Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-21 Thread Andrew Swinn
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 14:48 +1000, Jeremy Portzer wrote: > You know, in the days of parallel printers it always used to seem really > silly to me that printers never came with interface cables, and they > claimed it was because there were different types of parallel > interfaces, even well after

Re: [SLUG] Linux analogue for Smartboard software.

2007-06-14 Thread Andrew Swinn
William Bennett wrote: Could anyone tell me whether there is software to drive a Smartboard (or any interactive whiteboard, for that matter)? At present, the Smartboard software in my school runs only on Windows and, whilst it works, it still grates to use Windows. Any help, etc. Smartboard

Re: [SLUG] Graphics Card

2007-06-13 Thread Andrew Swinn
Gav wrote: Hi all, Could anyone recommend a low to midrange graphics card for box running Ubuntu Feisty. Want to run applications like 3d Desktop, 3d chess, virtualbox etc. Not really for high end games. Present 32mb matrox card is really struggling. Thanks, Gav I purchased a Chaintech Nvidi

Re: [SLUG] BoM coastal rain radar mashup

2007-06-07 Thread Andrew Swinn
Peter Miller wrote: Hi Sluggers, On a slightly topical note, here is another of my Google Maps mashups, this time BoM rain radar images over google maps (these are rain maps, not cloud maps). Feedback, suggestions, etc, welcome as always. http://miller.emu.id.au/cgi-bin/cgi-map-bom-radar I st

Re: [SLUG] Re: photo/graphics processing SIG anyone?

2007-06-03 Thread Andrew Swinn
David wrote: Dear Slug, Exactly the same position I'm in. Let's keep the conversation going please. There MUST be a need for this sort of thing. If SLUG don't want to do a mailing list I'm quite happy to do one. I'm sick of "shock horror" reaction I get when I say that I refuse to use Photos

Re: [SLUG] Awesome : Eben Moglen : "the be very afraid tour"

2007-05-15 Thread Andrew Swinn
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Its youtube, but highly recommended: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YExl9ojclo Erik Nice. The dodgy camera action is a bit annoying but worth putting up with. Go Eben! Andrew S -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscripti

Re: [SLUG] CUPS Dying

2007-04-24 Thread Andrew Swinn
Trent Murray wrote: Hi all, I'm currently running Ubuntu Feisty and am sharing a HP LaserJet over SAMBA/CUPS to two windows hosts at home. The issue is CUPS dies if the server is left on for several days and I need to reboot before all the jobs that have been sent to the spool actually get sent

Re: [SLUG] Bigpond NextG on Linux (Ubuntu)?

2007-04-19 Thread Andrew Swinn
Robert Thorsby wrote: On 2007.04.19 10:39 Sonia Hamilton wrote: > On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 06:52:40AM +1000, > Robert Thorsby wrote: > Up our way (Mid North Coast) the response has > been universal -- NextG is crap. Most who were > coerced by Telstra into "converting" their mobiles > are trying t

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu server

2007-03-23 Thread Andrew Swinn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi The only way that I've been able to install ubuntu on my pentium-m laptop is this bizare sequence: This lappy installs SuSE 10.2 without any fuss, and as a server seems to run perfectly (with the hand-crafted generic kernel, the server kernel gives a register dump

Re: [SLUG] Microsoft's tool to assess Linux Persona

2007-03-20 Thread Andrew Swinn
d not contracted out. Andrew Swinn --- What you say will be forgotten someday, What you do will be remembered. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: [SLUG] Re: [LINK] Close encounters of a Vista type

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Swinn
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:11:05 pm Adam Todd wrote: > >Under XP, fire it up and look at the properties of the wireless connection > >- simple > > > >Not so with Vista. Does Vista still have a command prompt to get to? In XP a quick 'ipconfig /all' will show the MA

Re: [SLUG] Vista preview on Seven Sunrise

2007-01-28 Thread Andrew Swinn
> Hadn't seen it before, but now I feel dumber for having watched it. Regards, Andrew Swinn -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Dubbo LUG

2007-01-27 Thread Andrew Swinn
. Simon Sutton, if you are still on this list and still located in Dubbo can you drop me a message at andrew 'at' swinndesign.com. Regards, Andrew Swinn -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html