Re: [SLUG] Gutsy cdrom boot problems.

. Anyone have any idea hot I can boot and avoid this cd driver? You need to blacklist the module. I found the following reference that may help: http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-bugs-dist%40lists.debian.org/msg351306.html Regards -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17

[SLUG] Multimedia keys and keyboard repeat

. I figured out a hack. I run the keytouchd app and kill it. The keyboard repeating problem goes away. My questions are: 1. Is there a command like xmodmap to control key repeats for specific keys? 2. What does keytouchd do to stop multimedia keys repeating? Thanks -- Joseph Goncalves mailto

Re: [SLUG] Latex question: chapter style

at for future questions: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?introduction=yes Regards -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] GanttPV?

shift in project management software that would appeal to Developers who like text editing and don't like using the mouse. -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 -- Uh, so. Let's have a conversation. Uh, I think we'll find that we have

Re: [SLUG] Wireless Broadband for Linux

with better ping times, download speeds and download quota with $29 plan. I easily get 2Mbit/s downloads and sometimes even quicker. 100 ms ping times to my home ADSL2+ account and they have good coverage within capital cities. Works a treat with linux. Regards -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] DNS app

the address of hosts that were given addresses through dhcp, which is quite useful. Regards -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17 6824 C692 9FF0 1DAF 7DAE E661 -- Zapp: Now that's a wave of destruction that's easy on the eyes. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Locking network interface number to specific MAC address

this automatically, so if a device is used for the first time, the udev rules get created automatically and the so the interface name for the device doesn't change across reboots. I've just copied the rules generated. Cheers, Erik Regards -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6 71CF 87F9 6B17

Re: [SLUG] Open source groupware solutions

only issue with it so far is that I'd prefer to keep my existing mail infrastructure. Is it possible for it to co-exist with an existing IMAP service? I'm not sure how phpGroupware or eGroupware works with existing IMAP infrastructure. -- Pete Regards -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL

Re: recommended internet wireless (was: [SLUG] Bigpond NextG on Linux (Ubuntu)?)

card for previous versions of kernel). Fast connection, I got over 2MB/s with a broadband test. 3 also gives the modem away free if you have a 2 year contract or you pay $10 per month for modem on 1 year contract. I got recommended the service from a SLUG member. Regards -- Joseph Goncalves

Re: [SLUG] Two CUPS questions

packages, which have a compilation of ppd files as well gimp-print and guten-print drivers from linuxprinting.org ... I'm not sure how the foomatic thing works, but I know that when I installed it, I had a heap of printer drivers ready for use. Regards -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] Academic research software

of Vim is well worth it. If you have a aptitude for programming then definitely learn LaTeX. Here is a link to a really good LaTeX FAQ that teaches you to do stuff that will be hard to find otherwise... http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html -- Joseph Goncalves mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 66D6

Re: [SLUG] Academic research software

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Alan L Tyree wrote: On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:11:57 +1100 Joseph Goncalves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Feb 2007, Russell Davie wrote: snip Kile is a more user-friendly KDE-based TeX/LaTeX editor: http://kile.sourceforge.net/ KBibTeX specifically

Re: [SLUG] Vista preview on Seven Sunrise

Does Vista suffer from the time from installation - speed problem. That is does Vista run slower the longer you have it installed on your machine? On Monday 29 January 2007 07:53, Howard Lowndes wrote: I've just watched a preview of Vista on the Seven Sunrise program and all I can say is:

Re: [SLUG] firefox 2.0, flash 9 and fc 5

On Wednesday 24 January 2007 09:40, Luke Vanderfluit wrote: Hi. I'm having plenty of probs with flash under firefox. When Adobe released the stable version of 9 in January, I thought my woes would be over but no. Having the flash plugin in my plugins directory for firefox 2.0 causes the

Re: [SLUG] Low power domain controller / user authentication ?

Hi Greg, The NSLU2 is a device from Linksys that is Linux based that was originally designed to share a USB drive over a network. It uses less than 10W. It is eminently hackable. My one is running Debian, but you have so much options with this device. http://www.nslu2-linux.org/ Regards Joseph

[SLUG] DIY networking kit at Aldi.

Hi All, There is a good value networking kit comming up on Thursday 11th at Aldi stores. For under $40 you get: - 50m of Cat 5e UTP network cable - 1 pair of tongs (I think they mean crimp tool) - 20 RJ45 connectors - 50 cable holders for wall mounting - 1 wall outlet with 2 sockets

Re: [SLUG] wifi extra range needed

I got a nice $12 30cm wok that gives me 15dB+ (I confirmed this by measuring signal strength without and without wok). I used a $28 Shintaro branded USB device which uses the rt73 chipset supported by the rt2x00 driver. Apparently the driver supports master mode (but I couldn't get it to

Re: [SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

try: cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/trip_points to see what temperature the computer will turn off at and cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/temperature to see the temperature the computer is currently at... That's interesting, I didn't know about those, though I do have a temp

Re: [SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

What type of cpu does your laptop have? On Thursday 04 January 2007 05:17, Howard Lowndes wrote: Sadly I now discover that my lappy is not capable of cpu speed control :( Joseph Goncalves wrote: try: cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/trip_points to see what temperature the computer

Re: [SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

cpufreq_stats.ko Any ideas? Joseph Goncalves wrote: What type of cpu does your laptop have? On Thursday 04 January 2007 05:17, Howard Lowndes wrote: Sadly I now discover that my lappy is not capable of cpu speed control :( Joseph Goncalves wrote: try: cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone

Re: [SLUG] Computer keeps turning itself off.

On Wednesday 03 January 2007 14:32, Penedo wrote: On 03/01/07, Adelle Hartley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using xubuntu via SSH and the computer keeps turning itself off. Sometimes, /var/log/syslog contains a message about terminating on signal 15, but usually nothing. My first

Re: [SLUG] howto backgrade Firefox to v1.5 in Edgy?

On Sunday 24 December 2006 10:39, Sonia Hamilton wrote: * On Sat, Dec 23, 2006 at 08:26:07PM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: What is the best way to backgrade Firefox to version 1.5 in Ubuntu Edgy? I've done some more playing this. I backgraded to Firefox 1.5, still got the problems, worked

Re: [SLUG] editing iptables on Centos

On Saturday 23 December 2006 15:18, Voytek Eymont wrote: On Sat, December 23, 2006 2:44 pm, donohueb wrote: you may prefer to manually write iptables, however I use a nice front end called guarddog. Ben thanks, I'd prefer to use some utility, but, I only have ssh access; is there

Re: [SLUG] Suspend and IR

On Friday 03 November 2006 13:54, Kevin Saenz wrote: I have gentoo running MythTV, I would like to build suspend into the kernel and use the USB IR to start up the system. Is this possible? Or do I have to use some sleep function that is only actioned when using the power button on the remote

Re: [SLUG] NSLU2 Stories

On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:22, Simon Males wrote: Hello Sluggers It's been brought to my attention that the Linksys NSLU2 runs Linux and that there are projects in existence creating custom firmware. Much like the WRT54G. You can get Debian installed on the NSLU2 too

Re: [SLUG] NSLU2 Stories

On Monday 30 October 2006 10:04, Joseph Goncalves wrote: On Wednesday 25 October 2006 16:22, Simon Males wrote: Hello Sluggers It's been brought to my attention that the Linksys NSLU2 runs Linux and that there are projects in existence creating custom firmware. Much like the WRT54G

Re: [SLUG] dvb-t

On Wednesday 11 October 2006 23:40, Jon Wilson wrote: Anyone use a USB digital TV device with any success? I have a MythTV setup with two DVB-T cards: A TwinHaun and Avermedia card. Both are BT878 based. But they have different tuner chips. From what I have read and experienced the TwinHaun

Re: [SLUG] IPv6

Hi Martin, While in some respect, I share your sentiments (in wanting to get people to think about the move to IPv6) I still think you are way too early. I have been doing network designs and consulting for a the very biggest corporate and government bodies for the last 18 years or so. I

Re: [SLUG] Rotating images according to exif data

On Tuesday 03 October 2006 09:07, Simon Males wrote: I have a stack of photo's from my digital camera and many of then need to be rotated. Is there a tool that will go through a directory of images dig up exif data (using say extract) and rotate it respectively with imagemagik ? With Konqueror

Re: [SLUG] database schema tools

On Sunday 01 October 2006 08:43, ashley maher wrote: I'm working on a large database. I have the schema. Does anybody know a good FOSS tool to take the schema text file (mysql) and produce a nice diagramme from it? Not related to your question but interesting to know anyway... phpmyadmin has

Re: [SLUG] Contracting stuff: wrap it into a company or PAYE through agency?

There is a good reason to get a PTY Limited company in that is says LIMITED. In short it means that if you do something WRONG they can only sue the COMPANY for every cent it has. Leaving YOU with your house and car and other possessions intact. If you only have a business name and you do

Re: [SLUG] k7-smp kernel and ndiswrapper

On Tuesday 05 September 2006 12:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] For me the easiest way was a pcmcia wireless card that did work, abandoning the onboard one. So for me it would be easy: SMP K7 (with slight advantages over 1386) + NVIDIA 64 (again grin you need the kernel headers to build

Re: [SLUG] print image across multiple pages?

Does anyone know of a convenient way of printing a large image across multiple pages (on a standard A4 printer)? I've tried the various dialogs in GIMP, etc, and drawn a blank. I know that KDE has it as one of the tabs in the print dialog but I never got it to work. There is a utility called

Re: [SLUG] print image across multiple pages?

On Friday 25 August 2006 00:03, Joseph Goncalves wrote: Does anyone know of a convenient way of printing a large image across multiple pages (on a standard A4 printer)? I've tried the various dialogs in GIMP, etc, and drawn a blank. I know that KDE has it as one of the tabs in the print

Re: Working PCI wireless [Was: [SLUG] PCI Wireless cards]

On 5/30/06, Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This one time, at band camp, Lindsay Holmwood wrote: Oh, that's neat. IIRC, the driver supports master mode. Ralink did a great job in releasing their drivers under the GPL.[1] Cool! Can anyone recommend a rt2500 minipci a/b/g

[SLUG] Wifi hotspots

Hi Slugs, Does anyone know about how wifi hotspots at internet cafes and restaurants operate and what I need installed on my computer in order to access the wifi hotspots. Are the hotspots encrypted? Do they use a VPN tunnel? Do they block ports? Do you get a non rfc-1918 address? So far I