain to get support on. Its windows based. I thought I would reach out the list, as there seamed to be

Re: [SLUG] Best of breed LDAP/directory servers in 2008?

I imagine in the commercial sphere Novell eDirectory would be the one with the most runs on the board. Regards, Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Jeremy Portzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Does anyone have any recent experience with LDAP deployments across

Re: [SLUG] linksys wireless router

heracles == heracles [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: heracles Hi All, I have a Linksys wrt54g2 wireless router which plays heracles very happily with the Linksys wmp54g wireless network card heracles under Ubuntu 8.04 with no hassles. heracles Problem 1: (most critical to me as I used WEP rather

Re: [SLUG] linksys wireless router

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Peter, Problem solved with the laptop. It turns out that it works if I start the machine with the pcmcia card already inserted. I only have trouble when I insert it after starting up. I'll check out the solution for my other Distros when I get

Re: [SLUG] A command question.

Hi. I beg to differ. 1: its quicker to type fstr HTML '*.php' 2: less (and more) kill the highlighting done by grep 3: grep has to (internally) call the other processes to to the same I am already doing with pipes 4: (overly pedantic): can do more with find grep can ever do and I can

Re: [SLUG] A command question.

quote who=Jobst Schmalenbach 2: less (and more) kill the highlighting done by grep Use less -R and *never* use more! 3: grep has to (internally) call the other processes to to the same I am already doing with pipes No, there's a massive difference between syscalls and forking processes.

[SLUG] Free Computers and Servers

Hi I have the following Equipment for free with 3 Conditions 1) First in first serve 2) you must take the lot (will not split up items). 3) you must collect them by the 6th December 2008, from my hose near Gosford on the Central Coast NSW. 1 x SUN SPARC Server 1000 1 x SUN Enterprise Network

[SLUG] Re: Best of breed LDAP/directory servers in 2008?

Hello. We have some recent experience using Microsoft ADAM. It's not bad at all but in true Microsoft fashion it suffers (from a sysadmin point of view) as a clickety-click black box and not much help when you get into difficulty. The Red Hat DS is based on the iplanet directory server that Sun

Re: [SLUG] Problem with USB ports

On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:54:04 +1100 Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chris Allen wrote: I have a Dell system loaded with Hardy Heron. The screen has 2 USB ports. With Dapper drake they worked just fine. Every time I plugged in a Flash Drive or digital camera, an appropriate Icon

Re: [SLUG] sata drive problems - slow load

Have you tried making a small partition... eg 50GB and letting the rest just spin. See if it is the size of the partition or the size of the disk? Ben Jake Anderson wrote: Ken Foskey wrote: I installed a very large harddrive today and now everytime I boot I am dropping to a kernel prompt. I