Re: [SLUG] SLUG Bootcamp, this Saturday!

2007-05-17 Thread Craige McWhirter
. and CiviCRM to manage membershipsand... :) -- Craige McWhirter Managing Director McWhirter [consulting] http://mcwhirter.com.au/ - 0415958783 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] PowerPC, and Sound

2007-05-10 Thread Craige McWhirter
of improvements, particularly in hardware device management. -- Craige McWhirter Managing Director McWhirter [consulting] http://mcwhirter.com.au/ - 0415958783 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Open source groupware solutions

2007-05-08 Thread Craige McWhirter
personally or for a professional office deployment? The answer for IMAP co-existence will be markedly different depending on how the deployment is going to be used. -- Craige McWhirter Managing Director McWhirter [consulting] http://mcwhirter.com.au/ - 0415958783 signature.asc Description

Re: [SLUG] Open source groupware solutions

2007-05-08 Thread Craige McWhirter
with an IMAP account confuses people. I do use the IMAP connection for services such as Blackberry's. -- Craige McWhirter Managing Director McWhirter [consulting] http://mcwhirter.com.au/ - 0415958783 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Doing a demo of Ubuntu at my place of work

2007-04-22 Thread Craige McWhirter
for these products and deriving an income from it. 1 - Open Source Industry Association: http://www.osia.net.au/ -- Craige McWhirter Managing Director McWhirter [consulting] http://mcwhirter.com.au/ - 0415958783 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Open source document/content management system

2007-04-11 Thread Craige McWhirter
to managing documents of many file types, that are worked on in their programme of origin, whereas Drupal and it's collaborative books is better suited content intended to be viewed via a web browser. There are a number of other choices out there too. Hope that helps. -- Craige McWhirter Managing

Re: [SLUG] SCALIX v11

2007-04-10 Thread Craige McWhirter
repository suggestions amongst a raft of other things that need to be done for a successful Scalix install - there are a few hoops to be jumped through. -- Craige McWhirter Managing Director McWhirter [consulting] http://mcwhirter.com.au/ - 0415958783 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

[SLUG] Re: [activities] Call for helpers: Linux Australia stand at Open CeBIT, May 1-3

2007-02-25 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 14:03 +1100, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: CeBIT[1] is on again this year in Sydney in May, from Tuesday the first to Thursday the third. I'm unfortunately away at that time, otherwise I would be there as usual. While I may be absent, my three all-in-one machines are

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

2006-12-17 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Sun, 2006-12-17 at 14:23 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: * On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 02:09:20PM +1100, Michael Kedzierski wrote: having an always-on VPN can be handy. You can also then run Samba filesharing across it, which is handy for transferring files. Even nicer :-) Will add to my todo

Re: [SLUG] howto reverse ssh tunnel?

2006-12-14 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 15:39 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: Is there a way of configuring ssh, so that if someone ssh's into my machine, I can connect back and get into their machine? (Linux to Linux). Have you considered using OpenVPN? -- Cheers, Craige. signature.asc Description: This

Re: [SLUG] Proposed ComputerBank's AGM

2006-12-07 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 18:39 +1100, Grant Parnell - EverythingLinux wrote: One of the things we badly need to do is organise an AGM for ComputerBank NSW and also ComputerBank Sydney. I am putting forward by way of suggestion some dates to hold these AGM's - Sunday the 24th of December or

Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?

2006-11-13 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 17:42 +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: I've found a php module called html2pdf [1] - just wondering if there's a stand alone tool callable from the shell. One solution would be to use html2ps then ps2pdf. I at least use ps2pdf daily and it's a good tool. Hopefully html2ps is

Re: [SLUG] Flash in Firefox

2006-10-16 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 18:21 +1000, Ashley wrote: Anyone know how to get flash to work properly in Firefox. I'm using Ubuntu 6.06. Do you have flashplugin-nonfree installed? If not, install that and re-start Firefox. -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Any chance of the list admin getting spamassassin running?

2006-08-16 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Thu Aug 17, 2006 at 10:54:28 +1000, Christopher Martin wrote: Seems a bit lame for a technical list like this to get spam... If you need any advice I just succeeded in removing spam from our organisation recently, and I am happy to help. You may need to tweak your SPAM rules. I've not

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu startup

2006-07-11 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 09:45 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: What is the recommended way to stop a particular service from starting at boot in Ubuntu? In particular, the pcmcia services are not needed on my desktop. You can use update-rc.d to remove that service from the run level you no longer

Re: [SLUG] Firewall

2006-07-10 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 14:02 +1000, James Gray wrote: If you need to manage multiple firewalls with a consistent policy/framework across multiple platforms (Linux/BSD and even Cisco PIX, Linksys, etc too) then fwbuilder might be another candidate. Fwbuilder is a personal favourite too. I have

Re: Better name for a Deckfest, was Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux Workshop THIS Sunday

2006-07-05 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 20:20 +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: I quite like it. As long as people don't start getting it confused with Solaris Jumpstart, i'm quite happy to use it. :-) The odds of people who need a Linux jumpstart also having heard of Solaris JumpStart would surely have be quite

Re: [SLUG] New SLUG website

2006-06-04 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 17:07 +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: However, the new site is in need of some love with URLs, content, and theming. We also need a new website theme. We're using the phptemplate theming engine, so if you've got some mad theming skills we'd love to see what you can come

Re: [SLUG] ubuntu

2006-06-03 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 21:45 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded 6.06 server and installed. apt-get install ubuntu-desktop Here's your first mistake. You've installed the server version and then tried to turn it into the desktop version. If you're after a desktop environment you've

Re: [SLUG] Gnome Keybinding Volume

2006-06-03 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 12:06 +1000, Phil Scarratt wrote: Just wondering what other people do with their keybinding on Gnome for media keys. I use System - Preferences - Keyboard Shortcuts to set all my media keys. -- Cheers, Craige. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu verses Debian (pure)

2006-06-02 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 10:11 +1000, Russell Davie wrote: Apparently, the first edition of Breezy stored the user password in the install log somewhere on the harddisk. Ouch! It was also fixed in Breezy via a security update. -- Cheers, Craige. signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [SLUG] Re: [activities] fwd: Free BBQ + Microsoft Seminar on Visual Studio 2005 SQLServer 2005

2006-05-29 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2006-05-30 at 06:56 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: So, my suggestion is this. Wait until Dapper is out on CDROM (so we have something to give away) and then have a SLUG Coders day (we can also have a BBQ) at UNSW during the week, during term. We get a room for the full day, and

Re: [SLUG] CMS recommendations

2006-05-28 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2006-05-29 at 11:31 +1000, david wrote: The principle function i'm looking for is an easily navigable/theme-able/menu-able picture gallery - the site is for a photographer - but who knows where a site will end up, so the more the system has got the better. Has anybody got any

Re: [SLUG] metacity popunders

2006-05-17 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2006-05-17 at 09:46 +1000, Peter Miller wrote: Does anyone know how to turn off the metacity pop under behaviour for new windows? If there is a new window opened, I want it on top, not underneath somewhere with a tiny-little-gently-fading in-and-out-thing in the tool bar. Grrr. Have

Re: [SLUG] Open source e-commerce software

2006-05-15 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2006-05-15 at 21:41 +1000, Howard Lowndes wrote: Is there any other open source e-commerce software available other than Interchange (I don't like its tagging ideas, and it doesn't like multi-thread Perl), or osCommerce (not updated since Nov 05 and still requires register_globals,

Re: [SLUG] photo gallery recommendations sought

2006-05-05 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 20:56 +1000, Voytek Eymont wrote: I'm looking for a photo gallery, if anyone has any recomendations, so far I've looked at Coppermine, which actually seems quite good, but, if anyone has other suggestions, I'm interested in hearing Desktop or web based? I'd recommend

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] re-announce: DebSIG Meeting: Wednesday April 12, 2006

2006-04-09 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 12:04 +1000, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: Where: Cohi Bar, 359 Harbourside, Darling Harbour I haven't booked this yet. Does it still need booking? Happy to do so it needs doing. -- Cheers, Craige. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

SLUG Membership [Was: Re: [SLUG] debian vs FC threads]

2006-04-09 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:28 +1000, Peter Rundle wrote: I.E myself and others believe that is the answer to the original question that prompted this thread why is slug membership showing a decline. Thanks for bring us back to this Peter. Grant's original email about declining membership was

Re: Those who do... [Was: [SLUG] Re: 2006 President's Report]

2006-04-06 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 12:09 +1000, Jeff Waugh wrote: I think the thing to take out of this discussion is that it takes a lot of work to build a community, and if you want to get a particular thing out of your community, you need to contribute and work towards it. In 2001 (I think) I wanted to

Re: [SLUG] Re: 2006-2006 President's Report

2006-04-05 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 17:06 +1000, Matt Palmer wrote: The first was incredibly successful The third, which was run just a few weeks ago, was apparently a raging success as well I was at one and three. Both were great. The third one, held a few weekends ago, was the best install fest I've

Re: [SLUG] debian vs FC threads (was: presidents report)

2006-04-05 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 15:58 +1000, Del wrote: * Craige McWhirter (responding to a post about RHCE exams by saying or even better, do the LPI[1] exams. For the sake of issue separation, it's a bit of stretch to bring in my preference for vendor neutral qualifications as anti-RedHat

Re: [SLUG] IBM R32 - can't install any Linux :(

2006-03-30 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 22:09 +1000, David wrote: I'm trying to install a dual boot XP/Ubuntu Breezy on an IBM R32 Thinkpad, bought second hand/refurbished from IBM this week. I freshly installed XP, but Ubuntu hangs during the install at the message: Loading Additional Components

Re: [SLUG] Dapper or Breezy?

2006-03-29 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 08:02 +1000, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: Would it be better if I install Breezy or Dapper for him? Dapper looks like it's close to maturation, Depending on the skills of your friend, this answer can vary :) The safest option, baring a driver requirement is Breezy. He can

Re: [SLUG] ACS FOSS SIG

2006-03-26 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2006-03-27 at 14:09 +1000, Bruce Badger wrote: Details of the time and venue are here: http://tinyurl.com/rwfec Is registering necessary or merely optional? -- Cheers, Craige. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: FW: [SLUG] Fedora Core 5

2006-03-21 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 17:51 +1100, O Plameras wrote: You live in a bubble. You always say you speak for other people, as if you are the only one who can express yourself and not the other persons. There are many people like myself, who are not speaking up because we concur with Jeff's

Re: Distro names for consumers [Was: [SLUG] Re: Interesting view]

2006-03-15 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 16:24 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: I don't know about you, but Ubuntu is distinctive enough to catch my eye, To go a step further than Jeff, for most people I introduce to Ubuntu, the meaning of the name is enough. It is distinctive and unique. Even if it were a terrible

Re: [SLUG] Committee Nomination: Matt Moor

2006-03-12 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 10:17 +1100, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: G'day all, I'd like to nominate Matt Moor for the positions of Secretary and Ordinary Committee Member. Seconded. -- Cheers, Craige. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] Re: Comment from iinet

2006-02-27 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 19:10 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So you're prepaired to lose a customer! I'm not a business customer, I don't want and can't afford business rates ($100+/month) That's unusual, in my experience (not with iinet) business rates are usually significantly cheaper

Re: [SLUG] Re: Comment from iinet

2006-02-27 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 11:58 +1100, James Polley wrote: Nor from any that I've seen.. Perhaps I got lucky but I'm making a significant saving by purchasing under my company name rather than a standard residential ADSL plan. -- Cheeers, Craige. signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: [SLUG] Linuxworld stand for LA!

2006-02-26 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Sun, 2006-02-26 at 21:25 +1100, Pia Waugh wrote: a) wear a penguin suit giving out foo b) stand at a stall for 3/2/1/0.5 days to hand out information about FOSS to people and explain about the community c) help decorate the stand and pull it down afterwards Depending on the date for Linux

Re: [SLUG] Committee nomination: Chris Deigan

2006-02-23 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Thu, 2006-02-23 at 23:21 +1100, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: I'd like to nominate Chris Deigan for a position as an ordinary committee member. Seconded. Good on you Chris. Thanks for Slugging it out with Maddog (no pun intended). :) -- I don't want to see any further services, government

Re: [SLUG] RHCE exams

2006-02-14 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:18 +1100, Michael Fox wrote: I've never done the training, but after all these years of using Linux I am thinking it might be wise to grab a book on the subject and learn what the exam might ask in relation to what I might not know and then attempt the exam and prac

Re: [SLUG] backing with rsync after ssh root disabled: permission denied

2006-02-14 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 23:44 +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote: rsync -avze [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home /home however, that fails as 'myself' has insufficient permissions; What is the precise error message? What are the permissions on /home on both machines? What are the permissions on /home/* on both

Re: [SLUG] website and mailing list issues

2006-02-12 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 10:29 +1100, Jacinta Richardson wrote: I've heard on the grapevine that the issue was related to servers dying, home ADSL links and general relocation, That's the general gist as I understand it. but I was wondering whether more information was available. On the

[SLUG] Annodex Foundation Launch! - Tonight

2005-12-13 Thread Craige McWhirter
The Annodex foundation is being launched tonight: Wednesday, 14th December, 6pm, James Squire Brew House It's inaugural general meeting will be on #anxfoundation on freenode.net; subsequently Foundation Party on #annodex and at the James Squire Brewhouse in Sydney; interim committee will also

[SLUG] lamdaemon.pl Configuration Issues

2005-11-23 Thread Craige McWhirter
Heya SLUGgers. I've been battling lamdaemon.pl recently (part of LDAP Account Manager) and I've not managed to get it to create home directories for users. I've configured LAM with: - the remote host IP - the path to lamdaemon.pl on the remote host Also: - there is an account in LDAP for the LAM

[SLUG] Event: Reclaiming the Commons

2005-10-09 Thread Craige McWhirter
Our very own Sara Kaan and Pia Waugh are speaking at the below forum tomorrow night, I thought this may be of interest to a number of SLUG-gers: Globalisation, Technology Open Source 6.15pm Tuesday 11th October @ Quakers Meeting Hall 119 Devonshire St, Surry Hills (Just up from Central

Re: [SLUG] (no subject)

2005-08-15 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 11:21 +1000, Simon wrote: Our Music dept is wanting to create a track by track database of all their CD's. We are looking for a program that can read the data directly from the CD and add the data to a searchable database that is acccessible to network users. Any ideas?

Re: [SLUG] Next ALJ cover disk

2005-06-14 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:43 +1000, Mark Chandler wrote: So far, we've thought that either a live distro, like Knoppix 3.9, or a full-blown distro, like the latest Debian stable, would make good choices. How about the Ubuntu live CD or the Ubuntu install CD, which IIRC, either one or both also

Re: [SLUG] Next ALJ cover disk

2005-06-14 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 18:01 +1000, Mark Chandler wrote: My main concern with Hoary is that by the time we get it on the mag and on the shelves (probably around September), Breezy will be about to be released and Hoary will be old news. That looks like it may be a recurring problem for

[SLUG] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hack - Thursday 12th May

2005-05-08 Thread Craige McWhirter
The second in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get to Know Your Freedom series is on this Thursday night. When: Thursday, May 12th, 19:00 til 21:30 Where: Corner of Henry and Cook Streets, Turrella, Sydney. ( http://cat.org.au/where.html ) Who: This session is suitable for both complete Linux beginners

Re: [SLUG] CAT Hacks

2005-04-28 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 23:23 +1000, Craige McWhirter wrote: What: We'll be hardware hacking this month, taking to the machines that are in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] room, dis-assembling them then making as many useful machines from them as possible. Great turn out to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hack

[SLUG] CAT Hacks

2005-04-26 Thread Craige McWhirter
Community Activist Technology are holding the first in a series of education nights, allowing people to get hands-on with computer hardware and Free Software over a number of months. When: Thursday, April 28th, 19:00 til 21:30 Where: Turrella (see http://cat.org.au/) What: We'll be hardware

Re: [SLUG] InstallFest: Ubuntu Down Under Love Day

2005-04-23 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Sun, 2005-04-24 at 13:10 +1000, Luke Yelavich wrote: Just wondering whether there will be anybody traveling via public transport to get there, particularly you Lindsay and Chris? If so, perhaps we could arrange to meet up somewhere along the way? I would normally ride my push bike but if

Re: [SLUG] Speaking of wireless...

2005-04-04 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2005-04-05 at 10:03 +1000, Michael Fox wrote: I am about to hook up my WRT to a private nic on my linux box. Then configure VPN server and disable WEP and WPA on WRT. So people will think wow unsecure. But will get no further then my linux box nic, and then i can use it and vpn

[SLUG] Tonight's AGM

2005-03-31 Thread Craige McWhirter
Regrettably I can't make tonight's AGM so I'd like to wish everyone a great night, good luck to people who are standing and welcome to the new committee. Take care :) -- I promise to maintain the current level of real expenditure on Austudy. -- John Howard The Truth: Austudy was cut by $527

[SLUG] AGM - President and Vice President

2005-03-29 Thread Craige McWhirter
Just an FYI, we're 48 hours from an AGM and we have no nominations for President and Vice President of SLUG. Time to put on your thinking caps folks. If you're interested in standing, now's the time to speak up :) -- The Government has decided to commit Australian forces to action to disarm Iraq

[SLUG] Nomination: Ordinary Committee Member

2005-03-23 Thread Craige McWhirter
I'd like to nominate Robert Collins for the role of ordinary committee member. -- Medicare will be retained in its entirety. --John Howard (February 1996) The Truth: The Howard Government abolished the dental plan and bulk billing rates have declined by more than 12 percentage points since

[SLUG] Nomination - Vice President

2005-03-23 Thread Craige McWhirter
I'd like to nominate Sara Kaan for the position of Vice President. Sara is heavily involved in working with Linux in the education sector and would bring excellent organisation skills and a broader Linux community experience to the SLUG committee. In short, I think she'd make a great VP and hope

[SLUG] Nomination: Ordinary Committee Member

2005-03-23 Thread Craige McWhirter
I'm at severe risk of being a serial nominator but I have one last one, I promise (well, I do have two others in mind.). I'd like to nominate Mohammad Kaan for the position of Ordinary Committee member. I think Mohammad has the vision and energy to make a significant contribution to the SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Squid Porn filters

2005-03-22 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 14:27 +1100, Michael Fox wrote: On Wed, 23 Mar 2005 14:24:07 +1100, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of any addon to Squid (probably commercial) that will provide, and more importantly, maintain a database of porn sites that can be blocked.

[SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] SLUG Election status - more nominations needed

2005-03-22 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2005-03-23 at 13:50 +1100, Grant Parnell wrote: * I'd like to hold monthly hands on workshops somewhere - Anyone got a club house with some storage available? Seem me when you're ready to startup. I have two locations and two very different audiences. -- My government will

Re: [SLUG] Wollongong installfest

2005-03-21 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 23:18 +1100, Ashley Maher wrote: The positive results of this installfest means the student society and the IT School are looking at holding a meeting to discuss another installfest. A side benefit is the South Coast Linux User Group mailing list has doubled in

[SLUG] Nomination - Taryn East - Ordinary Committee Member

2005-03-08 Thread Craige McWhirter
I'd like to nominate Taryn East for the role of Ordinary Committee Member. I've not spoken to Taryn about this as I've lost her email address :/ but I'm hoping she won't mind a nomination out of the blue :) Taryn's an active participant on the mailing list and an avid participant around SLUGlets

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Robert Collins

2005-02-28 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 22:06 +1100, Tony Green wrote: Seconded - even if it's just to get Jaq off the hook this year! I'd like to thank Jamie for all the work he's done this year and in previous years in what is the heaviest workload most thankless task. You've done a great job keeping the SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Re: Nomination: Lindsay Holmwood

2005-02-27 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 13:49 +1100, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 00:35:34 +1100 Matthew Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're being nominated for an Ordinary Member position on the committee, not as public officer (as far as I can see). The Public Officer of an association is a

Re: [SLUG] Photos - Feb meeting + codefest

2005-02-27 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 10:43 +1100, Grant Parnell wrote: Just a couple of snaps for those that weren't there. It was a pretty good turnout for the meeting, dinner and the codefest the next day. http://www.arcadia.au.com/slug/ Can we get them on http://slug.org.au/gallery? -- Cheers,

[SLUG] Nomination: Lindsay Holmwood

2005-02-26 Thread Craige McWhirter
I'd like to nominate Lindsay Holmwood for the position of Ordinary Committee Member. Lindsay is full of youth, enthusiasm, has a good head on his shoulders and has already proven his organisational capabilities with Free Software events such as the SLUG - GLUG roadtrips / Free Software roadshows.

[SLUG] Reminder: Code Fest!

2005-02-24 Thread Craige McWhirter
http://debian.slug.org.au/events/detail.html?id=176 When: Saturday, February 26, 10:00am - 11:59pm Where: Tranby Aboriginal College 13 Mansfield St Glebe (15 minute walk from Central or catch the 431 to the corner of Glebe Point and Wigram roads.) The beautiful surrounds of

Re: [SLUG] Re: Reminder: Code Fest!

2005-02-24 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 11:00 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 10:43:23AM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: (15 minute walk from Central or catch the 431 to the corner of Glebe Point and Wigram roads.) Which bus depot does the 431 run from? Anywhere on George St (which includes

Re: [SLUG] Nomination: Chris Deigan

2005-02-23 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 12:40 +1100, Jeff Waugh wrote: For tradition's sake, and recognition of another year's excellent service to SLUG, I nominate Chris Deigan for honourary membership of the SLUG committee Seconded. Keep up the great work Chris! -- Cheers, Craige -- SLUG - Sydney

[SLUG] FYI: Campaign of Mis-Information

2005-02-14 Thread Craige McWhirter
and watering down has commenced again in earnest in regards to the looming FTA agreement and changes that will be brought before parliament when the new Howard controlled senate sits in July. This time it is News Corp who've started by planting some fuzzy feel-good pieces in the Sydney Morning

Re: [SLUG] Digital TV Tuner Cards On Linux?

2005-02-10 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Fri, 2005-02-11 at 15:41 +1100, Michael Fox wrote: Buy a set top box and forgot about the tinkering side of things... my topfield works a treat.. Not so great if you either: a) want to tinker b) don't have a TV ;) -- Cheers, Craige. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Work For The Dole, Open-source Project: Flexible Bus Service

2005-01-24 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 18:25 +1100, Doug Foskey wrote: Anyway, I will be at the Slug meeting on Friday, So would welcome discussion. See you there. It would be good to cover the looming SLUG roadshow to Lismore, pencilled in for March. See if we can't encourage more people to be involved. :)

[SLUG] A New Linux User Is Born

2005-01-13 Thread Craige McWhirter
Many of you will be happy to hear that long time SLUG member, former committee member (VP) and general Linux activist, Tony Green and his wife Danni successfully brought Edward into this world overnight. Edward was a healthy 8 lbs 2 ozs (3.7 kilos) and everyone is well and happy, if not a little

Re: [SLUG] GPG Keysigning

2005-01-12 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2005-01-12 at 10:02 +0100, Christoph Probst wrote: I'll be in Sydney on the 25th/26th this month and I'm looking for people who are interested in exchanging GPG keys. It's a pity you won;t be here on the 28th, that's when this months meeting is on. -- Craige McWhirter [EMAIL

[SLUG] The Year Ahead - In Technicolour

2005-01-08 Thread Craige McWhirter
G'day all. Your hard working and ever loving committee have fully populated the SLUG calendar for next twelve months with regular monthly meetings, Debian SIG meetings and four code fests (no install fests have yet been scheduled but they will, no doubt, occur). So, have a look at

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Needs *You*

2005-01-05 Thread Craige McWhirter
A little update. The number of exiting committee members may now be as high as six, all for general life reasons. Cross posted to [activities] to make sure I've covered everyone with the heads-up. See you all at the next DebSIG or SLUG meeting :) On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 12:11 +1100, Craige

[SLUG] SLUG Needs *You*

2005-01-03 Thread Craige McWhirter
This is a little advance notice that sometimes life intervenes and there is a little bit of churn. At the SLUG AGM in March (not as far away as you may think), there will be at least one committee position being vacated (mine, I'm going overseas for five months) and possibly as many as a total of

Re: [SLUG] Sparc Suse 7.3 install fault

2004-12-20 Thread Craige McWhirter
I was joined into this conversation privately but I thought I ought to put my response to the list post as well: On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 12:42 +1100, Martin Thompson wrote: I'm trying to install Suse Linux on to a Ultra Enterprise 2 Sun Box Use Debian instead. SuSE is a waste of time,

Re: [SLUG] Acroread in Linux VERY UGLY - can the 'face' be changed?

2004-12-14 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Sun, 2004-12-12 at 22:51 +1100, Elliott-Brennan wrote: The acroreader in Linux is so ugly. The grey interface and left-handed cursor (leave me alone, I've nothing against left-handed people - :) GGV is the prettiest, xpdf is the best (IMHO, anyway). -- During the 2001 Federal election

[SLUG] Reminder: SLUG / DebSIG Christmas Party

2004-12-12 Thread Craige McWhirter
Just a reminder you need to RSVP to me today, for those of you who were thinking of coming but are yet to RSVP: When: Wednesday, December 15th, 6:30 (meal is at 7:30) Where: Jazushi, 145 Devonshire St, Surry Hills (2 minutes walk from Central) Map: http://jazushi.com.au/images/map.gif

[SLUG] SLUG / DebSIG Christmas Party

2004-12-06 Thread Craige McWhirter
When: Wednesday, December 15th, 6:30 (meal is at 7:30) Where: Jazushi, 145 Devonshire St, Surry Hills (2 minutes walk from Central) Map: http://jazushi.com.au/jp/menu-banquet.php Menu: http://jazushi.com.au/jp/menu-banquet.php Website: http://jazushi.com.au/ It's the time of year when we've

Re: [SLUG] SLUG / DebSIG Christmas Party

2004-12-06 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 09:46 +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: Map: http://jazushi.com.au/jp/menu-banquet.php I may well have meant: http://jazushi.com.au/images/map.gif :) -- Well, it means that we'll not have deregulated fees. In other words, the Government will always maintain a control

Re: Photoshop in Linux WAS [SLUG] Newbie -when is next slug meet?

2004-11-30 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 19:05 +1100, James Gregory wrote: On Tue, Nov 30, 2004 at 06:40:45PM +1100, Craige McWhirter wrote: The difference in configurations and layouts between 95/98/xp/NT/2000/2003 is incredibly bloody annoying. If I had one constructive thing to say to Microsoft it would

Re: Photoshop in Linux WAS [SLUG] Newbie -when is next slug meet?

2004-11-29 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:48 +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: Final straw was trying to set transparent background. I was presented with techno-gobbledegook. File - New - Fill Type: Transparent or in an existing image: Layer - New Layer - Layer Fill Type: Transparent Doesn't come a whole lot more

Re: [SLUG] Newbie -when is next slug meet? is 4/12 install fest next best meet to get gen lowdown? what's SLUG relationship with CAT?

2004-11-29 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Sun, 2004-11-28 at 11:03 +1100, Brian Goddard wrote: -what's SLUG relationship with CAT: http://cat.org.au/ Many SLUGers will still be reading that URL and may not have even heard of CAT before. There's no official or even casual connection between SLUG and CAT. Both serve very different

Re: Photoshop in Linux WAS [SLUG] Newbie -when is next slug meet?

2004-11-29 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Tue, 2004-11-30 at 18:03 +1100, David wrote: This thread made me wonder: If people were brought up on Gnu/Linux the way most people are brought up on Windows, would they then find linux really easy, and Windows counter-intuitive and confusing? Is it simply what you learn first that defines

[SLUG] Remider - Code Fest!

2004-11-25 Thread Craige McWhirter
(It's tomorrow - see you there!) When: Saturday, November 27, 10:00am - 10:00pm Where: CSE/UNSW Kensington, Seminar Room Map / Transport: http://slug.org.au/events/cse.html We're holding a Debian RC Bug Squish and general Code Fest. The idea of of the day is to have a social,

[SLUG] Re: [activities] No response to bowling for December meeting

2004-11-24 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 14:36 +1100, Grant Parnell wrote: I received no response to the invitation to do Tenpin Bowling for December other than jokes about various programming languages. Therefore I think people might want to do something else for the December meeting. Any suggestions? When

Re: [SLUG] squirrelmail opinion sought

2004-11-19 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 11:49 +1100, David wrote: Does anyone have an opinion about the viability/reliability of squirrelmail in this situation? I'm building a complete new server and the set up I have provisionally is Dovecot imap and Postfix, but I can change it easily at this stage.

Re: [SLUG] imapd

2004-11-17 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 23:21 +1100, David wrote: I installed courier-imap and I can now telnet and authenticate ok, including using squirrelmail, which is what i'm after. Does anyone have any thoughts on which is the best imapd? Should I care? The one that's working for you now, courier-imap

[SLUG] Debian SIG Meeting: November

2004-11-15 Thread Craige McWhirter
When: Wednesday, November 17, 7:00pm - 8:00pm Where: James Squire Brewery Robert Collins will be giving a talk on Bazaar, a project creating a user friendly interface for GNU Arch using the tla codebase. A review of what makes Arch great, and how to get access to that

[SLUG] Code Fest!

2004-11-08 Thread Craige McWhirter
When: Saturday, November 27, 10:00am - 10:00pm Where: CSE/UNSW Kensington, Seminar Room Map / Transport: http://slug.org.au/events/cse.html We're holding a Debian RC Bug Squish and general Code Fest. The idea of of the day is to have a social, coding day, learn a few things, close

[SLUG] Autofs Woes

2004-11-01 Thread Craige McWhirter
I'm playing with autofs and friends and the problem that I'm encountering is that while it always mounts the object I'm after it always mounts it as root, even though I specified the user option and the user has made the access that caused the object to mount. This leads to the user not being

[SLUG] Debian SIG Meeting: October

2004-10-14 Thread Craige McWhirter
When: Wednesday, October 20, 7:00pm - 8:00pm Where: James Squire Brewery Matthew Palmer has been playing with revision control (specifically tla) and is starting to apply it to his Debian packaging efforts. It will be an interesting discussion on the method he's been

Re: [SLUG] proxy

2004-10-07 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 17:24 +1000, James Gray wrote: Another option might be squidguard which is a standard Squid redirector. AFAIK this works with NTLM authentication (it did in our testing anyway). Seconded. I've used squidguard and squid in this manner many times in the past. Works well.

Re: [SLUG] NSW Tender meeting

2004-10-06 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 06:03 +1000, Pia Smith wrote: put together a panel of who would be appropriate. It might be a good time to get together, look at all the requirements and put together a matrix of skills in NSW. We already have a few directories online: Sounds like OpenSkills -

Re: [SLUG] Postfix mess

2004-10-05 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 10:30 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: Thanks Shane - it turns out that my problem is slightly different from what I described. I *want* the From line to be: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This is really handled in your MUA. If your MUA can't do it, switch to something like Mutt or

Re: [SLUG] Postfix mess - NOT!

2004-10-05 Thread Craige McWhirter
On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 10:36 +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote: I just realised that it is not a postfix problem at all since this mail is sent via postfix. It is a mutt problem - which I can probably fix. In your .muttrc put this: set from=\My Name\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hell is empty and all the

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