On 24 Mar 2015, at 23:09, Voytek wrote:
> Is there any advantage in getting Apple optical drive over a third party
> optical drive?
I solved that conundrum by not using an optical drive at all (I don’t even miss
it), so I’m afraid I have no opinion there.
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On 24/03/15 14:02, Voytek wrote:
> Someone had asked me for Mac Air advice, know nothing about Mac,
> looking on Apple site, only choices I see is faster CPU, more RAM,
> more storage.
>
> more RAM and more storage, yes, is it worthwhile for a faster CUP?
Max out the RAM when you buy it because y
On 11/02/15 11:39, scott wrote:> Try this:
> sudo rm -f /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*
> then
> sudo dpkg --configure -a
Why are you suggesting the user _blindly_ wipe the sources.list.d directory?
That is irresponsible at best.
On 11/02/15 14:21, scott wrote:
> The sources.list.d directory is almost
On 27/10/14 08:02, Ashley Maher wrote:
> Opening a terminal and using vim is fine. However NetBeans IDE 8.0 is so
> slow as to be unusable. Eclipse is totally out of the question.
Interesting. I had a similar experience with the Ubiquiti AirControl2 and
Cisco ASDM software, which is so slow as t
On 27/08/14 20:47, William Bennett wrote:
> When last I used it, the command was dos2unix and I needed a dos
> file line ends converted
>
> When I mentioned this to a friend he sniffed and mentioned
> Tyrannosaus rex.
>
> Can anyone tell me what the latest command is, please?
I still use dos2un
On 27/07/14 19:50, William Bennett wrote:
> I experienced the problem associated with the BCM 4313 802 Wireless Network
> Adapter.
>
> I did not have this problem with earlier versions of Ubuntu, presumably
> because these versions had appropriate drivers for the adapter.
>
> Does anyone know wh
On 28 Jun 2014, at 18:45, Jake Anderson wrote:
> I suggested to the myth devs that they change to innodb by default and was
> basically laughed at
This is pretty common, and pretty indicative of the MythTV developers’ attitude
in general.
I once suggested they support PulseAudio natively and I
On 30/05/2014 16:36, li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
I have a user with with W7/TBird/IMAP on centos/dovecot 2.x server,
the user complains whilst he is composing lengthy emails he gets
'hour glass' over compose windows with some message about not being
able to save to draft folder,
he then powers off A
On 23/05/2014 02:57, Rick Welykochy wrote:
I have a friend living in near jungle conditions in a small town
in the Philipines that wishes to span about 400m - 500m from
an Internet connection to his house in the bush.
Buy a pair of Ubiquiti NanoStation M5 units. Cheap as chips, easy
web-based
On 10 Feb 2014, at 10:08, Tom Worthington wrote:
> By the way, the situation is not as urgent as previous thought, as security
> updates for XP will continue until the end of July of 2015:
> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2451550,00.asp
Untrue — the article has been misread.
Microsoft Se
On 31/12/13 17:49, William Bennett wrote:
> Question 1: If I download the latest Ubuntu to the thumb drive, will it
> override ie., replace, the version already there, or will it sit next to
> this version (assuming there’s room)? If it’s going to do this, it seems to
> me that I’d better delete th
On 06/12/13 12:13, William Bennett wrote:
> Can anyone tell me where I can get the latest (64 bit) Ubuntu, please?
Take your pick: http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/ubuntu/releases/
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On 24/11/2013 12:52, li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
Nov 21 09:25:39.035 /usr/sbin/amavisd[22499]: Net::Server: Binding to TCP port
10024 on host 127.0.0.1 with IPv4
Nov 21 09:25:39.035 /usr/sbin/amavisd[22499]: (!)Net::Server:
2013/11/21-09:25:39 Can't connect to TCP port 10024 on 127.0.0.1 [Permiss
On 6/11/2013 17:01, Jiří Baum wrote:
Can anyone tell me what it means when I get the error message "Bogus
PPPoE length field (1502)" a few hundred times a day, usually in
bunches? Always the same number, 1502, never any other.
Have you tried negotiating a differently sized MTU to see if it chan
On 5 Nov 2013, at 3:58 pm, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> "In addition it has also become clear that customers may also be able to
> generate high IO load in a similar manner to this maintenance with the
> potential to affect other clients systems. As a result we have now
> implemented hard IO limits o
On 01/11/13 21:56, li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
> It only took them one week of on/off outages to arrive at that, I guess
> they must've been very thorough in reviewing it.
>
> and, about an hour AFTER I got that email, senior idiot phoned me to tell
> me I've loaded vps in excess of it,s capacity.
So
On 13/09/2013 07:33, Ashley Maher wrote:
Is the coders list now defunct??
Certainly looks it. As such, I'd say coding questions are now on-topic
for this list. :-)
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On 02/06/13 21:52, Chris Barnes wrote:
> Token ring would work.
>
> Now, i wonder if anyone has already implemented token ring over i2c
> under linux.
Just for clarity, I meant ‘token ring *type* approach’, not token ring
itself. Perhaps ‘round robin’ would have been clearer.
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On 02/06/13 10:01, Chris Barnes wrote:
> come to think of it. the whole master/slave process of I2C would probably
> make it terribly difficult to implement tcp/ip since each device would have
> to be able to switch from slave to master to be able to send broadcasts
> like arp requests, netbios nam
On 07/04/13 17:28, Glen Turner wrote:
> I really should update AUSCERT's AL1999-004
> http://www.auscert.org.au/render.html?it=80&template=1 although apart
> from updating the bogon list and adding IPv6 there's not really that
> much which has changed in 13 years.
>From the article you linked:
On 07/04/13 10:58, Jake Anderson wrote:
> Presumably the requests are generally coming from a limited subset of
> addresses.
>
> That's what I do for the email spammers.
We are not talking about e-mail spam. If you had been paying attention
in the last couple of weeks, you would have known that t
On 7/04/2013 10:00, Nigel Allen wrote:
I had been puzzling for a while why my combined mail/web/dns server
was getting slower and slower until I realised my mistake. I had
inadvertently left my named available for the entire world to do
recursive queries on.
This means your server was likely pa
On 17/01/13 10:07, Tom Worthington wrote:
> I chose the HP Pavilion DM1-4108AU ($368).
On 22/01/13 10:35, David Lyon wrote:
> Alternatively, have you looked at using a Raspberry-PI.
>
> Linux works fine on that.
Well that’s quite a 1:1 replacement, isn’t it?
(Not.)
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On 19/01/13 18:50, Chris Barnes wrote:
> From what i understand about forking, a child can fork a child.
Correct.
> So therefore calling fork() from within a child shouldnt return
> zero...right?
A child can have a child, at which point it is a parent and child at the
same time.
I know both my
On 19/01/13 10:43, Del wrote:
> More specifically: The parent gets the PID of the child process. So if
> you need to fork a whole bunch of children and keep track of them, you
> can read back the return result of fork() and then shove it in some kind
> of array or structure. You can then send si
On 20/10/2012, at 12:58 PM, Martin Visser wrote:
> The antithesis of this is the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_pickup
> phenomenon
> noted in the UK when the punters put on the kettle for a cuppa all at the
> same during sporting matches and such.
Which reminds me of this one, during the last
On 18/10/12 10:58, David Lyon wrote:
> In the last few days, I've been reading studies showing that
> average power consumption of a PC is about 12W. Which
> is not incredibly high.
Makes me wonder how much I’m killing the planet with the 700W power
supply in my PC.
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On 19/08/2012, at 9:50 AM, li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
> SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length.
> (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)
That error occurs when trying to access a HTTP URL with https://. Not sure
exactly what would have happened in that circumstance, b
On 15/08/12 21:13, Jake Anderson wrote:
> What I'm after is some kind of online training course [...] Arguments
> over intelligence vs experience not withstanding these people have
> used a computer for the past 10-25 years and don't know how to drag
> and drop.
If they haven’t learnt in the last
On 17/08/12 07:08, li...@sbt.net.au wrote:
> I think HP server utility is restricted to run localhost only ? I've
> tried editing HP's conf 'localhost:3128' to '*:3128', that didn't
> work either
Try changing the "localhost" to "0.0.0.0". Don't forget to restart the
management app afterwards.
On
On 21/07/12 15:40, Amos Shapira wrote:
> (Writing from phone so can't test)
> It should be something like:
> sed -r -e 's/\[[0-9]{1,2}\]//g'
Now that's just showing off.
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On 30/06/2012, at 12:12 PM, David wrote:
> I have Ubuntu 10.04 server running as a guest inside Ubuntu 10.04 server KVM
> host.
>
> Periodically the guest freezes. I can't log in, and services stop working.
> Virsh loses control of the guest - that is, I can't shutdown or restart the
> guest.
Thus spake Heracles:
> Firstly check the set-up in your network manager. You may have
> accidentally replaced your old configuration file with the new "network
> configuration file provided by the developer" and may need to go through
> the set-up process again.
I have no idea what the above means
On 2/02/12 20:42, Rod Butcher wrote:
> Are there any things they can't do or can't connect to/interface with,
> which other proprietary systems can ?
Not really, all there are lots of things it can't do that an open system
can.
Like logging in as root. Or, y'know, compiling the whole OS from sour
On 1/02/12 13:09, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> I was one of the people who originally asked for the coder's list
> and now I'd like to suggest that it is time to shut it down.
As Matt Mullenweg once quoted, [0]
Pruning is an important and necessary step in growing roses. Pruning
keeps the pla
On 16/12/11 09:58, Jake Anderson wrote:
You should be using TRIM on everything that touches the disk, otherwise
it'll keep filling up its empty blocks table with stuff from your swap
writes.
Thanks for the tip.
I've now edited my /etc/fstab to include the 'discard' option for ext4
on my SSDs.
Thus spake Tom Worthington:
> with Linux taking up about 20 GB
Cripes — what are you filling it up with?
My fully loaded desktop PC which is pretty much a workhorse that hasn’t
been reinstalled since, gosh, 2008 or so (thus has a lot of cruft), uses
11GB on / (which includes everything except /ho
Hi Patrick,
Thus spake elliott-brennan:
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>
> auto eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
> address 192.168.0.12
> netmask 255.255.255.0
> gateway 192.168.0.1
The above is correct (I assume eth0 is the interface you are trying to
configure).
Dumb question, but have you t
Thus spake Voytek Eymont:
> I have userid/password to an aspx based website,
> what can I use to script a login and get info or monitor for new info on a
> page ?
>
> is wget the way to go for aspx site, or what's a good tool for that ?
Depends on how you log on to the site. Nothing fancy about a
On 14/11/2011, at 12:22, Rod Butcher wrote:
> the unit manager and team leader were
> god, and screens had to be and remain exactly as they had agreed with IT -
> every button & key must keep working as specified. & stay in the same place
> etc. Nothing to do with being dumbed down, but all to do w
On 14/11/2011, at 16:30, Glen Turner wrote:
> - GNOME3 - 4 - "Activities | Applications | Office | LibreOffice Writer"
Activities doesn't count as a mouse click — it's a hot corner. Indeed, it's
*more* efficient than a mouse click, as you just thrust your mouse in the
general direction of the
On 13/11/2011, at 17:59, Simon Rumble wrote:
> The problem here is that with Gnome3 (and they started this attitude in
> Gnome2), they make it very difficult to do things any way other than the
> default.
I work in tech support, doing a lot of phone support for non-technical users.
Let me tell yo
On 12/11/2011, at 22:21, Simon Rumble wrote:
> Gnome and Ubuntu have totally lost the plot. They seem to think removing
> options is the key to usability. At this point the Windows 7 GUI is looking
> good by comparison!
Those who forget history are bound to repeat it. People complained the same wa
On 01/11/2011, at 13:06, Jake Anderson wrote:
> On 11/01/2011 11:26 AM, Adrian Chadd wrote:
>> The problem, unfortunately is:
>>
>> * Supporting 30+ connections on a single AP is doable;
>> * .. and the commercial APs do it;
>> * .. but that source isn't open source.
> I think what jeremy is sayin
On 31/10/2011, at 16:09, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote:
> Does anyone know of any affordable wireless APs that can reliably
> handle 30+ connections?
You'll find that Wi-Fi is fundamentally unsuitable to that many wireless
clients on a single AP (with chatty XO traffic, anyway), whatever hardware
bra
Thus spake James Linder:
> I just tried all the gnome options but was unable to get right-click
> the panel (task bar) to offer the usual Add-Widgets etc.
That’s because the feature has been removed. GNOME Panel is but a shadow
of its former self.
Those suggesting that you use GNOME Classic are e
I wish it was green.
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Thus spake Ashley Maher:
> checking for fastcgi/fcgiapp.h... no
In this case:
apt-get install libfcgi-dev
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On 07/10/2011, at 19:11, Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> On Friday 07 October 2011 08:47:49 james o'regan wrote:
>>
>> I live in the bush, i unfortunately have to be with telstra next
>> g, phone & mobile broadband usb.
>
> for Mint and Kubuntu you can probably start with wicd and wi-fi radar.
> Use
On 05/10/2011, at 14:28, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> www.name.com is the web host, so, do I set a www.name.com.au host with
> permanent redirect ? or how ? (I used in the past httpd directive to point
> both hosts at same http/path/to/index.html, though I'm not sure that is a
> good idea ?)
Your hunch
On 29/09/2011, at 12:41, David Lyon wrote:
> They're definitely not so common in Australia, but in the middle east such
> as Turkey (well half europe/half middle east) most people have phones like
> that.
>
> Basically, if half of your friends are on one network, the other half are on
> another. S
Thus spake gonzo01:
> Under Windows XP ( a few years back) I used to run a gui prg ( cant
> remember its name) that showed every incoming connection by IP, host
> name and port - a bit like IPBlock in reverse.
gnome-nettool is the closest thing I know of, although that's just a GUI
wrapper to nets
Thus spake Jon Jermey:
> I did try and get around that by having
> VirtualBox start up and load virtualised Windows XP when the server was
> switched on, but it all got too complicated and we had reliability
> problems.
VirtualBox isn't really designed for headless server operation. Though
VBoxHea
On 22/09/2011, at 1:08 PM, James Linder wrote:
> 2) Use nautilus to 'connect to remote server'
Even fewer keystrokes, in Nautilus hit ^L (or anywhere in GNOME, hit Alt+F2
instead), and type 'ssh://yourserver.local'.
GNOME even makes the remote filesystem available to command-line apps via
~/.gv
On 07/09/2011, at 6:43 AM, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> where would ethernet show up insertion ?
ifconfig?
lsusb?
What distro is this running on? If you plug it into a PC running a different
distro where it works, what kernel module does it use?
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Thus spake Voytek Eymont:
> once ip changes, will that propagate to my CNAME...?
Yes.
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Thus spake Voytek Eymont:
> I have an older Dell Inspiron 700m laptop, I made a Linux USB boot system,
> set BIOS to USB HD boot, Dell boots OK from USB, but, doesn't seem to see
> the built in HD
Normally that should work fine. Sounds like a hardware problem to me.
Or, at the very least, hardware
Thus spake grant_malcolm_bai...@westnet.com.au:
> If there are any SLUG members in south-west Sydney I would be
> grateful if you could advise me as to the best options for continuing
> to host my site.
If your needs are simple, you would probably be well served by one of
the numerous web hosting
Thus spake Steven Tucker:
> If Kubuntu ran on his machine this thread probably would not have
> occurred. The part I think you may have missed above was the line
> "For some reason there is a huge issue with Kubuntu and his hardware
> that I have given up trying to fix, so I have installed Debian"
Thus spake Steven Tucker:
> For some reason there is a huge issue with Kubuntu and his hardware that
> I have given up trying to fix, so I have installed Debian (wheezy) and
> we both absolutely love it. The problem is it does not come with
> something like software center on KDE, and he is not abo
On Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:23:18 +1000, Darren Gibbs
wrote:
> My old email account, dagi...@gmail.com, has been hacked and stolen -
> unfortunately, the mongrel who stole it also changed all the recovery
> information so I can't recover it.
My suggestion is to fill this form out ASAP. Any of your onl
James Polley said:
> slug-sysadmins@ is a better contact address for problems like this.
Until someone borks the MX record next time round. ;-)
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David Lyon said:
> The computers 'to-die-for' now, are no longer the Windows machines
> but the Android and Apple computers.
>
> Clearly, they both are Linux derivates.
...
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Thus spake K L:
> 1. that is one reason I want it gateway/router based as opposed to
> host based. If he doesn't have the passwords to the gateway, he
> can't mess with it.
I can picture the owl with the 'O RLY?' caption beneath it right now. In
this context, we need to make the use of the words
On 09/06/11 12:05, K L wrote:
I have thrice now wiped the entire disk and re-installed, including
physically zero-ing out the first 512 bytes (which I understand to be
the MBR) so I would've expected the re-installs to deal with that.
If you're 100% sure the BIOS is set to boot off the correct
Hi Simon,
On 11/06/11 15:16, Simon Males wrote:
Quake 3 has being around for more then ten years. I bought an off the
shelf copy many moons ago and played successfully on Linux.
What is the recommend install process these days?
These days the official id Quake 3 release (1.32) runs rather poo
david said:
> Are there any "gotchas" if I just change my sources list and do a
> dist-upgrade? This is a complicated desktop which would be a horror to
> rebuild, so I really would rather know any problems in advance
It’s not like even officially supported upgrade scenarios go remotely
smoothly.
Jake Anderson said:
> A filter that blocks frequencies not used for voice could well
> improve the SNR as delivered to the ear. (The ear being quite able to
> hear frequencies outside the range of the PSTN).
ADSL uses frequencies above 25 kHz.
Human hearing can hear frequencies up to 20 kHz, whil
Ken Foskey said:
> So I can totally remove the filter if only adsl connected? Phone is
> on another socket on same line
Yes, absolutely. ADSL filters stop the voiceband devices interfering
with the modem, not vice versa.
On a splitter+filter, the phone plug goes through the filter, but the
ADSL
Zenaan Harkness said:
> Does anyone have on hand an xorg.conf modeline for a DELL U2410
> running at max resolution of 1920x1200?
>
> Or otherwise how can I calculate such a modeline from the monitor specs?
$ gtf 1920 1200 50
# 1920x1200 @ 50.00 Hz (GTF) hsync: 61.75 kHz; pclk: 158.08 MHz
Mo
Hey mate,
gonzo01 said:
> Line Attentuation Upstream 31.5
> Line Attenuation Downstream 44.0
>
> Are these figures reasonable?
They may be reasonable for your distance from the exchange. Either way,
44 dB attenuation is not my idea of fun whether it’s able to be improved
or not.
> Havent found
Jon and Hannah said:
> Yes Myth detects the card correctly. I am using EIT also.
> What part of it would be usign UDP, isn't that for entwork traffic not TV?
UDP would be for things like IPTV, which MythTV supports. Just
speculation on my part — sorry for the confusion.
> Following previous peopl
Jon and Hannah said:
> I've used scan (dvbscan) to generate channels.conf which has
> everything in it, but I can't for the life of me work out how to get
> myth to read that and use that as its channel list. I've tried
> google, and it just says "import channels.conf" - well how?
Why didn’t yo
Daniel Pittman said:
> I bet whatever device is doing NAT or firewalling on the outside of
> your network is dropping the "idle" connection
I would take the conntrack line of thought as Daniel suggests. Leading
on from that: Simon, did you change your router as a result of the
connection change?
elliott-brennan said:
> ...does this mean that we will keep the same mailing list or will we
> have to merge ours with LA?
What you are referring to has more to do with ‘SLUG the legal entity’,
rather than the technicalities. SLUG will always exist, whether an
independent legal entity, a subordina
On 26/02/2011 7:31 PM, Steven McDonald wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Feb 2011 18:33:22 +1100
> Jeremy Visser wrote:
>
>> /me dreams for a future of Vorbis over RTSP over IPv6
>
> Amen to that. Unfortunately, it seems about as likely to happen as HURD
> does. :(
On that tangent
On 26/02/2011 4:49 PM, Nick Urbanik wrote:
> Does anyone know how to access the new stream with mplayer or the
> like?
In addition to the info in my previous e-mail, it looks like the ABC now
has a bunch of Shoutcast AAC+ and MP3 streams. While I'd love to see Ogg
Vorbis streams, you've got to giv
On 26/02/2011 4:49 PM, Nick Urbanik wrote:
> Until last week, it was possible to access the streaming audio from
> Radio National with something like
> mplayer http://media3.abc.net.au/radionational
>
> This no longer works.
The following works for me:
$ mplayer
http://www.abc.net.au/res/streami
Jim Donovan said:
> A client who needs a server on which to run a Linux system. She
> reports that both Dell and HP in their quotes for supplying a
> suitable box insist that "licences are required before the server can
> be connected to another computer". Apparently different licences are
> needed
Peter Chubb said:
> as root, do
>lspci -v
>
> It'll tell you which driver module is associated with each PCI device.
Bikeshed issue, but can I suggest:
$ lspci -k
It also shows what kernel module is associated with the device, but
without all the other verbose fluff.
Case in point, this:
elliott-brennan said:
> Bugger. It was too late when I noticed the time.
>
> Is there somewhere one can download it from?
Yeah. I also had MythTV scheduled to record it, but slept in that
morning. Surely it's on somebody else's MythTV somewhere...
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Jim Donovan said:
> Commonwealth opens extra windows but only logs off in one of them;
> you have to close the others by hand. Not that they will work after
> logoff but it's lousy security.
I don't know what browser you use, but in Chromium I just typed
'netbank.com.au', logged in, and not a sing
Voytek Eymont said:
> I just discovered I have 'ipkg' on it, that should make things simpler
> (for me) ?
>
> # ipkg-cl --version
> ipkg version 0.99.163
Hey that's pretty cool.
> /tmp/hdd/volumes/HDD1/REC # ipkg-cl install ncurses_5.7-1_mipsel.ipk
> Installing ncurses (5.7-1) to root...
> ipkg:
Voytek Eymont said:
> / # chroot
> BusyBox v1.1.3 (2009.12.18-04:22+) multi-call binary
>
> Usage: chroot NEWROOT [COMMAND...]
>
> Run COMMAND with root directory set to NEWROOT.
Yay!
> guess not r/w ?:
>
> / # touch new1
> touch: new1: Read-only file system
That's to be expected if you'r
On Sun, 2010-11-07 at 09:01 +1100, Voytek Eymont wrote:
> I have a media player (Noontec) with ethernet, I can telnet to it as below.
> how would I go about to get say 'mc' on it ?
> do I search for binary build for mips ? realtek ?
Is the root filesystem read/write or read-only? Can you write to
Hi Jon,
Jon Jermey said:
> I'm currently running Windows XP for work in VirtualBox under Mint, and
> it is usable but sluggish. I'm in the market for a new PC and one of the
> options is to get one with hardware-assisted virtualization. Can anyone
> comment from personal experience on whether this
wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au said:
> I cannot find the .tgz file. I can only find
> CptCrosswords-1.2.Linix.x86.tar at
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/cpt-crosswords
Not sure what went wrong there. I clicked ‘Download’, and I got the .tgz
file. I know Internet Explorer 7 likes to de-gzip tar files w
wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au said:
> If I have an application that I wish to install --- a crossword compiler
> in this case and I have the download on the desktop --- it's a .tgz file
> --- is there an apt-get command 9or variation) that will install it?
Not really. The standard "./configure && mak
wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au said:
> I was looking for a program that would "clean up" the hard drive, ie.,find
> any scraps unconnected to anything and delete them.
Sounds like a solution looking for a problem. Have you any evidence that
is taking place at all?
(P.S. All versions of fsck since for
Josh Smith said:
> Can Linux have trouble booting if there is bad sectors on the disk.
Definitely. No operating system in the world has mental telepathy. Every
OS boots based on the data the disk gives it, and if the disk doesn’t
give the right data, no amount of Open Source Magic™ or Reality
Dist
james said:
> Guys can anybody suggest a www host service that works.
DreamHost. Easy to deal with, responsive free support, and servers that
are quick and snappy.
http://dreamhost.com/
Supports all the bog standard LAMP stuff, including all your favourite
PHP modules, and they are incredibly
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 22:06 +1000, elliott-brennan wrote:
> The missus has a Blackberry Bold (about 10 months
> old) with a big data allowance.
>
> I'm trying to tether the bugger and have tried a
> number of approaches:
Have you tried seeing if it appears in the network-manager menu? A few
mobil
Sharon Doig said:
> Perhaps you can help me with my question. I know there are networks for
> Librarians that advertise jobs as well as information on seminars. Does this
> exist for IT Professionals? I am interested in networks for NSW/ACT region.
> Any
> heads up appreciated.
You're probably
Jan Schmidt said:
> These commands will disable and then reenable metacity compositing:
>
> gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager -t bool false
> gconftool -s /apps/metacity/general/compositing_manager -t bool true
Metacity compositing yes. Compiz compositing no.
Given that Chr
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
Cheers,
Jeremy.
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On 16/06/10 10:41, Simon Rumble wrote:
> So I watch telly through MythTV and apparently you can silence the terrible
> drone on the World Cup broadcasts with some simple parametric EQ filters.
> Any ideas how I'd do that on my Mythbuntu machine? Ideally without delving
> into Linux audio config f
On 06/06/10 20:10, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
> If I send email from a gmail account with the word 'casino' in the
> subject line, the email is rejected and the gmail account gets a
> 'Delivery Status Notification' message.
>
> However, even with all the above, I'm still getting emails with
> 'cas
On 15/04/10 19:08, jam wrote:
> Autologin and I get invited to enter the wallet password to enable
> the wireless. How do I do away with that, to have nm automatically
> start?
Applications > Passwords and Encryption Keys
Right click on "Passwords: login", click Change Password, type your old
pas
On 06/04/10 07:25, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> I personally think it is something that everyone should know. At least
> according to the Herald article, such advice will be illegal (!) after
> Chancellor Conroy is finished with us.
The easiest way is with SSH.
$ ssh -D 9000 some_remote_unfiltered_ser
On 29/03/10 20:58, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote:
> How is this done? I'd rather not wipe the operative kernel by mistake.
This is done simply by removing the corresponding linux-image-X package.
Usually, they're also removed from the repository (and thus become
"local") when the kernel is upd
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