[SLUG] Need help

If anyone has a seagate 300G IDE drive, model, ST3300622A, Please give me a call on 0418 438374. Thanks. Mick. -- 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] Contracting stuff: wrap it into a company or PAYE through agency?

Jacinta Richardson wrote: Rev Simon Rumble wrote: This one time, at band camp, Jacinta Richardson wrote: For what it's worth we probably spend about 3 hours a month (maximum) entering invoices and receipts into our accounting package, about 2 minutes a quarter

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

Ben Donohue wrote: Hi Simon, Ive been both a contractor and also permanent staff on and off for many years... 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.

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

Scott wrote: On Friday 22 September 2006 13:33, Adam Kennedy wrote: What I would look out for is recruiting firms. I had one that placed me once, into a job I wasn't particularly suited to. They took 15% from the employer for that. Some time after I was chatting with them

Re: [SLUG] cool media players

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: On Fri, 11 Aug 2006 11:19:47 +1000 Jamie Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It runs embedded Linux on a StrongARM, but I suspect all the decoding is done in hardware on an MPEG decoder and one of those FPGA dudes programmed to do the OGG decoding.

Re: [SLUG] cool media players

Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Michael (Micksa) Slade wrote: Anyone have any experience with the Zensonic Z500? how hackable/reliable/flexible is it? [...] The source is available on their website once you join their club (i.e. punch in your

Re: [SLUG] cool media players

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Michael (Micksa) Slade wrote: Look for a chip labelled "xilinx" or "altera". Regardless, I would guess that the decoding hardware in the ASIC(s) is designed to be flexible enough to be usable with newer technologies, provide

[SLUG] cool media players

Anyone have any experience with the Zensonic Z500? how hackable/reliable/flexible is it? Any recommendations for alternatives? Mick. -- 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] Decent widescreen LCD display?

Jeff Waugh wrote: quote who="Michael (Micksa) Slade" - 20" - at least 1680x1050 resolution - decent response time (I'd say "8ms or less" but I've heard the numbers are almost meaningless and it really comes down to seeing-is-believing) - DVI and a

[SLUG] Decent widescreen LCD display?

I'm looking for a widescreen LCD display that suits my needs and because I'm so picky the research is turning out to be too tedious. I want: - 20 - at least 1680x1050 resolution - decent response time (I'd say 8ms or less but I've heard the numbers are almost meaningless and it really comes

[SLUG] Laptop recommendations?

This list seems to be well populated so I may as well post here too. My laptop died. again. GOOD FUN. So I'm in the market for a new laptop. These are my requirements: - good linux compatibility. I want to be able to suspend-to-ram/resume. - 1600x1200 display. I've been spoiled. I'd prefer

[SLUG] [OT] the lokitorrent scam

I feel a need to point this out. For those of you who don't already know, bittorrent site LokiTorrent has been forced to withdraw by the MPAA. And apparently there is some suspicion that the maintainer of the site scammed users out of a bunch of money that was supposed to be for legal fees.

Re: [SLUG] Perl question

Alexander Samad wrote: Quick question How can I do this print This is the value .$x-SomeFunc(); as print This is the value $x-SomeFunc(); You can go: print This is the value @{[$x-SomeFunc()]}; But are you sure you want to do that? ;) Mick. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: [SLUG] Print Script

Lyle Chapman wrote: Can anyone help? I have a print script in bash that monitors a certain folder, when that folder is populated with a postscript file it is converted to a pdf and then printed to a selected printer. The problem is that evertime the scripts detects a file it tries to open

Re: [SLUG] Can't uninstall Debian nvidia drivers: package in very bad inconsistent state

Mary Gardiner wrote: Hey folks, I'm trying to either upgrade an nvidia-kernel-2.4.24-1-686 Debian package or get rid of it. The existing package is 1.0.4496-2 and I built it against the kernel-headers-2.4.24-1-686 headers using the nvidia-kernel-source scripts (debian/rules binary_modules).

Re: [SLUG] who wrote the most code?

Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Robert Collins wrote: On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 19:10, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: P.S. your (and Micksa's) email clients are broken. Oh? In what way? (You're doing it again! :-) Your replies are going to the list and to me, which

Re: [SLUG] who wrote the most code?

Jamie Wilkinson wrote: This one time, at band camp, Andrew Bennetts wrote: On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 02:06:46PM +1100, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: A few weeks ago, Benno asked me if I had a way to use cvs annotate to work out percentages of code written, and after a short bit of hacking, there

[SLUG] Laptop bits for sale

inspiron laptops. Mick. -- ---===---===---===---===-+-===---===---===---===---===---===---===---== Michael (Micksa) Slade | I don't want you playing with something [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that has such bizarre hair - Marge Simpson http://www.knobbits.org/ | -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Deleting folders

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Re: [SLUG] A library to render to raster bitmaps?

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Re: [SLUG] compiler woes

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Re: [SLUG] Paste Buffer

. It works with xterm but not with gnome-terminal or KDE's terminal. bleagh. Mick. -- ---===---===---===---===-+-===---===---===---===---===---===---===---== Michael (Micksa) Slade | I don't want you playing with something [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that has such bizarre hair - Marge Simpson

[SLUG] SB16 cards (again)

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[SLUG] fscking ISPs

because I plan to move in a couple of months and I don't want to incure the extra cost. Mick. -- ---===---===---===---===-+-===---===---===---===---===---===---===---== Michael (Micksa) Slade | "I don't want you playing with something [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that has such bizarre hair&quo

[SLUG] need SB16's

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[SLUG] I am evil

http://knobbits.org/gtk-random-themes.patch http://knobbits.org/gtk-patch.png Mick. -- ---===---===---===---===-+-===---===---===---===---===---===---===---== Michael (Micksa) Slade | "I don't want you playing with something [EMAIL PROTECTED] | that has such bizarre hair&quo