Re: [SLUG] quiet computer

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Johns
Jeff Waugh wrote: Turns out it's quite scary when the disks go crazy in the dead of night when the TV isn't on. :-) I have found it helps to draw the curtains when there is a full moon. ;) Regards Chris -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] quiet computer

2009-10-06 Thread Matthew Hannigan
If it's mostly the 2am noise that bothers you, the first thing you might try is turn off whatever is scheduled at that time. Popular offenders are prelinking and manpage indexing but there are many other possibilities. Turn them off or move them to say 10am in the morning when no one is around.

Re: [SLUG] quiet computer

2009-10-06 Thread Dean Hamstead
larger fans are quieter than smaller fans, and much cheaper than liquid cooling you can also get extremely large cpu coolers that will reduce noise. Dean Ken Foskey wrote: My computer is too noisy. It is not graphics because it is not used much and when it does there is enough background n

Re: [SLUG] quiet computer

2009-10-06 Thread Jeff Waugh
> My computer is too noisy. It is not graphics because it is not used much > and when it does there is enough background noise. It is the power supply > and cpu fan that kicks in with cron at 2 am in the morning. > > I was thinking about adding fluid cooling, is this worth it or else can I > whe

[SLUG] quiet computer

2009-10-06 Thread Ken Foskey
My computer is too noisy. It is not graphics because it is not used much and when it does there is enough background noise. It is the power supply and cpu fan that kicks in with cron at 2 am in the morning. I was thinking about adding fluid cooling, is this worth it or else can I where can I

Re: [SLUG] django/rails

2009-10-06 Thread Daniel Bush
I'd like to venture something but I can't really because I only know one side of this - ruby/rails. I think you could probably flip a coin and just go with one or the other. It might come down to picking a language. If python grabs you, then django is probably the way to go and vice versa. (If y

Re: [SLUG] MythTV issues

2009-10-06 Thread Jake Anderson
I know its windowsish, but have you tried rebooting? If some of the backend library's get updated when you start myth up again it'll be using the new libs but half the stuff its talking to will be using the old ones and it'll all get horribly screwed up. Meijer, Luke wrote: Hello Hoping som

Re: [SLUG] CodeCon 2009

2009-10-06 Thread Andreas
All right, another exciting CodeCon! I'll be comming up from canberra by train, so if there's anyone who needs a navigator, I'll contribute towards travel costs, and try not to get us lost. ;-) Somewhere in the city would be the best place for a rendezvous, but I can make my way to anywhere with

Re: [SLUG] django/rails

2009-10-06 Thread Nicholas Jefferson
I'm agnostic about ruby/python, although I have a faint feeling that python may be better. In either case I have to learn the language. Hi David, I use both python and ruby, but I prefer ruby. I find it easier to develop code incrementally in ruby because I can extract code into classes or mod

[SLUG] MythTV issues

2009-10-06 Thread Meijer, Luke
Hello Hoping someone is familiar with MythTV. I built a new HTPC box last week and had everything working perfectly. It was a vanilla Ubuntu 9.04 build then I installed MythTV + the avenard repo for the 0.21+fixes and VDPAU support. HDMI video / audio, LCD screen, Shepard EPG and mythweb were

Re: [SLUG] CodeCon 2009

2009-10-06 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Peter Miller wrote: > It's that time of year again, and I'm running another CodeCon. Awesome!! > That's coding and camping, for the uninitiated. I'm initiated!!! > (Btw, who has blog entries for previous CodeCons? I'd like to link.) I have these two: http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/

[SLUG] CodeCon 2009

2009-10-06 Thread Peter Miller
It's that time of year again, and I'm running another CodeCon. That's coding and camping, for the uninitiated. Real tents, no Internet, no phone reception. I do hire a generator, so the laptops still work. This year we return to Olney State Forest, in the NSW Central Coast hinterlands. Last ti

Re: [SLUG] Invision phpBB Site Content ripping

2009-10-06 Thread Daniel Pittman
Amos Shapira writes: > 2009/10/6 Kyle : >> Hi Folks, >> >> how hard/easy would it be to get something written which could log onto one >> IP.Board forum, crawl that site and download the content only, to import >> into another IP.board db? >> >> So users, forums, threads, PM's, user galleries, etc