[SLUG] Time to close down the coder's list?

rrently moderating 3-5 spams a week on that list which is simply not worth the effort. Committee, what is required for this to happen? Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Us

Re: [SLUG] Re: Alternatives to Gnome3

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > Although XMonad is known as tiling window manager it actually can be > > configured as a (somewhat primitive) regular WM with over lapping > > windows and window title bars etc. > > I should als

Re: [SLUG] Re: Alternatives to Gnome3

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Although XMonad is known as tiling window manager it actually can be > configured as a (somewhat primitive) regular WM with over lapping > windows and window title bars etc. I should also pimp bluetile: http://bluetile.org/ which uses XMonad as a li

Re: [SLUG] Re: Alternatives to Gnome3

survuve. Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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: Alternatives to Gnome3

hack/configure XMonad a little more so that it gets a little more gloss and a few more of the features of Gnome2. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - htt

Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > > > My issues with Gnome3: > > > > > > - When I try to start a second uxterm it brings the first > > >one to the foreground. How do I disabl

Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > My issues with Gnome3: > > > > - When I try to start a second uxterm it brings the first > >one to the foreground. How do I disable this. I'm used to > >having multiple terminals. It

Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > My issues with Gnome3: > > - When I try to start a second uxterm it brings the first >one to the foreground. How do I disable this. I'm used to >having multiple terminals. It makes sense for what I do. > > - I want to disable

Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

ble to set the background image from a command line program. How? - Where the hell is the configuration? Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://sl

Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > I'm trying out XFCE now. XFCE is just so ugly! t looks like WMs from the late 1990s. So I try e17, which fails completely in style over usability. Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://

Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

lassic mode, > and have been able to make it almost identical to my former Gnome 2 setup. My main problem with that route is that firstly I can't figure out how to enable it and second, I'm concerned that it may disappear in some future release. Erik -- --------

Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

ng was already pretty odious. Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

g WMs either. Cheers, Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Unicode and Postscript

ising. Cheers, Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Unicode and Postscript

Hi Peter, I thought you might be an early responder on this issue :-). pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: > >>>>> "Erik" == Erik de Castro Lopo writes: > > Erik> Hi all, Years ago I had a need to add text dynamically to a > Erik> template Postscrip

[SLUG] Unicode and Postscript

eers, Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Tutorial for a LaTeX package.

tle change of any WYSIWYG documentation package to ever catch up. I do however think there may be a LaTeX replacement at some stage, but that will most likely work much like LaTeX. Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.m

Re: [SLUG] Addressbook and Calendar apps

hoever else asks for it. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Huawei E585 pocket-wifi on vodafone network?

lopment files for the libusb library which is should not be related. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Huawei E585 pocket-wifi on vodafone network?

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > I'm trying to set up a Huawei E585 pocket wifi device on Ubuntu > 11.04. The device has a USB pid/vid of 12d1:1446 and network-manager > simply doesn't recognise it. This device is rather confusing. When plugged into the machine lsusb says:

Re: [SLUG] Huawei E585 pocket-wifi on vodafone network?

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > I'm trying to set up a Huawei E585 pocket wifi device on Ubuntu > 11.04. The device has a USB pid/vid of 12d1:1446 and network-manager > simply doesn't recognise it. > > Alternatively if someone could point me to documentation on how &

[SLUG] Huawei E585 pocket-wifi on vodafone network?

ld also be appreciated. Cheers, Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] search and replace multiple files?

r script is simply: #!/bin/bash mgdiff "$5" "$2" exit 0 HTH, Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] resolv.conf reset each reboot - static config - ubuntu server 10.04

u have defined your interface as static, why have you got resolvconf installed? Remove it (ie purge it), then make sure /etc/resolv.conf is not a symlink and then edit that file to your liking. Or better yet, defined them in /etc/network/interfaces. Erik -- ----------

Re: [SLUG] The 'nanny state' and freedom of choice

Marghanita da Cruz wrote: This is offtopic. Please take it elsewhere like slug-chat. Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.o

Re: [SLUG] Re: Article, Linux, APC

hich they will use to further the cause of Apple. The cause of Apple is in direct conflict with the causes of freedom, Linux and FOSS. Eri -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Article, Linux, APC.

ere removing Apple from the top rank will be far, far harder than the removal of Microsoft. Erik PS : Eben Moglen is well worth watching: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gORNmfpD0ak&feature=share -- -- Erik de Castro Lop

Re: [SLUG] Subscription-based netfiltering (parentally speaking)

he computer in the living room or somewhere else where there is a lot of regular family traffic. Regards, Erik (father of an 8 year old) -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Re: Virus Scanner

ftware which could have easily been prevented by keeping systems up-to-date. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscripti

Re: [SLUG] Re: Virus Scanner

gt; viruses we will get bitten as Apple has, one day, and it will be > harder than the gnome-look screensaver of the Proftpd compromise. That was a user failure. Dumb users need to be locked down so they can't compromise the systems they work on. Erik -- -------

Re: [SLUG] Re: Virus Scanner

ices. Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] linked in - please block

kedin.com/facebook.com/iamanidiot.com/etc. Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: XecureBrowser - looks like snake oil to me. (was Re: [SLUG] Browsers for banking)

Scott Finneran wrote: > On 11/11/10 13:29, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > One thing I like to do is use Firefox's profile manager to set up > > a profile which I only use for web banking. > > Nice idea. Do you do anything special on that profile or does it ju

Re: XecureBrowser - looks like snake oil to me. (was Re: [SLUG] Browsers for banking)

ill ask you to create one. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] On buying a laptop.

The HP has been excellent. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] CUPS and detection of printer presence

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > So, my question is, can a printer that only requires a PPD file > give me feedback like presence, paper status etc or do I need > to write a CUPS backend driver to get those features. Asking in the cups.development forum: http://cups.org/newsgroups.

Re: [SLUG] CUPS and detection of printer presence

Zenaan Harkness wrote: > From memory it > told me ink levels and only required a t522.ppd. Thanks that is a data point. Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group M

[SLUG] CUPS and detection of printer presence

file give me feedback like presence, paper status etc or do I need to write a CUPS backend driver to get those features. TIA, Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mail

Re: [SLUG] Bad sector's

xplain why all three disks are reporting problems. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: R: Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu disk in Sydney

Marika Ercolani wrote: > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > >Where in Sydney are you located? If you give a location there is a > >good chance there will be a knowledgable Linux user in the same > >area that can provide you with an ISO. > > I live at 207 Chalmers St,

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu disk in Sydney

same area that can provide you with an ISO. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Listing local wifi access points?

.org/doku.php?id=getting_started) -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Listing local wifi access points?

dave b wrote: > On 3 October 2010 16:10, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > > >> Does anyone know tool to list all local wifi access points with their > >> channel numbers and encryption types? Preferably command line (but I'm >

Re: [SLUG] Listing local wifi access points?

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Does anyone know tool to list all local wifi access points with their > channel numbers and encryption types? Preferably command line (but I'm > running Gnome with network manager on a Debian system if there is > something that fits in with that).

[SLUG] Listing local wifi access points?

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Re: [SLUG] Weird X/Gnome issue

Jeremy Visser wrote: > Erik de Castro Lopo said: > > When I power up the machine, the login screen comes up correctly at > > 1280x800 resolution, but when I login it switches to 1024x767 for no > > good reason. > > $ rm .config/monitors.xml You get a cookie! Well don

Re: [SLUG] Weird X/Gnome issue

Nick Andrew wrote: > On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 08:23:49PM +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > I have grepped $HOME/.gconf/ $HOME/.gnome2/ and $HOME/.gnome2_private/ > > for the string "1024" and found nothing display related. > > Can you strace your Window Manager

Re: [SLUG] Weird X/Gnome issue

right thing and the old one doesn't, with no idea what the difference is. I have grepped $HOME/.gconf/ $HOME/.gnome2/ and $HOME/.gnome2_private/ for the string "1024" and found nothing display related. Erik -- ---------- Eri

[SLUG] Weird X/Gnome issue

Any clues to fixing this? Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Reply-to address on SLUG posts

d if ponies farted rainbows . I won't hold my breath :-) Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Reply-to address on SLUG posts

ing but I choose to disagree. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Simple web authoring tools?

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Based on the output of the wdg-html-validator I should > choose Kompozer, because the mercuryvideos site has > fault-less valid HTML while the Yola generated site, > techfriend, is full of validation errors. Regardless of which, they are both attracti

Re: [SLUG] Simple web authoring tools?

d fix all problems before pushing the page to the web server using ssh. Cheers, Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription in

[SLUG] Simple web authoring tools?

experience with any of these or others? Cheers, Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://

[SLUG] Hardware recommendations

preferred but open to other options. Cheers, Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.a

[SLUG] EFA defends itself in Hansard

ing I encourage you to donate to this fine cause: http://www.efa.org.au/ Cheers, Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription inf

Re: [SLUG] SLUG monthly meeting: 26 June 2010

ne 25th, 2010. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] LD_PRELOAD

gt; How can I compile the links into the code, rather than a PRELOAD env setting? You can't. Instead, create a wrapper script containing: #!/bin/bash export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libv4l/v4l1compat.so exec your-webcam-program Erik -- ---------

[SLUG] Postfix and PCRE filtering

the subject line. Anybody have any idea why PCRE is only working with postfix some of the time? Cheers, Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://

Re: [SLUG] HTTPS Everywhere Firefox addon

Henare Degan wrote: > On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 13:12, Erik de Castro Lopo > wrote: > > Peter Eckersley of the EFF and Mike Perry of the Tor project have > > written a Firefox addon to make it easier to use Google's SSL > > search feature, among other mixed-

[SLUG] HTTPS Everywhere Firefox addon

ule format and update mechanisms, so that our rulesets will be interchangeable. Cheers, Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscr

Re: [SLUG] Skype submitting SILK codec to IETF

ce. Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Joomla

y not me :-)) means that GHC and Haskell libraries in Ubuntu 10.04 will likely be in a far better state than they have ever been before. Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] removing samba

uld be useful to have if you are running an ubuntu desktop machine. However, unless you really know what you are doing, you should probably keep ubuntu-desktop installed. Erik (who always uses the command line dpkg and apt-* tools) -- -

Re: [SLUG] 64 bit.

Ken Foskey wrote: > Flash. Flash is still buggy. This has nothing to do with 64 bit. Flash is just as buggy on 32 bit (I have and use both). Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Li

Re: [SLUG] packages.medibuntu.org?

Peter Miller wrote: > On Wed, 2010-01-06 at 20:31 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > > Anyone know whats happened to the packages.medibuntu.org repository? > > they work. Indeed. Must have been transitory. Erik -- ---

[SLUG] packages.medibuntu.org?

HI all, Anyone know whats happened to the packages.medibuntu.org repository? The root directory has an apache default "It works" page. Eruj -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Li

Re: [SLUG] R.I.P. Grant Parnell

happened? Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Turn of ant-aliased font in Gedit?

Hi all, Anyone know if its possible to turn off anti-aliased fonts in Gedit? Thanks, Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscri

Re: [SLUG] Google Chrome for Linux !!!

Well maybe it should have defaulted to a more restrictive scheme rather than a less restrictive scheme. If your ssh daemon can't validate a user with LDAP should the daemon left them in anyway or deny the user entry? Erik -- --------

Re: [SLUG] Google Chrome for Linux !!!

as getting at was that Facebook sent a message but changed things without ensuring that the message had be received by the recipient. For recipients who they could not confirm receipt of the messages there should have no change. Erik -- ----

Re: [SLUG] Google Chrome for Linux !!!

)? Did they send emails? Did they require an acknowledgement email saying "Yes, I understand the implications"? Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User'

Re: [SLUG] Google Chrome for Linux !!!

Facebook. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Google Chrome for Linux !!!

/20091212/tc_nf/70579 happened to all of the executives of Google/MS/Yahoo/Facebook/MySpace/whatever. Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Asset Tracking / Inventory Management

s emailed me a new version and the new feature worked perfectly." with: "I came across it on freshmeat.net but I don't know if its any good." somewhere in the middle. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro L

Re: [SLUG] Help -- I cannot boot into Ubuntu..

osing data, you should probably figure whats wrong and get it fixed. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Invitation for BALWOIS 2010 Conference

BALWOIS 2010 Secretariat wrote: > You are invited to participate at BALWOIS 2010 Conference on Water > Observation and Information Systems for Decision Support which will > be held from 25 to 29 May in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia. Dear Secretariat, You are invited to please fuck off! -- SL

Re: [SLUG] Any suggestions for places to do Personal Sprints in Sydney

y desks with a power point. Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Any suggestions for places to do Personal Sprints in Sydney

y desks with a power point. Erik -- ======= erik de castro lopo senior design engineer bCODE level 2, 2a glen street milsons point sydney nsw 2061 australia tel +61 (0)2 9954 4411 fax +61 (0)2 9954 4422 www.bcode.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] CodeCon 2009

ttp://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/codecon06.html http://www.mega-nerd.com/erikd/Blog/codecon08.html Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://

Re: [SLUG] VPS hosting

o that fast on real hardware even with a local deb mirror. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] "Send Link" in Firefox?

Heracles wrote: > It may be a problem in Firefox 3.5 perhaps. Confirmed. "Send Link" works with firefox 3.0 and doesn't work with 3.5. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - S

Re: [SLUG] "Send Link" in Firefox?

Heracles wrote: > It works fine on my setup. I have Thunderbird for mail on Ubuntu 9.04 > and Firefox is 3.0.14. Are you using Gnome? Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] "Send Link" in Firefox?

Hi all, Does anyone have a the "File -> Send Link" menu item in Firefox working? I'm running Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu Jaunty and Karmic. My preferred mail client is Sylpheed. TIA, Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lo

Re: [SLUG] BBC News: 40 Years of Unix

ats gone wrong rather than just give a python backtrace :-). Cheers, Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FA

Re: [SLUG] BBC News: 40 Years of Unix

ot;, line 344, in execvp _execvpe(file, args) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/os.py", line 380, in _execvpe func(fullname, *argrest) OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory I also tried webwarriors_09_21_08 and webwarriors_09_08_21 instead of webwarriors_09_xx_xx

Re: [SLUG] firefox 3.5.2 on linux

bits > of css. Hadn't noticed. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Chinese intruder yesterday

a non standard port also helps. Cheers, Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] Slow booting from a degraded raid1

unty and now the degraded raid1 boots after a 20-30 second delay which is more than acceptable. Cheers, Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - h

[SLUG] Slow booting from a degraded raid1

"Reading files needed to boot". Is there any way of reducing the duration of this stall? Cheers, Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - htt

Re: [SLUG] Re: White noise at the end of a WAV file that only Audacity can't see

> would mean the problem is in the Open implementations of ALAC decoders. Yes. Cheers, Erik -- ------ Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscr

Re: [SLUG] White noise at the end of a WAV file that only Audacity can't see

tic at the end? Recent versions of sndfile-convert (>= 1.0.18 I think) will correctly read the WAV file and create a flac file by doing: sndfile-convert a.wav a.flac. HTH, Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.

Re: [SLUG] apt-get public key problem

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Then if you decide to trust the key do: > >gpg --export A0DEA09F895F7630 | sudo apt-get add - And then do 'apt-get update' again. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http:

Re: [SLUG] apt-get public key problem

if you decide to trust the key do: gpg --export A0DEA09F895F7630 | sudo apt-get add - HTH, Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.o

Re: [SLUG] apt-get public key problem

be solved by doing : sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install ubuntu-keyring Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscrip

Re: [SLUG] aptitude removal problem - no space left on device

't be installed. 5Gb and its still not enough space Try 'apt-get clean' which clears out all the debs in /var/cache/apt/archive. Erik -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- SLUG - Sydne

Re: [SLUG] /proc and /sys

55) Most of those are virtual, with only /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda3 being real filesystems. On my machine if I did rsync -x / it would not include /home which is on /dev/sda3, but would include everything on /dev/sda1. Erik -- ---------- Er

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

ike the site of some hot new web 2.99 startup. -- ---------- Erik de Castro Lopo http://www.mega-nerd.com/ -- 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] HTTP server recommendations?

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > Apache, boa, lighttpd, something else? Rob Collins on irc suggested Apache so I installed that from an Ubuntu Hardy package. The setup was much easier than I remember it being. Standard HTTP and CGI worked out of the box. I would still be interested in hearing ab

[SLUG] HTTP server recommendations?

Hi all, I need a HTTP server running on Linux with: - easy setup - cgi - SSL The server will not be at all heavily loaded. Recommendations? Apache, boa, lighttpd, something else? Erik -- -- Erik de Castro Lopo http

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