why Latex in this modern age?
On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 4:28 PM, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote:
Can anyone point me towards a tutorial for the geometric package in LaTeX?
Regards,
William Bennett.
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do you mean netstat -a ?
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I have a client that runs really old printers. HP1300's, HP1100's and
even older.
Keep in mind that these things are just (electro)-mechanical devices.
Lubrication gets dry after a while. Most of the materials in these devices
are usually excellent quality. The metal or nylon doesn't usually
Have you tried a template engine such as:
- http://www.cheetahtemplate.org/
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:04 AM, DaZZa dazzagi...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi.
I'm looking for something that can take a text file and convert it
into HTML, possible with some highlighting.
I've got some routers
was 'usb-dev' tried?
on ubuntu I had a 3 modem, and once you do a apt-get install usb-dev it
suddenly was recognised and came to life..
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Erik de Castro Lopo
mle+s...@mega-nerd.com wrote:
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
I'm trying to set up a Huawei E585 pocket
I'm not scamproof myself.. I've been scammed in europe a few times..
I too got the email..
I was ready to send the cash.. being stuck in europe with no cash and no
cards (doubly bad if you're in a country where they don't/can't speak
english).
Anyway, there were some funny logic problems in the
I sort of sympathise.
Maybe you need to teach him apt-get install . . in the command shell...
Six years is very young.. but today I saw a boy in a pram playing with
some sort of game device..
he's a boy.. apt-get is a boys toy really..
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 5:57 PM, Steven Tucker
Patrick,
When you say GUI ?
do you mean something like this ?
- http://lcdproc.org/ :-)
a bit of hacking and perhaps you can get a graphics lcd working..
then he can have pixels..
On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 12:49 PM, elliott-brennan
elliottbren...@gmail.comwrote:
Steven wrote:
Maybe I am
Hi people,
I'm trying to choose the best platform for an open source
autonomous driving project that I've been working on for
a while.
- https://bitbucket.org/djlyon/smp-driverless-car-robot/overview
I'm considering Debian Live, DSL, Puppy-Linux but can't make
up my mind.
Target hardware is
Yes, Australia is definitely a Nanny state...
So many examples - particularly in technology.
High Speed Trains - we have 200kmh capable XPT trains. Not
allowed to run them at their designed speed. Only run at 80-90kmh
Uranium. Allowed to dig it up. Not allowed to use it in a pressure
cooker or
?
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:31 AM, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote:
David == David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com writes:
David Last technology example...
David Try find any of the great Australian Technology developed by
David Australians in an Australian Museum in Canberra or Sydney
In Japan in the 1960's they were running standard trains on standard
tracks on the the Shenkazen line at 160kmh - 200kmh. When they
wanted to go faster than 200kmh they built special tracks.
The XPT trains will run on standard tracks at 160-180kmh. But it isn't
allowed.
Australian Trains still
Hi Patrick,
You know if everybody brought their teenage children (with their android
phones)
they'd all be sitting there in silence (apart from the sound of electronic
bing and ding)
and the whole thing could be done as a facebook chat..
Occassionaly you'd see changes in face expression..
David
on
the responsibility for that.
On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:27 AM, Kevin Shackleton
krshackle...@gmail.comwrote:
But they do - employers do pay you to use MS, otherwise their IT manager
might have to shoulder some responsibility. Kevin
On 24/06/2011 6:24 AM, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh
It's not so much that Linux is dead, but rather it is perhaps finished.
The computers 'to-die-for' now, are no longer the Windows machines
but the Android and Apple computers.
Clearly, they both are Linux derivates. So in a way, commercial Linux
won out.
There's little that really can be done
Of course.
gnu tool chain, has a command shell...
if it has a shell where you can enter linux commands.. it's a linux
derivative..
just a very beautiful one..
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 10:18 AM, Adrian Chadd adr...@creative.net.auwrote:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011, David Lyon wrote:
It's not so
So clearly, the main market forces are: Android (Linux), Apple (BSD),
Microsoft
(Windows)..
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Opinions sought...
What will happen in Linux in Australia in 2012?
Yes Ubuntu is nice, but Android is surely set to be a competitor ?
Is anyone going to retrofit Linux for sensors and A/D ports? Accelerometers?
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Hi all,
Background for this is that a client has a dBaseIV DOS accounting system
that they will upgrade after the Senior Partner retires. Which is a decade
or
more away. Printing from DOS is the not negotiable part.
For a few years, I've run a server on a Windows machine that intercepts
LPT1:
On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Nick Andrew n...@nick-andrew.net wrote:
then the network goes, and it all breaks and users complain.
It doesn't sound like a software problem.
In a sense you are right. But the subtlety of who's fault it is never goes
to
the person who kicked the wire out,
Hi,
I want to buy a tiny (and perphaps older) linux box if anybody has one
lying around.
What I am talking about is the industrial type super compact models
that are fanless. Can't be bothered getting one from offshore since
I'm going anyway soon but if somebody has one I'd like to know
Silvia,
You know, actually, when I opened the innovation.gov.au link and
navigated to the cartoons section... it did make me extremely angry...
because it contains a lot of insults that get thrown at us by
government... ie australian industry being mediocre and so forth... it
is rather
Quoting Marghanita da Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I share David's skepticism and would even venture he is being
extremely polite given the reality.
I don't know if I am skeptical.. and reality is usually the
result of what you did yesterday...
Perhaps a change of government could improve
Quoting Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Silvia Pfeiffer wrote:
Just for your information: I do not work for the government nor is it
any of the stuff on www.innovation.gov.au my website.
David, please note the above.
I stand corrected... my apologies..
I'm not a very good people
Quoting Silvia Pfeiffer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi all,
If any of you have made a submission to the National Innovation System
Review http://www.innovation.gov.au/innovationreview/Pages/home.aspx ,
I'm on a panel discussing this topic and I'd like to find out what
people's concerns were.
Well
Quoting Shakthi Kannan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi,
--- On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 6:40 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Industry and Government work very hand in hand...
|
| in India it is even more so and what I was saying was that it has got
| them somewhere...
\--
The grass is always greener on
Quoting Sven Peters [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
VPNwise I was thinking about OpenVPN but still open to any other
products which are open source.
OpenVPN is pretty good in my opinion. Most of the other designs
(poptop) are implementations/copies of PPTP which is a proprietory
format.
I've used
Quoting Richard Ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Also, my mobile
phone runs on the Three network - www.three.co.uk - this is the worst
mobile phone network that I have ever come across. Believe me, I've
seen some bad networks and mostly in the United States. You call the
three call centre and
Quoting Richard Ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
but you gotta give it to them, they have done wonders with software
and computers...
Okay .. fine :)
such a pity our political leaders aren't actually smart enough to
figure out how they have done it but they don't mind spending
our hard
Quoting Del [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So, who uses wireless broadband here? I'm currently researching the
available alternatives and although Virgin appears the cheapest they
also appear to have limited coverage and none of the vendors provide
(a) Linux support or (b) an offer of your money back if
Quoting Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Richard Ibbotson wrote:
It's true enough in England. For example in a country where hardly
anyone is properly trained on IT
Are there any countries that fit the bill of trained in IT?
India ?
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Quoting Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Perhaps I didn't use the right words in a Google search to seek a
solution to this problem - under Debian Etch when I put in a thumbdrive
in my PC while I have an active session but my daughter has another
session in the background, the thumbdrive
I came across this - seams very simple... and cheap too...
It's just a cable with all the chips built in
http://www.antonline.com/p_SBT-USC1M-NX_471223.htm
Quoting Jobst Schmalenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Ahh! data logging the old fashion way ... but still good.
Quoting James Purser [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
No, the BBC actively blocks non UK ip addresses for a lot of stuff.
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James Purser [EMAIL PROTECTED]
probably cos they (we) don't pay the uk telly tax.
which is what keeps the bbc going
With everybody having broadband these days.. and the
Quoting Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
2008/6/30 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
All you need is a friend in the uk who doesn't mind you setting up a squid
server on their linux box. Then vpn to their box and point your browser to
their squid server which will drag down the programs.
Why do you need a
Quoting Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
you need to fix this line, so it does the read.
$linebuffer =. $port-read; # poll until data ready
I don't have any of the earlier emails but your first version must
have been correct.
---
#!/usr/bin/perl
Quoting Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
on first read, I get only 'half' of output, followed my 'wrong offset',
see below:
Right,
You must wait till the end of line character is received, and not when
data is available.
Set up a variable called 'linebuffer' or something...
keep adding
Quoting Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
yes, I thought it was something like that, I recall some REXX script we
had for SMSsing, it had stuff like that to process comm port;
there must be some ready made perl code like that, any thoughts where to
look for such ? (I'm just a water tank gauge
apologies...
there was a fatal flaw... so this is the update..
my $MAXVAR = 20;# Maximum data variation (%)
my $port=Device::SerialPort-new(/dev/ttyS0);
my $tmpfile = /var/tmp/aqualogger;
my $linebuffer =
$port-baudrate(2400);
$port-databits(8);
$port-parity(none);
Hi all,
I want to do testing of some python programs on Ubuntu (hardy i think)
for a German client.
Everything works fine for Australia, but I don't seem to have a locale
for Germany loaded. I have no idea where to load it. Can anybody help ?
import locale
Quoting jam [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
David I'm about to get one, so this is all hearsay, but Full Distro,
including
WiFi or CAT5 and all the bits. And the big draw card is low power. WA is
somewhat shell shocked about power at the mo. Bluddy idjits, but I digress
James
Only thing I noticed is no
Quoting elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Has anyone any recommendations for parts suppliers?
I live in the around the Inner West and am looking for somewhere to
purchase a motherboard, CPU and some RAM. I have a car and am willing
to travel a reasonable distance. Places like Campbelltown are
Quoting Cibby Pulikkaseril [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'd just like to add an anecdote on pseudo-random number generation:
several years ago, a group of Canadian comp. sci. students were
arrested for fraud. .
...
Good story..
I can't seem to find a link to this story, though. Is it bogus?
Are these things any good ?
do they run python ? and have net access ?
can somebody demo them at a meeting ?
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Looks like it is going to be a boring day on slug from now on cos this
one was really great...
does kindof makes you think about all sorts of bizzarre possibilities...
I've been working with regexes and search and replace... mixing that
in with the http streaming (changing words in web
Quoting jam [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi
my query to the forums was just closed after too long inactive.
I would use evolution if I could enable 'display images inline' by default.
Anybody know of a config setting ?
Forgive me for this... but if it isn't in the config dialog box
have you
Hi all,
I am having a problem under linux.. with my html... with german characters..
Nothing is wrong with the system, every other german web page displays
properly.
Problem is the word höchsten in the following page. When it gets
displayed in the browser it gets shown as höchsten.
I
Hi Masood,
Thank you very much for that... perfect... such a simple thing but you
have saved me many hours of work.
:-)
Quoting Masood [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The problem is the meta tag sets a wrong encoding for the xhtml documents.
in meta http-equiv=content-type content=text/html;
Hi Rick,
Quoting Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've always pondered where to draw the line between sys admin and
programmer /analyst.
Well there's definitely a difference... but there are true sys-admins,
true programmers and some who seem to be able to do both.
Which raises the
Well that's the spirit...
Quoting elliott-brennan [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
All Hail Amos :))
Looks like I owe you at least *a* beer! (note inference of more than
singular :))
Nice to hear that something good came out of the whole thing..
David
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Elliott,
What you are after is actually a programmer... who can write that sort
of thing..
Usually there are two ways - pay with beer or cheques or other sort of
favours... :-)
I can't see any way past it...
you are in industrial-land... plenty of people out there who might
want to
Hi All,
I've never been to a python user group.. I thought I would go...
It turned out to be quite interesting... had enough linux to keep me
interested the whole time.
They were showing off Amazon Web Services.
What it appeared to be was that what they offer access to rack mounted
Quoting Amos Shapira [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
A later comment further down the thread says they have enough data for
Windows XP but need more data about other Windows platforms (2000,
2003, Vista, Me 95) and would like to see re-runs when rc3 comes out.
Quoting Darryl Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I had the pleasure some years ago of a cracker gaining access to a Linux box
on my work Network running SME Server.
I still do
not know how the attacker located the machine. I presume it was probably
through a port scan .
I have seen the same
Adrian Chadd wrote:
The trouble is that the entry barrier for coding is so low, you can
code without any clue.
This very issue gave rise to some heated debate over on the LINK mailing
list, which some of you attend.
Many of us computer professionals were peeved by this low barrier to
entry
Quoting Daniel Pittman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Which release of SME Server was this? Having done some auditing, and
worked with customers who ran SME Server systems for some years without
incident -- but only on older versions -- I am surprised at this claim.
It is some years ago now...
As I
Quoting Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Can anyone recommend a simple text formatting language/package?
To explain a bit more: I want a formatting language that's text based
(so it's easier to keep track of diffs in source control, and editable
in vim), for doing stuff you'd usually do in
Quoting Marghanita da Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
You probably need to trawl through the ALP policy to figure out what the new
federal government is planning but they seem to share your thoughts on
efficencies if not industry development.
Hi Sebastian,
One option worth looking at if you have some time is transferring your
content across to a Content Management System (CMS).
I had never used a CMS until I was asked to revue several of them for
a Government Department. After seeing them in operation I was really
impressed.
Yes hi Marghanita,
Well the 2020 conference was a big surprise to me... actually asking
australian young people what they want. jeeze ... did that catch
me off guard... :-)
If I am not mistaken we've never had this level of democracy in this
country ever ...
My reading of your
Quoting Mick Pollard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 12:06:54 +1000
Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Background: my normal mail setup uses Postfix on my laptop to send
outgoing mail. My university has blocked all outgoing ports except 80
(and they may have a transparent proxy in
Quoting Mary Gardiner [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I wasn't clear in my original mail: I'm more interested in how people
get their laptop to switch mail settings between inside horrible
network and normal operation than I am in specifically what their
inside-horrible-network settings are, because in this
Quoting Marghanita da Cruz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi Sridhar and SLUGers,
Video of the Open 2020 talks is now available at
http://tomw.net.au/moodle/course/view.php?id=9
Sitting around watching Videos at a SLUG meeting might not be what you
are after...
and the files are pretty big MPEG4 but the
Hi Peter,
have you tried install-mbr ?
eg:
install-mbr -i n -p D -t 0 /dev/hda
Quoting Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Dear Lazy Web,
I am presently debugging PXE installs for our product. This involves a
lot of round trips like this:
1. enter bios setup, disable disk boot
2. netboot
Quoting jam [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Insert ubuntu CD, boot live, choose install, manual partition, shrink
partition ...
Ok thanks for that... (everyone)
I haven't installed it that way for a long time and didn't know it worked.
David
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Quoting Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 12:13 +1100, Martin Visser wrote:
Just a reminder if you want to help out at the 'Gong Uni installfest
we could still do with a 2 or 3 more volunteers to help assist
tomorrow
I am told that XP now has some additional checks
Are there any viable alternatives within FOSS ?
My friends in germany all say go buy the windows tool..
are they right ? or is there another way ?
Pretty much buncome. It JustWorks right up to a few day old purchase
of Xp SP2
ok - no problem...
so which tool reliably does it ?
ie
Quoting Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The often touted response to this observation is that I should get
into management. As if that is natural career growth path for someone
talented in software design and development. Nothing of course could
be further from reality. A good geek != a good
Quoting David Guest [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Does slug have a view on what, if any, should be the open source input
to 2020 (http://www.australia2020.gov.au/topics/infrastructure.cfm)?
lol...
2020 is a long way away.
I mean come on we have a brain drain going on here
Australia is
Quoting Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Australian Government officials have been on the foreign take
for a long time
If you have real concrete evidence of this corruption why are
you emailing the SLUG mailing list instead of contacting
ICAC (Independant Commisson Against Corruption)
Quoting Ben Donohue [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
anyone have experience with an OS CMS primarily for images?
I know there are heaps of CMS packages for docs. Something that can be
searched for images with metadata, possibly scan images from various
file server sources and give thumbnail images or
Quoting Andre Kolodochka [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi sluggers,
We have OpenVPN server running internally for employees to access our
network from home. We have a request from a potential client to access
some internal demo systems. They are happy to install and use OpenVPN
client, however I won't be
anyone got any reports from last nights slug meet
Here's one unofficial report... maybe others can give the correct
version
It was very nice that the people from Microsoft turned up
and presented.
I think that they put a lot of effort preparing the presentations
and they all turned up on
Quoting Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Quoting Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
You haven't explained why Australia in particular needs
a Linux distro.
Well, we haven't got a single one that I know of for a
start... :-(
That is a little dissappointing...
No, but Canonical/Ubuntu
Quoting Alex Samad [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
why not go the debian/ubuntu method. Start with a base debian build, create a
custom deb package (sort of a meta package) that pulls in all the relevant
other debs and does a config. You could setup you own repo and your done.
Well another deb for each
Quoting Rick Welykochy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
You haven't explained why Australia in particular needs
a Linux distro.
Well, we haven't got a single one that I know of for a
start... :-(
That is a little dissappointing...
beyond that.. there appears to be a niche within small
IT companies for a
Quoting Phil Scarratt [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I simply use the server version of ubuntu and apt-get any other extras
I may or may not need depending on the function of the server.
Yes.. but it takes some time to do all that...
I guess you are talking about not having to do the extra install the
Quoting Jeff Waugh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Thanks everyone...
Nice to get some responses... I'll just answer offlist..
Take care
David
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Hello everybody..
I have stumbled into something which I think is too big for
me and I am looking to reach out to people who might find
some value.
By Trade, I am a Programmer/Project Manager. Last year I
worked at the Department of Commerce and they were talking
about this and that with Open
I have seen those problems also.
If you are certain that you have the correct driver (this must
be right) then try supplying a username and password.
It is quite possible that 'nobody' doesn't have the correct
access with samba for the printer share to be able to print.
Within Samba, it
Here is the book, teaching children about Windows
home servers:
http://gizmodo.com/photogallery/microserveces08/1000446153
And here is the website it comes from:
http://www.stayathomeserver.com
Watch the videos. They're brilliant!
Yeah - the presentations are very effective.
Since I am
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi there,
I am not sure if this is possible.
Is there away for a Linux PC to be able to back up files from a Windows
2003 Small Business Server. I would prefer to use Ubuntu as it is quick to
install but the backup application would need to have a gui and be able to
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