Re: [SLUG] SLUG isn't listed?!?!?!

2004-02-19 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Eddie F http://www.linux.org/groups/australia.html Good point. I've just mailed them to fix that up. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Software: Free as in Free Speech, not Free Beer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] stgeorge ibank busted?

2004-02-13 Thread Jan Schmidt
that they don't have a page to say so. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place. - H.L. Mencken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: Fwd: Re: Anyone listen to JJJ - MyDoom linked to Linux users]

2004-01-29 Thread Jan Schmidt
probably the work of spammers and credit card number sniffers. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. (Shut up! Bloody Vikings.) -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: Fwd: Re: Anyone listen to JJJ - MyDoom linked to Linux users]

2004-01-29 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Jeff Waugh (MLUG are fairly well known as a very trigger-happy and angry bunch...) To nitpick, it was forwarded from the LUV list, not MLUG. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids

Re: [SLUG] [Fwd: Fwd: Re: Anyone listen to JJJ - MyDoom linked to Linux users]

2004-01-29 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Jeff Waugh quote who=Jan Schmidt quote who=Jeff Waugh (MLUG are fairly well known as a very trigger-happy and angry bunch...) To nitpick, it was forwarded from the LUV list, not MLUG. Read it again... :-) Oh look at that. Never mind me J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] MPEG1/2 software encoder??

2004-01-18 Thread Jan Schmidt
for this at the moment, although none of the tools are as slick or well polished as the commercial Windows offerings. I have a plan to make a GStreamer based tool, but ask me again later :) J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yeah. The whole climax thing would make much more

Re: [SLUG] Copy Controlled CDs

2004-01-02 Thread Jan Schmidt
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 00:03, Shaun Oliver wrote: where does one find this plugin kevin? at the risk of being helpful, There are some links to Directshow filters from http://www.vorbis.com/software.psp?pid=2 J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Panic

Re: [SLUG] 2.6.0 killed my soundcard???

2003-12-22 Thread Jan Schmidt
/asound.conf i810 are REALLY bad sound chips - unfortunately they seem to be in every laptop :) The best sound I can get out of it is to mute every other source than PCM and Master, and not turn either one up full - as the 'full' setting is apparently 1-2dB above clipping level. J. -- Jan

Re: [SLUG] pine .deb and security

2003-12-14 Thread Jan Schmidt
chances? Pretty much - as much so as downloading any other executable off the Internet and installing it - if you don't trust the source, then you're in trouble. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas -- Arnold 'Ace

Re: [SLUG] find crapping itself

2003-12-10 Thread Jan Schmidt
what might be going wrong and waits for an answer. ;-) J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] stibbons Yeah. The whole climax thing would make much more sense if I'd paid attention. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info

[SLUG] ACT passes open source bill

2003-12-10 Thread Jan Schmidt
next, shall we? J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] stibbons Yeah. The whole climax thing would make much more sense if I'd paid attention. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] MS to charge for FAT file system

2003-12-09 Thread Jan Schmidt
Linux - but I'll defer to people with more legal knowledge as to what needs to happen there. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] stibbons Yeah. The whole climax thing would make much more sense if I'd paid attention. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Configuring the window manager

2003-12-02 Thread Jan Schmidt
. Theoretically this should be done by making sure you've got sawfish installed and then visiting the gnome control center. I like to: which sawfish to check it is installed, then killall -TERM metacity; sawfish gnome-session-save J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: iis vs apache - Re: [SLUG] win2003 vs samba

2003-11-27 Thread Jan Schmidt
and Open Source Software (FOSS) on any platform. I think he meant that 'use the one with the largest market penetration' argument would mean we should all be running Windows -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man

Re: [SLUG] Inner workings of NETDEV WATCHDOG

2003-11-21 Thread Jan Schmidt
.html As for the actual question, my only thought is that you have a network log daemon running try to send the logs somewhere, and when eth0 disappeared the packets went out the default route? J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting Friday 28th November 2003

2003-11-20 Thread Jan Schmidt
- Recording radio with free software, then Mark Greenaway - Musical things you can do with Linux + SLUGlets: quick talks and discussion of Linux and Free Software. Dinner Dinner at Spice Boys (Indian), $20 per head. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] Email hacking

2003-11-03 Thread Jan Schmidt
policy and it was decided by a large margin to leave it exactly as it is so as not to 'raise the barrier to entry' to new participants. Thank you, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] Real lamo question about scripts

2003-11-03 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] your questioin was nowhere near as dumb as mine, talking about dumb questions, what do I use to replace 'IF EXIST in a BAT file's: IF EXIST something DEL something in sh: if [ -x $FILE ]; then rm $FILE fi Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] Real lamo question about scripts

2003-11-03 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Jan Schmidt quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] your questioin was nowhere near as dumb as mine, talking about dumb questions, what do I use to replace 'IF EXIST in a BAT file's: IF EXIST something DEL something in sh: if [ -x $FILE ]; then rm $FILE fi if [ -e $FILE

Re: [SLUG] Monthly Meeting Friday 31 October 2003

2003-10-28 Thread Jan Schmidt
As a further addendum, the discussion theme for SLUGlets will be on spam e-mail and anti-spam techniques. Cheers, Jan. On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:28, Jan Schmidt wrote: Sydney Linux Users' Group Monthly meeting: October When: Friday, October 31, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway (http

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting Friday 31 October 2003

2003-10-27 Thread Jan Schmidt
. b) Moving to a moderated list.c) Changing it to a members only list.d) Changing it to a financial members only list.Option b) will revert to an a) unless we have at least 3 volunteers for a guaranteed 12 months. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting 31st October 2003 - rooms

2003-10-27 Thread Jan Schmidt
Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Re: [SLUG-ANNOUNCE] Monthly Meeting Friday 31 October 2003

2003-10-27 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=John Clarke On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 12:28:49 +1100, Jan Schmidt wrote: Jan, 7:10pm: Vote regarding mailing list policy Following recent events on the SLUG mailing lists, there will be a formal vote to decide future policy. More details below

[SLUG] Gnoppix 0.6.0-beta1 release

2003-10-14 Thread Jan Schmidt
http://www.gnoppix.org/ 0.6.0-beta1 released. Apparently just like Knoppix, but with a Gnome 2.4 desktop instead of KDE. /me puts it on his list to take a look at. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homer: No TV and No Beer make Homer something something Marge

Re: [SLUG] kmail not starting

2003-10-13 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Russell and from console kmail: relocation error: kmail: undefined symbol: _ZN8DwString4nposE This indicates that one of the libraries which kmail depends on has changed, and it can't link correctly any more. Did you do any package upgrades? J. -- Jan Schmidt

[SLUG] Getting involved in SLUG organisation

2003-10-06 Thread Jan Schmidt
). If you'd like to get more involved in SLUG and the organisation of future activities please join [EMAIL PROTECTED] via the mailing lists link on the slug website (http://lists.slug.org.au). Cheers, Jan ( and the SLUG committee) -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] Notice of motion at the next meeting.

2003-10-04 Thread Jan Schmidt
*. This will be discussed and voted on at this month's meeting, and doesn't really need to be covered any further here. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around

Re: [SLUG] ADMIN: Spam, how we're fighting it, and why you should stop talking about it...

2003-10-01 Thread Jan Schmidt
done this on our local spamassassin installs in the last few days. Cheers, J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Panic -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Spam Subscriptions

2003-10-01 Thread Jan Schmidt
Can people please stop CC'ing slug on these emails? J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] The Current CRAP from SLUG

2003-09-30 Thread Jan Schmidt
People, please! Enough already. If you really feel the need to continue this thread, please keep it off the lists, or at least send it to slug-chat, but at this point I think everyone has said everything that can be constructively said and then a whole lot more besides. J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] Notice of motion at the next meeting.

2003-09-27 Thread Jan Schmidt
there is a speaker willing to address the meeting on behalf of an option, it will be removed from the list before the vote. Regards, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all

Re: [SLUG]

2003-09-27 Thread Jan Schmidt
Details on becoming a financial member are available here: http://www.slug.org.au/membership.html Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homer: No TV and No Beer make Homer something something Marge: Go Crazy? Homer: Don't mind if I do! rrrarrgghar

Re: [SLUG] Monthly Meeting Friday 26 September 2003 - UPDATE

2003-09-25 Thread Jan Schmidt
:) quote who=Jan Schmidt Sydney Linux Users' Group Monthly meeting: September 2003 When: Friday, September 26, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway (http://www.slug.org.au/events/uts.html) SLUG's monthly meeting, featuring general talks, special interest talks and SLUGlets

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting Friday 26 September 2003 - UPDATE

2003-09-22 Thread Jan Schmidt
Sydney Linux Users' Group Monthly meeting: September 2003 When: Friday, September 26, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway (http://www.slug.org.au/events/uts.html) SLUG's monthly meeting, featuring general talks, special interest talks and SLUGlets. *** NOTE *** Please note the

Re: [SLUG] ide-cd under Debian Woody

2003-09-22 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Terry Collins *snip* lib/modules/2.4.18-686/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-cd.o base/kernel-image-2.4.18-686 *snip* 2nd question, which variation on the above do I install P3 system, single cpu. That one. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] Re: Athlon not cool in Linux

2003-09-18 Thread Jan Schmidt
- in the average case, it keeps the cpu at a lower temperature and that can help extend the life and improve stability, but if my CPU can't cope with the temperature it hits after an hour at 100% cpu, then it can't cope at all. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] two intractable problems

2003-09-17 Thread Jan Schmidt
to this reporter. Does Debian radiate more than Red Hat? Possibly the power supply in either the modem or the PC in question is no longer filtering as well as it used to. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants. Lovely Pants

Re: [SLUG] ATI + Nvidia open/closed

2003-09-06 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Simon Males Basically, how /good/ are the open ATI (DRI) drivers ? The open ones work well enough for me on a Radeon 8500 that I've never needed to try the closed drivers. My only lack is that I can't use my TV out. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] Linux Partition Resize

2003-09-05 Thread Jan Schmidt
/free apps that can do this though. GNU Parted (parted packing in Debian). http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/ I've used it once to resize, and several times to detect the positions of partitions when the partition table has been accidentally deleted. J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] can any one help me with Tcpdump

2003-09-03 Thread Jan Schmidt
server is a DHCP one. I like ethereal for this task. It provides a nice graphical interface for capturing, filtering and displaying packets. I'm not sure where you'd find rpms for ethereal. Possibly in your redhat repository already, or at apt-get.org I guess. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] cdrecord: Inappropriate audio coding

2003-09-03 Thread Jan Schmidt
output.wav to make it stereo, or: sox input.wav -t .cdr output.cdr J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening

Re: [SLUG] Accelerated X on ibook

2003-09-03 Thread Jan Schmidt
that covers all the things I check. There is useful output in /var/log/XFree86.0.log if DRI fails to load, but Direct rendering enabled should be reported. glxinfo should show: direct rendering: Yes Hope that helps, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting 29 August 2003 (Tomorrow)

2003-08-28 Thread Jan Schmidt
of Linux and Free Software. This month, discussion of kernel compilation. Dinner Dinner at Spice Boys (Indian), $20 per head. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you been half-asleep? Have you heard voices? I've heard them calling my

Re: [SLUG] basename files and paths with embedded spaces

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Schmidt
this? Googling has so far been fruitless. Looks like I might have to bsh it. Make sure your variable quoting is correct. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Software: Free as in Free Speech, not Free Beer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

Re: [SLUG] Dual head question

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Jeff Waugh quote who=Jan Schmidt There were some patches on the dri-devel mailing list recently to have 3D work across both desktops on dual-output cards like this. Last time I saw them, they worked, with wrinkles. It may appear in the DRI trunk sometime soon

Re: [SLUG] Dual head question

2003-08-14 Thread Jan Schmidt
well enough in most cases, though. There were some patches on the dri-devel mailing list recently to have 3D work across both desktops on dual-output cards like this. Last time I saw them, they worked, with wrinkles. It may appear in the DRI trunk sometime soon, or not. J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] mixED CAse to lower.case ?

2003-07-30 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Tony Green On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 11:49, Ken Foskey wrote: Shouldn't the $* be $@ to ensure that filenames with spaces works as well :-) Thank you for proving the point ;-) Which point? J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you been

Re: [SLUG] dam mandrake and @localhost

2003-07-29 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=James Gregory find /etc -type f -exec grep -ln `hostname` {} \; 2 /dev/null Or, more compactly grep -rln `hostname` /etc 2 /dev/null The important part being the -r for recursive grep J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ENOSIG -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] scp syntax

2003-07-29 Thread Jan Schmidt
directory you're in, not against the remote directory as you want... unless you put it in single quotes to prevent that... so, scp '[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/stuff/*.doc' theotherbox:~/destdir/ will work as you want. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games

[SLUG] FOSS Survey from businessoutlook.com.au

2003-07-24 Thread Jan Schmidt
. Thank you very much for your assistance. - End forwarded message - -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ENOSIG pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Recommended DVD player (RH9)

2003-07-22 Thread Jan Schmidt
, whereas the others will do many media formats. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you been half-asleep? Have you heard voices? I've heard them calling my name... -Kermit the Frog (Rainbow Connection) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] I killed gdm I think

2003-07-22 Thread Jan Schmidt
, then follow the instructions in the log message... rm /tmp/.X0-lock Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ENOSIG -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting 25 July 2003

2003-07-21 Thread Jan Schmidt
://www.postgresql.org -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came for the quality. I stayed for the freedom. -- Sean Neakums pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Transcode avi to divx

2003-07-16 Thread Jan Schmidt
, depending on my mood. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you been half-asleep? Have you heard voices? I've heard them calling my name... -Kermit the Frog (Rainbow Connection) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http

Re: [SLUG] GIMP, Gnome 2 and .xsessions-error bloat

2003-07-12 Thread Jan Schmidt
the bookmarks file. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas -- Arnold 'Ace' Rimmer, Red Dwarf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] CD tracks and their intervals.

2003-07-08 Thread Jan Schmidt
after audiofile1 After audiofile2, I'd command cdrecord -multi -padsize=30x60x75s audiofile3 I'd think this should work: cdrecord padsize=15x60x75s audiofile1 ... padsize=30x60x75s audiofile3 ... -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you been half

Re: [SLUG] CD tracks and their intervals.

2003-07-07 Thread Jan Schmidt
J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came for the quality. I stayed for the freedom. -- Sean Neakums -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] SLUG Committee Meeting 18th June 2003: Minutes

2003-07-01 Thread Jan Schmidt
the lectern system will help, as we'll be able to send the signal at line levels instead. We'll still need something at the camera end to mix in the 'audience' microphone, and set the output to an appropriate level for the camera input. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] Re: TV cards and software

2003-06-26 Thread Jan Schmidt
TV card for that also - it has a composite input, and my soundcard has RCA. I record video from /dev/video, and audio from /dev/dsp J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. Lovely Pants

Re: [SLUG] Anybody know what the story is with Radeon R9500/9600support?

2003-06-26 Thread Jan Schmidt
http://people.debian.org/~daenzer/dri-trunk-sid/ ./ It provides a 4.3.0 DRI config which works very well. There are a few errors for certain 3D scenes, but for the main cases it is perfect. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homer: No TV and No Beer make Homer

Re: [SLUG] Gimp Question.

2003-06-24 Thread Jan Schmidt
wizards can write their own scripts to automate any gimp operation they can think of. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas -- Arnold 'Ace' Rimmer, Red Dwarf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] ANNOUNCE: SLUG Meeting, Friday 27th June 2003

2003-06-23 Thread Jan Schmidt
, the discussion will be based around how to compile software packages from source. Meeting Announce: http://www.slug.org.au/events/detail.html?id=68 -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came for the quality. I stayed for the freedom. -- Sean Neakums pgp0

[SLUG] Reaction: SCO case: Australian LUGs says it's a storm in a teacup

2003-06-23 Thread Jan Schmidt
or secretary. This statement is, on the very best reading, too strongly worded. The Age normally displays a higher level of professionalism and impartiality than this. Yours sincerely, The SLUG committee. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP

Re: [SLUG] TV cards and software

2003-06-19 Thread Jan Schmidt
as an encoding and re-encoding later, I can capture at full framerate quite happily, but that ends up about 5gig an hour. I'm keen to justify to myself the cost of one of the Hauppage cards such as PVR350 which do hardware mpeg2 encoding - up around $300 if I import one myself. J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] WORD (.doc) to PDF under Linux

2003-06-05 Thread Jan Schmidt
-- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homer: No TV and No Beer make Homer something something Marge: Go Crazy? Homer: Don't mind if I do! rrrarrgghar! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] data recovery

2003-06-05 Thread Jan Schmidt
there. If that failed, I'd try and dd the raw data off onto a file on the PC in the hope that I'd at least have copy of the raw blocks on a reliable disk J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ENOSIG -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info

Re: [SLUG] restarting knopix download

2003-06-01 Thread Jan Schmidt
is to rename the corrupted file and then use dd to copy something like all-but-the-last-20meg to a new file with the original name and then restart the download to that. mv knoppix.iso knoppix-old.iso dd if=knoppix-old.iso of=knoppix.iso bs=10M count=58 wget -c http:// J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] Hiya!

2003-04-04 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Andar Broment Hi! The Name's Muskie. I'm, well, a complete, utter, total, Uber N00b To linux (yay, another one, you say) and I just wanted to say Hi, so.. yeah. Hiya! :P Hi Muskie, Welcome to the list :) J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] really slick screensavers..

2003-04-03 Thread Jan Schmidt
/ As soon as the libopenal0 breakage in debian unstable disappears, I'm keen to give them a try :) J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas -- Arnold 'Ace' Rimmer, Red Dwarf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

Re: [SLUG] i386, i586,i686 for AMD XP

2003-04-01 Thread Jan Schmidt
I'd be much happier with that. Personally, I reckon you can't go past dvdrip for this. On my Athlon 2000 though, you're still talking around 5 hours to transcode a DVD at good quality. I use the sources on http://marillat.free.fr/ for this, and the transcode package. J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] printf control code question

2003-03-24 Thread Jan Schmidt
. printf(\r10% Complete); fflush(stdout); printf(\r20% Complete); fflush(stdout); -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] stibbons Yeah. The whole climax thing would make much more sense if I'd paid attention. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

Re: [SLUG] VIA EPIA 8000 TV-OUT anyone?

2003-02-23 Thread Jan Schmidt
for you: http://epiafb.sourceforge.net/ Also, at LCA, Alan Cox said that he had the chipset specs from VIA and it was on his list to add support for them. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Panic -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] quick question

2003-02-20 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=Jeff Waugh sed 's/\(.*\)/insert into table1 (\1);/' myfile.csv sed 's/.*/insert into table1 ();/' myfile.csv :) (he didn't ask for the , btw) -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas -- Arnold 'Ace' Rimmer

[SLUG] Next SLUG Meeting - Friday 31st January, 2003

2003-01-13 Thread Jan Schmidt
with Linux, to get help, or to provide it. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. (Shut up! Bloody Vikings.) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

Re: [SLUG] Via Eden/Mini-ITX systems

2003-01-06 Thread Jan Schmidt
quote who=[EMAIL PROTECTED] Where are people buying these Edens from? Are you buying whole systems or putting them together yourself? http://www.auspcmarket.com.au have some of the slower ones, and the faster ones 'coming soon'... just the mobos J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] X problem... I think

2002-12-14 Thread Jan Schmidt
at all and have had to restart the system! If you DON'T switch to another session on the KVM, but leave the computer idle, does this still happen? I'm thinking about possible problems that are related to the screensaver and not to the KVM at all? J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] bt878

2002-11-18 Thread Jan Schmidt
the options for my BT878 based FlyVideo 98FM Cheers, J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing. -Tom Dreesen -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

Re: [SLUG] Compilation in C

2002-11-13 Thread Jan Schmidt
one is ELF 32-bit MSB executable SPARC32PLUS Version 1, V8+ Required, UltraSPARC1 Extensions Required, dynamically linked, not stripped. That should definitely do it did the -mcpu=v8 option actually get picked up and used in the gcc commands which ran? J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] what is microcode??

2002-11-11 Thread Jan Schmidt
fetch updated microcode files and insert them. All the kernel option does is provide a device in /dev which can be used for uploading such binaries to the CPU. Cheers, J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants. Lovely

Re: [SLUG] Kernel patch question

2002-11-10 Thread Jan Schmidt
. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas -- Arnold 'Ace' Rimmer, Red Dwarf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Pentax

2002-11-10 Thread Jan Schmidt
- You can just mount the /dev/sga device (I think it was that one) and treat it as a removable disk. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing. -Tom Dreesen

Re: [SLUG] Timeout delay during apt-get update ?

2002-11-09 Thread Jan Schmidt
line from It really depends on the speed of the machine. For me, this bit is about 10 seconds. I'm not sure of all the things apt does here, but they have to do with reading the files that have just been fetched, and merging the lists of packages into the database. J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] Script with FTP interrupt

2002-11-09 Thread Jan Schmidt
suggesting a script based on the perl Ftp module. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants Pants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. Lovely Pants, wonderful Pa-ants. (Shut up! Bloody Vikings.) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Video editing

2002-10-23 Thread Jan Schmidt
this Friday night, you'll be able to see Jan talking about exactly that. :-) Well, the bits of it that I've figured out ;) J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stoke me a clipper, I'll be back for Christmas -- Arnold 'Ace' Rimmer, Red Dwarf -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

Re: [SLUG] req: for solaris for intel media and a little question

2002-10-14 Thread Jan Schmidt
. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music. - Unknown -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] St Geo (java) Mozilla

2002-10-14 Thread Jan Schmidt
?? (It seems sometimes on both my systems that the bottom status bar does a bunk, I can't work out how to get it back. Restarting X re-enables it.??) Ii'll leave this for someone who uses KDE to handle :) J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] I came for the quality. I

Re: [SLUG] St Geo (java) Mozilla

2002-10-14 Thread Jan Schmidt
. Cheers, Jan. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] stibbons Yeah. The whole climax thing would make much more sense if I'd paid attention. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] CDRW problem

2002-10-06 Thread Jan Schmidt
a little like directCD, but I haven't seen it yet, and it would still not change the way you mount the CDs J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching

Re: [SLUG] CDRW problem

2002-10-05 Thread Jan Schmidt
configuration, I'd think this indicates a bad CD, or a bad drive. Hope that helps lead you somewhere useful. Cheers, J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Karaoke bars combine two of the nation's greatest evils: people who shouldn't drink with people who shouldn't sing

Re: [SLUG] Quake III 4 Linux

2002-09-26 Thread Jan Schmidt
and other 3D runs really well on my ATI Radeon video card (1280x1024, max detail in Q3 = 82FPS :)) ) J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you been half-asleep? Have you heard voices? I've heard them calling my name... -Kermit the Frog (Rainbow Connection) -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Terratec DMX 6FIRE

2002-09-26 Thread Jan Schmidt
ago too -- I haven't seen anything for linux that lets me install DSP patches and set up the routing as easily as the windows apps do it. (I've only seen the Linux command line tools) J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] stibbons Yeah. The whole climax thing would

Re: [SLUG] Tux in a slouch hat

2002-09-24 Thread Jan Schmidt
=enlr=ie=ISO-8859-1q=tux+redhat J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Open Source Software: Free as in Free Speech, not Free Beer -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Wine --managed?

2002-09-24 Thread Jan Schmidt
and if there is an alternative. Oops.. I'll send to the list for longevity. I have the following in the [x11drv] section of my ~/.wine/config ; Allow the window manager to manage created windows Managed = Y Cheers, Jan -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stoke me a clipper, I'll

Re: [SLUG] Video editing software

2002-09-23 Thread Jan Schmidt
much ;) J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Panic -- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug

Re: [SLUG] Next SLUG Meeting - Friday 27th September, 2002

2002-09-23 Thread Jan Schmidt
/mapsdirections/bway.html Cheers, Jan. quote who=Jan Schmidt Monthly Meeting for September When: Friday, September 27, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway NOTE: The rooms for this month have not yet been finalised - we will post a followup as soon as they are sorted out Plan

Re: [SLUG] ADSL modem

2002-09-22 Thread Jan Schmidt
to really watch for? J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homer: No TV and No Beer make Homer something something Marge: Go Crazy? Homer: Don't mind if I do! rrrarrgghar! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au

[SLUG] Next SLUG Meeting - Friday 27th September, 2002

2002-09-18 Thread Jan Schmidt
help, or to provide it. This month, we will have Anthony Rumble introducing the Unix file permission model, and Paul Copeland demoing OEone desktop, as well as QA time See you there! J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't Panic -- The Hitchhiker's Guide

Re: [SLUG] Wine and Pagemaker

2002-09-09 Thread Jan Schmidt
at this point and explain how I can do that in the free wine distro... Gus? I play games like Jedi Knight II and Max Payne, and also have recently discovered that winex will work for the electronic software keying in Altera's electronic design packages. Cheers, J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] Sound vs. Mouse - Troubleshooting Approach?

2002-09-09 Thread Jan Schmidt
is never travelling the computer's PCI bus as digital data for playback, it just goes straight through the sound card. Tips for approaching troubleshooting this? Are there any on screen changes like the audio mixers shifting or the TV window title changing? J. -- Jan Schmidt

Re: [SLUG] Xinerama config for ATi 7500VE

2002-09-04 Thread Jan Schmidt
accelerated 3D out of this configuration? glxinfo should tell you. J. -- Jan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you been half-asleep? Have you heard voices? I've heard them calling my name... -Kermit the Frog (Rainbow Connection) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

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