[SLUG] Linux.conf.au 2015 in Auckland - Call for Proposals

2014-06-24 Thread Simon Lyall
=== linux.conf.au Call For Proposals === The call for proposals for linux.conf.au 2015 is now open! The conference is a meeting place for the free and open source software communities. It will be held in Auckland at the University of Auckland Business School from Monday 12 to Friday 16 January,

Re: [SLUG] Open source log analyser tools (or: Alternatives to Splunk)

2012-05-09 Thread Simon Rumble
expensive? I doubt you'll find anything that comes close. -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Migrating from LVM to a plain old disk

2012-04-13 Thread Simon Males
: bash PV /dev/sdb2 VG erupt lvm2 [36.79 GiB / 0free] PV /dev/sdc2 VG erupt lvm2 [109.92 GiB / 0free] Total: 2 [146.71 GiB] / in use: 2 [146.71 GiB] / in no VG: 0 [0 ] Is this asking to much? -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Re: Linux video editors - any good ?

2012-03-24 Thread Simon Males
. Regards, Patrick -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] Linux Internet Radio - how to ?

2012-02-13 Thread Simon Rumble
://relais02.webradiofactory.com/paris-one_dance.mp3; Have a look at the source of this page to find the stream URLs for all the other streams. http://www.paris-one.com/dance/player (ecoutez means listen in French) -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

2011-11-16 Thread Simon Rumble
and desktop mode. But I want to be able to use both screens when I'm connected! -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- 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] Alternatives to Gnome3

2011-11-13 Thread Simon Rumble
On Nov 13, 2011 11:52 PM, Jeremy Visser jer...@visser.name wrote: On 13/11/2011, at 17:59, Simon Rumble wrote: The problem here is that with Gnome3 (and they started this attitude in Gnome2), they make it very difficult to do things any way other than the default. I work in tech support

Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

2011-11-12 Thread Simon Rumble
+1 on this query. Awesome gets a lot of kudos, but I'm really not willing to learn a new programming language to learn how to configure my GUI. In fact, surely a text-file-only configuration GUI is kinda missing the point? Gnome and Ubuntu have totally lost the plot. They seem to think removing

Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

2011-11-12 Thread Simon Rumble
to do something unusual or automate things, but for feature discovery and just simple day-to-day config, it's not the right approach. The actual config settings should be in something like a text file, but give me a bloody front end! -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

2011-11-12 Thread Simon Rumble
annoying. -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Free to good home: Dell PowerEdge 2450 server

2011-10-30 Thread Simon Males
. -- Simon Males -- 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] Ubuntu 11.10

2011-10-18 Thread Simon Males
guessing it'll be another 10 until Unity sorts that out too. My colleague had a new install of 11.04 for about two weeks and upgraded to 11.10 yesterday, on new T-Series Lenovo laptop. Multiple monitors seem to just work. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Skipping/Mapping bad blocks

2011-07-25 Thread Simon Males
works well. On 07/23/2011 07:15 AM, Amos Shapira wrote: You should use ddrescue (I use the gnu ddrescue) which will skip bad blocks. On Jul 22, 2011 10:14 PM, Simon Maless...@sime.net.au  wrote: I've found that myrescue is better than ddrescue, especially with corrupted devices. It has options

[SLUG] Gnome profiles of screen setup

2011-07-25 Thread Simon Rumble
on better ways to do this? On some Windows laptops I've had in the past, the vendor-specific drivers have had profiles for different locations that you could (manually) select to quickly go back to the layout you had. That would do, though something more automated would be lovely. -- Simon Rumble si

[SLUG] Regenerate OpenSSH host keys on cloned/replica server

2011-07-03 Thread Simon Males
I feel that it's best/better practice to regenerate OpenSSH host keys on a clonsed/replica server. The closest thing to a reason I have is that keys are meant to be unique? http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/howto-regenerate-openssh-host-keys/ Is my logic in check? -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Re: Kogan Agora Laptop Better with Classic Interface and Flash Disk

2011-06-21 Thread Simon Rumble
desktops, I've reverted to Gnome Classic. I see an Ubuntu fork coming, and I'll be taking the exit! -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Installing Quake 3

2011-06-10 Thread Simon Males
`/home/sime/Desktop/Quake3' -- Simon Males -- 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] IPv6 using ufw on Debian stable

2011-06-07 Thread Simon Rumble
compiled in. Updated to a more recent kernel and away we go! So for IPv6 Day, my web server and, get this, gopher server are available via IPv6! http://rumble.net/ gopher://rumble.net/ -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

[SLUG] IPv6 using ufw on Debian stable

2011-06-06 Thread Simon Rumble
=ICMPv6 TYPE=129 CODE=0 ID=25190 SEQ=1 Going there with a browser times out: lynx http://ipv6.google.com/ However if I disable the firewall, these things all work: simon@stout:~$ sudo ufw disable Firewall stopped and disabled on system startup simon@stout:~$ ping6 ipv6.google.com -c 3 PING ipv6

Re: [SLUG] IPv6 using ufw on Debian stable

2011-06-06 Thread Simon Rumble
reading. Here's the rules I have in place, which I should have included in the original email: simon@stout:~$ sudo ufw status verbose [sudo] password for simon: Status: active Logging: on (medium) Default: deny (incoming), allow (outgoing) New profiles: skip To Action

Re: [SLUG] Re: [Jobs] Systems Admin - Build Engineer

2011-05-23 Thread Simon Rumble
something ridiculously wrong but funny (12 years Ruby on Rails experience). Hopefully you'll get through to someone with a brain who'll find it funny and decide to call you. The IT recruitment agency slogan: If you can, do. If you can't, have you considered a career in IT recruitment? -- Simon Rumble

Re: [SLUG] Log for timed out SSH connections

2011-03-21 Thread Simon Males
I bet whatever device is doing NAT or firewalling on the outside of your network is dropping the idle connection I would take the conntrack line of thought as Daniel suggests. Leading on from that: Simon, did you change your router as a result of the connection change? Yes that's right

[SLUG] Log for timed out SSH connections

2011-03-20 Thread Simon Males
by (uid=0) Mar 21 15:31:55 host sshd[4387]: pam_unix(sshd:session): session closed for user root Anyone dabbled in something like this? -- Simon Males -- 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] Marvell PHY plus forcedeth: no gigabit?

2011-02-27 Thread Simon Males
Try another cable? Specifically, try a CAT 6 cable. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Certified Linux Administrator Bootcamp

2011-02-09 Thread Simon Yarwood
Hi All, In partnership with Novell, we are running the five day SUSE Linux Bootcamp in Sydney on the 14th of March. The five day training covers fundamental and administration of SUSE Linux Enterprise 11. Call me on 1300 997 249 for further details Regards Simon Simon Yarwood M

[SLUG] Debian/Ubuntu way of having multiple memcached daemon's

2010-12-19 Thread Simon Males
of. Cheers. -- Simon Males -- 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] Debian/Ubuntu way of having multiple memcached daemon's

2010-12-19 Thread Simon Males
on my own init.d script?: /etc/init.d/memcached_11212 restart I feel like I'm am stepping close to the territory of building my own packages. -- Simon Males -- 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] Firefox 4.0

2010-09-19 Thread Simon Males
will then go back to that other operating system. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

[SLUG] Disable key before boot

2010-08-31 Thread Simon Rumble
. Then the flash really stopped working. I can install the OS on an SD card, but now Ubuntu's installer seems to crap out. I'm sure there must be a kernel incantation I can use to disable the key, but what is it? -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Samsung Galaxy S i9000

2010-07-18 Thread Simon Rumble
is really designed to have all your stuff in the cloud. Google Calendars, Gmail etc. Anything else is going to be working against the grain. It might work but it'll be hard work. -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription

Re: [SLUG] Parametric EQ to silence the vuvuzela

2010-06-17 Thread Simon Rumble
to earlier games it's much more prominent in the mix (and the filter is much more effective). -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Parametric EQ to silence the vuvuzela

2010-06-15 Thread Simon Rumble
a completely new way to configure audio every 1.5 years. I think I've done that at least four times now.) http://lifehacker.com/5564085/how-to-silence-vuvuzela-horns-with-an-eq-filter?skyline=trues=i -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] WordPress sessions [Was: WordPress, PHP]

2010-05-09 Thread Simon Males
haven't looked if an appropriate plugin exists. -- Simon Males -- 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] Fwd: Club History

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Rumble
their first copies of Linux from Anthony on floppies much like this. We had a steady stream of people dropping by to swap blank floppies for copies of Linux. -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http

Re: [SLUG] System admin graphing tools

2010-02-25 Thread Simon Males
no work. I actively use munin and it is a great historical analysis tool. Great availability of plugins as well. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Push cron and system E-Mails to RSS (email2rss?)

2010-01-21 Thread Simon Males
isn't as intrusive ? I'll occasionally jump onto the system and run mail/mutt and wish I never did. -- Simon Males -- 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] Re: Australian government to censor your internets

2009-12-15 Thread Simon Rumble
Very good advice on crafting a letter that will actually get noticed. Kind of a postal DDoS. Bernard Keane’s guide to writing to Ministers http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/12/16/dont-waste-your-time-waste-theirs-a-guide-to-writing-to-ministers/ -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] Journalist doesn't like Windows -- must have missed out on the freebies?

2009-11-03 Thread Simon Rumble
BitTorrent Party http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ef83afc272/hosting-your-windows-7-torrenting-party -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- 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] GPS data logger

2009-08-08 Thread Simon Males
in the Android Marketplace. They are all a lot of fun and its where I got the interest from. Though I don't like running with my/a phone. -- Simon Males -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] GPS data logger

2009-08-06 Thread Simon Males
I'm hoping to buy a GPS data logger that I can take running with me. My main concern is for it to plug and play with Linux. I've managed to find two such devices on eBay that support linux. I expect these devices to be popular with photographers. Any sluggers use them? -- Simon Males -- SLUG

Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion

2009-08-02 Thread Simon Rumble
, just plays the bloody music files I point it at. No bells, no whistles. -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- 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] live distro for aspire netbook ?

2009-07-05 Thread Simon Rumble
, it all seems to work, including wifi. UNR works brilliantly. Just don't be tempted to try out the Madwifi wireless drivers. There's a weird regression in there when you switch back with ath_pci getting the card into a pickle. Solution is to cold reboot, BTW. -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net

Re: [SLUG] live distro for aspire netbook ?

2009-07-05 Thread Simon Rumble
2009/7/5 Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au do I just copy the img file to the root of the boot media, and, boot ? No. You need to use unetbootin or similar to right it to the media. -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] live distro for aspire netbook ?

2009-07-05 Thread Simon Rumble
2009/7/5 Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au On Mon, July 6, 2009 11:08 am, Simon Rumble wrote: 2009/7/5 Voytek Eymont li...@sbt.net.au No. You need to use unetbootin or similar to right it to the media. so the '.img' is the 'floppy image' in unetbootin, yes ? Something like

Re: [SLUG] ms tax on netbooks: USD35

2009-06-21 Thread Simon Rumble
, I didn't see any license agreement. So I'm a bit stumped how I can disagree with the license now. -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

[SLUG] Stop Gnome auto-mounting cdda

2009-06-05 Thread Simon Rumble
up with an endless loop of ripping the same CD. Any ideas how I prevent Gnome from grabbing the CD? -- Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net -- 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] Linux netbook?

2009-04-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
seeing) or Kogan cheerleaders. -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin

Re: [SLUG] Defining Mainsteam

2009-04-02 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
) of download in one hit. Ouch. -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ When bankers get together for dinner they discuss art, when artists get together for dinner

Re: [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM

2009-03-12 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
, since nothing else out there is really going to give a lot of joy in terms of sync with Linux at the moment. Depends if you'll be happy with online services. http://www.goosync.com/ -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http

Re: [SLUG] Mythbuntu box shutting down at random

2009-02-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
at dcd0 Board Temp: +37.0°C (low = -128.0°C, high = +127.0°C) CPU Temp:+41.0°C (low = -128.0°C, high = +105.0°C) Fiddle around with /etc/sensors3.conf to set maximum temperatures, and actions when the maximums are exceeded (like, get it to send you an email?). -- Rev Simon Rumble

Re: [SLUG] Re: Mythbuntu set up not 'quite' right

2009-01-29 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ a skid mark on the bed sheet of Australian politics - John Howard, as described by Dean Mighell -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au

Re: [SLUG] Mythbuntu set up not 'quite' right

2009-01-27 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
with a web browser, anywhere * No vendor to go broke, stranding you with an out-of-date-system I'm about to move to HD myself. Just waiting on delivery of my new telly and PS3. -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http

Re: [SLUG] pps presentation for the web, is flash the go ?

2009-01-19 Thread Simon Males
in flash. Everything else is just cruft! -- Simon Males -- 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] Re: Netbook experiences?

2008-12-16 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
impressed with it so far! A brilliant UI, not sure what window manager it is but it's slick slick slick, and ideal for such a tiny screen. Only issue was hibernate and sleep didn't work. Followed the instructions on the Wiki and now it does. -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net

Re: [SLUG] Netbook experiences?

2008-12-15 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
the current state of play with Microsot tax refunds? -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Given the choice between two evils, I pick the one I haven't tried before. - Mae West -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] Netbook experiences?

2008-12-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
? -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours. - Harry S. Truman -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http

Re: [SLUG] Netbook experiences?

2008-12-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
? Which model have you got? The Windows one seems to have a better spec, but I suppose you'd need it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acer_Aspire_One#Specifications -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org

Re: [SLUG] Netbook experiences?

2008-12-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
downside is the battery life. Thanks for the info. -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees. - Power and the Passion, Midnight Oil -- SLUG

Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's Reply-To: In-Reply-To:

2008-12-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
/802.11 range. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, then hire a hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids, and fuck his dog and smash

Re: Which wireless data service should I signup to? was [SLUG] Don't buy ZTE's

2008-12-03 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=972031ux=6258 -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If the designers of X-windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels

Re: [SLUG] Desktop integration with Google Calendar and Remember the Milk

2008-11-16 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
your gmail window. It's very very cool to have your todos right next http://www.rememberthemilk.com/services/gmail/ You're running kinda close to the state-of-the-art by putting all your stuff in the cloud, so it's not quite as beautiful as it should be. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [SLUG] Talk request. Freenet or similar technology.

2008-11-02 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Christianity: The belief that some cosmic Jewish Zombie can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him that you accept him as your

Re: [SLUG] Steve Ballmer live rally Sydney November 6

2008-11-02 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
to tongue-pash RMS live on-stage, before announcing the release of Windows GPL. Alternatively, the freedom is the freedom for MSFT shareholders to bend their customers over a barrel, but why be a pessimist? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel

Re: [SLUG] Search engine traffic dominates

2008-10-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
be less important. You might want to look into the Crawl-delay extension to the robots.txt standard, which can limit by robot: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robots.txt#Crawl-delay_directive -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http

Re: [SLUG] Fortress .... err Firewall Australia

2008-10-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
they're doing you. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If the designers of X-windows built cars, there would be no fewer than five steering wheels hidden about the cockpit, none of which followed

Re: [SLUG] Fortress .... err Firewall Australia

2008-10-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
it. Why should schools pay for the bandwidth of content that just gets stripped out by your content filter anyway. I don't think you understand how filtering works. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http

Re: [SLUG] Fortress .... err Firewall Australia

2008-10-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
to take responsibility for our internet usage alone. I know it's out of fashion this week, but how about letting the market decide? There are already ISPs that provide a filtered service. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday

Re: [SLUG] Fortress .... err Firewall Australia

2008-10-16 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
the terrorism laws that would never be used on peaceful protesters. Does anyone here have any insight pls? http://nocleanfeed.com/ -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org

Re: [SLUG] ADSL2 modems that just simply work with linux -- existed for adsl1

2008-09-25 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
. I've had good experiences with Billion. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. - Samuel Adams

[SLUG] Reminder: Key signing this Friday in Sydney

2008-09-10 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
/Key_signing_party [3] http://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html#traditional [4] http://www.australianheritagehotel.com/ [5] http://rumble.smugmug.com/photos/69684016_4byEq-L-1.jpg -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly PCI/USB WiFi?

2008-09-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
to guarantee will be supported. I ended up using an access point flashed with dd-wrt in client mode. It's got a better antenna too. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu friendly PCI/USB WiFi?

2008-09-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
module the card requires). If you specifically say you need it to work under Linux, and the vendor doesn't specifically say it doesn't, you'll be entitled to a refund if it doesn't work. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday

Re: [SLUG] DODO

2008-08-31 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
in the organisation. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ A reactionary is a man whose political opinions always manage to keep up with yesterday. -- SLUG - Sydney

Re: [SLUG] DODO

2008-08-29 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
. ;) grin how bad can dodo be!! Oh you wouldn't believe... -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom

Re: [SLUG] DODO

2008-08-26 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
. There's a reason for that. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Cocaine, habit forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've been using it for years. - Tallulah Bankhead -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

[SLUG] Key signing Friday 12th September, The Rocks

2008-08-14 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
://cryptnet.net/fdp/crypto/keysigning_party/en/keysigning_party.html#traditional [4] http://www.australianheritagehotel.com/ [5] http://rumble.smugmug.com/photos/69684016_4byEq-L-1.jpg -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http

Re: VoIP adapter configuration was /Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird send problems

2008-07-30 Thread Simon Wong
not being able to send emails...! -- Simon Wong [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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] website or browser bug?

2008-07-22 Thread Simon Males
- Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- Simon Males [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq

Re: [SLUG] website or browser bug?

2008-07-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Simon Males wrote: The print stylesheet is all wrong, basically culling everything. And it works fine in IE6 IE8 (just tried it) because IE simply ignores print stylesheets. Government departments tend to be reasonably responsive to these kinds of issues

Re: [SLUG] merging pdf

2008-07-15 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
document pages together on one physical page at a reduced size - pdfjoin concatenates multiple PDF documents - pdf90 rotates the pages of PDF documents -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer

Re: [SLUG] temporary wireless internet?

2008-07-12 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
can use it to connect to the Net with a (cheap) USB Bluetooth dongle on your computer.. Though you'll want to keep your usage down as the rates are normally punitive. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http

Re: [SLUG] wireless broadband?

2008-07-10 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
be watching any YouTube though. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. - George Bernard

Re: [SLUG] Re: eee pc 900 (20080709)

2008-07-10 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
it at wholesale prices (despite the fact you're only buying one), so you end up paying 32% GST! -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Cocaine, habit forming? Of course not. I ought to know. I've

Re: [SLUG] eee pc 900 (20080709)

2008-07-08 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
on the front step. Fortunately it was still there when I got home. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ A lifetime of listening to disco music is a high price to pay for one's sexual preference

Re: [SLUG] OT: WLAN VoIP phone

2008-07-06 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
to offer naked) so incoming calls work just fine, and it automagically switches to VOIP for outbound calls. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ When did I realize I was God? Well, I was praying and I

[SLUG] Hyperthreading

2008-07-03 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
load, but if running single-threaded CPU-intensive processes, it'll run faster without hyperthreading? This machine can actually take another CPU, but finding a suitable one and the matching fan and shroud (Dell) doesn't seem to be easy. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net

Re: [SLUG] Hyperthreading

2008-07-03 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Brett Morgan wrote: From wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper-threading): Yeah I read that. It didn't answer my question 8) -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're

Re: [SLUG] Hyperthreading

2008-07-03 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
Thanks for all the informative responses. So it seems there's only a minor performance decrease from having hyperthreading enabled if load is a single thread. i.e., my reading of top wasn't right. Thanks again. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks

Re: [SLUG] Firefox 3.0 Download Day

2008-06-16 Thread Simon Males
and able to offer a richer Internet experience. -- Simon Males -- 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: turning off blog comments

2008-06-03 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
is different to mine, clearly. I have three wordpress plugins for comment spam. Great, not one but three pieces of software to maintain. Then I get to moderate messages too. Not like I've got anything better to do. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just

Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)

2008-06-02 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
. And a whole project to re-implement them properly: http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/ -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Hockey is a sport for white men. Basketball is a sport for black men. Golf is a sport

Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)

2008-06-02 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Adrian Chadd wrote: Ah, if only writing software held the same risks and building bridges. :) You mean engineers don't test their newly-built bridge by driving a dozen variously-shaped vehicles across it, before opening it up to all and sundry? -- Rev Simon

Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)

2008-06-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
with the latest comment spam blocking hacks. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly. - Simeon Strunsky -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: Compromised Linux box stories (Re: [SLUG] upgrading complicated installs)

2008-06-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Daniel Pittman wrote: [2] formmail. I say no more. Matt's Script Archive, anyone? -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org

Re: [SLUG] Take 2 MythTV = Media Centre ++

2008-05-25 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
)? Waterloo you probably want the VHF signal from Artarmon. Make sure you're not using the frequency for either the Manly or Kings Cross transmitters, which are both in the UHF range. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http

Re: [SLUG] Take 3 MythTV = Media Centre ++

2008-05-24 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
easy. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ In politics the middle way is none at all. - John Adams -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs

Re: [SLUG] Take 2 MythTV = Media Centre ++

2008-05-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
the front end to something that needs fans, but I'll stick it in the same cupboard as the server and run DVI either direct or over the Cat6 to the lounge room. Unfortunately the whole setup is out of action right now, pending running cables under and around the new house. -- Rev Simon Rumble

Re: [SLUG] Take 2 MythTV = Media Centre ++

2008-05-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
loads of stuff I never get around to. I probably watch at most 6 hours of telly a week though, so perhaps I'm not typical? The beauty of MythTV, though, is that it's all thriller, no filler. No ads either. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks

Re: [SLUG] search engine for company network (OT)

2008-05-13 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
those for you too. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ a skid mark on the bed sheet of Australian politics - John Howard, as described by Dean Mighell -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List

Re: [SLUG] search engine for company network (OT)

2008-05-13 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
that everyone has access to. -- Rev Simon Rumble [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.openguides.org/ The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps

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