Re: [SLUG] Problems with DVD creation

2010-02-21 Thread Martin Visser
Patrick, You haven't mentioned the format of DVDs you're using. I believe that the general consensus is that DVD-R generally has better compatibility with DVD video players than DVD+R. It could be as simple as this. Also the semi-conductor lasers used in DVD players tend to lose power over

Re: [SLUG] Replacing Mac HDD (was: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?)

2010-02-21 Thread James Gray
On 21/02/2010, at 7:48 AM, elliott-brennan wrote: Alan Tyree wrote: I have an Apple iBook G4 and the hard drive is showing some damage - it is an IDE drive. Would like to replace with something solid state, but don't really know where to start. Cheers, Alan Hi Alan, I didn't see

Re: [SLUG] RAID and LVM

2010-02-21 Thread Matthew Hannigan
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:18:24PM +1100, Nigel Allen wrote: Greetings I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition them. Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly busy machine (mail

[SLUG] Re: Asus EeePC 1005HA

2010-02-21 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Jeff A quick tidbit for anyone who has acquired one of these delightful netbooks: Asus has shipped a few BIOS updates, the most recent of which has improved my wifi performance/reliability considerably. Recommended update. How did you get your machine to install the BIOS update. I've

Re: [SLUG] Re: Asus EeePC 1005HA

2010-02-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Richard Ibbotson How did you get your machine to install the BIOS update. I've found the part about ALT + F2 to start it but can't get the machine to find the USB stick. Do I have to format the USB stick as FAT16 or is just any old file system going to work ? FAT32 should be

Re: [SLUG] Replacing Mac HDD (was: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?)

2010-02-21 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Sun, 21 Feb 2010 19:09:35 +1100 James Gray ja...@gray.net.au wrote: On 21/02/2010, at 7:48 AM, elliott-brennan wrote: Alan Tyree wrote: I have an Apple iBook G4 and the hard drive is showing some damage - it is an IDE drive. Would like to replace with something solid state, but

Re: [SLUG] Replacing Mac HDD (was: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?)

2010-02-21 Thread Mike
Along with ur IDE and sata stuff u should think about I know of a good data transfer program called super duper for mac, it's free and I know it works when transfering from a 250g to 500g for eg. Will transfer ur mbr etc... could suit ur needs On 22/02/2010, at 8:08, Alan L Tyree

Re: [SLUG] Replacing Mac HDD (was: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?)

2010-02-21 Thread Alan L Tyree
On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:24:21 +1100 Mike beatbreake...@gmail.com wrote: Along with ur IDE and sata stuff u should think about I know of a good data transfer program called super duper for mac, it's free and I know it works when transfering from a 250g to 500g for eg. Will transfer ur mbr

Re: [SLUG] RAID and LVM

2010-02-21 Thread Nigel Allen
On 20/02/2010 01:00, Jake Anderson wrote: Nigel Allen wrote: Greetings I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition them. Would I be best using software RAID and LVM? Given that it's a fairly busy machine (mail

Re: [SLUG] RAID and LVM

2010-02-21 Thread Nigel Allen
On 21/02/2010 20:56, Matthew Hannigan wrote: On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 03:18:24PM +1100, Nigel Allen wrote: Greetings I want to set up a pair of 1 TB drives on an HP DL145 G3 and I'm looking for suggestions as to the best way to partition them. Would I be best using software RAID and LVM?

[SLUG] Joomla

2010-02-21 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How do I get a copy of Joomla installed on Ubuntu 9.10? I have downloaded the file package ffom their site, but it is in zip format and gunzip says unknown suffix --ignored and does nothing NOTE: If it is gpl, why is it not in the Ubuntu

[SLUG] Joomla

2010-02-21 Thread Heracles
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Re: [SLUG] Joomla

2010-02-21 Thread Jeremy Visser
On 22/02/10 11:36, Heracles wrote: How do I get a copy of Joomla installed on Ubuntu 9.10? I have downloaded the file package ffom their site, but it is in zip format and gunzip says unknown suffix --ignored and does nothing If it's in zip format, gunzip isn't going to unzip it. You need

[SLUG] Re: Joomla

2010-02-21 Thread Richard Ibbotson
Hi How do I get a copy of Joomla installed on Ubuntu 9.10? I have downloaded the file package ffom their site, but it is in zip format and gunzip says unknown suffix --ignored and does nothing You need to install unzip and p7zip sudo apt-get install p7zip-full rar arj lha unzip Should

Re: [SLUG] Joomla

2010-02-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Heracles NOTE: If it is gpl, why is it not in the Ubuntu repositories? Because no one has packaged it. Probably because no one loves it. (Web stuff is fairly troublesome to package, keep updated and so on -- it ends up being easier to do it manually, sadly. Perhaps one day we'll

Re: [SLUG] cloud / VM storage

2010-02-21 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Del I know that VPS and cloud hosting has been discussed here quite a bit, and on the basis of that discussion we've started using Linode for some virtual services, so thanks for the recommendations for them to those who posted. However storage at Linode is very expensive --

Re: [SLUG] Joomla

2010-02-21 Thread Jeremy Visser
On 22/02/10 12:10, Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who=Heracles NOTE: If it is gpl, why is it not in the Ubuntu repositories? Because no one has packaged it. Probably because no one loves it. (Web stuff is fairly troublesome to package, keep updated and so on -- it ends up being easier to do it

Re: [SLUG] Joomla

2010-02-21 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Jeff Waugh wrote: Because no one has packaged it. Probably because no one loves it. Or more accurately, because noone has packaged it for Debian. The *vast* majority of stuff available for Ubuntu is available because someone packaged it for Debian. I have nothing against Ubuntu, i run it on

Re: [SLUG] Testing glue records

2010-02-21 Thread Ashley Glenday
Thank you all for your help. I've conceded defeat against the registrar with the glue records and I've signed up for custom DNS hosting from dyndns.com. Regards, Ashley Glenday * The time for my yearly haircut is coming around again (March 11th-13th). If anyone wants to sponsor me they can

Re: [SLUG] Joomla

2010-02-21 Thread UnclePete
Several questions here - I've answered them separately for clarity: Q: Why is Joomla! not in the repositories? A: I think it was at one point, but I prefer to install this type of application manually - I've found that patches and critical security stuff take too long to filter through the

Re: [SLUG] Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?

2010-02-21 Thread Terry Dawson
Alan L Tyree wrote: How well does CF work as a hard drive replacement? I see mixed comments when I googled for it. What kind of adaptive gear do you need. I have an Apple iBook G4 and the hard drive is showing some damage - it is an IDE drive. Would like to replace with something solid state,

Re: [SLUG] Joomla

2010-02-21 Thread Mike
I'd have no idea either why it's not in the ubuntu repos, I dunno if u could add something in sources.lst ... Tho that may be changed since I used ubuntu too. Anyway I'm posting cos I stumbled on this before, http://www.turnkeylinux.org/ I think it's ubuntu based, includes joomla, mysql,

Re: [SLUG] Replacing Mac HDD (was: Netbooks .... Again (7 months on) Are you still happy?)

2010-02-21 Thread Mike
Haha sorr I didn't know I'd like to see osx run comftorably on 512mb ram! Nice well good luck with the hdd changeover On 22/02/2010, at 8:36, Alan L Tyree a...@austlii.edu.au wrote: On Mon, 22 Feb 2010 08:24:21 +1100 Mike beatbreake...@gmail.com wrote: Along with ur IDE and sata stuff u