Dear List,
With pages that won't display, I usually test them on the W3C Validation
Checker. Keep in mind that the standard of page writing is pretty bad, and
that products like MS's FrontPage write bad and non-standard code as the
norm. And programmers hate being told their pages have errors ga
Dhanapalan [Yama | http://www.pclinuxonline.com/]
> {GnuPG/OpenPGP: http://dhanapalan.webhop.net/yama.asc
=
Posted by Brian Robson Saturday 12th Nov 2005 at 7:46pm
Re SmartyHost
I have three web sites all running on Smarty Host. The servers are in
California, but you pay to a Melbourne a
Dear Terry,
Nope, this is not Normalisation, although I thought for a minute this might
have been the 4th Normal form. However, it's probably not even a relational
database, just something for research.
By the way, the original paper on data modelling was written 35 years ago.
The fathers of d
Dear Sluggers,
A friend has just emailed me. Can anybody help with this one please?
Brian
So far I've spent 8-10 hours, merely a long day, mucking about with a
recalcitrant Mandrake re-install, and suddenly it came good, marvellous.
At 04:52 AM 17/09/04 +1000, you wrote:
>So LA have a new website. Finally! :)
>http://www.linux.org.au. Any breakages reported would be much
>appreciated!
>Rock on Australia,
>Pia
Dear SLUGs
The idea of having a new website for LA is great, but this new website does
not ROCK at all. It has serio
Hi,
I too have been looking for this new Aussie Linux Magazine in newsagents
without success. Then today bingo. It's a small, plain A5 mag, like those
pocket book guides. It's published by Next and comes with 4 CDs for $16.95.
It's called Australian Linux Journal.
As other have said, linmagau
My ISP has just implemented the new policy of removing all M$ executables.
Zipped files are still ok. The result is heaven; my email downloads much
fazster and the daily viruses have stopped. The idea that .scr and .pif and
.bat files are all executables is farcical. Worse still, many newbies ha
Hi Dan,
Wow, that's amazing that it happened so quickly, and a very annoying hack,
with symptoms the same as a failure to boot correctly. It would have been
worse if you did not find out.
Also, did you surf the net as "root"???
Brian
At 11:4
The same thing happened to me a couple of years ago, I got about 60
undelivered emails returned to me.
Some spammer has picked up a real email address on your domain, or has just
guessed an address like [EMAIL PROTECTED]
All you get are the bounces, so the actual number of emails sent with you as
At 12:46 PM 2/03/03 +1100, you wrote:
>Main story:
>http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_09/b3822601_tc102.htm
>Simon Males ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
This issue of Business Week (dated 3rd March) is in Sydney newsagents right
now. It's worth getting, just to see the artwork of Bill Gates tie
(re-send, i think the first send failed)
At 04:58 PM 2/12/02 +1100, you wrote:
>I have been using HTML tidy from W3C but the Debian package is way out
>of date.
>I was wondering if people could recommend other HTML tidiers and
>validators that they use.
Dear Simon,
Firstly i use the W3C validator
At 04:58 PM 2/12/02 +1100, you wrote:
>Afternoon!
>I have been using HTML tidy from W3C but the Debian package is way out
>of date.
>
>I was wondering if people could recommend other HTML tidiers and
>validators that they use.
Dear Simon,
Firstly i use the W3C validator at least once a week and t
At 07:13 AM 26/09/02 +1000, you wrote:
>Oooh,
>
>NOIE have found their spare socks:
http://www.itnews.com.au/story.cfm?ID=10869
The above is a hopeless, slow-loading graphic-laden web site, a complete
design disgrace and an insult to end users who have to sit there, waiting
and waiting while gr
At 03:53 PM 18/09/02 +1000, you wrote:
>Sluggers,
The Slapper worm is described here, including the files to be removed...
http://www.LinuxWorld.com.au/news.php3?tid=1&nid=1842&enotify=1
Brian.
--
SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/
More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/li
At 08:02 AM 19/08/02 +1000, you wrote:
>Hate to point this out, but two things.
>OpenOffice.org can already handle Word & Excel.
>CxOffice doesn't (yet) handle Access. The fact that nobody else does either
>is beside the point. Problem for me is all my personal financing & budgeting
>is done in Ac
At 12:30 PM 3/08/02 +1000, you wrote:
>Anybody knows about usage of power line as network
>media? What do you think about this device? Has it
>being met in Australia?
>
Actually, the power network in Sydney is a nightmare. High powered audio
tomes are injected into the 240 volt mains to control
At 08:55 PM 25/06/02 +1000, you wrote:
>FWIW
>Normally these emails come from Nigeria and involve a public servant.
>Do not respond to this email as you are very likely to have your bank
>account emptied.
Hey, that's not how it works. This is the protocol...
You send over your account number an
At 02:01 PM 6/05/02 +1000, you wrote:
Hi Mike,
It was working two hours ago, but now it has stopped!!!
Try this one instead, still ok, it has some commentary too...
http://theregister.co.uk/content/4/25157.html
The original, from Google is here until 31/5/02
http://www.sharoncolon.com/l
At 09:49 AM 7/04/02 +1000, you wrote:
>Greatings people,
>
>The Western Sydney Linux User Group is holding it's 2nd meeting on the
>14th of April @ the Richmond Club - Please see our Web site for further
>details if you are interested (www.wslug.org.au)
>Cya There!
Rob.
Hi Rob,
Wow, that loo
I'm running KDE on SUSE and it's all very new to me.
When to go my netscape cache folders, with the KDE file manager, when I
double clicked on a JPG file, it then showed in the KDE viewer.
I have fiddled with the settings and now this has stopped happening. I have
searched high and low and cann
At 01:57 PM 20/01/02 +1100, you wrote:
>This one time, at band camp, Brian Robson wrote:
>>http://www.bbspot.com/News/2001/12/death.html
>>http://www.theonion.com/onion3311/microsoftpatents.html
>
>Uh, you do know that these sites are satirical news sites, and not actual
Dear SLUGGers,
I have collected together all the recent e-mails on "M$ Dirt" into one
posting, with all the links in one batch, below. Hopefully, it is easier to
e-mail the whole lot to your friends (and enemies too).
Brian
===
Anti Microso
At 09:30 AM 16/01/02 +1100, you wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Yesterday I had a "friend" really get stuck into me regarding Linux v
>Microsoft. I am curious does anyone know of a web page or web pages
>which spell out some of the questionable practices of Micosoft over the
>years. I have already seen ww
At 09:02 AM 29/12/01 +1100, you wrote:
fdsfsad
Luke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Just a quick note. I recently read that MMC (MultiMedia Command set)
>compliant CD writers all work perfectly under Linux (but it's hard to
>find out if a model is MMC compliant).
>
>Newer ones tend to be. Well, The
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