[SLUG] Re: [chat] yet another reason to advocate Linux

2010-04-15 Thread meryl
... the point of the article was that MS Apple are using exploitative child labour in sweatshop conditions. It's an interesting article, well worth the read. Meryl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] yet another reason to advocate Linux

2010-04-15 Thread David Lloyd
Don't let this become a Linux only thing - whether one thinks Free as in FSF, open source as in the OSI or supports proprietary Microsoft...child labour is abhorrent regardless and has nothing to do with the freedom of software. It is, plain and simple, wrong. DSL -Original Message-

Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] yet another reason to advocate Linux

2010-04-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
David Lloyd lloy0...@adam.com.au writes: Don't let this become a Linux only thing - whether one thinks Free as in FSF, open source as in the OSI or supports proprietary Microsoft...child labour is abhorrent regardless and has nothing to do with the freedom of software. It is, plain and

[SLUG] THE PIA wallet

2010-04-15 Thread jam
Guys I've just setup an eeepc for my wife that runs karmic notebook remix Minor fun-n-games to get the wireless to work, but all sorted except this PIA If anybody has wise words it'll save me ages ... Autologin and I get invited to enter the wallet password to enable the wireless. How do I do

Re: [SLUG] THE PIA wallet

2010-04-15 Thread Martin Visser
Interestingly, I just installed Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 2 and if you don't specify a password when asked to store your WPA2 key, it warns you it is storing it insecurely, but then you are done. Regards, Martin martinvisse...@gmail.com On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 7:08 PM, jam j...@tigger.ws wrote:

Re: [SLUG] THE PIA wallet

2010-04-15 Thread Ca'l
? Is the PIA Wallet a Cultural Cache for Pia Waugh ?;) On 15 April 2010 19:08, jam j...@tigger.ws wrote: Guys I've just setup an eeepc for my wife that runs karmic notebook remix Minor fun-n-games to get the wireless to work, but all sorted except this PIA If anybody has wise words it'll

[SLUG] slow webmail

2010-04-15 Thread Voytek Eymont
since yesterday, my Squirrel web mail is extremely slow, often to the point of being unusable other php pages also seem slower than normal html pages seem to be served OK but, Squirrel shows the problem most looking with 'top' over 10 or 15 minutes, cpu oscillates from 0.3 to 30% top -

Re: [SLUG] Re: [chat] yet another reason to advocate Linux

2010-04-15 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
Daniel Pittman wrote: snip Which really sucks, because those conditions *should* not exist, IMO.) snip It may be useful to consider Linux, FOSS and OSS in the context of Peter Singer's 1971 article: Famine, Affluence, and Morality http://www.utilitarian.net/singer/by/1972.htm

Re: [SLUG] slow webmail

2010-04-15 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Fri, April 16, 2010 9:07 am, Aleksey Tsalolikhin wrote: Whoa! You've got 400 MB of swap used. That will slow things down. What's using the memory? (You can get a process listing by memory usage in top; or install htop, it's a bit easier to navigate and prettier.) To sum: reduce memory

Re: [SLUG] slow webmail

2010-04-15 Thread Jobst Schmalenbach
Since squirrelmail needs to access a mailserver (imap) this could be a case of comm problems between the 2. check the logs of the imap server and see whether there are any problems. it surprises me that you have 408572k of swap used this is not a flamebait I know that people like long

Re: [SLUG] slow webmail

2010-04-15 Thread Daniel Pittman
Jobst Schmalenbach jo...@barrett.com.au writes: [...] this is not a flamebait I know that people like long uptimes, but rebooting **DOES** solve some problems cause you have 888 days, have you considered??? /this is not a flamebait It would probably help this suggestion if you provided

Re: [SLUG] slow webmail

2010-04-15 Thread Voytek Eymont
On Fri, April 16, 2010 10:56 am, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote: Since squirrelmail needs to access a mailserver (imap) this could be a case of comm problems between the 2. check the logs of the imap server and see whether there are any problems. it surprises me that you have 408572k of swap used