Re: [SLUG] PDA/phone/linux

2006-11-06 Thread Mary Cudmore
What's the PDA for? Email, calendar, contacts, notes, photos, games, browser, various apps, music player, ssh client .. It'll very much depend upon what the requirement is. Mary. Voytek Eymont wrote: On Mon, November 6, 2006 8:48 pm, Ben wrote: The other point is that getting a phone/PDA

Re: [SLUG] Google Earth available for Linux

2006-06-13 Thread Mary Cudmore
Right, thanks James. You're probably running v8762 then. I'll give it a shot in the next couple of days after my exam. cheers, Mary. James Purser wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 14:34 +1000, Mary Cudmore wrote: PS: I've also played with screen res, and with Google Earth se

Re: [SLUG] Google Earth available for Linux

2006-06-13 Thread Mary Cudmore
PS: I've also played with screen res, and with Google Earth settings such as turning off advanced graphics, changing the detail window size, cache size .. poking and prodding .. all so far to no avail. Mary. Mary Cudmore wrote: hmm. Mine sounds more seriously broken. I have a GeForce Go

Re: [SLUG] Google Earth available for Linux

2006-06-13 Thread Mary Cudmore
hmm. Mine sounds more seriously broken. I have a GeForce Go 6200 Turbocache, and Google Earth is not happy. I'm running v8756 of the nVidia driver, the latest is v8762. Don't have time to rebuild my custom kernel now (supposed to be studying :P ). What driver are you happier nVidia people runni

Re: [SLUG] Google Earth available for Linux

2006-06-12 Thread Mary Cudmore
Works fine on Sony Vaio/nvidia GeForce running debian if you like the rubiks cube effect for your sat images. No obvious reason so far. O Plameras wrote: Howard Lowndes wrote: Works for me on FC5 on a Toshiba lappy, but the screen is a bit messed up around the edges, esp the top and right side

Re: [SLUG] Wifi hotspots

2006-05-30 Thread Mary Cudmore
I'd really recommend checking out tariffs first. Check out hotspot sites on whirlpool, try and find freebies. Telstra is probably still pretty damn expensive. Hope this helps? Mary Cudmore. -- 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] Encouraging new membership

2006-05-22 Thread Mary Cudmore
I'd have to get child-minding. Before I suggest or do anything involving much effort, I'd like to know how many more of you out there might attend or more frequently attend SLUG etc if there was child-minding available. It can't be just me ..? Mary Cudmore. -- SLUG - Sydney L

Re: [SLUG] laptops/wireless connections

2006-05-22 Thread Mary Cudmore
vaio with 2.6.16? cheers, Mary Cudmore. Sony Viao is the worst laptop I've ever played with, bar none, BUT the centrino = intel lan + hardware switch (as opposed to soft RF on switches) means that the lan works nicely. James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing L

Re: [SLUG] laptops/wireless connections

2006-05-21 Thread Mary Cudmore
while back seems to have eliminated this issue. Hope some of this was helpful. cheers, Mary Cudmore. Tim Lloyd wrote: Hi gang, I have installed fc5 on my new laptop and I am having no end of bother getting the wireless connection going. I have downloaded the firmware for my wireless card

Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] I so hate X windows...]

2006-05-04 Thread Mary Cudmore
s Xinerama does cooler things but might be somewhat slower. If this is true, for basic cloning with an nVidia card, Twinview is the better way to go. Anyone else have this idea? FYI, though you might have seen this forum already: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=14 cheers, Mary

Re: [SLUG] I so hate X windows...

2006-05-04 Thread Mary Cudmore
Hi Michael, I've got a working but clumsy system. Googling was frustrating for me too - eg is there actually a straightforward VESA reference out there for standard VESA modes?? Below are the monitor/device/screen sections from xorg.conf on my Sony Vaio with an nVidia GeForce Go 6200. It's

Re: [SLUG] Re: Fatal: could not open default font 'fixed'

2006-04-17 Thread Mary Cudmore
; FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/CID" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi" EndSection cheers, Mary Cudmore. Jonathan Wheelhouse wrote: Adam Bogacki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I've had some trouble with the latest

Re: [SLUG] shared calendaring

2006-04-10 Thread Mary Cudmore
http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/ Novell Manual for Evolution 2.4 on Gnome site - check out Chapter 6, "Connecting to Exchange Servers". http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/doc/evolution24.pdf Let me know how it goes. cheers, Mary Cudmore. Simon Males wrote: ashley maher wrote