Re: [SLUG] url openmoko third party wiki site mentioned at the talk?

2007-09-28 Thread Mark Chandler
Jamie Wilkinson wrote: Hi, Does anyone remember what the last URL in the OpenMoko talk was? I remember openmoko.org, openmoko.com, and then a wiki at openmoko.something.org. Thanks! I wasn't at the talk, so I could be wrong, but the main OpenMoko wiki is at http://wiki.openmoko.org -- SL

Re: [SLUG] iptables defualt policy

2007-09-10 Thread Mark Chandler
Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 02:42:48PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am just going through my firewall setup and I notice I can no longer do iptables -P INPUT REJECT when did this happen ? I could have sworn that is

Re: [SLUG] Query on The Gimp

2007-07-22 Thread Mark Chandler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've just finished installing Ubuntu 7.04 and decided to look at The Gimp. According to the Help file, the help files are missing. In particular, I was told that gimp-help-en was nowhere to be found. I've seen this before, when I was using Fedora. Is there something spe

Re: [SLUG] Rusty migration complete

2007-07-21 Thread Mark Chandler
Lindsay Holmwood wrote: Rusty's migration is complete. It took slightly longer than expected due to memory issues, but things are back up and running again. Thanks for your patience, Lindsay Congratulations on a successful migration. :-) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Not good publicity for Linux, is it?

2007-07-18 Thread Mark Chandler
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:40:34AM +1000, Marghanita da Cruz wrote: > Dean Hamstead wrote: > >http://australianscreen.com.au/help/ > > > >some may be happy to note that in the FAQ w3c standards compliance is > >mentioned, ie, safari and ff are listed as should work perfectly. lynx > >even gets a

Re: [SLUG] OpenMoko.com online

2007-07-11 Thread Mark Chandler
Thanks for digging that out. I'll post your reply on the openmoko community list, in case someone else has the same questions. brendan wrote: Gents, ACMA is the Australian Regulator. This page http://www.acma.gov.au/WEB/STANDARD//pc=PC_1687 seems to cover your questions. Brendan Puck.. On

[SLUG] OpenMoko.com online

2007-07-09 Thread Mark Chandler
For those interested, the OpenMoko.com site went live today. It's now possible to order the pre-release (still in development) version of FIC's Neo 1973, Linux-based smart phone. If you haven't heard about this, I recommend checking out www.openmoko.org and www.openmoko.com. Cheers, Mark C.

Re: [SLUG] Glynn Foster on Project Indiana at SOSUG

2007-07-06 Thread Mark Chandler
James Purser wrote: On Sat, 2007-07-07 at 11:50 +1000, Mark Chandler wrote: Thanks for the heads-up. I hope to make it out for that. I'm particularly interested to see how Sun are positioning Indiana given Ian Murdoch's comments on the latest LugRadio ep. I did an inte

Re: [SLUG] Glynn Foster on Project Indiana at SOSUG

2007-07-06 Thread Mark Chandler
Jeff Waugh wrote: Hey, Glynn Foster (who many of you will know from linux.conf.au, GNOME, various FLOSS events, etc) will be at the Sydney OpenSolaris User Group next Monday, speaking about Project Indiana. What is Project Indiana? A project to create a binary distribution of Open Solaris that

Re: [SLUG] routing

2007-06-06 Thread Mark Chandler
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wednesday 06 June 2007 18:27, you wrote: In the hope that someone can say "YouIdiot" here are my routing woes: server pings logger 1077.886219 192.168.1.1 -> 192.168.1.102 ICMP Echo (ping) request 1077.914266 192.168.1.102 -> 192.168.1.1 ICMP Echo (p

Re: [SLUG] modprobe/usbserial weirdness

2007-05-13 Thread Mark Chandler
I think there's a third "debug" parameter for the usbserial module from looking at the output of "modinfo usbserial". Try modprobing it with debug=1 to get some logging going. Other than that, I'm not much help. Although, it sounds like the usbserial generic driver is having trouble allocating

Re: [SLUG] Grub problem???

2007-02-12 Thread Mark Chandler
I seem to remember that I had to use a "hide" directive to make Windows think that it was booting from the "C" drive, or the first drive in the list. In your case, I guess you'd have something like the following, assuming you have two partitions per sata/scsi disk. title Fussy OS hide (hd0,0

Re: [SLUG] Networking ... explain

2007-02-10 Thread Mark Chandler
I think that unless the ADSL router has a route to the 192.168.0.0 network, it can't route packets pack from the Internet. Its default route is probably something from your ISP. As packets come back from the Internet destined for 192.168.0.x, the router only has a route to 192.168.5.0 or the def

Re: [SLUG] Make The Move website launched

2007-01-02 Thread Mark Chandler
Nice work! I like the snappy title; something I'll be able to remember when talking with potential movers :) Just in case you hadn't seen it, a live Fedora Core 6 CD has been announced on www.fedoraforum.org. I can't vouch for how good it is, but I thought you might want to know for the list o

Re: [SLUG] DNS - Xen - Virtual server hosting

2006-02-13 Thread Mark Chandler
I'm not sure I can see a way for this to work. I think you may need some sort of web-proxy or gateway to redirect HTTP requests to the virtual hosts based on their FQDN. Once the web address has been resolved to an IP address, that IP address will be contacted and netfilter will not be aware o

Re: [SLUG] Re:tv setup

2006-01-22 Thread Mark Chandler
I'd have to get a different change-management system than fridge-notes. Michael Fox wrote: On 1/23/06, Mark Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just to chime in with my two cents: I'm now thinking of adding a second tuner, so I can watch and record. 2nd tuner is good, but it also

Re: [SLUG] Re:tv setup

2006-01-22 Thread Mark Chandler
Just to chime in with my two cents: I have a systen with an Athlon XP 2000+, 1GiB RAM, nVidia 6200-based card with component-video connectors. This is running Gentoo with the latest released updates (inc. kernel 2.6.14, Myth 0.18.1), and provides front- and backend functions. The digital tuner

Re: [SLUG] smh media streaming now windows only- link

2005-11-03 Thread Mark Chandler
wow. you learn something new every day. There's even a specific SMH script, but it seems to deal with ad-blocking rather than assisting MPlayer. This has got to be what he was talking about, though. Tony Green wrote: I wonder if he meant "Sea Monkey". But, I can't see anything obvious fro

Re: [SLUG] smh media streaming now windows only- link

2005-11-03 Thread Mark Chandler
I wonder if he meant "Sea Monkey". But, I can't see anything obvious from a Google search on Sea Monkey, etc. that might be relevant to this issue. Linley Caetan wrote: Dean Hamstead wrote: doesnt windows 2003 have a media server out of the box? More from smh: Hi Linley, There were so f

Re: [SLUG] ACCC

2005-11-01 Thread Mark Chandler
Best of luck in getting a decent response. Nicholas Jefferson wrote: Hello world! I have just sent this letter to Mike Kiley, Director, Enforcement and Coordination Branch, ACCC. Now, where did I leave my velvet gloves? }:-) Kind regards, Nicholas -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Linux drive on iMac

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Chandler
That makes a lot of sense. I'd missed that these were *i*Macs, and therefore chucking a cheap SCSI card in may not be an option. Amos Shapira wrote: On 10/27/05, Mark Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think hardware is going to be the issue. If you've got a Mac system

Re: [SLUG] Linux drive on iMac

2005-10-26 Thread Mark Chandler
I think hardware is going to be the issue. If you've got a Mac system that has a SCSI controller compatible with the drive, then you could always try using one of the recent Ubuntu 5.10 Live CD's for PowerPC. That way, you don't have to destroy an installed OS to do the recovery, and you don't

Re: [SLUG] returning windows software

2005-10-19 Thread Mark Chandler
There's a documented case of something similar to what you want here: http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/toshiba.html It's a little old now, but gives some great advice. Russell Davie wrote: Hi All Has anybody done this? How would you suggest I go about this? This laptop (Acer Aspire 3002)

Re: [SLUG] Linux friendly flash mp3 players

2005-10-19 Thread Mark Chandler
I've been looking at the iRiver products, but haven't bought anything yet. www.iriver.com.au If you haven't seen it already, TuxMobil has a section on portable media players: http://tuxmobil.org/portable_players.html David Gillies wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Does

Re: [SLUG] Dell issues? (was Partitioning)

2005-09-07 Thread Mark Chandler
From what I remember, this is a system that instead of having separate VideoRAM on a graphics controller, the graphics chipset uses system memory for video processing. This means two things: 1. you have less system memory for the OS and apps 2. you're using slower memory for graphics than system

Re: [SLUG] Partitioning software

2005-09-07 Thread Mark Chandler
Great tip! Thanks! I've been looking for a way to get an unencumbered laptop for a while. Thanks also to Peter C for the same tip. Phil Scarratt wrote: Howard Lowndes wrote: I have yet to see any lappies advertised with Linux installed outside of the US. I just checked a couple of AU Lin

Re: [SLUG] Is LVM worth it?

2005-07-27 Thread Mark Chandler
Could you install another disk tempoarily and install FC3 on that? Then you could attempt to import the volume group from the original hard disk(s). Alternatively, there is a how-to on adding LVM2 support to Knoppix here: http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/LVM2 Howard Lowndes wrote: I've just got

Re: [SLUG] snapshot file systems

2005-07-03 Thread Mark Chandler
I'm afraid that I don't really have any GNU/Linux experience in this area. But I do know a bit about it from HP/UX and know that the LVM for GNU/Linux is very similar. If you have LVM(2?) available to your chosen distro, you can use lvcreate -s to initialise a snapshot logical volume which is a

Re: [SLUG] Is Linux for losers?

2005-06-22 Thread Mark Chandler
This is a real "horses for courses" argument. There's no point in de Raadt bagging out Linux for its differences to OpenBSD. When the 2.6 kernel was close to release and there was a lot of discussion about the new scheduler and how close to optimum it was, it was compared with other operating s

Re: [SLUG] MSN on the fritz?

2005-06-16 Thread Mark Chandler
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Re: [SLUG] Next ALJ cover disk

2005-06-14 Thread Mark Chandler
n, it might make a good choice. However, we've already covered two Red Hat distros in the ALJs and I'd like to see more Debian-based stuff in there. But how about the other question: DVDs or CDs? Does is matter anymore? Craige McWhirter wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:43 +1000, Mark

[SLUG] Next ALJ cover disk

2005-06-13 Thread Mark Chandler
Hi all, I'm a contributor to the Australian Linux Journal. We're in the middle of planning the next issue and are trying to decide on a cover disk, and thought it would be good to get the opinions of some Sluggers. So far, we've thought that either a live distro, like Knoppix 3.9, or a full-