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

2012-05-08 Thread Simon Rumble
are you generating that this seems expensive? I doubt you'll find anything that comes close. -- Simon Rumble -- 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 Internet Radio - how to ?

2012-02-13 Thread Simon Rumble
t; mpg321 "http://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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group

Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

2011-11-16 Thread Simon Rumble
between laptop and desktop mode. But I want to be able to use both screens when I'm connected! -- Simon Rumble -- 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" 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.

Re: [SLUG] Alternatives to Gnome3

2011-11-12 Thread Simon Rumble
eriously annoying. -- Simon Rumble -- 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

2011-11-12 Thread Simon Rumble
want 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User&#x

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 op

[SLUG] Gnome "profiles" of screen setup

2011-07-25 Thread Simon Rumble
ns 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 lovel

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

2011-06-21 Thread Simon Rumble
etter in the netbook environment. But on my desktops, I've reverted to "Gnome Classic". I see an Ubuntu fork coming, and I'll be taking the exit! -- Simon Rumble -- 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
racking 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscrip

Re: [SLUG] IPv6 using ufw on Debian stable

2011-06-06 Thread Simon Rumble
nywhere 22/tcp (OpenSSH (v6)) ALLOW INAnywhere (v6) 25/tcp (SMTP (v6)) ALLOW INAnywhere (v6) 80/tcp (WWW (v6)) ALLOW INAnywhere (v6) 25/tcp (Postfix (v6)) ALLOW INAnywhere (v6) 587/tcp (Postfix Submission (v6)) ALLOW IN Anywhere (v6) -- Simon Rumble -- SLUG

[SLUG] IPv6 using ufw on Debian stable

2011-06-06 Thread Simon Rumble
--- ipv6.google.com ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1999ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.676/0.704/0.719/0.029 ms Any thoughts on where I look next? The "INVALID" part of the logs just before BLOCK seems ominous, but I don't really know what it

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

2011-05-23 Thread Simon Rumble
andatory boxes, plus 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

[SLUG] Disable key before boot

2010-08-31 Thread Simon Rumble
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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - htt

Re: [SLUG] Samsung Galaxy S i9000

2010-07-18 Thread Simon Rumble
gned 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs:

Re: [SLUG] Parametric EQ to silence the vuvuzela

2010-06-17 Thread Simon Rumble
g it. Going back to earlier games it's much more prominent in the mix (and the filter is much more effective). -- Simon Rumble -- 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
learning 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=true&s=i -- Simon Rumble -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://s

Re: [SLUG] Fwd: Club History

2010-04-21 Thread Simon Rumble
f people who received 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 -- 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

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

2009-11-03 Thread Simon Rumble
r Own Windows 7 BitTorrent Party http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ef83afc272/hosting-your-windows-7-torrenting-party -- Simon Rumble -- 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] Music player opinion

2009-08-02 Thread Simon Rumble
gahertz processor. Yep, I want something that mimics the old WinAmp. Dumb, just plays the bloody music files I point it at. No bells, no whistles. -- Simon Rumble -- 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
2009/7/5 Voytek Eymont > > On Mon, July 6, 2009 11:08 am, Simon Rumble wrote: > > 2009/7/5 Voytek Eymont > > > No. You need to use unetbootin or similar to right it to the media. > > so the '.img' is the 'floppy image' in unetbootin, yes ? >

Re: [SLUG] live distro for aspire netbook ?

2009-07-05 Thread Simon Rumble
2009/7/5 Voytek Eymont > > 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 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] live distro for aspire netbook ?

2009-07-05 Thread Simon Rumble
wn, on reboot, pad works, 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, BT

Re: [SLUG] ms tax on netbooks: USD35

2009-06-21 Thread Simon Rumble
ndows, I didn't see any license agreement. So I'm a bit stumped how I can disagree with the license now. -- Simon Rumble -- 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
ejected and re-inserted, so I end up with an endless loop of ripping the same CD. Any ideas how I prevent Gnome from grabbing the CD? -- Simon Rumble -- 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
ndows weenies (clueless about what they're seeing) or Kogan cheerleaders. -- Rev Simon Rumble 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 libe

Re: [SLUG] Defining "Mainsteam"

2009-04-02 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
this week that a Vista service pack is something like a gigabyte (and her ISP doesn't have free mirrors) of download in one hit. Ouch. -- Rev Simon Rumble www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're not a geek. http://engineer.o

Re: [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM

2009-03-12 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
nother Palm Pilot, 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 www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. h

Re: [SLUG] Mythbuntu box shutting down at random

2009-02-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
(like, get it to send you an email?). -- Rev Simon Rumble www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly." - Simeon Strunsky -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://s

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

2009-01-29 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
a media playback device. -- Rev Simon Rumble 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] Mythbuntu set up not 'quite' right

2009-01-27 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
frontend * Upgrading storage or adding tuners is trivial * Ability to schedule programmes 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

Re: [SLUG] Re: Netbook experiences?

2008-12-16 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
I've been incredibly 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

Re: [SLUG] Netbook experiences?

2008-12-15 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
e know the current state of play with Microsot tax refunds? -- Rev Simon Rumble 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&

Re: [SLUG] Netbook experiences?

2008-12-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
ht is very promising. The reviews of this one seem to say that the major downside is the battery life. Thanks for the info. -- Rev Simon Rumble www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "It's better to die on your feet than

Re: [SLUG] Netbook experiences?

2008-12-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
s the Aspire's like? 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 www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguid

[SLUG] Netbook experiences?

2008-12-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
are the real world experiences? -- Rev Simon Rumble 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&#

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
ing calls) a real mobile number when out of 3G/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 k

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

2008-12-03 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
big kahuna here: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=972031&ux=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

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

2008-11-16 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
. Finally, check out the Firefox extension that overlays RTM over 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&

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

2008-11-02 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
on makes me think Steve Ballmer is going 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 &l

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

2008-11-02 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
ser identifiable. -- Rev 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

Re: [SLUG] Search engine traffic dominates

2008-10-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
around 4%. For us, these are the people we target so it's very important. For you, it might 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 S

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

2008-10-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
and > leave the rest of us who are able 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.rumb

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

2008-10-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
ient side content filters are annoying. I don't want to do this but > the reality is we need content filtering!! So pay someone else to do 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

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

2008-10-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
t the Government is determined to ram it down your throat, all the while smirking, and telling you what a great favour 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 design

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

2008-10-16 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
atable political ideas. Like 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 o

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

2008-09-25 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
pens in the future. 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 inv

[SLUG] Reminder: Key signing this Friday in Sydney

2008-09-10 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
00CC02 [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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]&

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

2008-09-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
g is disable ath_hal (the restricted kernel 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

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

2008-09-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
of hardware to a "Doesn't Works" within the same model number and brand. -- 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/ "Cocai

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

2008-09-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
ones are difficult 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, d

Re: [SLUG] DODO

2008-08-31 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
; customers, despite Telstra Wholesale being a massive profit centre 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 rea

Re: [SLUG] DODO

2008-08-28 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
t's how it works. 1-800 number too. ;) > 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 ou

Re: [SLUG] DODO

2008-08-26 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
re not the cheapest ISP on the block. 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

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

2008-08-14 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
ia.org/wiki/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 To

Re: [SLUG] website or browser bug?

2008-07-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
and this one's an easy fix, they could just remove the print stylesheet and the result will at least be better. So see if you cna find a technical contact. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.

Re: [SLUG] merging pdf

2008-07-15 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
. - pdfnup puts multiple 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.

Re: [SLUG] temporary wireless internet?

2008-07-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
hone with Bluetooth, you 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

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

2008-07-10 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
ustoms apply a 20% uplift to the invoiced price before applying GST as they assume you're getting 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

Re: [SLUG] wireless broadband?

2008-07-10 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
s email, there are packet radio options on HF radio. Not gonna 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 i

Re: [SLUG] eee pc 900 (20080709)

2008-07-08 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
sitting 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'

Re: [SLUG] OT: WLAN VoIP phone

2008-07-06 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
a Tax (waiting for my ISP 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 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

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 ho

[SLUG] Hyperthreading

2008-07-03 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
sive under 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 PROTECTE

[SLUG] Re: turning off blog comments

2008-06-03 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
log 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

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? -- R

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

2008-06-02 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
being "Don't. Just... don't." 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 f

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://

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

2008-06-01 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
dn't be bothered keeping it up-to-date 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."

Re: [SLUG] MythTV = Media Centre ++

2008-05-25 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
> they're using for channel 9 in the inner city or eastern suburbs of > Sydney (I'm in Waterloo)? 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 ra

Re: [SLUG] MythTV = Media Centre ++

2008-05-24 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
dy with a ladder. There's a bunch of sites about wiring up the connectors online. It's pretty 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 a

Re: [SLUG] MythTV = Media Centre ++

2008-05-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
its, about 600 gigs is plenty, and there's still 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 <

Re: [SLUG] MythTV = Media Centre ++

2008-05-22 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
ew HD telly, in which case I may upgrade 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

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

2008-05-13 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
uff 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

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

2008-05-13 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
k drives, so it'll index 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

Re: [SLUG] SIM cards as cheap data storage?

2008-04-14 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
hey're very cheap in volume. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1-Wire -- 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/ "When did I realize I was God?

Re: [SLUG] Ubuntu repository components and what they mean

2008-03-30 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
be ghastly. Excellent summary and indeed something like it should be in relevant locations. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ Only one person ever attended a parliament with honest intenti

Re: [SLUG] DST in debain

2008-03-30 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
surely worth > putting straight into ${ubuntu_release} ? Or is it just me? Yeah I don't get it either. And the fact it's not enabled by default is even more bizarre. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://e

Re: [SLUG] DST in debain

2008-03-30 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
have worked. What is gutsy-updates then, and should I have that in my sources.list? -- 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/ "When b

Re: [SLUG] DST in debain

2008-03-30 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
oesn't seem to have done it right. Now how to fix it? There's no new tzdata package available... -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "Diplomacy is the art of saying "

Re: [SLUG] ABC Playback

2008-03-26 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
ave been much clearer. The interface is pretty awful, but the underlying data is right out in the open, so I'm sure we'll be able to build our own interfaces to it in time. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too.

Re: [SLUG] Remove alpha channel from PNG

2008-03-18 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
e case of orange) "1.0,0.5,0.0", where the values are floats between zero and one, or with the syntax "#RGB", "#RRGGBB" or "#" where R, G and B are hexa-decimal numbers. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PR

Re: [SLUG] putty dies when 'unattended'

2008-03-13 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
settings and select the "Connection" top-level option. There's a "Sending of null packets to keep session active" and "Seconds between keepalives (0 to turn off)". Set it to something like 30 and it'll work fine. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
from, how they're presented, and build an alternative front-end in a cross-platform manner. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ See, the problem is that God gives men a brain and a pe

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
;Only-Uses-Linux" style feedback. If for some reason being a linux > user prevents me from using the service at all, I will tell them what I > think. It looks like nothing that couldn't be implemented in standard HTML. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
ller in file size than animated giffs (x10). Who the hell uses animated GIF files any more? -- 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] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-12 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
st that the new media geniuses wouldn't even know to ask if there's another way. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ "Call me a cynic, but for me "much more stable than th

Re: [SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
at this time. Translation: We made a technology decision without reference to portability. You pay the price. > We are keeping an eye on developments in this area and hope to bring > a Linux version to you as soon as practicable. XULRunner, anyone?!?!? -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SLUG] Auntie excludes us

2008-03-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
erience with "ABC Now" is anything to go by, this is going to be Windows-only with limited Mac support and no other OS support. http://www.abc.net.au/now/#faq16 This page might be helpful: http://www.abc.net.au/contact/complaints_process.htm Not sure how one requests a refund. --

Re: [SLUG] Open Source Medical Practice Management Software

2008-03-04 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
pliers if necessary. That really should be the starting point here 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://engineer.openguides.org/ "a skid mark on the be

Re: [SLUG] support enquiry

2008-03-03 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
gt; to the almighty dollar and saving thereof. I've lost out on jobs because I've asked for what I'm worth and that's more than they're willing to pay. Though only rarely. I've got picky about which jobs I take. I wouldn't say it's the same thing as losing

Re: [SLUG] sim card reader on LInux

2008-02-24 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ A lifetime of listening to disco music is a high price to pay for one's sexual preference - Quentin Crisp -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Gro

Re: [SLUG] [ot] Portable wifi hotspot or mesh node with Internet gateway

2008-02-18 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
ap) card either internally or through USB. I seem to recall Billion had such a beast. I'm sure the Virgin Broadband hardware would do it, if you can find who makes it and buy it separately. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Beca

Re: [SLUG] Data Leakage Prevention and Detection

2008-02-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
e and government leaks that get reported in the media. Then again, there's always the print option ;) -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because geeks travel too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ What a country calls its vital economic interests a

Re: [SLUG] Data Leakage Prevention and Detection

2008-02-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
t was fun to work inside. :) But the nice security vendor man installed a box on our network and gave me a certificate that promised we were secure! -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Just because you're on holiday, doesn't mean you're no

Re: [SLUG] Data Leakage Prevention and Detection

2008-02-11 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
t; used to justify the Iraq war by the British government still had tracked changes accesible, showing the changes to the official intelligence made by Blair's spin doctor. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Geeks need vacations too. http://

Re: [SLUG] Data Leakage Prevention and Detection

2008-02-10 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
don't see how this wouldn't be trivial to get around with SSL or similar. But I see what you're getting at and, no, still never heard of it 8) -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Because nerds travel too. http://engineer.openguid

Re: [SLUG] Data Leakage Prevention and Detection

2008-02-10 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, Ricky wrote: > Has anyone come across any Linux/Open Source Data Leakage Prevention (DLP) > solution ? Care to define your term? It's not something I've ever heard of. -- Rev Simon Rumble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> www.rumble.net The Tourist

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