[SLUG] September SLUG Meeting: Friday, September 25 2009

2009-09-16 Thread Rob Weir
== September Monthly Meeting == You can read the full version of this announcement at http://slug.org.au/node/118 SLUG's monthly meeting. Meetings are open to the general public, and are free of charge. Where: Our venue is now Google, Level 5, 48 Pirrama Road, Pyrmont. It's across the road

[SLUG] Re: Music player opinion

2009-08-02 Thread Rob Weir
On 3 Aug 2009, Peter Rundle wrote: Suggestions anyone? cplay? quodlibet works quite well, too. -- -rob -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Re: XBitHack

2009-05-07 Thread Rob Weir
On 8 May 2009, da...@kenpro.com.au wrote: I've got this snippet in apache config: Directory /var/www/test/ Options +Includes XBitHack full IncludesNOEXEC /Directory da...@david:/etc/apache2$ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 reload Syntax error on line 17 of

[SLUG] Re: Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror?

2009-05-01 Thread Rob Weir
On 1 May 2009, so...@snowfrog.net wrote: Anyone know of (or how to find) an Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon mirror? Yes, way old (at 2 years...), but I'm trying to maintain an old machine that I don't want to upgrade. Gutsy has dropped out of the Ubuntu mirrors, and googling on Ubuntu Gutsy mirror

Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux netbook?

2009-04-23 Thread Rob Weir
On 24 Apr 2009, pe...@chubb.wattle.id.au wrote: I also installed a Kingston 16G SD card to hold /home; otherwise the 8G SSD fills up quite fast, by the time you've got lilypond, emacs, texpower etc., installed. Of course, your preferred application mix may be different from mine. Have you

[SLUG] Re: Linux netbook?

2009-04-22 Thread Rob Weir
On 22 Apr 2009, Danny Yee wrote: Does any vendor in Australia sell Linux netbooks? The only one I can find is the original 7 Asus EeePC - everything else seems to be XP. At least the EeePC 901 and the Aspire One are available with Linux (I bought my Aspire One from OfficeWorks, Linux EeePCs

[SLUG] April SLUG Monthly Meeting: Friday, April 24 2009

2009-04-20 Thread Rob Weir
== April SLUG Monthly Meeting == You can read the full version of this announcement on the Web at http://slug.org.au/node/113 When: 18.30 - 20.30, Friday, 24 April, 2009 We start at 18.30 but we ask that people arrive 15 minutes early so we can all get into the building and start on time.

[SLUG] Re: [chat] Version control

2009-03-18 Thread Rob Weir
On 19 Mar 2009, John Ferlito wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:46:49AM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote: * Alan L Tyree a...@austlii.edu.au [2009-03-18 11:55:51 +1100]: Looking for some advice. I have used RCS version control for writing LaTeX documents for some time, but am looking at the

[SLUG] Re: What is the status of the Tor project?

2009-03-18 Thread Rob Weir
On 19 Mar 2009, Howard Lowndes wrote: I have just installed installed Tor in Firefox using the Ubuntu tor and tor-button packages. When I run the check it fails even though the tor and the privoxy daemons are running. Have a look at your logs - /var/log/tor/log (accessible only to root).

[SLUG] Re: Email Domains --- handling of invalid email addresses

2008-08-12 Thread Rob Weir
On 13 Aug 2008, R. G. Salisbury wrote: Some ISP's (exetel ... [EMAIL PROTECTED])is one, that do not bounce notices when you send to an invalid email address). Some ISP's do bounce a message , so you know the status , so you know it is futile to try again to the same address. Why ISP

[SLUG] Re: The Crossword Compiler, again.

2007-10-09 Thread Rob Weir
On 10 Oct 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well, I tried the suggestions that were posted and many thanks for them. And again, I append the logfile. Could someone comment/suggest, please? I gather I have to have all of build-essential installed before I can go further. What does 'sudo apt-get

[SLUG] Re: News in my inbox?

2007-10-02 Thread Rob Weir
On 3 Oct 2007, Adelle Hartley wrote: Are there any well-known packages for transferring posts from an NNTP server into my Inbox vice-versa, and for that matter checking RSS feeds and posting the results to my Inbox (or more sensibly a subfolder)? For RSS, there's rss2email. -rob -- SLUG -

Re: [SLUG] ide-scsi on vanilla 2.6.9

2004-11-06 Thread Rob Weir
On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 03:23:09PM +1000, Vino Fernando Crescini said On 07 Nov 2004 10:56 EST you wrote: it depends on how you've built the kernel but scsi emulation is being depreciated and you should be able to burn directly to the ide device now. for example if you use cdrecord,

Re: [SLUG] X11 Font?

2004-07-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:47:10PM +1000, Malik Jayawardena said Hi Nick, Thanks for the reply. We've acutally just sussed it out. Apparently FC2 has font scaling disabled by default. All we did was add these two lines under *catalogue=* to the */etc/X11/fs/config* and it fixed it.

Re: [SLUG] X11 Font?

2004-07-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 12:41:37AM +1000, James Gregory said On Mon, 2004-07-12 at 21:53 +1000, Rob Weir wrote: On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 04:47:10PM +1000, Malik Jayawardena said Hi Nick, Thanks for the reply. We've acutally just sussed it out. Apparently FC2 has font scaling

Re: [SLUG] X11 Font?

2004-07-12 Thread Rob Weir
On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:41:39AM +1000, James Gregory said These are all good points, but 99% of desktop users don't run multiple X servers, I suspect they will run multiple X processes, just not at once. Logging in and out of *DM requires an Xserver to be shutdown and started. You get

Re: [SLUG] Debian SSH2

2004-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
. With openssh, just use ssh-copy-key-id (after running ssh-keygen -t rsa) to copy the public key bit to the remote machine; after that, you should have passwordless logins. Well, assuming you set no password on the key, or use ssh-agent... -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look

Re: [SLUG] zombie file?

2004-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
on it? Have you had any hard crashes lately? Can you delete the directory it's in? Veery-long-shot, but if you boot with SELinux disabled, do you get any more info about it? That file sure looks like the kernel is very unsure about it... -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do

Re: [SLUG] seg fault on df

2004-05-11 Thread Rob Weir
of a segfault. No user space process should be able to cause this to happen, and it usually means a kernel bug or bad physical memory. In this case it looks like it was the former, which is good and far cheaper to fix :) -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want

Re: [SLUG] sshd lshd

2004-05-10 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 09:50:06AM +1000, David said I've installed Libranet, which is a Debian Sarge derivation. Libranet installs an old version of lshd which turns out to have a severe security alert. The Libranet packaging doesn't appear to offer an alternative to lshd, or a later

Re: [SLUG] Writing char drivers in Redhat 9 (again)

2004-04-12 Thread Rob Weir
-headers-kernel-version package. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: investigation Etacs interception International Criminal Court signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Pleasant looking font

2004-04-11 Thread Rob Weir
width font on both linux solaris ? (I aim to keep my NEdit preferences similar). I quite like the terminus font (in the xfonts-terminus package in Debian), though it is a little large on low-res displays. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words

Re: [SLUG] How to tell apt-get not to remove some packages when removing others

2004-03-01 Thread Rob Weir
of tarballs from CPAN. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: AGT. AMME terrorist import encryption assassinate signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] PHP process number

2004-02-21 Thread Rob Weir
it? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:bullion India offensive information warfare Bellcore ANZUS signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] CDRecord + LiteOn DVD Writer

2003-12-05 Thread Rob Weir
/tmp/tmp.iso Don't you need dvdrecord for DVD recording? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day:clandestine IMF spy mailbomb Fat Man assassination signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] good cd burning software?

2003-12-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:11:43PM +1100, Jasper streit said hi all any recommendations on a good piece of cd burning software, i'm using k3b and not liking it very much :( gcombust is a very simple one, just select the .iso file or set of directories you want, then hit combust. -- Rob

Re: [SLUG] enable command....

2003-11-30 Thread Rob Weir
command - so it took me a while for the first time to work out while I couldn't enable my printer. As an aside, the Debian cups packages links to cupsenable and cupsdisable to the enable and disable in /usr/bin/. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words

Re: [SLUG] No more Red Hat Linux support after April 30 2004 - Qui ck Survey

2003-11-06 Thread Rob Weir
, and don't forget to check http://www.apt-get.org/, too. /debianadvocacy -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: ASLET SEAL Team 6 Montenegro MD4 Aldergrove Ortega Manfurov signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Dell Gateway Celeron 400

2003-11-06 Thread Rob Weir
should get you a working X configuration. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: MD2 UK Rule Psix SRI overthorw fraud explosion JUWTF signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http

Re: [SLUG] no user access for pppd

2003-10-25 Thread Rob Weir
?) Sure you haven't just shrunk the vertical height on your monitor itself? -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: Lon Horiuchi Fortezza LLNL Marxist explosion Ft. Knox signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Debian

2003-06-24 Thread Rob Weir
configuration :) -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.ertius.org/ GPG keys: 1024D/1E73B7CD, 4096R/3ABDE5EC | Do I look like I want a CC? Words of the day: 9705 Samford Road Roswell Kh-11 NATO Ruby Ridge warfare PLO pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [SLUG] Debian xfree

2003-03-26 Thread Rob Weir
X system, install the 'x-window-system-core' package. For something closer to what most people want, try 'x-window-system'. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ertius.org/ If I want a CC, I'll ask for one! | Do I *look* like I want another damn war? pgp0.pgp

Re: [SLUG] msttcorefonts

2003-03-16 Thread Rob Weir
/var/lib/defoma/x-ttcidfont-conf.d/dirs/TrueType You may or may not need to restart X after this. -- Rob Weir [EMAIL PROTECTED]http://ertius.org/ pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature