Re: [SLUG] odd system loss

of the SATA disks? I thought the point of ther ID was to label the disk unmistakably? The UUID is part of the *filesystem*, not the disk; they point is to be able to identify the content without reference to the physical location. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman

Re: [SLUG] iptables error msg

That should show you the commands before they are run, along with the error messages, and let you identify which command it was generated the error. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent

Re: [SLUG] remote desktop guide

], and I don't have any reports of success from it. Otherwise, you probably want to clarify what you are trying to do. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/ -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made

Re: [SLUG] Using a VPS to get an Australia IP address desktop

that payment options don't trace back to China. Most online auction sites, like other businesses that face routine fraud attempts, take an extremely dim view of this sort of activity. Personally, I wouldn't touch the situation with a very long stick, but to each their own. Regards, Daniel

[SLUG] kernel oops help

-686 #1) EIP: 0073:[b7de108c] EFLAGS: 0216 CPU: 0 [ ... several more lines of debug guff ...] Is this an impending disk failure, power problem or have I been pwned? :( -- Daniel Bush -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] odd system loss

or initrd image on disk was not found — baring concurrent activity that tried to update those, I suppose. BTW building imagemagick from source cured the issue but both SuSE and ubuntu did it I am curious to know what the specific change this made, and which addressed the issue, was? Daniel I

Re: [SLUG] odd system loss

. Most of the time it should recover OK, but... Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] It may be you were thrashing, and that enough patience would have either the OOM killer kill the offending process, or the process complete. -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net

Re: [SLUG] odd system loss

addressed the issue, was? Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] HTTPD Authenticated User extraction

. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman✉ dan...@rimspace.net☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] A simple Deb 501 install ..

in the documentation above, will help with that. You can use that to locate your grub installation, along the lines of: find /boot/grub/menu.lst If you used a separate /boot partition, also: find /grub/menu.lst See the documentation for details. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] The growing size of programs

get the kernel module built. Since it can see the page tables it can actually report the *real* cost of various applications. Regards, Daniel -- 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] two silly bash questions I can't find in google

the first line, sed processes the rest. Otherwise spot on, though, especially ... [...] I don't understand why you didn't choose a direct file redirection rather than a pipe: sed s/t/T/ blah ... that. ;) Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] two silly bash questions I can't find in google

/t/T/ ; done Q2. what does the @ mean? da...@david:~$ date -d @1174306440 Mon Mar 19 23:14:00 EST 2007 The value is in seconds since the epoch, but I can't find any documentation about the specific meaning of it. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] two silly bash questions I can't find in google

. date -d @1 would be 1970-01-01 00:00:01 UTC, My system is outputting as EST so it's more like 10am. -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au http://github.com/danielbush -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] RAID1 issues

almost immediately. If SMART reports everything as perfectly healthy, though, you might want to invest in replacing the cable just in case. I would swap the disk as well, though. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] Either should work with 2.6.29, but I don't know when the SAT layer

Re: [SLUG] Site to Site VPN

Peter Rundle prun...@aerodonetix.com.au writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: Oh. This is a VE inside a Virtuozzo system? (The commercial version of OpenVZ, specifically, and a containers solution.) Your ISP response isn't terribly technically accurate, then. [snip] Thanks again

Re: Fwd: [SLUG] SLUG meeting videos/slides? SYSADMINS:- LOOK AT VIDEO STORAGE

the figures that have shown up in the current per-BDI flushing work on the kernel it *still* looks like 2.6.30 has problems keeping a smooth dataflow on create — though that might finally change in the .31 or .32 timeframe. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] XFS, ext2, ext3 in all three data

Re: [SLUG] Site to Site VPN

it is the wrong tool. ;) More seriously, it isn't the tool for this job, because Juniper use IPSec, but it is a good general VPN solution where you control both ends of the deployment, or have a cooperative remote. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Site to Site VPN

ahead, sigh ...because your kernel is screwed. Try reinstalling that to get all the modules in place, then give IPSec a shot again. :) Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] Site to Site VPN

isn't a security risk to them and is virtualized, as well as routing for the traffic types needed[1], then pipsecd should work just fine. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] Which is probably the less likely option, sadly, unless your friend paid for a dedicated IP for his system. -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Site to Site VPN

with a ca.key, certificates etc, where as this setup is a pre-shared key arrangement. ...uh. OpenVPN and IPSec VPNs are completely different protocols. You can't use OpenVPN to talk to the Juniper equipment, I fear. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] Doesn't use the in-kernel IPSec layer

Re: [SLUG] multiple To: addresses for postfix virtual aliases

david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: I want to redirect email from one postfix virtual mail address to two different off-site addresses. use the Postfix 'virtual' table. man virtual(5), and curse Wietse for having named the virtual

Re: [SLUG] multiple To: addresses for postfix virtual aliases

. That supports multiple destination addresses just fine. Regards, Daniel -- 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] Indexing under Linux

on all platforms ... and, heck, I have trouble imagining how Linux is particularly relevant anyway. I mean, does the software that generates an index from my source code, doxygen, count? How about OpenOffice, which includes indexing features? Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] Re: [clug] Has anyone got a recent nVidia card working multi-resolution?

Hal Ashburner hal.ashbur...@gmail.com writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: Boyd boydwild...@gmail.com writes: if you are using Debian Lenny, this howto was invaluable for me to get X and my nvidia card working: I suggest: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers [...] I'd suggest ignoring

Re: [SLUG] webcam woes Jaunty

: No, but that change is just to suppress the warning; apparently the uvcvideo driver /should/ retry with a smaller request, so that *probably* isn't an actual problem. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] microphone / skype / ubuntu 9.04 jaunty

- too much gain or something. But at least this tells me it's working in some shape or form. There are lots of posts from people, some with the similar card/chip (intel HDA Sigmatel STAC9228), saying how they solved mic/skype probs but it's not working for me. -- Daniel Bush http

Re: [SLUG] microphone / skype / ubuntu 9.04 jaunty

2009/5/18 david da...@kenpro.com.au Daniel Bush wrote: Please, can anyone help. I can't get my microphone to work in skype. It's driving me nuts; i've spent the last couple of hours twiddling knobs like crazy and making repeated calls to the test service. If I load audacity and get

Re: [SLUG] Re: microphone / skype / ubuntu 9.04 jaunty

do anything. Installing all of that junk above didn't do anything. Game over. -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au -- 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] Sound in Ubuntu 9.04

. -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au -- 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] Sound in Ubuntu 9.04

2009/5/19 Daniel Bush dlb.id...@gmail.com 2009/5/19 Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a short note relating to my earlier post about my Sound Blaster Live! problem in Flash on my x86_64 install. I reinstalled 9.04 from scratch and lost

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 9.04 performance [Was: Sound in Ubuntu 9.04]

2009/5/19 Jeff Waugh j...@perkypants.org quote who=Daniel Bush ... nope, that didn't work either. My desktop is really sluggish too. It's the end of the road for me and 9.04. Do you happen to have an Intel video chipset? Yeah, it's all intel. Integrated graphics and sound. I can just

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu 9.04 performance [Was: Sound in Ubuntu 9.04]

2009/5/19 Jeff Waugh j...@perkypants.org quote who=Daniel Bush ... nope, that didn't work either. My desktop is really sluggish too. It's the end of the road for me and 9.04. Do you happen to have an Intel video chipset? Yeah, it's all intel. Integrated graphics and sound

Re: [SLUG] OpenAustralia's first hackfest - Saturday 13 June

mercurial or bazaar or even git :) Than you could tag releases that get passed; run diffs between older versions; new acts that amend existing acts would hold these changes as diff patches. It'd be crazy awesome. :) -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

[SLUG] Re: microphone / skype / ubuntu 9.04 jaunty

2009/5/19 Daniel Bush dlb.id...@gmail.com 2009/5/19 Steven Heimann ste...@nami.com.au Skype also failed for me with Jaunty but I simply went to Skype main menu - options - sound devices and selected pulse. After that it seems to work. lspci lists sound card as Audio device: Intel

Re: [SLUG] HTTP server recommendations?

..However I'm looking at apache again for doing this sort of stuff as well. I should add that I haven't really been researching or trying anything new lately so my views may be a little out of date on these things. -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] HOT SWAPPING - back to the OP ;-)

david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: [...] Nothing in dmesg. As far as I can see, nothing in BIOS :( That sucks. Sadly

Re: [SLUG] HTTP server recommendations?

as Apache.[1] http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2009/01/16/january_2009_web_server_survey.html Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] Not popular enough to list as a distinct entry in the NetCraft surveys, however. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Backup theory

moved more to the Debian new-style ship all the drivers in initramfs, detect the hardware strategy than the older RHEL ship exactly what is required for the current machine, hard code everything model. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] http://backuppc.sf.net/ [2] Technically, you need

Re: [SLUG] Backup theory

to mount based on the filesystem, not the hardware it happens to be sitting on top of. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] I prefer the later, because the chance of a conflict is zero, while the former is pretty high — especially with some distributions naming their root partition

Re: [SLUG] Backup theory

david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: I've got the following: 2 x servers - single small hard drives in each 1 x desktop - four hard drives including one removeable drive in a caddy intended solely for back up purposes. [...] What's

Re: [SLUG] hot swapping hard drives

are usually extended about 8mm before the rest of the pins are connected. FWIW, SATA devices are hot-swap and the are ... a little less than 8mm of coverage for those connections. Just sayin' Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] hot swapping hard drives

that you can pull it without warning can save you (literally, in some cases) hours of waiting for it to not-ever-get-through the sync process. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] hot swapping hard drives

, or is that what you're referring to with 'not sufficient'?) No, I mean specifically that what you listed is necessary, but not sufficient, to have function hot-unplug of SATA devices under Linux. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] HOT SWAPPING - Internals of the sync/umount call

you try the libata status report page I posted the link to a while back? That should confirm that your ICH7 supports hotplug. Regards, Daniel -- 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] HOT SWAPPING - Internals of the sync/umount call

Grahame Kelly grah...@wildpossum.com writes: From: Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net Grahame Kelly grah...@wildpossum.com writes: [...] That only handles the hot *UN*-plug side of things, and can cause significant grief to you if the driver doesn't cope: anything from several minutes

Re: [SLUG] HOT SWAPPING - Internals of the sync/umount call

enough hardware that his life is fine, if he is using the ICH7 in AHCI mode though. Lucky him, and lucky the rest of us now that hotplug is pretty much a standard feature. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] ...well, in fairness, a bunch of the early hardware was just a PATA controller

Re: [SLUG] HOT SWAPPING - Internals of the sync/umount call

david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: (Admittedly, the last is only on really bad hardware, but hey, that hardware is out there and still within the reasonable life of machines for home users.) Anyway, once the hardware doesn't die

Re: [SLUG] HOT SWAPPING - back to the OP ;-)

david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: [...] ChipDriver NCQ DMA++ hotplug PMP ICH7 family ata_piix, ahci AHCIAHCIAHCI

Re: [SLUG] LVM

2009/5/15 fos...@tpg.com.au Quoting Daniel Bush dlb.id...@gmail.com: 2009/5/15 fos...@tpg.com.au - LVM is really cool and well worth the time to rad up on it. I am now going to LVM my home system. I'm planning to do this as well. I was thinking back to Mary's backup post

Re: [SLUG] LVM

with the alternate cd which will walk me thru lvm and still give me a desktop kernel/system? -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au -- 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] LVM

2009/5/15 Daniel Bush dlb.id...@gmail.com 2009/5/15 fos...@tpg.com.au Quoting Daniel Bush dlb.id...@gmail.com: 2009/5/15 fos...@tpg.com.au - LVM is really cool and well worth the time to rad up on it. I am now going to LVM my home system. I'm planning to do this as well

Re: [SLUG] hot swapping hard drives

, or vice-versa. [...] I am no expert on this stuff, but this is from what I've read and done with my own drives via E-Sata ports. You were more or less on target. :) Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs

with hardware RAID. We have ... well. It probably suffices to say that we would notice fairly quickly if LVM was, in fact, unreliable. Regards, Daniel Besides, no one here is stupid enough to have their systems running *without* a daily backup, and without routinely checking it, right? Footnotes

Re: [SLUG] recovering xfs

right? (unless you are using the server install instead of the desktop). -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au -- 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] Burn .ISO to install USB

of their website, they list the various dist's they have packages for. Namely; Ubuntu Debian OpenSUSE Gentoo Which as far as I know are all Debian based. Um, no. Ubuntu and Debian (naturally) are Debian based. OpenSUSE is RPM based, and Gentoo is ... source based, I guess. Regards, Daniel

Re: [SLUG] w3c-libwww rpm

and compile perhaps: http://www.w3.org/Library/cvs.html#Releases Although the ubuntu package is using 5.4.0 (~2003) and the latest is 5.4.1 (2006). Might be safer to go with 5.4.0. But I'm not an expert - just had a look at it. -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au http://github.com/danielbush -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit flash

was very disappointing. Regards, Daniel -- 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] 64 bit flash

release of nspluginwrapper if you are updating your plugins is a good plan. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] Opera have used it for years, and it works extremely well. Flash crashing never peturbed the browser, which was good when it did that approximately every time it was used

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit flash

fos...@tpg.com.au writes: Quoting Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net: More seriously, none of the free Flash replacements worked correctly outside of the Firefox environment when I last tested them, which was very disappointing. Flash crashes in Firefox occasionally and gives up on some

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit flash

issue, reported to Adobe, and they have given no indication of any response to it at all. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] Apparently 64-bit Windows emulates them in software if they are absent, but Linux doesn't, so this work fine for Windows... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] A LaTeX problem, with Word.

reach for pdktk to merge the two files together. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] You could also convert to PostScript, but it is actually easier to get PDF out. :) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] New Install Advice

desktops, and there really isn't /that/ much saving to make at the lowest level. Something with a 1.6Ghz CPU should be well able to handle the extra memory, and that would be a couple of hundred dollars very well spent. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

[SLUG] Active Directory and linux

Hi, Has anyone used Active Directory for authentication/login on their linux boxes? Any thoughts and opinions on this vs having a separate ldap server? -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au http://github.com/danielbush/sifs/tree/master -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Increasing RAM

Kyle k...@attitia.com writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: Well, at the moment you have RAID 1 under everything except for swap, which you have on a RAID 0 array. (Implemented, in this case, through the Linux kernel balancing swap space use when areas have equal priority, as your two separate

Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?

in at ~ 2 watts higher consumption than Windows, after aggressive manual tuning on a set of machines that are quite well understood. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] I presume other hardware-specific lists also do, but since I don't own their hardware I don't pay attention. -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Active Directory and linux

Thanks Jeff. Wasn't familiar with winbind. I'll probably be looking at the first 2 options if I go this route. -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au 2009/4/20 Jeff Waugh j...@perkypants.org quote who=Daniel Bush Has anyone used Active Directory for authentication/login on their linux

Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?

. No middle ground, and no option to reject only the software. Regards, Daniel Seriously, did you think that sort of loophole would last? -- 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] Increasing RAM

underneath your swap to the setup underneath your data devices. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] Technically, since a raw device is only ever one extent and a file may be several it is a few hundred bytes more efficient, I suppose. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] Increasing RAM

in the one case where I want to be able to use the suspend to disk functions supported by Linux. Regards, Daniel -- 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] Increasing RAM

of any sort, so this would be good practice anyway. It is RAID 1. And if I understand Daniel correctly; ... you probably want to match the RAID setup underneath your swap to the setup underneath your data devices. .. You mean I should have the swap spread across the RAID as well. Well

Re: [SLUG] Increasing RAM

. :) Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] You do, in the form of all executable code, disk backed memory mappings, disk cache and so forth. In fact, it is quite rare that discardable memory doesn't represent a substantial portion of your used memory, even if swap is in use. [2

Re: [SLUG] Increasing RAM

and uswsusp, and as few as possible for TuxOnIce. Then, write what remains to swap, then shut down. If we can't fit everything in swap handle the error gracefully. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] Increasing RAM

Kyle k...@attitia.com writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: Kyle k...@attitia.com writes: Maybe, but the last machine I had I ran LVM. I had a hard enough time remembering which volume belonged to which group belonged to which disk (and that despite naming them along the lines of; 'lv00Grp00Hda1

Re: [SLUG] That problem with Evince.

to submit this. Regards, Daniel -- 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] A problem with Evince

. I've tried re-installing it, to no avail. How did you do this? What, if anything, happened during the process? Regards, Daniel -- 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] windows scanning

that an up to date virus scanner with on access scanning is installed, updated and running on the Windows machine. You will need to check that routinely, too, given how much of the current round of malware will disable or bypass the virus scanner. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] chmod probs.

will just vanish away, like the snark, and things will not work as expected... Regards, Daniel -- 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] chmod probs.

the manual pages for the fine detail, obviously. Regards, Daniel -- 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: chmod probs. - add. info

: proof that just being old, and standard, doesn't make it sane. Regards, Daniel -- 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: chmod probs. - add. info

, but probably isn't exactly the right answer in the long term. Regards, Daniel -- 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] Defining Mainsteam

Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net writes: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 15:25 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: Out of curiosity, what number of users are you considering real users here? I agree with what you are saying, but you certainly seem to have a much, much higher standard than I

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

have squandered my life programming meaningless applications... cheer up Ken. Didn't you say you worked on open office? I probably owe you a beer for directly or indirectly allowing me to conduct my affairs almost exclusively in ubuntu for the last several years. :) -- Daniel Bush http

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

that answer would help, especially if you give the little details about why a simple number isn't effective. ;) Regards, Daniel -- 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] Defining Mainsteam

Robert Collins robe...@robertcollins.net writes: On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 20:27 +1000, Daniel Pittman wrote: Jeff Waugh j...@perkypants.org writes: quote who=Ken Foskey Hmm discounts all my work. In one company a mere 2,000 employees got to see it. Hey if my software is used by tens

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

2009/4/6 Jeff Waugh j...@perkypants.org quote who=Daniel Pittman I am curious about the how to bring AppFolders... part of your comment, though: as far as I can tell, with the exception of the Rox stuff[1] and the GNUStep people[2] no only really cares ... and those two are pretty much

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

Jeff Waugh j...@perkypants.org writes: quote who=Daniel Pittman I am curious about the how to bring AppFolders... part of your comment, though: as far as I can tell, with the exception of the Rox stuff[1] and the GNUStep people[2] no only really cares ... and those two are pretty much

Re: [SLUG] sluggish (no pun) cursor

but the driver defaults? Regards, Daniel -- 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] sluggish (no pun) cursor

Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net writes: [... a whole bunch of irrelevant stuff ...] david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: I've noticed that the cursor response is getting sluggish - for instance when holding down an arrow key in a text document, the cursor used to fly across the screen

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

Jeff Waugh j...@perkypants.org writes: quote who=Daniel Pittman It's like when clients say, it should be easy to... and suggest something that would require major architectural changes to your product... Pshaw. AppFolders are only hard if you want integration with the Unix world

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

Jeff Waugh j...@perkypants.org writes: quote who=Daniel Pittman Experimenting is fun. Reality is hard. I notice you omitted the section of my email where, indeed, I note that this is from practical experience. Sorry, but ROX and GNUstep are experimentations. They don't have users

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

and history, which make most things much messier. :) Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: [clug] access control list search algorithms

Kevin Pulo k...@pulo.com.au writes: On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 05:57:17PM +1100, Daniel Pittman wrote: jm je...@ghostgun.com writes: jm wrote: Does anyone know of any algorithms for speeding up searching of access control lists? Is there anything more efficient than a sequential search

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

[2] no only really cares ... and those two are pretty much a niche market... (Plus, how hard is it, seriously? Five lines of code?) Anyway. :) Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] ...who are trying to bring RiscOS to Linux. [2] Who are trying to bring the less painful precursor to MacOS-X

Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: Re: Computers software for schools]

. There have certainly been a number of bids based around FOSS into Victorian government over the years; in my previous role I was intimately involved in several. So, yes, they do actually happen. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

2009/4/3 Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net This one time, at band camp, Daniel Bush wrote: I don't always like the way debian (and perhaps by extension ubuntu) modify the conf files and arrange things for various software - I don't want to have to figure out the debian-way on top

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

beats /not/ having those machines patched. In the real world, sadly, it often *is* a decision between those two options, no matter what alternatives might exist. :/ Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] Ideally, in fact, difficult not to use automatically. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: Re: Computers software for schools]

david da...@kenpro.com.au writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: Heracles herac...@iprimus.com.au writes: I spent a great deal of time over the last few years trying to get parts of the DET to look at free software with little effect. I found three major hurdles. 1. The unfounded belief

Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: Re: Computers software for schools]

Glen Turner g...@gdt.id.au writes: Daniel Pittman wrote: IIRC, this is usually by billing for a copy of Windows to run on everything, regardless of what actually runs on it, so the cost of Linux is now hardware + Windows + Linux, no savings available. So what alternative do you propose

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

be shown off to the world. [1] it also helps that there are isp's like iinet who provide free mirrors for debian/ubuntu/* repositories which you can use if you are customer -- Daniel Bush http://blog.web17.com.au http://github.com/danielbush -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

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